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>% N, C.t aa Mcood elaai matter under Act
at Hac^ 4, 1879.
MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939
Solving The Housing Problem
Certain things seem to be true about
the muchrdiscussed housing situation. It
is true that home building in the United
States has not kept pace with the increas
ing number of families, and that a high
proportion of homes are out-otf-date and
should be replaced with new dwellings.
One of Iftie best things the present Ad
ministration has done has been to set up
the Federal Housing Administration sys
tem of guaranteed mortgages, which en
courages private capital to lend on long
terms at low interest for home building.
We are not at all sure, however, that
the grandiferous program of subsidized
suburban or city apartment houses to be
rented to the very poor under conditions
whereby the Federal Government practi
cally pays the whole cost, is equally com
mendable. i.
A system which encourages capitalists
to invest money in home building and at
the same time encourage individuals to
buy their own homes is, in the long run,
more truly in accord with the American
tradition of individual self-reliance.
It Is gratifying to note that several pri
vate investors are putting their idol capi
tal into the building of homes for ordinai-y
people of moderate means. The most no
table of these is Edsel Ford, who has an
nounced that he is about to build a large
number of small houses to be sold on easy
terms to people in the $20-25-a-week in
come class.
In northwestern Indiana, between the
pro3p6rou3 manufacturings cities of Gar>
and Hammond, another capitalist, Frank
Hoess, is building houses, each on an acre
of ground, on a system which enables a
man with a job to buy him house with al
most no down payment, and his monthly
payments are graded to his pay-check.
Most houses cost too much for what the
buyer gets. The need of the times is for
cheaper houses as well as better houses.
It looks as if we were heading in that ai-
rection.
Truth In Stone
Everyone admits these days the impor
tant part that the inventor plays in the
progress of this counljry. Occasionally,
however, we are inclined to forget that the
benetfits of individual inventors would be
ef far less value and service if it were not
for the protection provided by the patent
laws and the United States Patent Office.
The fact that those laws insure a fair
reward for work well done has done much
to stimulate research and invention. The
result has been the development of new
products, which in turn provide new jobs
and payrolls, and offer more comforts and
conveniences to all Americas.
To those who arc inclined to ignore the
contribution of the patent system to this
process, a visit to the Patent Office in
Washington is recommended.
There, chiseled in stone over the door,
the doubter will be able ho read these im
mortal words of Abraham Lincoln:
THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED
THE FUEL OF INTEREST
TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS.
And that’s truth in lasting .stone that is
well worth pondering!
A Real Man
A real man never talks about what tjie
world owes him, the happiness he de
serves, the chance he ought to have, and
all that. All that he claims is the right to
live and play the man. _
A real man is just as honest alone in the
dark, in his own room, as he is in public.
A real man does not want pulls, tip.s and
favors. He wants work and honest wages.
A real man is loyal to his friends and
guards their reputation as his own.
A real man is dependable. His simple
word is as good as his Bible oath.
A real man does not want something tor
nothing, so the “get-rich-quick” people
cannot use him.
A real man never hunts danger, ana
never dodges it when he ought to meet it.
A real man is—well, he is an honest
man, the finest, best, noblest, most re
freshing thing to be found on all the green
earth—unless it is a real woman,—Arthur
unknown. _
A top bridge player in his Canadian
community is a hockey star in the ^nter
months.-^uch a man must live in his shin
guards.—Atlanta Constitution.
A golfer who was reportled dead, turned
up last week in Florida. This is not the
first golfer, of course, who has looked
more dead than alive.—Rochester Demo
crat and Cbroaiele.
tile InturaacR Is Screwy! T
p •life insuraBce is screwy,*^ wiftea4m
soraBce authfOirttyt^' ^Yott have to hojr^
when yon don’t nwd it bemuse when you
do need it, y6u can'tiget ft-V lt is
to take care of thej^two^m»iw haeardslil
life; i, e., either you will not live long
enough or you will Mve too long.”
It’s easy to postpone buying life insur
ance—anyone can have a lot more tfuii
with money than paying premiums. B
there’s no fun in waking up some morning
with the knowledge that it’s too late U
obtain adequate insurance protection.—
and to have tio face a dependent old age.
A pessimist is the optimist who expect
ed to hit the jackpot.—Dallas Morning
News.
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A bird in the hand is worth more tjhan
two in the bush if it’s perched on one side
of a shiny, silver dollar.—Glen Falls (N.
Y.) Post-Star.
News that the Long dynasty is revived
in Louisiana does not surprise us. We had
long thought of the Louisianan as a Long-
suffering people,—Detroit News.
Borrowed Comment
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l^-r. Sidth iwwfc' seieetNI-«a®t!w?foor
yonv n*n» to Smith jroo uv In w)U«to th« food oti^
Vn«/of die totgest Mniily clan in l4an for dtotribatlnf agdo'
Amprica. finnwit danified^imrrlaias throngh smrmal
mmiw ia chsn^to
toali^^
at two or adlaiiu in the be-
Uef that heat couU be
Aravm inm ran steam
boilers ami hafct the tnmdiAga of
A graat manufacturing eity. Nowj——- -
K drill fiiof aelNiUy beem invantedl^ltocflna of
whicit will cot a R^foobhofe, UnjM sihtea to Hat of
aoradndy mw try it, “'• jgr-^'.fi jliolders of Social Security cards. , |
TEIBASVntA ; ; adventnioj am-moro dmn 42 million i
Roat of diwlng.nieo dd intoinaihea of tooriceba bn the roll, and
^ the earth, to in search of jtreato>r«^| 4lS,000 of them are named Smith, |
SECURITT .... daring (of some aAt.!:‘. Nations havejpiej The Jdhnaona ran second, with)
I don’t know who first coined fOr centuries over tlh?|WfHg 310,0004 There ai4 288,000 Browns j
the phrase “Safety First," but l| session of hu^ in which vali^le" and 230,000 JcneseS. S ,
feel that he did the young people I minaiala may be found- ; 1 Smith is probably the conunon-'
- . ,. «n A few days ago a hew diamimd'est surname in the whole worid, j
field was opened in South Africa, though not always spelled and pro-j
and prospeCtert' grew rich over- nonneed the same in all languages. |
night digging the stones out of the The man named Smith has had r
blue clay. . an ancestor who was a worked in |
Only fraction of .the whether he si«lW it.
earth has yet been fully explored Schmidt, as, tte Germans do, or
by treasure-hunters. Africa and ^®bi‘e as the French do. j
South America holds unlimited op- , V.T
portunity for adventurous pros- of Wel*h
j The Johnsons are mostly of :
- _ ^ Scandinavian descent, but there!
The deepest g^d miw in the e^uns and!
world, ^le and a half deep, spelling all over the Euro
in South Africa. The owners have world,
lately had an American company
THE SAME OLD STORY
(Statesville Landmark)
In an address before the North Carolina
Bankers conference at Chapel Hill the
other Jay, Stephen H. Fifield, prominent
Jacksonville, Florida, banker advised the
members to make liberal use of newspaper
advertising space as a means of promoU
ing closer relations between banks and
customers and those these institutions
would have as customers.
He told of one large Southern city in
which all bankers several years ago de
cided to eliminate entirely their budget
for advertising, with the result that much
of the business that was rightfully theirs
went to banks in neighbor cities. The.se
bankers soon saw their mistake and there
after made provision for the regular ap
propriation for advertising.
This reminds of an incident in the im-
pres.sive unfolding of the spectacular pro
gress of the Coca-Cola company. As every
one knows the success of this popular bev
erage is due almost enifirely to the persist
ent and extensive advertising that has been
behind it from the start. But when Mr.
Candler named what he thought to be an
exorbitant price and found it gobbled up
by a group of New York promoters who
almost immediately resold the formula and
all that went with it at a profit of five mil
lion dollars, the control finally wound up
in the hands of New York bankers.
These big-wig financiers thought they
knew all that was to know about business
and the use of dollars. The millions spent
for advertising seemed silly and useless to
them. They cut the advertising appropria
tion to the bone, and soon saw the business
volume dropping to an alarming figure.
They, too, soon ran to cover. Advertising
experts were given a free hand and it
wasn’t long until this popular drink was
again in the ascendancy.
And what applies to banks and soft
drinks, applies also to every piece of mer
chandise whose profit depends on popular
favor. Like the bankers, not every ven
dor can see it that way at tirnes, but al
ways the answer may be found in the back
of the book—or at the -sheriff’s sale.
IS SENTIMENT SECTIONAL?
(News ana Observer)
Within the next three weeks voters in
Buncombe and Swain counties will deter
mine whether or not they wish ABC stores
in their respective counties.
These elections will mark the first te.st
of liquor stores in any of the far Western
counties of the State and will probably de
termine whether similar elections will be
held in other Western counties. There are
now 27 counties with liquor stores, some of
which have operated for four years. But
while the right of local option has existied
in each of the 100 counties for more than
two years, it has not been exercised in fa
vor oif liquor in any county west of Dur
ham. ,
The people of North Carolina think
alike on many questions and since the ad
vent of good roads, the State has grown
much smaller for all practical purposes,
with every section of the Stete readily ac
cessible to every other section.
But on this single question of public
policy in regard to the whiskey question,
the old sectional lines seem to be as firmly
drawn as ever. If voters in Buncombe and
Swain, selected by ‘wets’ as the most likely
battle grounds, vote “dry” as have their
neighboring counties, the State will pro
bably remain sharply divided on the ques
tion for many years to come.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE ANTAR^nC
(Charlotte Observer)
President Roosevelt has commissioned
the intrepid Rear Admiral Dick Byrd to
form an expedition, sail the icy way to the
Antarctic for the purpose of staking out
American claims in that far-away polar
no-man’s land.
What will be done with it after the
snow-bOund region is hitched to an Ameri
ca title is not announced.
We suppose, however, among the first
things that will be in order once it be
comes an American possession is to fix
tax rate for it or-sell bonds against it-r-
that is, if it is intended' to make it a genttv
inely American colony. >
of America a disservice. Too many
of them have grown up taking
that slogan seriously, as a sound
working principal of life.
Safety of others ought, of
course, to be everybody’s first con
sideration, but I sometimes think
we are becoming a nation qf
cowards by aipplyihg the “safety
first” idea to ourselves.
Nobody ever ’ achieved anything
of importance who made his own
safety, physical or economic, the
guiding rule of his life. Men grow
great by taking chances. Nations
prosper and increase in wealth and
power precisely in proportion to
the extent to which atheir people
are ready and willing to take risks.
The word “security*’ Is on every
body’s tongue these days, as if it
were possible for anyone to
achieve security for himself or for
Government to confer it upon him.
TTmt notion is what the “safety
first” idea has grown into. If it
took possession of everybody, no
body would get anywhere. To me
it seema, a better way of life to
dark to take one’s own chance of
winning or losing.
LANDMARKS
Up in my old country of wes
tern Massachusetts a good many
people are protesting the destruc
tion of an ancient tavern which
has stood for more than a century
on the boundary line between
Mas^husetts and New York.
The old State Line House was
built beside the primitive Indian
trail, which later became a stage
road, then the route of the eas-
west railroads, because it was the
easiest pass across the Tacnic
mountains. Now a four-lane con
crete motor road is going through
the pass, and the old inn has to
coma dow-n.
I can’t share the grief over the
demolition of the dilapidated struc
ture merely because it is old. It
has no beauty worth preserving,
and no historical significance.
Better a fine modern highway
than an old frame house that has
outlived its usefulness.
The value of ancient landmarks
lies in the traditions which they
enshrine. If those embody the
spirit of the pioneers who made
America great, then they should
be preserved. The only part of the
past that concerns us of the pres
ent, and those who came after us,
is the spiritual inheritance left by
the Founding Fathers.
HOLES ray^ry
The only thing more interesting
to most boys, of all ages between
five and seventy five, than diggiAg
a hole in the ground, is watching
some other fellow dig a hole. You
never know what the digger may
turn, up.
The most mysterious part of
this earth wo liv^ on i? the part
under the surface. We know much
more about the upper air and the
depths of the sea than we do about
what is directly under our feet.
The drillers of oil-wells have
taught the world a lot about the
struetui-e of the earth. There are
several wells more than two miles
deep, and geologists can tell, by
studying the successive layers of
earth and stone, what will be
found at the bottom of the hole.
Before the Great War an Eng
lish engineer. Sir Charles Parsons,
had a project for digging a hole
V-^tch Vf u
Kidney
Doans Pills
instiJl an air-conditioning sy^em
to keep the lower workings cool
enough for the miners to work in
comfort.
American copper mines produce
so much that they control the
world price of that metal. Cana
da has almost a monoipoly on co-
halt and nickel, and new Cana
dian gold tnines are constantly be
ing discovered. One man who went
prospecting for gold in Canada
found radium, and made millions.
Only those • willing to take a
chance of losing can win in the
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