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Kutetcd at the fimuHlni at Lonlibnrg, N. C. aa aeeoad
Schools in general throughout the State were closed
this week on account of the heavy snow.
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Paderewski, the great pianist, has pledged the bal
ance of his life to the restoration of Poland. Wonder
ful loyalty ? let's hope he may succeed.
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"The House Group Continuing To Apply Economy
Knife," is a headline from Washington. That is some
thing that is greatly needed if in the right direction.
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It wilfc soon be time for politics to open up in Frank
lin. All those considering throwing their hats in the
ring for office had better be getting their "ducks in a
row."
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The action of the House to continue the Dies Commit
tee for investigation of unAmericanism, seems to us,
wise action. The investigations themselves will tend to
hold down a lot of dirty work.
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John L. Lewis, head of the C.I.O. seems to have blood
In hig eye for President Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt.
At present it seems he is promoting Wheeler for the
Democratic nomination for President.
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The Democratic State Executive Committee will meet
on February 2nd to decide on a convention date. Let 's
hope the convention will be held before the primary, and
let it be a pafrty organization rather than a private can
didates club.
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His large number of friends and admirers in North
Carolina regret to learn of "Farmer" Bob Dough ton's
decision to leave Congress and retire. He has been of
great benefit to the National Government and to North
Carolina in particular, in the National House of Repre
sentatives and his place will be hard to fill.
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There is some justification in Britain's refusal to dis
continue censoring mail from other counties en route to
Germany even though it might be routed through neu
~~~tral countries, and especially if from the United States,
where so much pro-German activity is in evidence. It
would be easy for information or assistance to leave the
United States with its ultimate destination as Germany,
because of the lack of censorship we practice over here.
Yet it is not a very pleasant taste to be told bluntly and
without diplomatic courtesy that our wishes will not be
considered, especially from a nation our people feel
friendly towards. In fact the answer Great Britain gave
Secretary Hull about their treatment of U. S. Maill will
not react favorably to them with Americans in future
transactions.
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WOMEN ! ^
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If you are interested in women ? and who isn't ? "The
Woman's Almanac," published by Oquaga Press, Inc.,
New York, will give you some unusual information. Male
ego will be somewhat chagrined to realize that wearing
the pants in the family is no great accomplishment.
Woman's sphere of activity is now so large that mere
man, in desperation, may turn to domestic science for
future opportunities. ? Selected.
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TEST TEAS
The year 1940 will be a test year for argicultural mar
keting cooperation, according to a survey of farmer
opinion gathered by the Dairymen's League News of
New York.
Prices and markets will be more stable, the consensus
held, if there is continued and closer producer coopera
tion; if farmers keep continually on the alert to resist
attacks against cooperative marketing.
If that is true, it's up to the farmer now. And cer
tainly, in the light of the vast progress achieved by mar
keting cooperation in the past few decades, he will sup
port the movement wholeheartedly. No farmer 0ver had
a better ally than a good producer marketing coopera
tive. And, bo far as anyone can see now, he never will.
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LIBERTY AND LICENSE
Your greatest inheritance as an American is freedom
i ? freedom from tyranny, freedom to live your own life.
We in America must stand guard continually to pro
tect this birthright. If we relax our watchfulness, lib
erty may be abused and then put to destructive purposes.
In every community, we have a homely analogy to the
destructive power of dictators, of liberty gone to li
imiM. Fire, with its tremendous usefulness to man, is
a good element while kept in its role of servant. But
-when misnsed and permitted to break out of bounds, it
bcdomee a raging demon of destruction, a tyrannical
?taster ? a dictator I
America is not at war but it has its heartrending cas
ualty lists. Our citizens need fortitude to face the facts
of fire losses. Each year 10,000 persons lose their lives
in fires, and 10,000 mere are seriously injured. The di
rect property loss amounts to hundreds of millions of
dollars annually.
Dictators maintain their power by keeping their coun
trymen uninformed. When the truth becomes known,
the dictator soon loses his ability to sway the masses.
Again, an analogy can be drawn to fire, for this ele
ment is best controlled and kept in its place as a servant
through knowledge and watchfulness. People who
take the trouble to inform themselves about common fire
hazards and safe building methods, rarely suffer the
catastrophe of fire. For such people there are a num
ber of sources of information: their local fire chief, the
state inspection bureau, their insurance agent, and the
Nation Board of Fire Underwriters in New York City.
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THE INDIVIDUAL VERSUS THE STATE
"The hiatory of government is the history of two con
flicting principles: one is the supreme importance of the
state; the other is the supreme importance of the indi
vidual," said Wendell L. Willkie recently. "Either
the people have believed that the state was merely the
voluntary creation of individual citizens, responsible to
them and designed principally to protect their liberties;
or else they have believed that the state was an authori
ty in its own right to which individuals were subject and
which could demand of them the suppression of their own
desires and talents. The individual versus the state ?
that is the theme which more than any other has deter
mined the course of civilization."
In the tangled years since the World War this eternal
struggle between the individual and the state has be
come more intense, more bitter, inore conclusive. The
ancient rights and liberties of millions of peoplei, citi
zens of great nations, have been ruthlessly abrogated.
Statism has been made into a new religion, and the man
at the head of the state has become a new god. The
clock has been turned back- centuries ? those humanitar
ian, social and cultural values men fought for through
the generations, have been at least temporarily des
troyed.
Few of us have realised that in our own country there
are those, traveling under various "disguises, whose pur
pose is to elevate the state and to subdue the individual.
Few of us have realized that dictatorship can come
slowly and insidiously as well as swiftly and brutally ?
and that basic rights may be destoryed before we know
we have lost them.
This is the greatest issue that any nation can face.
Either we are to maintain democracy, and all that democ
racy means ? free enterprise, free speech, the rights of
free men to act freely as their energies and ambitions
dictate? or we are to let democracy die. There can be
no compromise, no middle ground. No American could
do a finer thing than to passionately resolve that in this
nation at. least the state shall continue to exist for the
people ? not the people for the state.
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Pueblo Indian women own and run their homes. Just
like their paleface sisters.
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A professor says it is easy to write a poem. But it is
easier not to write one ? and better.
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Hitler no doubt wonders what his partners, Mussolini
or Stalin, are going to do for him, or to hincf.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was applauded in New Orleans,
which indicates that the Civil war is about over.
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An Atlanta man reports that a week's pay was taken
from his pocket while he slept. The case is more baf
fling because he is unmarried.
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HUMK DKMONHTHATION
DfiPAItTMENT
IJllItt Mae Braxton, Home
Demonstration Agent
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Schedule Jan. 29-Feb. 8.
Monday ? Office.
Tuesday ? Mitehlners.
Wednesday ? Wood.
Thursday ? Pilot.
Friday ? Justice.
Saturday ? Office.
The first County Federation
meeting of the year will be at the
Agricultural building Saturday,
Jan. 7. beginning at 10:30 A. M. ~
A program has been planned fol- \
lowing suggestions given by the
County Council members at ?
meeting Jan. <th.
Following is the program:
Song.
Devotional ? Mrs. Paul Bagby.
'? 1 Looking Into 1940 ? Mr. W. G; ""
Boyce. J'"
Plana for 1940? Miss Llllte
Mae Braxton.
Special Music.
Business.
Special Song.
Introduction of Speaker ? Mrs.
E. M. Carter.
Address ? Mrt. C. T. Wilkinson,
of Wake Forest.
Installation Service.
Lunch. , ,
Wage rates paid to hired farm
workers dropped sharply daring <
the last quarter of 1939, and on
January 1 averaged only 119 per
cent of their 1910-14 level.
The frozen food Industry is
changing America's eating habits
and nprooting long-established
markets for agricultural products
with such rapidity that few farm
ers realize the tremendous up
heaval.
Henderson Coont/y growers are
showing a steadily increasing In
terest in farm products, with the
total keeping account books
mounting each year since 1936.
Doctor (inquiring after boy I
who had swallowed a half dollar) I
? How is the boy today?.
Nurse ? No Change yeti
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