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Thursday, June 27, 1940 PfODAy] iroAfSvicwl H nunr/pftsm 11 |1 >TOX * >BlPO» IE PLANES ....... new Thirty-five years ago the very first airplane to carry a man in flight got into the air. The Wright Brothers kept their ex periments so secret that the pub lic never saw a plane in flight until 1908, when Glenn Curtiss flew at Hammondsport in a ma chine of his own design. The first plane I ever saw was Curtiss flight from Albany to New York in 1909. That's how new the air plane is. It's so new that mankind has only just begun' to realize its pos sibilities. Military men, who are slow to leam anything new any way, , laughed at Col. Lindbergh when he told the world a couple of years ago that Germany was creating a military air fleet su perior to any in the world. Now we have learned how dreadfully true his warning was. Planes give nations mastery in war. Though Americans taught the world how to fly, we have been far behind other nations in the development of fighting planes. FORD . . . . . . builder When the President told Con gress that we ought to be pre pared to build 50,000 fighting planes a year many people said it couldn't be done. A few days later Henry Ford said he'd under take to build a thousand planes a day, given six months time to tool up. Some people laughed at that, but I don't laugh at any thing Henry Ford says. I've seen him in action. In the World War I saw the Ford plant turning out 110-foot "sub-chasers," the Eagle Boats, at the rate of one a day. I saw him building Liberty motors for airplanes faster than any other motor builder, and heard some of them criticize him for using bet ter materials than the specifica tions called for. War aviators told me the Ford motors were the best of all. The problem, as Mr. Ford pointed out, is to simplify design and reduce the number of types SPECIAL OFFER! POTTERY REFRIGERATOR SET WITH 6-FT. GALE DELUXE MODELS! Here's your chance to get a real bargain! 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And every plane manufacturer is trying to sell something original of his own design. Centralized, unified control is needed. BUNGLING . . . militarists I have seen our Army and Navy in action and have talked with dozens of Generals and Admirals in time of peace. I have seen enough of the results of the bungling by the brass hats, who administer our military affairs from their swivel chairs, to give me little confidence in them ex cept as fighting men. When it comes to producing the tools for fighting they don't know where to begin. When the United States enter ed the World War our Army had fewer than 200 airplanes, all ob solete, underengined and unarm ed. The Germans, British, French and Italians had good, modern planes and were making good use of them. We had to send officers to the front to find out what kind of planes we needed before we could start to build them. We got going fast on. the Lib erty motors, and sent a lot of them to France—to use on French planes! Before the Arm istice we had a good many Amer ican planes in France still in crates. I believe I am right in saying that not a single Ameri can airplane got into action be fore that war was over. Our aviators flew planes of British and French manufacture which we bought. IMPROVEMENTS . . . many The airplane of today is as dif ferent from any that were used in the World War of 1914-18 as the V-8 car is from the Model T. It is faster, therefore necessarily stronger, and for most purposes is larger by far. It costs many times more than the best planes made twenty years ago. But those are no reasons why planes can't be made rapidly. One German trick that might well be adopted is to equip only one plane in ten or so with the instruments needed for "blind" flying. They send their fighting planes out in squadrons of ten, nine of them merely following the lead plane. At laast, that is what a flying expert who has been over there told me, and it sounds reasonable. The greatest development of THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA commercial aviation has been in the United States, and it has been due largely to the American development of instruments to insure safety and guide the pilot. Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris by aid of instruments really started modern commercial flying. For the first time, the public was convinced that it was safe to fly. PROPHECY useless Anyone who undertakes to pre dict the future is sticking his neck out, so I don't pretend to be a prophet. So many unexpected things can happen to make any prophecy go wrong. I have just been re-reading one of the great est prophetic books of modern times, "The War in the Air," by H. G. Wells. When he wrote it nobody had seen an airplane fly, but he imagined the Japanese equipped with flying machines with flapping wings, and the Germans with huge dirigible bal loons, both making war on the United States and on each other. Mr. Wells was" partly right, for the aircraft upon which Germany placed reliance in 1914 was the Zeppelin balloon. We saw a good many of them over here, for they could cross the ocean and back without trouble. Their weakness was the hydrogen gas with which they were inflated, and which set the "Hindenberg" afire just as it was making its last landing in this country. If we had ever let Germany get a supply of the non-inflammable BOJJBUIV qoiiiAk. 'SB3 umnaq produces, we might be in greater danger now than we are. Says Elections Shall Be View of P North Wilkesboro —Rulings by W. A. Lucas, of Wilson, state election board chairman, that all primaries and elections shall be held in the view of the public and not behind closed doors, and that no person who is employed by the United States government or the state of North Carolina shall serve as an election official, were the highlights of the meeting of registrars held at the courthouse in Wilkesboro. He also stated that the ballot boxes and booths shall be in view of the public, and be roped off as required by law so that people cannot gather around too close to the voting place. Mr. Lucas said he thought the voting should be so conducted that the public could know what was going on. One of the most far-reaching rulings made by Mr. Lucas dur ing the meeting was that no em ployee of the government or state could serve as an election official. He read the law on this point, as follows: "No person holding any office or place of trust or profit under the government of the United States, or of the state of North Carolina, or any political subdivision thereof, shall be eli gible to appointment as an elec tion official." ZEPHYR Misses Thelma and Versie Swift entertained the young peo ple of the community at a de lightful party on Saturday night, June 22, at their home here. Dur ing the evening many games were enjoyed, and at the conclusion of the party refreshments were serv ed. Mr. and Mrs. Swing and Mrs. Grady Snow, of Winston-Salem, visited Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Snow Sunday afternoon. Miss Lillian Swift, of Mountain Park, spent the week-end with Misses Thelma and Versie Swift. Miss Hazel Moser spent the week-end here with friends and relatives. FSA IS RECEIVING FARM APPLICATIONS The Fatlfl Security Adminis tration is receiving applications from farm tenants who want to purchase farms next year. C. O. Pickle, county RR super visor for Surry and Yadkin coun ties, announced today that ap plications may be filed now in the PSA office in Dobson and Yadkinville —in Dobson on Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; in Yadkinville on Thursday and Saturday. Congress has authorized a fund not to exceed $50,000,000 from which tenants may borrow for the purchase of farms although the money has not been actually appropriated and made available. The loan funds were set up under the Bankhefed-JOnes Farm Ten ant Act. 4 BRUSH ARBOR REVIVAL TO BEGIN ON JUNE 30th A brush arbor revival will begin j June 30 at 2:30 pin., on Mineral Springs hill in Jonesville. The revival will be in charge of T. M. Luffman. The public is extended a cordial invitation to attend. After the Bombardment FRANCE . . . Three walls and a pile of stones are all that are left ol this French church In an unidentified town after It was bombed during a Oerman air raid. Shew bread was made In six loaves, placed on a table of acacia wood in the holy place of Solo mon's temple. They were made of fine flour, unleavened, and sprinkled with frankincense. The How Does Your Advertising Investment Compare With The Average .... Competent business men scale their adver tising investment in proportion to gross sales • | • | , ... Then they use their advertising on a pro- J J gram basis so as to follow a systematic plan. *The following percentage of gross sales usually are followed, according to surveys made by recognized authorities: Department Stores n .2.5 Men's Stores 3.3 Cfc SC 07 Women's Wear Shops 3.1 fLrflJ //J Furniture Stores 6.3 Drug Stores 2.9 General Merchandise 1.5 Jewelry Stores 3.1 of all failures in business are Grocery Stores 1.0 from the ranks of non-adver- Meat Markets 1.0 tisers . . . Only 5 per cent, of Specialty Shops 3.8 those that fail are adver- Dry Cleaners and Dyeing .3.3 tisers. According to Brad- Hardware Stores l.B street. Other Businesses 2.0 \ \ \ What About YOUR Firm, Mr. Business Man? Check your gross sales and your advertising percentage can easily be fig ured ... Your business cannot differ much from the average in your line, and if you wish to improve it—or even hold it where it is today then you cannot ignore your duty to yourself ~, And maybe we can help you. The advertising medium that for more than 25 years has produced the greatest results for business men who have desired to reach homes in this trade territory with their messages is— The Elkin Tribune • _ / NORTH CAROLINA'S BEST WEEKLY "Figures compiled by Harvard Bureau'of Business Research and Northwestern University Bureau of Business Research. : bread was changed every Sab , bath. A one-horned bull calf was de . veloped by scientists at the i Maine university. CAN LIST FARM LAND FOR SALE With Farm Security Admin istration for Consideration Under FSA Program WANT LARGE SELECTION Any farm land for sale in Sur ry county can be listed for sale with the Farm Security Admin istration for consideration under the FSA tenant purchase pro gram, C. O. Pickle, county RR supervisor, announced Tuesday. This means any real estate agent or farm land owner in Sur ry or Yadkin counties can regis ter farms for sale at the FSA of fice in Yadkinville or Dobson. Funds for the sale of farm lands to tenants seeking to become owners under the FSA program have been appropriated by Con gress under the Bankhead-Jones Act, and purchase of these farms is under supervision of the Farm Security Administration. Mr. Pickle said each county FSA office wanted as large a se- lection of farms as possible In aiding tenants to purchase farms, and asked that local farm real estate men file their list of suit able farms for sale with the FSA office. The prospective pur chasers, who expect to borrow from PSA, will be referred to the owners and agents of suitable farm lands. Painter A painter who lived in Great Britain, Interrupted two girls with their knittin', He said with a sigh, i "That park bench —well I Just painted it, right where you're sittin'." We Proudly Announce A MIRACLE! We can dye and clean any col or of ladies' suede shoes. Will not scuff or smut off. The work is done by a new dyeing pro cess. Also any leather shoes for men, women and children. ROGERS ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP ELKIN, N. C.
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