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0n« Year $1.6«
^ Bfaatlis — 76
our Ifooths 60
'put »f the State 62.00 per Year
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'hotOm'tt. C., aa aecoad clan matter onder Act
^ 4, 1879.
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939
Balancins' The Budget
The annual income of the Federal Gov
ernment has been increasing steadily for
the past six years. It is now close to six
and a quarter billion dollars a year. It is
derived from taxes of every kind, includ
ing the Social Security payroll taxes,
which are just so much more income in
Government bookkeeping.
The annual expenditure of the Federal
Government has also been increasing
steadily for the past six years. It is now
close to or above nine and one-half billion
dollars.
The difference between what the gov
ernment spends and what it collects from
its citizens is borrowed money. In the
past six years the Federal Government
has borrowed and spent about twenty-five
billion dollars more than it has taken in.
Close to a billion dollars a year of govern
ment expenditures are for interest on the
national debt, which now amounts to
about 41 billion dollars.
The largest item of government expend
itures is relief, which includes ^V.P.A.
Next largest is public works, which covers
new postoffices, highway construction,
river and harbor improvement and the
like. Next is national defense. The in
terest charge comes next in size.
Unless spending is checked, the United
States will go deeper and deeper “ in the
red”. When you read or hear talk about
“balancing the budget”, it simply means
trying to keep the outgo within the in
come. It is a very difficult idea to put
across with politicians in office. They
love to spend other people’s raoney.
That spending can be reduced and
ought to is the conclusion reached by the
National Economy League ^f New York,
from whose booklet “How to Balance the
Federal Budget” the figures here are
taken. We think it would be worth ev
ery thoughtiul citizen’s time to study the
League’s analysis of the Federal finances.
^
Striking Comparisons
If, as some of our politicians argue, the
steady and rapid extension of government
control over individuals and businesses
marks the royal road to -security and plen
ty for the people, the totalitarian states
should be veritable marvels of prosperity.
The fact is, as everyone who has studied
the subject knows, that totalitarianisn,
tends to promote a lower, not a higher
standard of living; a lower, not a highei
wage for the worker; a smaller, not a
larger return for farmer and manufactur-
er.
In Russia, arfcles that Americans of all
economic levels consider almo.st absolute
necessities—such as woolen clothing, good
leather boots, meat and butter for the ta
ble, and adequate furniture—are pos
sessed only by the relatively few, the fa
vored ones of totalitarian “aristocracy”.
In Italy, wages and the standard of living
have been consistently lowered by gov
ernmental fiat, and even so common a
commodity as wholewheat bread is un
available to the bulk of workers. In Ger-
meny, the govemmenbsponsored spread
of “ersatz” foods and materials ^that is,
substitutes for rubber, eggs, butter, bread
made of grains, coffee, etc.,—^testifies
mutely to what is happening to the ordin
ary citizen’s standard of living and chance
to progress there.
There isn’t any mystery as to why this
is so. As Harry Curran Wilbur has said:
“Government is a non-producer, and has
no resources save what it takes from pro
ducers, distributors and those servicing
hnth proceasee”. Taxes and oompetStion,
nnder patemaUsbc government, gradually
drive the private producer to the wall.
The natioa*8 resources are gradually used
The national income
t^atea rise. And the standard
Vgoeadown.
mduBk and modem« teUa the
^ CcM>l««tbiMii'
those who’ ride^^a«tj^ta^
iy over NiBrij*«troril» were no „
of .the. news liiat &e cobblestones are to
be^ suriaced. :.; Covering UJ> the
stones on ^riih str^ with a smooth sutf-
ace was one'of the major improvements
on North Wilkesboro streets last year,
Should Be Supported
We understand that several communi
ties are planning to enter baseball teams
again in the American Legion’s junior
league. It is a good movement for the
youth of the county and every public spir
ited citizen should in some way lend sup
port to the junior baseball program.
Young people who take major parts in
athletics and team competition rarely
ever grow up to be criminals. Boys will
find recreation. If the adults do not help
in furnishing a clean type the boys may
choose recreation and diversion along dis
astrous lines.
The man who looks 1939 in the eye
with no debts behind him is really sitting
pretty.
Borrowed Comment
IT COULD HAPPEN THEN
(Chattanooga News)
It is a gloomy moment in history. Not
far many years . . . not in a lifetime of
most men who read this . . . has there been
so much grave and deep apprehension;
never has the future seemed so incalcul?,-
ble as at this time. In our own country
there is universal commercial prostration
and panic, and thousands of our poorest
fellow-citizens are turning out against the
approaching winter without employment
and with no prospect of it.
In France the political caldron seethe.s
and bubbles ivith uncertainty; Ru.ssia
hangs, as usual, like a cloud, dark and si
lent; upon the horizon of Europe; while
all the energies, resources and influences
of the British empire are sorely tried more
."(orely, in coping with the vast and dead
ly disturbed relations in China
It is a solemn moment, and no man can
feel an indifference . . . which, happily,
no man pretends to feel ... in the issue of
events
Of our own troubles (in the United
States) no man can see the end The.v
are, fortunately, as yet mainly commer
cial ; and if we are only to lose money and
by painful poverty to be taught wisdom
. . . the wisdom of honor, of faith, of sym
pathy and of charity ... no man need se
riously to despair. And yet the very haste
to be rich, which is the occasion for thi
widespread calamity, has also tended to
destroy the moral forces with which wt
are to resist and subdue the calamity
The above is 82 years old. It was taker
from Harper’s Weekly, October 10, 1857
—-—^
BACK TO WATER WAGON?
(Winston-Salem Journal)
Country Home Magazine deduces from
a survey made recently that rural Ameri
ca, after five years of repeal is going back
on the water wagon and that at least one-
fourth of the nation’s chartered communi
ties will be under prohibition by fall
“Despite intensive campaigning by the
liquor intere.sts urging temperance”, the
magazine states, “and heavy pressure
brought to bear by numerous state liquor
monopolies, more than 5,000 towns had
at the end of 1938, used the local option
privilege provided by the repeal referen
dum to ban the sale of alcohol within thei
limits.
“More amazing even than the return
to prohibition itself is the reason for it
Ic has happened without benefit of an
aroused clergy thundering hell-fire tf
drinkers with the vehemence that waf
routine two decades ago. One quarter of
our country has gone dry because rural
America has decided that it is the onl)
sensible thing to do”.
The survey indicates that the underly
ing factors in this return to prohibition b:
local option are increase in crime since re
peal, increase in automobile accidents,
lowering of mortality among ’teen age
young people, and disappointm-c-nt as ti
the financial benefits from liquor taxes.
Rural residents complain that those who
drink cannot, like the city dweller, walk
after their liquor.’ They drive long dis
tances. Often they go home “with a load
under their belts”. As a result, the mag
azine says that in 1934, the first year of
repeal, tiie rural automobile accident rate
DOM 16 and one-half per cent A year ^
er that, country it>ads “offered the driver
a 226 iMV emt bftUr dunce of bej
kJUed tlum did
Boi^o Rmte, Avra
Some lilUiroremeBt wu noted ike
put tefw dors tn the condition of
htra. lAura Ifnrtin Unney who
■utfered a aeeond stroke of ps-
rmlystB test Monday nlsrht.
Mr. OeoTgp fR. 'Johuon, of
Roarlpk RiTer, hu been very ill
with pneumonia.
Min Bather Cothren has been
quite 111 with flu. '
Jim Frank and Shirley Rob
erts are recorering from flu and
mumps. ‘ ■
Rev. T. Jarvis wu In North
Wilkesboro Ftiday and preached
at SwanI Creek Saturday and Sun
day.
Commencement is In the air at
the Rc^arlng River school with
rehearsing and some advance
programs taking place. There are
two weeks of school after this.
Mrs. Lee 6t. John has nearly
recovered from a serious attack
of flu.
Mrs. D. S. Lane, of North Wil
kesboro, has spent about 10 days
with her sister, Mrs. Laura Lln-
ney, who has been seriously 111
with flu, with severe Injuries su
stained when a calf knocked her
out of the barn, and with a sec
ond stroke of paralysis. Her ter
ribly lacerated limb has healed
however.
Little Rosalie Sale, colored
though only about 10 years old
has already cut 3 set of teeth, a
very unusual phenomenon.
Nora Sale and Lonnie and
Bessie May Parks, all colored,
have moved to MoGri.dy.
Katie Parks, colo/ed, has re
cently been to Pittsburg, Pa.
Mrs, J. J. Johnson has con
valesced nicely from an appendic-
tomy.
Mr. B. L. Johnson has a new
Tiositlon aa timekeeper with a
highway construction force.
Mr. George R. Johnson has
bought some land from his fath
er, -Mr. B, L. Johnson, on the east
side of the creek.
Mrs. J. P. Pardue, Mrs. L, W.
Smithey, Mrs. G. W. Scro.g.gs, and
Miss Zelle Harris, of Roaring Riv
er; Mrs. G. W. Cdlhren and
daughter, Irene: Mrs. Lois Rol)-
erts and son, Jim Frank, visited
■Mrs. Laura Linney Sunday.
Mrs. Alva Simmons has been
teaching in the place of Miss
Ruth Linney, who has been out
five weeks because of a severe
attack of flu and the illness of
her mother.
Atty. Julius C. Martin. 77-year-
Bu-l Sittth, 8m ^
Boone.^hp lUy D«r RmUiIh.
Ma Spirt* fund*y to vliilt Kr.fU*, of A^pUtriilaa »«V» Tewh
•nr Collaini^ rcgalgr (Mtnro -of
j|t|9 Mduh eootawBMment axotv-
, ;has ;.9o(tiiMy liwii nt for
1, gcCcHrdlag to lit 'kBBooneo-
tl^ C. A. cgMnsit,
oITtho Muy. i-toart
® Mr.^wd
SUhtc^:
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^PMOBtg, Mr. tad Mrs. 8.;
luww*’'
flu.
"Saadsy M^obf^aad
WM wall atteadhd •* ’ ~ . .. • .
Orova Baptist charah csatar aroaad toa spirit af
Mr.-aad Mrs. Carl
svpreda^^
iRisads
syaspathatls darlag iha IBaass
tad 4aatk^o( _OBy irll| tad
stitl,. w.tyti t
aa AnwritM-jilio,
throagh a aaflt§^i£l8£M by tho
gbl phylliml odapttloa sujors of
tha ebltofe. ^
Badri Foriaydaval. WhUO*
la, will r^ga aa May Qaaaa.
were la North Wflkaaboro-ISdp-
ping, Moaday.
old director of war risk litlgatloB,
saverriy injured by a street car,
can walk about bis i ponnactieutt
Avanae apartment maid Atspacted
to return to his work la the de-;
partment. of Justice before the
months allotted by physhda^'l
Mr. Martin grew op la thlsJadlgl^
borbood and 1 i the only »,;Ayltg
brother of.Vrs. Laura Liniiey and.
Mrs. Celia nane.
Ads. get attention—and raaaltat
POCKET AND WRIST WATCHES
, , ♦1.00 to *3.95
ALARM CLOCKS
n.OOto2.95
LOOK FOR ON THE DIAL
Over-indulgence in food, drink,
or tobacco frequently brings on
an over-acid condition in the
atnmach, Gas On Stomach,
Headache, Sour Stomach, Colds,
fMgue, Muscular, Rheumatic
ar Sdatic Paina.
Sa get rid of the discomfort and
eoexect the add condition, take
ALKA-SELTZER
ADta-SeRzer contains Acetyl- J
BaBcylato (an analgesic) in
aoEoIdnation vrith vegetable and
Utoeral alkallzers.
4“ t At your drug
store, at the
soda fountain,
and in 30t and
CM packages for
use.
BE WISE-ALKALIZE!
Town of North Wilkesboro
Tax Listing
NOTICE
FOR YEAR 1939
I will be at the office of T. H. Settle, Room No.
7, Northwestern Bank Building from—
April 12 to April 29, Inclusive,
for the purpose of listing property for taxation
for the year 1939.
All property, owned by individuals or corpor
ations, must be listed
As of April 1st, 1939,
and all persons between 21 and 50 years of age
are required by law to list for poll tax.
1. H. McNIEL, Jr.
Tax Lister Town of North Wilkesboro.
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