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pEHDSMT m rmiricB ■afe.. f llowlat* aad Th«md«^» M Notth WilhMboro, N. C t>. J. CASTER ad JULIUS C. HUBBASD PuUiahen ' SUBSCRI^ON RATES: One Y^r ...$l*50 Six — 76 Fiour Months 60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year latered at the post office at North Wflkea- " T, aa eei A 18T9. I* f —Mil t m • I as se^d clast matter under Act MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1939 . ? In The Spring “In the spring a young man’s fancy you know the remainder of the quotation. It needs no elucidation. Yet there are other, things people’s minds turn to in this season of the year when it seems that the whole earth is just ready to burst forth into new growth and progress. The seasons of the year are so wonder fully arranged that each serves a natural and, valuable purpose. Summer is the time of production when nature’s energy is used to produce for man’s use. Fall is the time of harvest and zestful anticipation of enjoying the fruit of the harvest. Winter is that time of the year when the growth of the preceding season is used and strength is stored in re serve for beautiful spring and productive summer. Such is the work of seasons in plant life and a striking parallel exists between plant life and animal life. Spring is the season when people are naturally inclined to work and to ac complish something — to start production for later use. It is a time of planning and of putting those plans into eifect in order that the year’s work and existence might not be classed as a failure. Spring is a season to take on new life— physically, mentally and spiritually. It is also the time to take on new life in an in dustrious manner with well defined plans to be executed. All of us welcome spring and often wonder what the season holds in store. But the important thing is that we can acdomplish about what we wish and that the season will be about what we as in dividuals make of it, each for himself. Capital For Homes The building, savings and loan associa tions of North Carolina have played a ma jor part in the outstanding record made by North Carolina in the construction of homes during 1938 as shown in the offi cial figures issued by the North Carolina Building and Loan League. During 1938, 5,400 construction loams were made to the amount of 5,611,000 which represented 42^% of the total of $22,600,000, which was loaned by the building, savings and loan associations. It was estimated by Wheeler Martin, of Wil- liamston, vice-president of the League, that over $15,000,000 was added during 1938 to the taxable values of the local government units of North Carol.na thru the construction, repair, and renovation of homes and buildings financed by these institutions. Thousands of workers were employed and hundreds of business firms benefited through the purchase of mate rials used in this new construction and re pairs. The building and loan associations have ample funds available for the annual spring repair and modernization drive. They are anticipating a buildmg activity anywhere from ten to twenty-five per cent greater than lasc year. In addition Ho these activities in new construction, in repair and modernization, he stated, the building, savings and loan associations aided 2,812 persons to pur chase their homes to the value of $4,445,- 000; and helped finance 2,452 other home purchases to the amount of $3,869,000 through the recognized amortization lend ing plans of these home financing institu tions. . A,'Menace To Free Uto ^ ^ArtiHcatf labor should consider c(Kldition of workers in countries where jHTivate industry has been swallowed by soverinnent iM^rWhat^ would happen Ho a group of la- r#=-- men ii> GerB^nyJf t^ey , ttD«d A sttike itt A go^«nuni8lH)WB^ In- ^ dnitry?^ if news reporte an eonreet; their whift would be Wauet, for to strike sssiiut ‘ 'the fovenuneat in those countries K; trea£ TV politteiitirl^iladyocalies p^Kc own^hip of ia^^ustry^^in fc.;the the th^ry thj^ in some mirac- ulottH mSiAniff thiA will the ^people some untold blealfeg, id^ertly eamaflag- ing a move toward the iron-handed con trol and jimitatiob ctf individual rights which is^ inescapable, pait. of socialis tic, communistic, or fascistic, government. It's not. a pretty picture for free^bbr in the United States,'if it looks ahead to see what its positioa would; be under goy^ ernment ownership of industries, Jt’s thing for labor, mganized oriunpfgahii^, to deal with a private employer^ It is quite a different, thing to deai with gov ernment. " “ - You can negotiate on wage matters with a private employer, call a strike agaifist him if you aren’t satisfied, and still have the police and court protection of the government. But when you are.working for government, and strike against gov ernment — particularly when government becomes all powerful through control of production and distribution — you are helpless. A strike then means revolution. Labor should be the staunchest support er of private enterprise in its fight aagainst the growing menace of state socialism. 5 ^ M itidipgg Of course, dear little Toodlekins isn’t old enough to realize which side his bread is buttered on, but his mamma knows. It’s the one that always lands on the nice new dining room rug.—Boston Herald. Borrowed Comment BIG BUSINESS THAT IS REALLY BIG (Reidsville Review) The growth of insurance, especially since the World War of 20 years ago, has come so gradually and is so generally ac cepted, that few people have realized how tremendous a factor of the national economy is here centered. Senator Joseph C. 0. O’Mahoney, there fore, is not the only ;one who was “amaz ed” and “startled” at some of the facts brought out by the recent hearings of his own Temporary National Economic Com mittee. These hearings were no muck-rake. For once, no scandal was evoked, none sought. O’Mahoney himself made clear that “nothing whatever was developed at the hearings to reflect on the integrity or the ability otf the men who administer these huge organizations. I am personal ly satisfied,” he continued, “that there is not a single responsible .official of any of these companies who is not as sincerely interested in restoring and promoting eco nomic prosperity as is any public official”. That is cei'tainly reassuring, and a wel come change from the usual investiga tion, which plumbs the depths of human cordidness. But O’Mahoney’s committee has sought to go deeper, and to find out something about what makes economic life tick in America today, and what makes it stop ticking occasionally. And its revelations of the tremendous part played by the in surance companies in that econpmy today will be indeed .startling to many beside himself. How well understood is it, for instance, that at the end of last year total assets of legal resrve life insurance companies stood at $27,660,000,000 ? Or that this is an increase of seven and a half billions in the past seven years? That staggering figure is greater than the national wealth of any state except New York or Pennsylvania. It crowds close to the entire national income in the depression year of 1933 ($44,520,000,- 000). The comment of Frederick H. Ecker, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that these assets are being held for 65,- 000,000 policy-holders and thus affect di rectly perhalps 100,000,000 Americans in cluding beneficiaries, only makes the fig ures more staggering. An increasing proportion of all private and public debt is slowly drifting into the hands of the insurance companies. The committee found that the 49 largest legal reserve companies now hold 11 per cent of all the direct and guaranteed debt of the federal government, and 9.9 per cent of jJl municipal. pqlittcal sobdi- visron debte, to say irbthingr of 11 peir cent of all farm and| 14 per cent of all city mortgages. To cite these things is not necessarily to criticize either the insurance companies or way they run them. It is simply I^t out that so tremes^oos A tlon hu become a key iadnr fat ’ TRiBrt -eoalSa’t'lii *ny fire men inveoteif, me anA; nt&do roads how lonA^ago hot if VM Ctsfore' Um came from Asia ip Amerieit for they^'lnrew npthins ahou^ vnt L'tlie white men caini. ,400- ptUI years ago, and brought es and wheels. It was a l(mg time after that before we hadr^ anything . mat coohi. be' caHed a go^ any where in America.Probably ,we would have had good.roads earl ier if the railroads had not been inveinted. Thomas Jefferson’s project for a gi'eat Astern of national highways had hardly got well started before people began to build railroads and roadbuild ing practically stopped for almost a century. Noming that we would call .1 good road .today existed on this continent until the invention of the automobile compelled folks to Improve their roads. We’ve got lot of good roads today, but not nearly enough, and few of them as good as the best roads of Eu rope. PIONEERS . . . . Ford I have a deep personal interest in roads for two reasons. My first American ancestor, John Stockbridge of the Plymouth Col ony, was the first wheelwright in New .Slngiand. He came over from England in 1692 in response to a call from the colonists for an artisan who could not only build wheels for vehicles but knew how to build a water wheel. He built the first grist mill and the first sawmill in the colony. He was also chosen as “pathmastcr” of Plymouth, in charge of high ways. I sometimes think I inher ited some of his interests in wheels and roads to run them on. As a very young man I was an ardent cyclist, and took part in the movement to build cycle paths along every highway. I aband oned the bicycle for a horse and buggy. When the motor - car came in I owned one of the first American cars, and found out from personal experience just how bad a road could be. I took a hand, in 1912, in organ izing the movement for Federal Aid for Highways, which has re sulted in the great national road system of today. We couldn’t get Congress interested until aft er Henry Ford had sold enough of his cars to farmers so that they no longrer regarded automobiles as rich man’s playthings, and want ed good roads for themselves. ROMANCE . . Romans To me there is more romance in an old road than in an old house. So many people have traveled over it that the old high way seems to echo with the clat ter of hooves and the chatter of human beings who once road over it but are long since departed. The best, if not the only good roads of ancient times were built by the Romans. I drove a few years ago at 80 miles an hour ov er a part of the Appian Way, lead ing south from Rone into Cam pania, with only a thin skin of modern concrete laid over the an cient stone pavement laid down nearly 200 years before Christ. There is romance, too, in the ancient Roman roads of England and France. Prom 65 B. C. on, the Romans were building paved roads to tie their far-flung em pire together. Watling Street, the most famous of the ancient British Roman roads, is still a main highway. And many miles of its first foundations are still as solid as when Caesar’s legions built them. AUfrOMOBILES . cftgineeriiilg Probably more highly-trained engineering talent is engaged in planning and building motor roa is today than in any other single field. The combination of speed and s^ety is not impossible. Eu ropean countries whete modem highways have been built have pmcti^ally no speed limit. But they have separate traffic lanes and no cross traffic. In the thickly-settled parts of America an approach .to the ideal road conditions is 'being made. There still remains much to be ‘done. If all the taxes paid by motorists on gasoline and for li censes were applied .to modom highway bnflding we would ^sobn have a perfect road system, en states so far . have ac^^ constitutional amendments ot wSti: llT HAvtIWt HJMV A IHE UStJlMB ^ «AD TWTCAlR OUT VflTH FOicMW.Nbu M>rr A -BuMjM _-W , I mi A 9cK ; S'> ,„T-.. .K ft-. rA r. .* ed with center parkways to sepa rate opposing streams of traffic. Highway illumination will be pro vided for the most heavily-trav eled arteries. Steep grades will be levelled and sharp curves will be straightened. Grade crossings and blind intersections will be el iminated. Guard-rail protection and pedestrian walkways will be provided and all surfaces will be skidproofed. ‘"These •super-highways of to morrow will be built as component parts of a master plan so that in the futiire it will be possible to incorporate them into a nation wide system”. That is a dream that will come true if enough people want it to come true. And I think the Am erican people are getting fed up on the annual toll of lives in mo tor accidents, due largely to poor highway conditions. It will take time and work and money, but we’ve done tougher jogs than that and I believe Mr. Upham’s dream will come true. State College Answers Timely Farm Questions Juestion: How can I prevent lice and mites from infe.sting my poultry flocks? Answer: The most effective prevention is to thoroughly clean and disinfect the poulti|y house. Crude petroleum, commercial car- bolineum, coal tar stock dips, and a combination of equal parts of spent motor oil and kerosene are good for this work. Treatments for control of the different kinds of mites are given in Extension Circular No. 160, ‘‘Common Par asites of Poultry”, and copies may Buy your lespedeza seed «ed potatoes and mion sett iTom us at lowest prices.— PEARSON BROS. 2-13-4t be obtained free by writing the Agricultural Editor at State Col- U-ge, Raleigh, N. C. Ads. get attrition—and resnlta! PEARSON BROS., as usu al, is headquarters for all kinds o f seeds. Farmers, friends, come in and see us. 2-13-4t WILLIAMS MOTOR CO. TELH*HONE S34-J T. H. Williams, Owner Oldsmobile Salea*SerTic« Bear Frame Service aad Wheel Aligameat General Auto Repairiag Wrecker Service—Electric and Acetylene Welding USED PARTS—For all makoa and modelfl ef cars and trecka I-have just had a letter Otiudea M. Upham, directoe t^?iLinerican Road BuOdenr- As^ HocIi^aB^ hoUiBg its Am Erirndaco WoirIJ’a; deoeritMi asJMaadttatooda# 'highwaTS will' ytte l^Bsfaienu^ - . w writoa Lldri(*mya wiR be' TIME MARCHESjON —AND SO DOES THE— Penalty On Your 1938 COUNTY TAXES THE PENALTY ON ALL UNPAID 1938 COUNTY TAXES IS ALREADY 2 PER CENT, AND IF YOU Fail to Pay On or Before April 1st Will Increase To, eeee Come in now and make full settlement and stop diePenahy. IwiUbpleasedtoissueyourre- ce^ maiked ip fad,” at any time. ^ SHEtoFf AIO^'tAX CXHlIlCTOR W WHXES^ W
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