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VOL. XX, NO. a.
GREETINGS:
As often befor6 this paper greets
you—everywhere, in your office,
store, your factory, mine, mill, bn
your farm, on the porch of • your
hovel of your mansion. If it is gen
eral business conditions you are ex
pecting ,uslto discuss, we are afraid
we can’t be very helpful. The ed
itor i§ only a detail worker and don’t
know anything about the broad
economic situation. He is riot an
economist, not a statistician, not a
forecaster, not a high executive.
/•; We have tried out airing our
ideas in the past. * ’SVe have made'
suggestions, mentioned remedies
for this ill or that. We have criti
cised supposed wrongs, pointed out
ways and means to what we thought
would be better conditions; we have
moralised and philosophized all to
no avail. Such a policy lost us a
friend for every one we made. We
were accused as a common propa
gandist.
We are through with that line;
there is nothing to ft but trouble
and loss of business. ‘ When you
come right down to it, we are just
a plain old printer, with two or
three ’’irons in the fire” all liable to
get too hot and turn out unprofi
table ventures—if we do .not work
hard and attend to our own business
and let that of others alone.
There is only twd things that we
know anything about: Farming on
a rough mountain farm, and' run
ning a.... EDJJting.. jjlant against
30,000 heartless competitors! And
we are_ getting too old to change
our line of work. , ,l\ 's%■'
Just for the . sake of argument,
we' are willing to admit" that times
are mighty bad, and the , chances
are that they might get much worse."
Just how much worse may depend
on the amount of time you and us
loaf on our respective jobs and
w,aste time talking -over the inevit
able, making predictions OX spread
ing propaganda. j
- We don't mean to be impolite,
by .any means. So if .you’ve got
vour trie ssiicss
' _ you can talk the world .back from
destruction and ruin and the devil,
then we don't want to spoil your
fun. Just go to it—as for us, we
have- to work.
broad overall economic • standpoint
that ouf w°rk is so important—but
only from our own selfish viewpoint,
it seems awfully important to us to
think that it is important!
And maybe it would be made
more important for both you and
us, in our several jobs, if we would
quit talking and work harder. May
be we could all do a better job; for
there is so much to learn and so
much to do that none of us have
yet done. . '
+ NEW YORK, -June 20
lrij vy A.- J
* BUSINESS — American business
men were surprised to ast
week that the present depression is
more severe in the United States
than in any other country, accord- j
irig to a report by the Federal Re- 1
serve Board. The Board pointed
OHt, however, that manufacture of
war materials in foreign countries,
particularly England, Germany and
Japan, is mainly responsible for
keeping many factories humming.
In America, factory employment ds
still wejl above normal in ten in-
farm, implements, iron and
steel waxwork, cash registers, en
gines and turbines, machine tools,
aircraft, women’s clothing, baking,
beverages and rayon. It is signi
• -Scant that these 10 all‘but the air
craft industry afe manufacturing
essentially peace-time goods. Per
haps America will be enjoying
prosperity when other countries are
busy paying for their armaments..
the government geanr its machinery
to spend,more money.-for relief and j
work projects, 42,000,000 of Amer-j
' ica's motorists wilt stage a spending
program of their own this summer,
parfcn* with $1,806,000,W0 touring
the U. S. from Maine to Mexico.
This vtat's rolling army will be'l'3
per cent, greater than last year and
' Company, which made the survey.
Os the nation’. 25,410,000 pasaen
gcr automODiies, att*
- .
T=
BURNSVILLE, N. C., OCT. - NOV. 1938,
■ . ■■■■, ' .M —.-
> 18,000 hotels, 30,000 tourist camps,
158,254 restaurants, 317,000 gaso
line filling stations and 98,004 re
pair shops.
WE IMWEIL
When Ed Howe was 80 he said,
“I have reached my 80th birthday.
I frequently ask myself the ques
tion: ‘What-do you think of it all?’
For cine thing, I have lived longer
than I expected. At sixty and six
ty five I made arrangements for
disappearing around seyenty. _ -(ac
cording to the three score and ten
maxim) Every year since seventy I
have laid in supplies sparingly, as a
householder should who expects to
move out next day, ot next month
or so. .. . Today-I noted that my
shirts, socks, hankerchiefs,, 4 collars*
suits, shoes, need replenishing;
that it is' necessary to put in anoth
er order, but I shall order smaller
quantities.” ,
None of us, get as much put of
the world as we .did when, we were
young-—that is, we , get more variety
and not sq. much quantity. Most
of us are inclined to see the world |
in the' old way: We under
stand .a man who meets us in thej
road or the field or in the office or
store. But when we meet him in a'
book or a newspaper or hear him'
make a speech he uses words that
are new and too big for* us. We
have difficulty in following him in
his maze of fine words; We cannot
see his 1- position so clear and we
gri>w indifferent and maybe sleepy
and we do not; care what, he says.
We can read something Sls£, or if
it. is a broadcast, we can ’ quickly
turn the dial to a new station.
How far back can you remem
ber?. A long ways you think* if
you are past fifty. You are begin
ning to live much more in the past
than you ever did. You do not day
dream and ouild air castles in the
future tense as you . did .when a
young boy or girl. . Instead of
J— —« ■ j
sleep, you recount and re-live old
memories. Your mind, is full of
them. _ The scenes so long past
crowd and "push each other* in your
mind.- You -can see yourself back
on the old farm where work was so
Hard and pleasures &> few, ‘ Tot!
can see in your mind’s eye, the
neighbors like beings in a spirit
land moving, and you can rtpike
many of them out: and if you Could
now hear their" Voices you wpuld
recognise them easily.
You ean follow them along ' the
years and slferthtif achievements, I
their failures and their follies and!
you can recall the day when they,
were laid to rest in their graves.
Some of them were wise, some fool
ish;- some were friends and some
were foes, but npw about all of
them are gone.—And wop;t of all,
it seems all the best and truest
friends, nearest neighbors, relatives,
j brothers, sisters, parents, even the
(old sweethearts and mates, seemed
to have past out first! And strang
est of all, you are still hSre. You
’wonder what Tor. Anyhow as Ed-
Howe said, it will not be for sa
iling. You will not need to lay in
huge quantities of supplies to build
new ’ houses, or make extensive im
provements on your farm or busi
ness. /. T. ■
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And Btr,nge fact yOT
pvi n,»*vv. * v/v*,. 1
everything topsy. turyy, going to, 1
waste and ruin or to the , devil
jYou would like to 4 do something
iabout it, but no one listens to you.l
It is because the world does not
understand you and you do not
understand the world. I
It is because'your min# has be
come ossified, jixed and, is fio more|
receptive 5&1 mew ideas.. Yotit. mind I
lives Only in the past; it , has no
'future. Your intellect is dying
I slowly just like your body. Both I
hive entered the transition from life
—;—!—a—“—- ™—— 1 —
i <■
, change and under their
- inevitable rulings. Instead of un
- folding into fields of future intell
ectual glory, We become to be child
ren again, arid tfisfead of learning
new rules of education and fitting
our memories with the fast moving
events of modern wars, politics and
rapid scientific developments, we;
, remember vividly the old Possum*
. Creek days and what folks said and
- done in Cove Crecjc chprch and
’ school and the corn hustings and
■ log rollings. Modern society and
movieland charactors sicker) us now,
•i But we gloat over the courtships of
so and so back in the horse and
buggy days.
And we live in the old days and
■ will die in them. is us if we
1 led then, unhappy liVei or had dis
appointments-or losses and poverty
to endure, for if so, we must suffer
■ yet. —in memory, lost opportunities,
■ lost friends, dost loves! 43
After all is remembered of
mourned over or forgotten, the best
sentiment »f all is this consoling
fact, WE MEAN WELL!
PROGRKM
i FOR RECOVERY
It has not been long since the
Administration asked the , smaller
business, organizations throughout
the U. S. -to submit suggestions for
methods by which the government
can aid in the present business
situation. When the delegation met
at Washington the following plat
form was submitted, which seems
to be very, reasonable:—
First: We urge that the Wagner
Act be amended to make ’ labor as
, responsible as Unions
; should be allowed to incorporate.
Compulsory arbitration before
. striking and picketing should be
Written into the act. We believe ini
' the principle of collective bargain-J
I 1 mail’s rieht t.» wotK. ;
Second: We favor small loans,
l to responsible business men on at
- least a five-year payment basis, to be
made by existing private banking
, agencies and guaranteed by the
Third: We ask that all Federal,
; State and local employes be requited
to pay the same income and other
taxes as other taxpayers. "
Fourth: We demand the immed
iate repeal of the undivided Surplus
, profit tax arid a fair modification of
■ the capital gains tax.
I Fifth: We demand that the Ad-
J ministration immediately cease its
unwarranted and malicious attacks
on business.
; ...§ixth: We urge the Federal
arrixF i etMer relief projects be on use
ful work only, and that evfcry work
er should give an honest day’s work.
We favor the return of relief to
local communities. \
Seventh: We view with alarm
the increasing number of govern
mental employes with resulting in
' creased taxes and business regula
tion- —whether local, State or Fed
eral.
Eighth: We believe the unbal
anced condition of the budget dis
closes the unstable financial condi
tion of the government and prevents
business recovery. ' • Xj
| Ninth: We insist on simplified
; tax forms and reports and we have
; Tenth: We favor giving back
business to the business men, believ
[ ing that they are more capable for
[ running their own affairs than
• through regulation and direction by!
UllUUgil lcguwuuu anvj yii*
DON’T LE f THE TOUGH
WORLD DULL YOUR BILL '
Did you ever hear that little story j
about the young minister who, got!
[discouraged in hi* calling? Maybe]
we’d better relate it to you US there
i[ might be a good moral in it for)
r This young man had graduated
- from a theological seminary, was
- sent to some sp«n«ey set
- tied section where the folks .took
i more interest in nearly ’ anything;
{ than they did in religion, especially
; the brand the young minister was
l trying to install into their unrecep
: tiVe minds. - - - -Some rime later a
i] high up Bishop visited him and as
[ kejl him how he was doing, where
t upon the amhirious young sky-pilot
l expressed his discouragement ,by
l saying that he was exerting so lit
, de influence op the welfare of man
: kind that he felt like a tiny little
1 bird pecking Sway at a barren
mountain of stone.
The Bishop answered, “Yes, but
! just look what it will do for your
’ beak!” -——
| l-d Anyway the Bishop did not ad
. vise the young preacher to quit
and this paper is not going to ad
vise our readers to quit advertising
their line for sale, nor to quit work
in producing. No sir, go right on
with your “rat-killing”, whatever
it island you will accomplish some
thing some time. Jnstr keep on*
pecking away, no matter how sore
your bill gets.
let the' pessimists out-talk
you. Have a viewpoint iof your
own. You should even hq selfish
in some - ways.—Be selfish* about
your work. “It will serve as a buf
fer against hard times; it will* be
something to occupy your mind and
pass the time.away. It will be good
for your soul and„ body—and to
Sharpen your appetite, your mind
and your Jrill.
Whatever you can do will help
to contribute to the welfare of the
country as a whole. It may be a
small'trifle. If the U. S. Ai has a
population of 130,000,000, thgp
your individual responsibility Is
easy to figure out in this land of
the free arid home of the brave—
and if you do n at do your you
.a re not EQUAL with your feller
Jc. az ris, no ri tatter how “equal”
IVyv. may havc .b’en created. Your
r Uo,ooo'ooo ei job! ! j
WE m tIT
CUNT WE?
A lot of folks you ,meet are talk
ing hard times. . It is the same way
with many of the country papers
and the writers in the big ones.
Some one ought to choke - these
hard'time prophets. We may have
something the natter economically
maybe we have what some call
a “slump”, a “slow market”, even
a “recession”, or for that matter
a “depression”, anything you'please
—but we wish people would quit
talking to us .about it —that' is, un
less they haVe something new to.
■ say and not the same kind of stuff
that has been said for so long.
EjiLook around you at the fine
crops, the way the arc growing,
and the gardens. .load weather
tOO. .You never u more- healthy
nor good looking i in your life.
Plenty of work to n the farms.
Maybe we can. fir inds. enough
to da jt.. If not w ndp a lot bf
it ourselyes and If e re!st, go
done. We still h good appetit
es and there is g to be lots to
eat —on the farms If we can’t
buy nor hire eni| nor be em
ployed, v e can sm eat.
Some months a. > when the eco
nomic conditions began to look bad,
a Detroit man, c tiled Henry Wea
ver, wrote a pamphlet as a|
“Thought Starter on thri Eco. ornic:
which he drcalated as a
be. Mr. Weav r is some sort of
r automobile man ho wanted to sell
{ more cars and saw 1 his trade shrink-]
ing- up, just as we ail have. Any
way we are "<>ing to pass on some
« of his observanoi s, with our own
j comment, where necessary "byway
( of clarifying the theme.
W Mr. Weaver says.,' “As a mat-i
--ter of fact I wouldn't mind genet-j
king a'little hard gossip- of
JK yawn if I felt it would do, any ’
good or even if I thought I wguld
be ’able to -make some £mtetcuctivcl
i contributions along the Ikies of new
I i«r j.
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PUBLISHED NOW AND THEN
I eil apd- widely circulated almost
3 ten years ago; and riowT they- are be
- coming a-bit hackneyed.
'Now don't get: me wrong—l
’ don't mean to assume a Pollyanna
[ attidude. I'm not trying to dodge
l the facts arid I don’t exactly want
t to pfery ostrich. I know that busi
-1 ness is not iexactly as good as we’d
all like to have it, v bilty|*jfeel that I
have already done my share of lis
’ tening to people talk-about “gen
eral conditions” and now I'd like to
be let alone for awhile.
“I speak only for myself. .1
don’t mean to imply that econom
ic discussions should be barred al
together, because there are gome
■ among us whose business is to study
such- things—And you can’t blame
a man for talking about his job!
“But I’ve got a suspicion that
there are very few ofi us who are
in a position ,to help the general
situation through talk alone. ’ May
be the economists can- —although I
sometimes father doubt it. Maybe
the big business' leaders can—ex
cept, that they don’t seem to have
much time to do much talking,
'hjiiybe the politicians can-—. but
having once been a ‘party man”.
I reserve my opinion.
“Aside from all that I’ve > got a
hunch that maybe the best way for;
me, personally, to help the general
situation is to buckle down, dig in
and do as good a job as some of
the professional pessimists are doing
on theirs.
This is very good.advice for us
all to follow. Our work may not
be very important. It may b e
quite UNimportant. If we will
stop our little preachments and
work more, then our troubles, if
they do not- disappear, will at least.
grow -lighter. Ben Franklin once
said, “A task done willingly is a
task done easily." When you have
a job put up to you to do, for .in-,
j stance a "job like that of ftiakirig a
yiying for the folks in the family,
feel. like rebelling against
"aek some easier way or help
pr^rirselTH
andjt-need be, cuss hard tipias, aWn
) bounce to it with a. .gusto and say
' Sure I’ll do it—and like it”! It
wilj Turn the trick and your burden
will turn out to .be a profitable
1 WA* i'll - lvA n-■t■ i—L r~r
pivoourc. ot/uii you n uc cacmg
three squares-a day and sleeping
eight honest hours under warm
blankets every night.
~— 9
YE OLE TIMER SEZ
(By Sam Miller)
Just as we begin to-get over the
sineii of campaign cigars (and the
odor of bad whiskey) we tam .
thoughts to hopes of bu
valescing—we hope.
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CUN YOU KEEP
II SECRET?
Yes, we can keep a secret. Every
once in a while - you hear some
- friend say'that they can ‘’keep a
secret.” ‘ Some ' folks cah keep a
secret, but the .secret of saving
mi ney shouldn’t be kept. So we
won i keep it any longer. Here it
is— '.
IRADE WHERE YOU ,
SAVE MOST.
No matter where a fifth ie located,
no matter what its name, you save
the most money when you trade
with the one that- gives, you the
most value and the best; service for
every dollar, dime and cent you
spend with it.
You may be patriotic and love
home shops and stores, but if they —
can’t sell you what you want as
cheap as the firm a littk farther off,
you are very sure to mail the order
off. That is what your family do
when they want nice clothes. They
haven’t a thing against the little ,
stores in the hoihe village; the)- just,
find satisfaction, and variety, a wide
range of choice and prices in die
catalog—and they fill out an order
sheet. . s o
We do not recommend buying
too much from the fellow who lives
at a distanced Buy all you can get
at home. Stick by your home
merchant and manufacturer to the
last ditch.—But when you can fsave
money on what the local party can’t
do so well, then you should hunt up
abetter place to buy. The Edwards.
Printing Company, during all its 38
years'in. .business has never felt so
sure, tha*- we will not, nor cannot
be undersold. Send us .all your
choice jobs that must be done care
fully at a low. pried We do not
mean the handful of . letterheads or
' TPjPn i
? ) are -ziot with ' th. r paper.
* We mean- the larger intricate jobs
j out oh the local printers’ range
► saleshocks, duplicating forms'of, i
[ voiceffr»ndars-, ■ posters, dodge
’ jobs. calling for color treatmc:
1 special rulings, heavy body compo
sition, long or heavy runs; those
that require numbering, punching,
perforating, firte. 6?c. fife.
A' Look over some of our price lists
’ on regular rijn work in this paper
and write for estimates and samples
' pedal work not referred to in
: