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Affn GEORGE S. BENSON
Pt<sUt?t--Hardi?t Callage
Setreg. Arktataa
Decisions
Men and nations gain or lose by
the quality of decisions they make.
Founders of this remarkable republic
made a wise decision long ago,
in favor of personal self-reliance
and individual government. America
is great today because so many
smart people were left free to do as
much as they could, as well as
they knew how, and gain as much
of a reward for themselves as they
were able.
Not all Americans are models of
progress and success but they all
have benefited more or less from
the achievements of those who did
have the immortal spark. You can't
pick successful men before they try,
but more men of outstanding talent
are sure to come to light tfhere
everyone is allowed to do hia best.
A large number of thinkers at work
always adds up to more for everybody.
Not Luck at All
People may orate about Artier
n;a s greatness coming rrom ner
vast natural resources. The resources
exist all right but the red.skins
had them before Columbus
came and didn't know the use of
a wheel. Some people boast of this
nation's blue-blood heritage. It was
good. Our forebears, in large part,
Su5,K?'BirrM'y?i
them ever did.
America's economic system la
what made America great. It is a
system of liberty giving every man
the right to pick what he wants and
go after it hammer-and-tongs, get
it if he can and enjoy it to the
extent of his capacity, so long as it
does not trespass the rights of somebody
else. It is a sprightly and
dynamic economy, quickly adjustable
to changing times and conditions.
What Developed?
Limitless opportunity and keen
competition have borne a rich harvest.
Our farmers live better than
the peerage of some foreign lands.
Our laborers have more than workers
elsewhere ever have had at any
time. America has 7% of the
world's population and 80% of the
world's automobiles. We send more
children to high school and college
than all the rest of the world combined.
During the last two years of World
/War n, from a startled start in
December, 1841, America made
Vnore war materials than all her sillies
and her foes put together. An
American carpenter can buy more
with his pay for a day's work than
any other carpenter anywhere?2ft
times as much as the carpenter in
Germany or France. And the same
goes in all trades; the butcher, the
baker and the street-car conductor.
How It Works
! Freedom of opportunity fires everybody
to try; thus men of great
genius come to light and the whole
nation benefits. Then competition
between men of special ability stimulates
them to zealous effort in turning
out products of excellence at
fair prices to develop and hold profitable
markets. This enables America's
middle class to enjoy luxuries
unknown to run-of-mine kings.
Mass production for volume sales
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usuiuiua LUIO anu U|iciixve IOOLB.
Buying this machinery calls for capital
investment ? averaging $6,000
jper industrial lob in the United
'States. The thing that made America
great was a decision to be free:
Free to work, free to think, free to
earn, free to save and free to invest
and maket a profit. It is called
Free Enterprise and it's too valuable
to lose.
We are entering the season of low
ered milk production but not the
season of lowered milk consumption.
Therefore, fall and winter feeding
should not face a slump, says Dr. W.
M. Roberts of ?tate College.
Premiums for individual farm displays
at the State Fair, Raleigh,
week of October 15, total $2330.
Write Hasel Meaehan at State College
for suggestions on how to prepare
this display.
CONSTIPATION
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Garden Hints To Farm
Home Makers
Home made pickle* entered ho|
fully for a Idue ribbon at a fair
. stand judging on such points as u
' form size and shape and clearness
( liquid, aa well us good flavor, eol
i and texture. Dinner-table judj
may be lesg critical on some fi
points, but they expect a pickle
do its best to provide a meal w
something crisp and agreeably sha
flavored.
To bomemakers who are includi
pickles in this year's food preser\
tion program, home economists of 1
these reminders in achieving gc
pickling:
Use only fresh, good quality fru
and vegetables.
Follow good directions, exact
Shriveled pickles, for exampTe, m
owe their unpleasant state to use
of over-strong salt, sugar, or vineg
p
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solutions. On the other hand, too :
weak briue may cause dillcd cueutiv ,
I bers or tomatoes to spoil.
I If directions call for weighing
!'e" fruit or vegetables, and kitchen seal- ?
to es are lacking, note weight at tune
ni- food is purchased and estimate waste. ri
of Or, if the food is home grow it, here
or, are some average equivalent* lor aid
tea in measuring emergency: go medium p
n? cucumbers weight about s pounds; (i i(
to medium-sized onions weigh .'1-4 to 1
ith pound; go medium to large tomatoes v
rp weigh S 1-2 pounds; ."Id medium sized
peaches weigh i pounds; prepared 0|
! rind 12 inch thick from a 15 pound -y
watermelon weighs about 4 pounds.
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fer For full flavor, use spices of good a!
iod quality, and don't forget that spices a
I saved from a preceding year hold fla O
I vor well only if kept in air-tight eon
it* tainers. Pickle fruit or vegetable hi
j slices of uniform size, not merely for ,{
| neat appearance but also because the M
' | pickling liquid will season them r;
^ | more evenly.
ar | Use a clear, standard vinegar, free |0
(from sediment. iin
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Increase
Your Telephone Coi
application with th
for higher rates on
distance calls with
because telephone
reasonable earn inj
service. We ask thi
you will understa
i
slephone rate is low and it is the eari
Telephone Company to keep it low.
) your rate has remained the same for nr
J cost of furnishing telephone service h
;>. Since 1941 our expenses for Nort'
rns have increased more than 102 per i
s increased only 76 per cent.
Wages Up $2,311,415
f the increase in expenses is represented
ages make up the greater part of the c
telephone service. In keeping with tl
f wage increases throughout the coun
through competent personnel the provi
e service, telephone wage rates have t
115 in North Carolina in the past 12 m
the first of this year, 36,000 new telepl
stalled in North Carolina, but 23,000
iting for telephones. This demand foi
;w facilities now, in the face of high
Brecting buildings has jumped 75 to 10<
t of erecting telephone facilities is up
; and the cost of telephone materials hat
5 per cent. Despite these .high costs
> to improve telephone service general
it. 6ur plans call for gross expenditu
itely $40,000,000 for telephone const
JarolLna during the next five years.
-Out Is Increasing Faster Than T
e tremendous increase in the expense <
phone service and with rates unchanged
ihone folks, and there are over 4,300 ol
lave had a difficult time making ends
), that today we find ourselves confrc
$st earnings in our history in spits oj
of business.
isiness can long continue to render ser
unt paid out to provide that service is
lan the amount taken in. Therefore, it ii
public servant, to report this conditi
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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE <
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By Way Oi Mention h
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Lois Beat tie ll..:t-t,ckl.r lu
Mr-. K L.e
Charles Hubs of i in* Army vvas
ent visitor in this community.
Mi. ami Mrs. Hubert i>avi 1*011 an 1 I
iiuy.iter, I loin it's, ah-i Mrs. t "nil H More
iixul-iui were i'c-i cut guc*ts <>t* Mr.
i. i Mrs. A. T. Kan-tail o 1 Koss tirnv ?
Maurice- Hamllin of the Army v\a>
recent visitor in this community. H
Mr. ami Mrs. Jay Moore anil family H
F Hostic spent Bun-lay with Mr. anil H
Irs. K. Lee Blanton. H KQ
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lovelace had H ^y
i guests Buuday Mr. and Mrs. Len- * H M
r-1 Patterson and son, Oilhert of the
ak Orove section.
Miss Wilma Hope in company with H smhi
pr -ister. Cadet nurse Klin Mae Hope 1/VlL
I Bhclhv spent the week end with !
Ir. ami Mrs. Baity Morrow of Cher- 4U*
villi'- |
News has lAa-n receive.1 that Wes- !
y Blanton of the Navy has arrived
lapan. j
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sad this N
Request
in T elephoi
npany has found if imperative t
s North Carolina Utilities Co mm
business telephones and on mosf
tin the state. This action was i
earnings are dangerously low
gs are required to furnish adet
at you read this message careful
nd clearly why increased telep
rates are necessary.
nest' desire since it directly affects your t
appeal to you for relief throug
lany years, tiei Commfision, which regula
as Steady Increase Placed on Bi
h Carolina
cent, while The requested rate increase fc
to business customers only and
depending on size of locality
asked for an increase of 5 ce
. calls within the state.
I by wages,
ost of fur- Today's high costs indicate i
he general than we are asking, but it ii
try and to rates will prove sufficient. In
sion of an are being requested on resident
>een raised Company feels that it is to 1
lonths. business man in North Carol
. remain as low as possible,
lones have
people are The new rates we are askin
rces us to only 7 per cent of our total r
costs The This is small when compared
) per cent* doing business. In fact, even
i 45 to 60 distance charges generally wot
i increased 21 years asr? and bu8iness rate<
__ . service has been considerably i
we must ,,
ly and to increased many times,
res of ap- Southern Bell wants rates n
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ruction* in iurnisn everyone witn good a
proposed rates are the very mir
by on. In face of rising costs,
ake-In
>f furnishfor
years, PROPOSED NEW MONTI
' us in the
mted^th KINGS MOUN
f a record _ . .
Business Individua
Ti? When Business 2 Party ]
<n/.^n,ing Business 4 Party ]
i our duty,
on to you ?
AND TELEGRAPH COMPAN^^ II
ATE SERVICE WITHOUT A
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Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Hope had U
t>? fh.it I'm! >U!.,i.;v Mr. and Un.
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IN NORTH CAROLINA
: people drink Atlantic Ale and Deer than any other.
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elephone service. We must
h the North Carolina Utilittes
our rates.
usiness Telephones
ir local service would apply
, nuuiu uc uii a aiming scaie
. Authority is also being
ints on most long distance
i need for greater increases
i hoped the proposed new
view of this, no increases
ial service. Your Telephone
the best interest of every
lina that residential rates
g represent an increase of
evenue in North Carolina,
with the increased costs of
with the new rates, long
lid be lower than they were
j only slightly higher, while
extended and its value has
0 higher than necessary to
ervice and expand it. The
limum increases we can get
they are very modest.
HLY BUSINESS RATES
TAIN, N. C.
1 Line $4.25 ,
Line $3.50
Line $3.00 ;
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