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I THURSDAY, DEC. 21, 1939
Lives For Christmas
Along with practically every newspaper
in the country. The Journal-Patriot has for
many years hammered away on the sub
ject of highway safety.
With highway deaths mounting steadily
a few years ago, we began to* despair of
the task and were prone to think that peo
ple were going to kill each other on the
highways despite all pleadings and warn
ings.
But the last year has shown a different
trend and there has been a decline in
highway mortality. Therefore, it is with
pleasure that we reproduce the text of a
letter from Ronald Hocutt, director of the
North Carolina highway safety division, to
the editor of this newspaper.
“As the year nears its end it becomes
my privilege to express to you the sincere
appreciation of the Highway Safety Divi"
sion for your support of safety activities
during 1939. Your use of materials sent
out from this Division, as well as of other
materials discovered by yourself, and your
splendid, editorials in behalf of safety,
have all had a tremendous effect. For your
support, without which our safety activi
ties would be much less effective, you have
our heartiest thanks. We have also ap
preciated the cordial relationship which
we have had with newspapers during this
past year. For this also we are most grate-
- -»-4!Endosed you will find the final feature
release of 1939 written in the form of a
Christmas appeal. We hope that you can
use this message in such fashion as to
make it effective in promoting safety at
this time of the year.
“I wish for vou and all members of your
organization a Merry Chri.stmas and the
Happiest and Mo.st Prosperous of New
years!”
Following is the safety message men
tioned in the above letter:
Since Christmas is so much the time lor
giving, it might be well to think of giving
something of inestimable value. We can
not create life, but curiously enough mod
em automobile traffic has put every driver
i™the position of either taking lives or
saving lives. Saving lives is always a de
sirable end. At Christmas time, the saving
of life takes on an added beauty, drawn
from the beauty oi the season. .
Think what it means to a family to lo!>e
a member at Christmas. When the cause
is age, or a Cngering illness, there is at
least some degree of preparation. True,
to grirf may be no lc.,s. but it is softened
'’'^How'much more trasie is sudden and
violent death! The family group is in the
midst of holiday preparatio^. ^^^lative^
and friends are coming. There will be
another of those happy reunions Sudden-
fv the word comes. The door bell or the
ifhone rings. An exciting voice announces
the news. Some family member has been
killed or injured. . ^
Christmas, the time of good cheer, of
hanniness, of gifts and laughter All is
wiped out. There will be but little cheer,
I’ttle happiness, no laughter. Death is an
unwelcomed visitor at Christmas. A brok
en crushed body makes a poor addition to
thi holiday spirit. The little
ter awaits that stange ecstasy of Chnstmas
mora ng. Older sons and daughter full of
S^erful plans. Father and mother with
hearts full of happiness at having the
children home again.
Give lives for Christmas! For unless you
do. Mr. Driver, unless you are carefub Mr*
Pedestrian, during this month, over 90
families will have tragedy as a guest for
Christmas. Ninety ^ ®
Christmas. It is depressing to tlunk of the
criminal carelessness of it all. One ounce
of care and caution, one ounce of Christ
mas cheer expressed as coutesy on street
hi^way, one ounce of good-humored
■ jSe^will save lives not only at Christ
s'' time, bat every day. Give lives for
SSstmas. No other gift will do so much
Make this a Merry Chnst-
officials say that safe cracking
>1^ fe the work of anaate^.
take some nu)»ey for their
uaeUm Ending.—„
For
For joy that eter rotfbvwrpaW,;;
Fm grateful. '
For steeple belb that gaily ring*
For homing birds upon the wing.
And love that only worth can bring,
Fm grat^ul.
For furrowed fields and upturned sod,
For paths that I alone have trod.
For faith that lifts my soul to God,
I’m grateful. ,
—Alice Whitson-Norton m “The Uplift.’
Holiday Precautions
EJvery holiday season we read accounts
of accidents with fire. Before anyone can
raise a hand, someone’s happy Christmas
is changed to stark tragedy!
This year do something to protest your
loved ones from the special fire hazards
brought into most homes for the holidays.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters
suggests:
Anchor your Christmas tree securely,
locate it away from heating and lighting
fixiures and trini it with non-inflamma
ble ornaments and cotton. Lighted can
dles are dangerous. Use strings of minia
ture electric lights that have the approval
tag of Underwriters’ Laboratories attach
ed, Keep all sources of flames away from
decorations and tissue paper. Dispose of
accumulations of paper at once. Smokers
should use constant care when near in
flammable materials. _ _
In selecting toys avoid those requiring
alcohol, kerosene or gasoline lamps, as
they upset easily with disastrous results to
self. If children are young, power toys
should be operated under the supervision
of adults.
Use safety film only in home movie pro
jectors.
Remove all evergreens promptly alter
Christmas belfore they have a chance to
dry out. . . ,
Let's take these easy steps to keep trage
dy out of the holiday picture.
Get A Horse!
Remember when the automobile was
considered a fit subject for jokes^ by the
wits of an earlier day? That time has
passed now, for industry and research
have now produced low-priced, smooth-
funnetioning automobiles that are the envy
of the world, and that mark an advance
that is general in all lines of industry over
the years. .
By way of giving a bird s eye view oi
progress and the changing times, “Auto
mobile Facts” takes us on a swift tour of
the way the motor car was being describ
ed around 30 years ago.
Even the advertisers, who were suppos
ed to have faith in the automobile, describ
ed it in very reserved terms. For instance,
one model was praised because it was “an
easily controlled as the best mannered
horse and safer because it cannot scare.
Another was called “the trotting bourse
of automobiles.” , j
And what would you say if you heard a
modem car called “the rich man s car at
a poor man’s price . . . $2,000” ?
Then there were testimonials, but far
different ones than there are today. One
company proudly published a testimonial
from two drivers who had made a 500
mile trip at a cost of 14 cents a mile. The
over-all cost today is 4 cents a mile or less.
And so it goes. The day when the vau
deville comedian brought appreciative
chuckles by telling about his car that had
“wooden frame, wooden wheels, wooden
body—and wood’n run” is gone forever.
So if there is any inclination today to dis
count hew products because they are less
than perfect, this example is worth bear
ing in mind, for it proves one thing: that
the record of American industrial progress
is at one time the most rapid and most ef
ficient man has ever known.
■on on ^ jotnrn to Raletch from
an hslwfiQoa (rip. .
'Silica was at oae time proffUff^
isinad in Olerj^ked
m effort K
year, m.-
, The geoloKiat, who also report
ed a boom in kaolin and feldspar
mining, said the mica industry
"nndouibtedly is more active in
North Carolina now than In the
past 10 or 20 years ”,
"Every washing and grinding
plant is punning at full cai>acit7i
most of them 24 hours a day,"
he stated. "All of the larger
mines are also operating night
and day, while more than 200
email mines, many of them little
more than hv^les In the mountain
sides, are being operated by the
mountaineers and the mica haul
ed to the washing plants.”
TOe boom in minerals was at
tributed to effect of the war In
lessening American imports. Pric
es iper ton on the cheapest grades
of mica ha.ve risen from f6 to
$10 in sis months ago, to |16 to
$20 at present, Bryson reiported.
Mica large enough for wash
ers and punch purposes is bring
ing from $150 to $250 a ton,
while mica as large as f^'^ur by
six Inches in size is being sold
at $2.50 to $2.60 a pound, or
$5,000 to $5,200 a ton.
Bryson termed the mica boom
"a real God-send to many of the
mountain people, who otherwise
would be in a real want."
The demend for feldspar and
for kaolin, a china and pottery
clay occurring in great abundance
in North Carolina, likewise has
been increased by greater depen
dence upon domestic supplies.
State College Answers
Timely Farm Questions
Questiou: What is the outlook
for farming in 1940.
Answer: According to the U.
S. Bureau ct Agricultural Eco
nomics, prospects for an increased
consumer demand for farm pro
ducts next year are Indicated.
However, prospects for foreign
demand are nneertain because of
the war. In general, agriculture is
finishing 1939 in better condi
tion than it began. Prices of many
fai^ products ,in-.
come are hlgh^ man in *1238.
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Borrowed Comment
SCIENCE AND WAR
(News and Observer)
Dr. Alexis Carrel, the famous French
scientist, is current example of what hap
pens to the scientific mind in the midst of
war. Speaking on the radio from Paris,
he told his countrymen that every citizen
must do his part to win the war. “You
know,” he went on, “what awaits us if we
do not; forced labor for life for our work
ers and peasants, deportations to Africa
far large masses of the population in oiw
richest provinces and mass executions.
Dr. Carrel speaks like a patriot, but as a
man of science., he is talking fears and not
facts. Such speaking is customary in war
time. The sad things about war is that it
reduces the great scientific mind along
with the ordinary mind to a common de^
ominator of emotion snd anger and ffear.
CHEWING GUM
(Greensboro News)
Mayor of New York calls for inaugUTAi
tion of retumii^ chewed chewing gpio,.fo^
the wrapper in which it came. AIm(^,3yei
are epconrage'd to believe that invenPYe
gehuia may yet prove'able to cope y^h^ol
problem" Of the used razoffJSUide/^ .if :