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fAL^Af&OT, KOI )ROf^N. TH! HOMSPBIOBNT IN POUnCt J MoadAyt «mI Thnrsdapii at 1^ North WHkodtoro. N. C. D. t. GAITER and JUUUg C. HUBBARD PuUiahan SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ob« Year |1.60 Six Moiithfl 76 Four M»>ntha .6t Out of the State $2.00 per Year ibterad at the yoat office at North Wflkea- bonL N, C., as second class matter under Act ad 4, 1879. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 Interesting Figures North Carolina has the sixth highest birth rate among the states of the Union and the tenth lowest death rate, accord ing to last w’eek’s News Letter publication from the University of North Carolina. But the report carries another table which is not favorable to the state. North Carolina has the fourth highest infant death rate in the country. Thus it w’ould seem that a baby born in North Carolina who is able to live through the first year has a good chance of a long life. The infant mortality rate in North Car olina is disgracefully high. ?or several years it was lowered, until 1938, when it took a jump upward. With the constant efforts of the public health service to edu cate people to ways and means of getting children through the first year, it is hard to understand the reversal. With the death rate in North Carolina far below the national average and with the high birtih rate, it stands to reason that if the infant mortality rate could be cut down that North Carolina could have the lowest total death rate in thenation—and Hhat would be a good advertisement for the state. Commenting on the infant death rate, the News Letter said: “The infant death rate ’n North Caro lina should be niaterially reduced. It is now approximately seventeen points above the national average of 50.9. Someone has made the remark that the measure of a civilization is its infant death rate. There possibly is a good deal to this obser vation. W’hether true or not, Norih Car olina should bend every effort to bring down its infant death rate. W'e have al ways made a poor showing in this particu lar. Our ranks of sixth, from highest in birth rate and tenth from the lowest in death rate are highly favorable, but our rank of forty-fifth in infant death rate i.s disgracefully low. North Carolina has 2.7 per cent of the nation’s population, but in 1938, 5.8 percenfl of the total number o infant deaths occurred in North Carolina. This difference is partly due to the high birth rate in the state but it is also due in considerable measure to tihe unnecessarily large number of infant deaths in the state.” For Fallen Defenders We Americans are thinking more about democracy and valuing it more highly these days because its destruction in other countries has made us consider what life here would be like without it. We are de termined that its institutions of freedom shai; be kept secure for America, no mat ter what the cost. In 1917 and 1918, likewise, Americans did not count the cost of defending demo cracy. The cost for some was their lives. They gave their all in answer to the na tion’s appeal for protection from autocra tic force, then embodied in the might of the Kaiser. On Poppy Day, Saturday, Mry 27, we w’ill have opportunity to pay special tri bute to the men who died for the cause of democracy. We will be asked to wear their flower, the poppy from the fields where they fell, to show that we still re member and honor their sacrifice. We will have opportunity, too, to help those who sacrificed health and strength in the conflict, their families and the fam ilies of those who have died. Our contri butions for our poppies will help lighten the burden for those still paying the cost of democracy’s victory in suffering and privation. A poppy on our coat on Poppy Day will mean that we honor the dead who fell for democracy and that we are aiding the liv ing who gave health and strength in pa- -i'lriotic service to America. ' The man who advocates a dictator on him dictating to somaMy I Am^ei^NK»w^ iti pref8Bt po^on as the hatioh the high^ st^di^ |of liring the Vtfld haa eve? hhdhnt ..it consisted of 48 -separate'states' Whij^ yet at the same time succeeded ing together for the good of the whole country. Like the Three Musketeere, the United States was always “all for one, one for all.’’ Today a perilous shadow seems to be cast upon this successful formula. It) is the shadow of state trade barriers—“tariffs' discriminating against the products of out side states so that home products may reap a temporary benefit. These discriminatlory taxes take many forms, but are all deadly in effect. Their inevitable result is to produce retaliatory measures in the other states; and, if this trend continues, we may some day see 48 states with high trade barriers raised a gainst one another, hindering the free flow of commerce that has been a main reason for our national progress. There’s something distinctly un-Ameri can about that picture! FairJVeathCiH hm. Editing Is Not Easy Some appear to think that running a newspaper is easy, but from experience we can say that it is no picnic, because read ers are hard to please. If we print jokes, people say we are silly. If we don’t they say we are too serious. If we clip things from other papers, we are too lazy to write them ourselves. If we don’t, w’e are stuck on our own stuff. If we stick to the job all day, we ought to be out hunting news. If we do get out and try to hustle, we ought to be on the job in the office. If we don’t print contributions we do not appreciate true genius; and if we print them, the paper is filled with junk. If we make a change in the other fel low’s copy, we are too critical. If we don’t we are asleep. Now, like as not, some guys will say we swiped this from some other paper. And we did. They’ve been trying to perfect a pain less alarm clock. We suggest that they make one which instead of ringing, releas es the-aroma of frying buckwheat cakes. —Columbus (Ohio) State Journal. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CH^JULES E. DUNN LIQUOR AND THE HOME Lesson for May 21: Jeremiah 35:5-10 Golden Text: Leviticus 19:9 This year marks the centenary of the birth of Frances E. Willard, in whose hon or the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which she helped to organize, is raising a fund of a million dollars with which to adveirise temperance. Having inherited from her sturdy par ents a remarkable degree of self-reliance, she was fond of saying that the name Wil lard means “one who wills.” The urge to organize for reform, and to pledge herself and others net to touch liquor, manifested itself early. An impetuous, red-haired, likeable girl, study, travel, and many hu man contacts enriched her mind and heart. At thirty-five came the turning point in her spectaculai career. In a sharp con flict of opinion over an administrative problem, she had resigned her position as Dean of Women and Professor of Aesthe tics at Northwe.stern University. Thus she found herself out of a congenial job. Then came her great opportunity. The Woman’s Crusade was advancing by leaps and bounds. In November, 1874, she threw in her lot wdth the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Cleveland, and was chosen its first secretary. Five years later she was elected president, holding the post for 19 exciting years un til her death in 1898. Her labors were prodigious in what she called her “Do Everything Policy.” As an ardent temperance advocate she spoke in every city and town of the country with a population off more than 10,000, and in many smaller places as well. In a single year she answered 20,000 letters. Such vast energy, coupled with Com plete sincerity and executive force, enabl ed her to gratify her ambition to become a celebirty. Indeed her fame was such that when Illinois might have chosen Grant or Logan or Douglas to represent the State in Statuary-Hall in Washington, it selected Miss Willard, instead, the only nt^men BO chosen by 4di^^^te. We do yrell tUb year to anniveraaiy of Eer blrt^AiM to d{^ firqbet IHElIOBiiiB s'4 . . . reViMt; ? Mjr earliest memories are war. In my chltdhcMMi every grown man 1 knew’was ^^a veteran of the Civil War. Onr ‘‘hired man’- on the farm was on ly one of many who still wore their old Army overcoats in Wint er. Nobody got anywhere in poli tics who was not a veteran. The first newspaper I can remember reading was full of news abont the war between Russia and Tur key. The year I was horn Ger many and France were at war, and Germany won. There was a civil war in Spain when I was five years old. Eng land was carrying on almost con tinual war against South African tribesmen and various Atlantic countries when I was a boy. The war of England against Egypt and the conquest of the Sudan are vivid memories. France made war on China. China and Japan were at war In the early ’90’s. Japan defeated Russia in war In 1904. The Boer War in which Eng land conquered the Dutch colon ists In South Africa, innumerable wars in South America and in the Balkan Peninsula, and our own constant warfare against the In dians of the West all contributed to mj’ belief that war is a natur al way for humans to act. WAR pressure Outside of our Indian battles my own country was not engaged in war until I was grown up and married. Look at our nfitional record for the past forty years. We went to war with Spajln to free Cuba. We took the iPhllip pineq as part of the loot. We had a long and pretty serious war with the Filipinos, who objected to being sold town the river. We sent armed forces into several I>atin-American countries to col lect debts owing to Americans. When Mr. Taft was President we were so close to war with Mexico that we sent the largest array we had ever assembled since 1865 to the Mexican border, rea dy for action. Early in 1914, be fore Europe went to war, we sent a mtiitary and navhl-force Into Mexico and captured the city of Vera Cruz. A dozen times hefoi-e we enter ed the World War our Navy and our Government threatened war against various South American nations. Long before we got into the great conflict public opinion was putting almost irresistible pressure upon our Government to participate. President Wilson re sisted until he could resist no longer, and we entered the great est war In all history. IDEAS repeated Wars are brought about by dif ferences in Ideas more than by any other single cause. The A- inerican people went Into the World War because we were a- frald that the German idea would dominate the world unless Ger many were defeated. The German idea was that the State is supreme and the individ ual the servant of Government. That had been bred into genera tions of Germans. It was so total ly opposed to American ideas of individual liberty that we revolt ed at the thought that Germany might become able to Impose that idea on the rest of the world. Many think of the Hitler gov ernment of today as something new. It is ancient history in Ger many, where the military power has always been supreme. We hear more about the treat ment of civilians by the military forces now than we used to, be cause we get more detailed news from Europe. There has been no change in German ideas In a thousand years. PEACE superiority I am convinced that there will never be peace among nations so long as one race or group of people regards itaeif as superior to all other peoples, and so cou' siders It has the right to take whatever it wants that the Infer ior peoples have. No nation has a perfect record in that respect. We Americans, because our skins are white, have assumed superior rights over the Indians from the beginning. We enforced them because we had better weapons. The history of the world is that of nations be lieving sincerely In their own su periority, exploiting peoples whom they regarded as inferior. The followers of Hohamtti'efF believed and still believe that they are' superior' to all other peoples. They conauered Bphta and held it for 790 years, aii4 all but conquered the rest of ope, nearly capturing Vienna fa 1988. . V The Japaneae believe thti, flMX arp'the t^-^pee^ r\' '3- be peace when there are great al liberties. nations bolding themselves to be belt ,r than others? DERIOCRAOT equaUty It is the American idea that all men are equal, that there is and can be no governing class, that we, the people, are the QoveriT- ment and can and ought to over throw Government when it at tempts to Infringe on our person- Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries have the same philosophy. In varying de gress. So have the Chinese people. The impending conflict is one between that concept of Govern ment and that which makes Gov ernment supreme dictator over the lives of its subjects. In the final analysis, democ racy is the most complete human expression MODERN WOMEN Mm4 NotSrfhfBraUh’Psio widd^ dosto col^DcrTouB«tomin,«RW*aBeq[ilsMArjMM» Jiikblii aod eve Kifi&BSd by UdnisiiBta7oroTif46y«Bf!k AAltr i *TNk ••AMOHB ^ MAMBT SCHSmOMAlNlW WESTIN6H0USE CltdCui MKEeS • N SMSWINS ST DAY ELECTRIC COMPANY CORNER AND TENTH STREETS LATEST MODELS JUST ABBITED! 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