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I —BLACK MOUNTAIN (N. C.) NEWS—Thurs., May 22, 1917 Page 6 Old Fort News Society MISS NINA. DAVIS WEDS DAVID SILER Miss Nina Maxine Davis and David Hunt Siler of Old Fort were married at the parsonage of the Old Fort Baptist church on Sun day, May 18, at nine o’clock. Dr. H. A. Walden, pastor of the church, officiated. The ceremony was witnessed by members of both families and a few intimate friends. The bride, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geter M. Davis of Old Fort, was dressed in a suit of iblue with which she wore w'hite accessories and a corsage of pink rntsebuds. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Silver of Old Fort Mr and Mrs. Silver were gradu ated from Old Fort High school on Thursday evening of last week. After wedding trip they will make their home with the groom's parents for the present. Strawberries Moved By Air o RALEIGH, May 21—Prices are remaining fairly steady on North Carolina strawberry markets, ac cording to a report compiled by .1. A. Winfield, collaborator of the Federal-State Market News Ser vice, who also reports that daily shipments by air to northern mar kets have become an established factor this season. Winfield said that one to two planes leave daily from Washing ton, each carrying from 150 to 179 crates of berries from the mar kets at Wallace and Chadbourn. Principal destinations were listed as Providence, R. 1., Albany and Synsrcu.se. N. Y. The air shipments are of top grade berries, Winfield added BIBLE SCHOOL BEGINS MONDAY TV* Daily Vacation Bible school will begin at the Old Fort Baptist church on Monday, May 26 and continue through Friday. Mrs. Austin Harris will serve as principal of the school which will begin at nine each morning, clos ing at twelve. Mrs. Harris will be assisted by twelve other workers. All child ren of the towui are invited to at tend. OLD TORT WMU WILL OBSERVE “FAMILY NIGHT” The organizations of the W. M. U. of the Old Fort Baptist church will observe each third Wednes day evening as Family Night at the church. These services were resumed, beginning last Wednes day evening, according to an nouncement by the pastor, Dr. H. A. Walden. |p~-\ Profits Fallacy n n ** % By GEORGE S.BENSON _sJB til Resident of Harding College (10 f Searcy,Arkansas THE PROFIT incentive is widely misunderstood and maligned. Many folks talk about profits as though they were injurious. These folks indulge in side-glances, as if profits were a vicious imposi tion upon the people. Profits, to some who are misled or misin formed, have assumed a negative sound. The fallacy is that indus try arrives at selling prices by piling onto production costs as much profit as the traffic will bear. This is not v he way profits are calculated. Sates prices on the tags are the prime consideration. In a free competitive market, the price tag is not marked according to pre conceived notions of what th“ profit ought to be. The cons umer j is king in a free market; the price tag is slave to the demands ;of a price conscious buying pub- j ilic. This is one game in which ;t*»e consumer takes the sweep stakes. Competition YOU AND 1 man ic Regulator u fact ure radios. We meet squarely :» the market, where mine is ,priced at SIOO and yours at $75. If the quality is the same, I must either lower my selling price to compete or give to the customer onc-third greater value than you do. The lower the price and the more quality included the better off each of us will be—saleswise. iCompetition thus regulates the •selling price regardless of my costs. The cycle is just that simple. To keep factories running, the goal of our industries is to make a better product available to a larger number of people through ‘ I OLD FORT PERSONALS —George McConnell, president . of Maryland Engineering Com pany of Pikesville, Maryland, has returned to his home after spend j ing a week in Old Fort with his , brother Fred McConnell who is , manager of Southern Industries .! here. —Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Jordan , 1 of Winston-Salem are spending , | several weeks at the home of the L I latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. , 1 R. Lee Jordan at Old Fort. —Mr. and Mrs. Dennie Gibbs • j and son, Don, have returned to ■ Old Fort after a ten days’ visit at • the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gates , Valine at Dixon, Kentucky. —Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Parnelle have returned to their home at Fayetteville after a week’s visit with their daughter and son-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wilson at Old Fort. —Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Macon of Statesboro, Georgia will arrive on Wednesday for a visit at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Macon at Old Fort. | —Mr. and Mrs. Vann Hughes and daughters, Mary Vann and ; Nancy, of Old Fort are spending this week on a vacation trip \ through Florida. —The Rev. H. Q. Huss and Mrs. Huss and their son, Charles, will leave on Tuesday for a visit with relatives at Durham. They expect to return the latter part of the week. —Mrs. L. N. Saunders of Char lotte is spending two weeks at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Sabom at Old Fort. ‘STRAUSS’ BARN DANCES MUNICH, Germany. Frank Zavazel and his orchestra, special ists in Strauss waltzes and Bava rian classical music, were thrown for a loss when GI patrons of the Burgerbraukeller Club here de manded a barn dance. American Red Cross girls rushed to the res cue, whistled some tunes and of fered technical advice to Frank and his boys. Now German musi cians play their way lustily through “Pop Goes the Weasel” and “Turkey in the Straw” while Gl’s promenade and do-si-do. Bible “How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed be cause they have no pasture! Yea, the flocks of sheep are made de solate. Oh Lord, to Thee will I cry for the fire hath devoured the pasture of the wilderness and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field.” Book of Joel. A Toast to North Carolina “Here’s to the land of the Long leaf Pine The summer land where the sun doth sTiine Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great Here’s to our land, the Old North mass production and lower sell ing: costs. After deducting: costs from the customer’s pries the re sult may or may not be a profit. When the margin is uncomfort ably close, the next logical step will be toward more efficient pro duction. Consumer EFFICIENCY of op- Is Winner eration means to in dustry the ability to keep down costs of making and selling a product. The object is a favorable position on the open market. This means that facto ries must be busy constantly tak ing up the unemployed, supplying products at lower cost to an ever increasing buying public. Winner of this game is the buy ing public. Because of the profit incentive and free competition, the public reaps huge dividends in the form of better merchandise at fair prices. To the average cit izen of socialistic and totalitarian countries, where I have observed that these things are never dupli cated, these simple facts seem an unattainable dream. What Amer ican would wish to exchange this system for methods that have never succeeded half so well? Profit is no parasite feeding .on our economic system. Profit is the life blood of the industrial and business enterprises responsible for the highest level of civiliza tion the world has known. Free dom to compete against skill and efficiency by using better skill and more efficiency means a progres sive civilization not a static economy that either withers away or makes sp o jla g e for th* spoilers. prior to ttn mum tits or uKfjCTWJR ones across tmi us. wimt tv rs“ —~ Dim REM T ' LOCAL ’ TIMES. THE \ ' ‘ y\o-EOME SYSTEM OF STANDARD TIME mm P" fT ( HAS DEVUOPID AND SPONSORED /T>;T/T\ /T\ j 7|\ r" > W TME railroads, amd was ‘ i vV —adopted iy au or them at the y l 'rsr) SAME MOMEMT - MOOM OM MOV. KAUROADS CAMMED MOKE DO RAILROADS make/ 2* Q 6*7 B*7 10*7 IMVESTMEMT AVEKAfED 3^ IN 1946 IT WAS .W* l ~~ “ Conservation I News By L. B. HAIRR “My farm is producing four j times more corn and small grain per acre now than it was ten years ago. In this field, which is just west of my house ten years ago I raised ten bushels of corn per acre. Last year we harvested j sixty bushels per acre, an increase I six to one,” says M. L. Ledford I of Monford Cove Community., Mr. Ledford attributes the increase of hi s farm to the fact that he has been and is still rotating his crops and turns under a crop of lesped- \ eza or soybeans at regular inter- ■ vals in this rotation. He not only finds that this increases the yields, 1 but that it makes the soil loose or spongy like; therefore, making j it more easy to work and less subject to washing. Mr. Ledford j states that he has found that we' must feed the soil if the 3oil is to , feed us, as it should. Jack Ledford of Marion, Route 2, with assistance of the Soil Con servation Service personnel, re cently relocated a farm road in the field back of his home. Jack states that by changing the road it gives it a more desirable grade, and too, the road ditch will serve as a terrace in that portion of the field. 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The “ecliptic”, or imaginary line representing the place where the plane of the earth's orbit would intersect the sky if it were an actual sphere, as it appears to be, runs through this “band” (Zodiac with 12 constellations), which is 7 degrees on each side. The sun is always on the “ecliptic” line, and the moon and planets close to it. Saturn, about twice as bright as Mars, is our most distant naked i eye planet. It is now high in the ! southwest in Cancer, the Crab, one of the least conspicuous of the 1 constellations of the zodiac-path of the sun, moon and planets. On June 21, about 2,000 years ago, the sun was in the constel lation of Cancer. As the sun shifts its position in declination very slowly at this point in the orbit, 1 causing the length of day and time of sunrise and sunset to change little for two or three weeks, the slow crawling backward motion of a crab was said to typify the slow motion of the sun when in this position, and its change of direct ion backward toward the equator. The spectacular winter con stellations are in the southwest. ,Serius, the dog-star, in Canes Major (Big Dog) is still the most > brilliant star. Orion, the War rior, with bright Betelgeuse and I Riged, is farther west. Taurus j (the Bull) with his ruddy eye • (Aldebaran), is directly west. 1 I Auriga (the Charioteer) is to the j j right of Taurus with Capella its j I brightest star. In the southeast is Virgo (Virgin) with Spica, its j | brilliant star. A large equal-sided j (equilateral) triangle is formed by j Spica (white), Arcturus (orange-J colored), in Bootes, the Herdsmen (or Bear Driver), in the east early in the evening, and Denebola at j the end of the tail of Leo (Lion).J Regulus is in the handle of the Sickle, the head of Leo. The constellations of the zodiac slip all the way round in about 26.000 years, because of the “pre cession” of the equinoxes, or the slow movement of the skies. When the constellations were named, thousands of years ago, the sun passed the stars in Leo in June. The sun at that time being at its highest for the year, in the mind of the ancient observers there seemed to be a connection between ; the ferocious lion and the intense , heat almost ferocity, of the sun. “The Lion flames. There the Sun’s course runs hottest. Empty of grain the arid fields appear When first the Sun into the Lion enters.” Aratus, Greek I’oet, 2nd Century. B.C. The Egpptians used the figure of the head of a lion on the gates of the irrigation canals of the Nile. (Our modern fountains have streams of water pouring from the lions jaws, doubtlee originat ing for the same idea.) As the sun passed through Leo the latter part of July, the Nile overflowed. To escape the intense heat the lions from the desert prowled through the Nile valley. Jupiter, eight times brighter than Satern, is southeast, in Libra (the Scales). Draco (Dragon), long and snaky, winds like a coil 1 ■ Jammed Packed Each Week 1 With News About The People I You Know. I The Price Is Less Than 4c 1 Per Week. I Subscribe Today I To I The Black Mountain NEWS I '0 I datp; B I NAME ■ ADDRESS I Please find enclosed $. . . - H ’ or which send me the B j Black Mountain NEWS for v B ' rs Mos. B I Bates: 1 year $2.00 McDowell a ■ and Buncombe. 6 months $1.25. I of silver cord around the L j Dipper or Ursa Minor (L.tt e 1 Bear), and between it and the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major (BjK j Bear), swinging high in the no east. A very brilliant star. Vega, ! in Yyra (Lyre) is in the northeast. ! i„ the northwest, Perseus (Cham ! pion) holds by her snaky hair ‘he i head of Medusa, represented by a i very famous eclipsing variable i star, Algol, which fades in bril- I liance every 2 days, 21 hours, as ! a darker companion posses in | front, and partially eclipses it. * I gol, called the “Winking Demon because it grows dim, brightens, then grows dim again, stays at its dimmest for about 20 minutes, and in a few hours is again as bright as before. “One star differeth from an other star in glory.” (I Cor. 15:- 51). SOCIAL SECURITY FOR VETS Are you employed in a mill, factory, office, store, bank, gar age, hotel, beauty parlor, or in any capacity in industry or business? If so your employment is covered by the Social Security Act and you need a Social Security account number card. Have you applied „ Homely S. Portions I WE KNOW YOU WANT I <W \ | \B|N9 TO SEE A FULL DISH, I ■ W W NOT THE DESIGN OF OIR I CHINA SO WE PILE | YOUR PLATTER GENER. jj • Steaks • Chops • Short Orders j CRYSTAL CAFE I Old Fort, N. C. I e for and received your card ■ u H e j you given your number p, ‘ >V H r I present employer? * | You may ask, “What’s the ; , H •, ing "f a Social Security i "B ~ and why is it so important q * lie shown to my employer - answer is that it is V e identify your insurance •' —something to keep yo Ur e from getting mixed up with "fl - body vise’s of the same name .fl * it's of the greatest import;,,',. S i you to keep your account str- • - because the benefits y,, u family will get depend „„ , wages recorded in your aci „ t If you are a worker, you’. ™ . building insurance protection ■[ s should TELL YOUR FAMny Jn^B 1. That you have a Social s. tI H - rity card, and where it is; 2. That in case of yoUr lj( . at| B they should write to the .Social curit.v Administration, 20:: ' iron Building, Asheville, ,■ S| That they DON’T HAVE TH PAY anybody to get these . for them; and they should j their claims promptly so that I inents will not be lost. 1 -k Say You Saw It In The \h\ v H
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