TODAY and TOM0W mnkmukI ?WXKBRID6E| PERFECTION . . regimentation From the days when men first began to think, philosophers and dreamers have been devising schemes for a perfect social order. Most of tihem sound well, read well when put on paper. I have read and re-read all of the various projects for reorganiz ing society so that everybody will . be happy. I find the same weakness in all of them. They all overlook the human element and the natur- 1 al desire of everybody to live his ' own life in his own way. . There is no way in which hu man activities can be controlled excepti by force. We are witnessing now in Europe the operations of social organizations based upou force. Men and women are regi mented servants of the state, com pelled to live and work and even to play according to plans laid down for them by the dictators. Nobody can make me believe 1 that t>he peoples of Germany, of Italy and of Russia are happy uB der the restrictions and regula tions imposed upon them. They are human beings, like the rest of us. The purpose of any govern ment ought to be the greatest hap piness of the greatest number. That is what makes America dif ferent from most other nations. WELFARE ...... riguts Under the terra "welfare" we are beginning to develop in this country a theory that people should have, not what t-hey want but what somebody thinks is good for them. It seems to me that every such effort is an infringe ment on the most fundamental of hiiman rights, the right' to live as one pleases. Iti?-?n easy step from telling ?p?rOt>Ie what is good for them to insisting upon their changing their ways of life to conform to some standard of living that has been decided upon by authority. Under the American system, fortunately, nobody has any authority to tell anybody how they ought to live and what they must do. A good many of the plans which are being tried, however, look to me like efforts to bribe people into ordering their lives in ways which they never would do voluntarily. Paying money from public funds to keep farmers from planting whatever crops they please is one ?nrh sample, ; INDEPENDENCE . . , . !> There is no sur? road to happi ness, but the one which leads to it moat often is the road marked "In dependenc.e" The happiest people are those who are least dependent upon others, family, friends, so ciety In general, or government. Truly independent people do not have to be helped; they do not have to be entertained or coddled. They develop t-helr own resources of life and living and they are not the ones who call on government for help when things go hard with them. There are many more of that sort of Americans than there are of the sort who are constantly trying to get government to do something for them. My chief fear for the future of the United StateB is that we are getting so many people into the habit of yelping for help whenever things go wrong tibat we may come to believe that It is only by heeding all such ap peals that the nation can be led along the road to mappiness. Such a philosophy will lead us nowhere except to general regi mentation and dependence, in stead of independence. YOUTH working One raeson why I think the American spirit of independence la not vanishing is the number ot young men and young women ] run across "who are making tiieii own way under their own powei and not complaining that there li no chance for anybody any more I stopped at a filling station nol long ago and was so impressed bj the appearance and attentivenesf ot the young man who filled mj tank that' I began to draw him out. It tamed out that he is a univer sity graduate, bent on learning the oil business from the bottom up. ''The president of our company started as an oil driller," he said. "I'm on my way up, too." In Washington recently I com Sentinels of Health Don't Neglect Them t parities. Th? act of ) constantly prod in th? kldor G t to to k?op tho of UOM 0 4 A frail Wban tha kldncya fall to roxetlo* lfktura latandad, than la mantli DOANS PILLS plimented my taxi-driver on the cleanliness of bis car. That started him talking. Under thirty, he owns seven taxi-cabs, driving one and renting the others. He started with just enough for t-he down payment on his first car. "I don't know any way to get ahead but by working," he said. "I'm working for myself, not for a boss, and I figure I'll get ahead faster than some of these guys in government jobs." OPPORTUNITY .... security There are as great opportuni ties in America as there ever were; rather more, I believe. They are ready to the hand of anybody who is able to recognize an opportuni ty when he sees it, and who has the courage to take a chance. What any young man can do with his opportunity is up to him and nobody else. , One thing which many overlook ( is that an opportunity for profit* also is an opportunity for loss. No body makes money without risk of losing money. The ones who are afraid to take a chance are the ones who demand security, perma nent, steady jobs or else working on W.P.A. We hear a lot about "Social Se curity," when as a cold matter of fact there is no such thing. There can be no security, in any real sens#, for anybody, anywhere, at any time. The sooner we get rid of the notion that there is some sort of magic by which the world can be remade so that nobody will have to worry about where his bread-and-butter is coming from, the taster we will get back to na tional sanity and begin to be pros perous again. FEED AND SEED Halifax farmers have begun a plan to grow more small grains, soybeans- leaped n/a vetch. ci'illl-. son clover and the like and will supply these to a commercial feed mixing plant, seed store and local market to be established at En field. The purpose of the move ment is to get away from complete dependence upon cotton for cash. CORN* Only about 9 per cent of the American corn, crop, usually run ning from to 3 billion bushels, is used in the industrial field. One half enters the food market aul one-fourth goes back to the faim in the form of feed. rudmtial FARM LOANS 4 Low Interest 4 Long Term ?4 Fair Appraisal 4 Prompt Service W. L. LUMPKIN Correspondent LOUISBURG, N. C. EVERY SUIT AND COAT I SELL IS GUARANTEED FOR A YEAR BECAUSE IT IS MY PRIVILEGE TO SELL THE FAMOUS 2>cuUd Jlute. OF TAILORED-TO MEASURE CLOTHES The Only Clothing You Can Buy That Is Both Qu&ui*tteed For Wear and Oniuned , Against Damage ? THE NEW SPRING SELECTION OF 3 00 HANDSOME FABRICS IS NOW READY AT PRICES STARTING AT-~ m .50 *24 DOUGLAS PERRY Sob thai de Mercantile Oo. rllOBP 287 -3 8. Main St. I NATIONAL FOREST PAY Counties tn North Carolina He ceive Cash Dividends of 98, 570. H(t from National Forests ? 91,178,883 in Dividends Dis tributed Throughout Nation Although the NatlonaJ Forest in North Carolina are composed largely of lands which had been logged prior to purchase by the Federal Government, ttaey are al ready contributing an anuual net return. This consists of twenty-five per cent of the cash receipts and amounted last year to $8,576.82. These receipts are from the sale of National Forest- timber and from other forms of land use from the three National Forests in North Carolina ? the Nantahala. the Pis gah, and the Croatan. The funds thus made available to local gov ernment units are used for public schools and roads and are supple mented by an addit4onal ten per cent used by the Forest Service for building and maintaining roads and trails within these forests. The Forest Service also assumes a large share of the cost of con structing and maintaining public I improvements, -such as roads. | trails, and campground develop ments, using other funds appro priated by Congress which amoun ted to $75,811 last year tn North Carolina. / Total receipts from the 158 Na- ' tional Forests in the United States administered by the Forest Service of t-he Department rd help the fish* (Hh-h-h-h ! It *8 a Johnson Hea Hone.) All the above can be bought at the BROWN FURNITURE HOUSE. Talk to the man that knows what you need, when you go fishing. ? SEE MY WIDOW ? BROWN FURNITURE HOUSE 7 J. L. Brown Prop. x Youngsrllk, N. 9.