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w. Pabliahed Mmulayt and ThnndaTS at North Wilkesboro, N. C. D. J. CARTES and JULIUS C. HUBBARD. PnMbdwn SUBSCRIPTION RATES ©Be Year $1.60 Six MeBths -76 Fonr Ifonths — .50 Out of the Stati $2.00 per Year ■ntered at the pest office at North WQkee* beae, N. C., aa aeoend claaa matter nader Act of Maidi A ISTf. MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1936 Machinery and Unemplo3rment It was only three or four years ago that the whole country was talking about something called “technocracy.” That was a new economic philosophy based up on the theory that the causes of all of our unemployment and other troubles was that machines were replacing man power in industry, and that if that tendency kept on it would not be long before there would be no work for anybody to do. The technocracy idea was an echo of the outcry which has been raised when ever a new invention has been brought out to do work which was f o r- merly done by hand. When the first cot ton spinning machinery was invented, the first power looms set up, there was a tre mendous outcry about the bread being taken out of the mouths of the working class. That was more than 150 years ago, and it is only necessary to look back into history to realize how foolish the op position to those early machines was. For, instead of making less work, they made more work. By producing cotton cloth more cheaply and more speedily than it had ever been made by hand, the machine production multiplied the de mand and the market for cotton cloth, so that within a few years ten persons were employed on the spinning and weaving machines for every one who had been em ployed at hand labor in the same indus- try. To a generation which knows nothing of industrial history the revival of this outcry against the machines seemed con vincing. llie evidence to the contrary, however, is right in front of the eyes of anybody who will look for it. The best e.xample is in the automobile industry. More automobiles have been made and sold in the past year than in any one of the previous five years. Very much more of the work of building automobiles is done by machinery than at any time in the past. It is no uncommon thing for an automobile manufacturer to scrap $10,000,000 worth of heavy machinery to replace it with new and more efficient equipment. But has the machine thrown automobile workers out of their jobs? Quite the opposite is true. In one gi'eat factory alone, which formerly employed 60.000 workers to produce a million and a half of automobiles in a year, last year 90.000 wx)rkers were employed to produce a smaller number of cars. There was no reduction in w'ages; on the contrary, wages went up. Yet the price of the car came down. Precisely the same experience has fol lowed the introduction of modem machin ery in every line of industry. There are temporary readjustments and shifts of employment, but in the long run the en larged market created by offering better goods at lower prices results in the em- plojnnent of more people than could find jobs before the new machines were put in. On Wage Boosts The voluntary actions on the part of many corporations, large and small in all parts of the country, in raising wages of employes is one of the most healthful signs of a returning prosperity to be placed before the public eye since this na tion started emerging from the depres sion' If this practice is widespread and gen erally followed there will be less talk of revival of the NBA, the purpose of which was to increase employment and buying power through higher wages. As an emergency mesaure the NBA • worked quite well and many favored it as such vrtio would be opposed to making the NEA a part of the permanent laws of the country. If industry, generally speaking from a national standpoint, has as little love for the NEA as one would gather from daily perusal of newspapers. Industrial leaders will make every reasonable effort to show that such a measure is not necessary. They can gt> about this in no better or more effective way than raising wages. And the wage increases will return in the form of profits. More buying power means more goods consumed and greater ability to pay prices that will allow man ufacturers a profit on their endeavors. The underlying cause of economic stag nation is not a surplus problem but a problem of distribution. The average per son Avill buy if he has the wherewithal and the big spenders in the nation are the wage and salary earners and the farmers. The big lesson that the NEA should have taught was cooperation and the necessity of eliminating cut-throat com petition. To lower wages is an attempt to sell at lower costs always acts as a boomerang in the long run. MOI A neighbor who seeded a new lawn and sat up nights sprinkling the same is afraid he got hold of some of that Hoorer grass.—^Albany Knickerbocker Press. Most men have a secret hope that they will look the same in their new fall suit as the advertisements in the Saturday Evening Post. Bruce* BARTON THE FARMER HAS IT Waking up in a sleeping car, I dlscorered that we had got stalled behind a derailed train during the night and were four 'hours late. There was no diner, no newspaper, nothing to do but wait until we reached Buffalo at one o’clock. So I settled myself philosophically in the smoking compartment and gazed out on the landscape where farmers were busy with their plowing. My mind went back to the summer I worked on a farm in Michigan. And partly because of the memories, partly because of the lack of breakfast, I began to feel envious of the sturdy tillers of the soil. "Tou have many troubles,” I said to myself, “l^u have long hours; you are at war with the Winds and the sun and the storms; you are afflicted by every imaginable kind of pest. But one great and glorious gift you do enjoy. You have an ap petite.” On that Michigan farm the boss and I and an other .hired hand used to rise at four o’clock in the summer mornings. By half past six we had tended to the horses and milked the cows, and were ready for breakfast. What a break fast! Then out to the fields. By about ten-thirty we were beginning to be hungry again, and for' an hour and a half we would live in the con templation of dinner. Again a tremendous meal. Then more hard work until sun-down— with again a couple of hours of eager antici pation. In New York high-priced chefs buy the fin est foods for their hotels and clubs and dress them up with all sorts of fancy sauces and trick ornaments. But I am never really hungry. My house is warmer than the farm bouse, and the beds are softer; I am better paid for a much shorter working day. But I wish that Just once more in my life I could smell that cooking across the fields and know that ap petite again. LET’S DRESS THE PART On Park Avenue during a recent elevator strike a young fellow hailed me by name and I stopped for a chat wondering all the time Just where I had seen him before. Then it dawned on me that he runs an elevator in a building where I do a good deal of business. Now he looked rougher, unkempt, less attrac tive, and I realized why; I never bad seen him without .his uniform. Perhaps you have happened to pass a big city hospital at the hour when the nurses are going off duty. They come trooping out of the side door, a nice enough lot of women, bnt no different from the other thousands on the city streets. Are these the alert Angels of Mercy who, with their starched whiteness, their cocky little caps, and their brisk movements, make such an alluring picture in the wards? “Clothes do not make the man,’’ says the proverb. But clothes do make the soldier, as every military man knows. It would be impos sible to win a war without uniforms. And clothes do help to make the public official. David Lamson, in his dramatic book “We Who Are About to Die," deecrlbes the court scene when sentence of death was passed upon him, and records his feeling of surprise that the whole tragic action seemed so remote, so impressive. He discovered the reason. “We have abandoned the fnss and furbelows; we force the,unfortunate l>aw to play its scenes In the barest of settings, in street clothes, with out the makeup or costumes or lighting neces sary to the illusion. . . . The British, with a better feeling for art forms, dress their judges in silken robes and Impressive wigs and insist upon the observance of tonnalltlee.’* We ought to dress our public officials with . more dignity. A mayor should look like a mayor, as the Lord Mayor of London* does. Our mayors look just like ordinary men. TODAY AND “^TOMORROW OVCSilNO .... . . atm popslfv One of the most interesting de velopments of the past few yean has been the revival of popular interest in bicycling. More hi cycles are In use now than ever before, people in the trade re- pbrt. In America, bicycling is still much more a sport than a means of transportation. In Europe the ordinary working man can by no possihlUty afford to own a ear. He usM a bicycle to go back and forth to his day’s work. I have seen' in European • cities bicycles carrying loads of tools and build ing materi^ which we would consider a fair load for a Ford. It takes an expert to carry a 16- foot ladder oh a bicycle through the traffic of the Purls boulevard, but that is not an uncommon sight. Just now cycling is a popular fad in Ameiica, bnt I doubt if it will ever come back in this coun try to the proportions of 40 years ago, when everybody rode bi- cyclee. • • • SNAPSHOTS educational I saw a statistic the other day to the effect that three families out of every five In America own cameras. There are more than 16 million amateur photographers in this country and last year they took more than 300,000,000 snap shots. Wo are certainly living in a pic torial era. I was interested to look over a large number of ama teur photographs which had been submitted for prizes in a nation wide newspaper photography con test, and I was amazed and de lighted at the artistic effects achieved by many amateurs and the apparent wldeepread appreci ation of beauty and symbolism a- mong the contestants. In my younger days, when I was one of the few amateur photographers, we were well sat isfied If we got any kind of a pic ture at all. I think the influence of artistic photography upon the generation now growing up is going to be tremendous. * • • PROGRESS In camera art Thinking back, I don’t know of any art in which the changes have been so great in my time as 1 n photography. Rummaging through^ box of family souydUrs the otl^ day 1 found several daguerreotypes of my grandpar ents and an amusing tintype of my father, as a college student, wearing a silk hat, as was the custom of college seniors in the 1860’s. I can well remember when hav ing one’s picture taken was slow and hot altogether pleasant process. The victim’s bead v.'as held from behind in an iron clamp and he was supposed to look pleasant for from one to three minutes without changing his expression. That accounts for the wooden and fish-faced effect of most of the early photographs. Photographers had to have a big overhead skylght, and could not make any pictures at all on a cloudy day, when I was a boy. Then, too, it was the custom to ‘retouch” every negative until all signs of human expression had heon rubbed out. • • • PRIMITIVE home-made I was reminded of my own first camera. I was an inventive and inquisitive boy when an en thusiastic amateur named George Elastman Invented the photo graphic dry plate and laid the foundations for modern photo graphy—and a great fortune for himself. 1 saw one of the new dry {date cameras and wanted one. 666 COLDS and FEVER Liqnid. Tablete. Salve. Nose Headache, SO Drops minntea Try "Rnb-My-’TisHi”—World’s Best lininieat Suit Headquarters FOR MEN AND BOYS ABSHERS ^My father said that if I would make a camera that would work :bo would make me • present the neceesary lens. ^ I managed to make a camera when I "was about 14 and mjr fa ther gave me the lens out o£ a stereoptloon, or magic lantern, which he had used in giving illus trated lectnros on the Philadel phia Centennial. Among my souvenirs I foi some of my early efforts at pho tography with that primitive: camera, which, served me for a number of years until I began to earn money enough to tray a bettor one. Big P|ants''JSxpand PICTCRES the dd “MW Before the movies, the only way in which most people learn ed what the rest of the world looked, like was by stereoptieon lectures. In which "still” pictures were projected on the screen by what We used to call a magic lan tern. My father eked ont his min isterial income by giving these il lustrated lectures in small New England towns, and I was some times privileged to accompany him on hts horse-and-wagon lec ture tours. Before the electric light, the most brilliant fight obtainable was the oxyhydrogen limelight A stream of oxygen and ono of hy drogen were focussed upon a block of calcium carbonate, which became brilliantly incandescent under the flame of the mingled gases. We carried the gas supply In two huge rubber bags; my fa ther made the oxygen and hydro gen at home and filled the bags before we started out. One of my jobs was to sit on the oxygen bag to force the gas to flow fast enough. Best results from the use of triple superphosphate in Mitchell county have been secured where the soil is alkalin, indicating that It pays to use limestone along with the phosphate, reports the as sistant county agent. Too MUCH TOeAT-NO EXERCISE [THArs JUST THE TIME reALKAtIZE Mio moiSEvnoN Be felt a dUTieot man next day. Believed the Alka-Seltzer way. Why don’t you take Alka- Seltzer for Gas on Stomach, Headache, Sour Stomach, Colds. Muscular, Rheumatic or Sciatic Pains? Alka-Seltser has a pleasant, refresh ing, tangy taste. It contains an anal gesic tAcetyl-Salicylate. a Sodium Salt of Aspirin) which relieves pain and discomfort, while Its vegetabls and mineral alkallzers help fb cor rect the cause of those minor ail- mente associated with hyperacidity of the stomach. « Tour druggist sells Alka-Seltzer. BE WISE-ALKALIZE! ^ I C^T HELP rr, SIS- THE SWCUTAS-nNOMILK FCOM MONTVIEW DAIRY GIVES ME SO MUCH PEP r OUST naturally have .TOSUDEUP 'BANISTERS Beware from common colds Hut Hang On No natter bem-muis medleiafis jrou have tried for your cou^ chest cold or ^ can Poir cannot afford w take a tmanoe wttb anything less than Crecmnl- doa, goes right to the . seat of ; uie trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the tniTained mem- Jnnea as the getm-ladaa phlegm Is loosened and expeOed.. v Xveo If omw nmemce hare Keep tlw ddldren healthy, witli a itIiiM of Ment^ew-Dairjr Grade A Milk three thnes a day.*^ It’s tnre^e own way to hei^h. til New York, Nov. 24.—Plant ex pansion expenditures drew atten- (ioB In bnsiness circles today as an- indicator of increasing need m soma industries for new facilittes to meet recovery dmancL Bepnblic Steel corporation joined other big units of the industty in a program calling for outlay of many millions of doUurs in coming months for modernization and ex tension of mills. 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