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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1936
Russia has finally decided to pay workers ac
cording to their ability. Fortunately for many
of us, we are not Russians.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Story on the locally increasing demand for
luxuries says shoppers who bought bath robes
and school shoes in former seasons are also
buying cocktail-shakers, perfumes, and sheer
chiffon hose this year. The children, apparent
ly, are growing up.—Arkansas Gazette.
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A Good Resolution
In the last issue of The State appeared
the foflowing editorial paragraph:
“We hope you have made a New Year’s
resolution and are living up to it—^that
whenever the opportunity presents itself
you will endeavor to purchase North Oaro-
hnarmade products in preference to all
others. You’d be surprised at the number
of i&ms whijph are made in this state,
(fee of these days we’re going to run a
.list of them.”
Now there is an idea to expand the
trade-at-home principle. We urge buying
here and why not stress the buying of
goods made in this state? Anything that
lielps the state must necessarily help our
own community.
Horrible Facts
Quite much has been said recently about
the safety drive that is being put onVin
the schools. The main item of studp^^ii-
ignt^Mken^Vl*!***”^^ ven^i
Before any or
.cioei^r^^jrpies
tn
h is reproduced from the Readers’
Digest.
For the benefit of those who have not
read one of these pamphlets, here is an
excerpt: *
It’s like going over Niagara Falls in a steel
barrel full of railroad spikes. The best thing
(that can happen to you—and one of the rare
"^things—is to be thrown out as the doors spring
open, so you have only the ground to reckon
with. True, you strike with as much force as if
you had been thrown from the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited at top speed. But at least you are
spared the lethal array of gleaming metal knobs
and edges and glass inside the car.
Anything can happen in that split second of
crash, even those lucky escape.s you hear about.
People have dived through windshields and come
out with only superficial scratches. They have
run cars together head on, reducing both to
twisted junk, and been found unhurt and arguing
bitterly two minutes afterward. But death was
there just the same—he was oiily exercising his
privilege of being erratic. This spring a wreck
ing crew pried the door off a car which had
been overturned down an embankment and out
Stepped the driver with only a scratch on his
cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter
of wood from the top driven four inches into
her brain as a result of her son’s taking a greasy
curve a little too fast. No blood—no horribly
twisted bones—^just a gray-haired corpse still
clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had
clutched it when she felt the car leave the road.
On that same curve a month later, a light tour
ing car crashed a tree. In the middle of the
front seat they found a nine-months-old baby
surrounded by broken glass and yet absolutely
unhurt. A fine practical joke on death—but
spoiled by the baby’s parents, still sitting on
each side of him, instantly killed by shattering
their skulls on the dashboard.
If you customarily pass without clear vision
a long way ahead, make sure that every member
of the party carries identification papers—it’s
difficult to identify a body with its whole face
er tom off. The driver is death’s fa
vorite target. |f the steering wheel holds to
gether it ruptures his liver or spleen sq hq
bleeds to ^th igtornally, if thp atepriBg
wheel breaks off, the matter is settled instant
ly by the steering column’s plunging through
his abdomen,
By no moans do all head-on collisions occur on
' eurVW The modem death-trap is likely to bo
a straight stretch with three lanes of tratto^
nice the notorious Astor Plats on the *'
Port Road where there have been as m^ as
27 fatalities in one summer m»th.
. ♦ «-X. *i.
the
R«iide^of Abthers
Coi^munity Paiiet
Ne««piq)6D|„ iB¥lgoteir to
ID dieC Pcf past Weral^monUia Jji^andfu, Ai«b oaimed By
thQr hava fed an movie ‘divoree ac^ x-ja «ii»« ntmumtMi
tions, .straw vofes,’black, widow spiders,,
Hauptmann appeal details,-et Mtra, land
now congrress is in session, and they can
expect a change to political dope on this,
that and everything else.
We cannot vision any great accom
plishments from the present session be
cause the political complexion is such that
everything will be considered from the
angle of its effect on the 1936 election.
However, there are some important
things the people can watch. These in
clude more economy in government, prob
ably passage of the bonus, efforts to pass
a 36-hour work week law, and more lib
eral provisions in the security law. What
ever happens, we believe that business has
little to fear from the present session of
congress or the 1936 election. If the New
Deal is approved in the election we do not
believe that it will be developed in such
a manner that will put hamestrings on
business and that there is nothing to fear
along that line. Likewise, if the national
administration is changed, there should
be no cause for alarm because public opin
ion will de^nd that the things that are
known to beneficial will be continued.
BARTON
MUCH TO DO, PIONEERS
Mixed up with a great deal of justifiable com
plaint about existing social conditions there is
a certain proportion of plain ordinary self-pity.
It expresses itself after this fashion: “You who
are older have grabbed all the opportunities.
You had it easy in your day. If you couldn’t
find a job, or if you didn’t like your job. there
wa.s always the land. You could pioneer.”
Seen through the rosy haze of emotion, the
pioneers appear as a company of hardy young
men and women, with
their attics full of ham
and potatoes and their
cellars full of hard cider
—dancing bam dances
You get a glimpse of them
in a recent biography
called Old Jules by Mari
Sandox, daughter of a
Nebraska sod-hut pioneer.
Merely to escape star-
was driven from one home-
a half-dozen inove.s. Sand
his crops; his
or were
Brace Barton
sS
Albany
nany as
This sud
den virion rfbn-d. straight road tempts many
ui ordinarily sensible driver into passing the
maaaliead. Simnltaneouriy a d^r ren^g tee
Srt way wings out at high spe^ w
tri- to gat into line a^
Am Mas are dosed. As the caw In line are
rtjA MtJk to cribalte ^ 9Wsh ftOtes.
fappi the oa. fe a.«»i&k
^bah ' them evoedag'^
tiMgpMtr iafe ^'
vation. Old Jule.s
stead to another,
storm and drought desf rowed
cattle died from lack of food or water,
frozen to death in the terrific shelterless win
ters. He had to fight off thieves and ■wolves,
and labor from star-light in the morning to
moon-light at night. Four wives wore them
selves out trying to carry on -with him; he
could hardly have been punished more by sen
tence as a galley slave.
His case is not exceptional. Out of the mul
titudes who started west with the Fort.v-Niners,
only a few arrived: thousands traveled only a
little way way before the privations drove them
back.
The western frontiers are gone ,it is true, but
if any boy or girl has in him the courage of the
pioneers he will not be doivned in this age, any
more than he would have been a hundred years
ago. Courage is timeless; so, untortunately, is
self-pity.
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TOO MANY IJABIES MEANS WAR
On the sub.i>rt rf Peace I am a middle-of-the-
roader, and am accordingly shot at from both
sides. My preparedness friends criticize me as
a contributor to peace movements; my peace-
at-any-price friends regard me suspiciously be
cause I advise a strong national defense.
The horrors of war ought to be constantly ad
vertised like the horrors of highway accidents.
We need to be innoculated continuously also
with the .serum of caution against foreign propa
ganda. Thus far I go along with the peace
workers.
But when they talk about the causes of war
they frequently talk nonsense. The World (War,
in its effects, is still going on: the depression of
1919-23 and of 1929-36 are as much a part of it
a.s was the Battle of the Argonne. Is anybody
so child-like as to think that Big Business is as
well off today as it would have been if peace
had reigned since 1914?
The real causes of war are not bankers or
battleship builders or scheming politicians. The
real causes are babies. Havelock Ellis pointed
this out years ago in his Essays in War-Time.
The French, with their declining birth rate, did
not want war; the English people did not want
it. The German people did not want it. But
in forty-four years tee Germans had increaosed
from forty millions to eighty millions—there
was the war pressure. Today Soviet Russia has
about sixty people for each acre of tillable land;
’The United States has a hundred. But Italy
has more than four hundred; Germany more
fbnTi five hundred, and Japan more than twenty-
four hnadtedl ^
Thp hatlqns with declining birth rates cry,
^€>1^*’ life jsrowdedr Mtiqns talk about their
BOi;
tilera
Death; JLart fHtea Cmdactofi _
Ray." Caufilli, 32, rrtSdent ofc
Abshera, died Ftiday^
In the hospital here from perL
tonitls following an operation for
raptured appendix.
He' was a member of a well
known family In Walnut Grove
township, being a son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. C. Caudill. In addition to
his parents, he leaves his wife,
Mrs. Alice Caudill, one daughter,
Ursula, and the following broth
ers and sisters, all of ’Winston-
Salem; Tarry, Saip, Maude and
Flossie Caudill, and Mrs. John
Reesus. .
Funeral and burial services
were held at the Caudill ceme
tery near the home Sunday, elev
en o’clock.
HEll-BENT FOR ELEOTON v
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Chevrolet Announces
Used Csu* Campaign
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 2.—Chev
rolet Motor Company started the
new year with a $1,000,000 co
operative plan to help move its
dealers’ stocks of used cars, and
to retire unworthy vehicles from
the highways of the country, It
was announced here today by M.
E. Coyle, president and general
manager of the company.
Beginning on New Year’s Day,
and continuing throughout Jan-
nary, Mr. Coyle said, two Im
portant special activities run con
currently.
First: Chevrolet will pay to the
dealer $20.00 for every old au
tomobile (accepted in trade on a
new or used car) that he disposes
of hy scrapping or junking.
Second: Chevrolet will pay a
bonus to salesmen whose efforts
enable their dealership to sell
more used cars In January than
It sold in the same month of
1935.
Announcement of the aggres
sive plan of promoting the sale
of worthy used cars and ridding
the market of unworthy ones
that clog the sales channels of
both used and new cars, reveals
that Chevrolet, which during the
last twelve months has vigorous
ly attacked the used car mer
chandising problems of its deal
ers, intends to carry on through
1936 not only with the methods
that have already proved suc
cessful, but with new and bolder
plans.
Mr. Coyle disclosed the plan
when he was asked what lay be
fore the automotive industry in
the new year. After briefly re
viewing 1935, commenting on its
.$25^ft60.06(b^PP|Sion of Chevro-
rlBt .S^duilTOL^clMties, and Its I
Increased Mies of cars and
trucks, Mr. Coyle declared that
the program made by Chevrolet
in the past year In raising the
standards of used car merchan
dising was probably the moat
noteworthy development from
the point ot view of the dealer.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere
appreciation to our many friends
and neighbors for their many acts
of kindness and sympathy shown
during the illness and death of
our dear wife and mother, also
for the beautiful floral offering.
F. F. ROUPE & CHILDREN.
In America there are 114,000
blind persons. Only 34,000 of
these have the opportunity
Braille reading.
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Raleigh, Jan. 2.—Bstimating
that 2,000 automobile drivers’
licenses will have been revoked
by the end of '^.he month, Arthur
Fulk, director of the state high
way safety division, said today
court records of revocations were
being received daily.
Over 500 permits have been
revoked since ^lovember 1, efioc-
tlve date of the driver’s permit
law. Over 95 per cent wera re
voked following convictions on
drunken driving charges.
New report forms sent out by
the division have greatly facili
tated the recording of the revo
cations here, Fulk said. He added
he believed the new la'w will
greatly decrease drunken driving
in the state.
Trench silos recently opened In
Itransylvanla county ^how that
the silage Is In perfect condlition
as a feed for, cowSr.^,,^
READ OUR
INVITATION
TO YOU
mow
Smoke 10 fitagnnt Camels. If you
don’t find them the mildest,
ben-flavored cigarettes you ever
smoked, return the package with
the rest of the cigarettes in it tons
at any time within a month from
this date, and we ■will refund your
full purchase price, plus postage.
R. J. ReynoldsTobacco
Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. '
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Thanks For
Patronage Daring 1935
We are most grateful to each and every
patron for the business given us dur
ing the past year. Your loyal support
makes us all the more determined to
serve you to the very best of our ability
in the future.
If you will resolve to give us your
Cleaning and Presring business
in 1936, we are sure you will be sat
isfied.
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Clean^ and Pre^ng
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