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THURSDAY, JUNE 6. 1940
Ubenite eneSiies Of oltt* way of life.
(S)' We need, at a time when indus^A
efficiency is so vital to national defMise,
to sruard against att^pts to cripple and
hobble our manufacturing enterprises. ,
With these principles in mind, and with
the courageous maintenance of national
unity and individual patriotism, America
can guard against the "enemies within the
gates.” Without this stand, America in
cites diaster!
2
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Spaghetti Conscious
Many of the men and women who work
Financing Defense
This nation has belatedly entered upon
a national defense program which will
cost billions of dollars.
Few people deny the necessity of the ex
penditures but there are differences of
opinion as to how /the money should be
raised.
The national debt could be raised be
yond the 45 billion, limit and money ob
tained by further borrowing or taxes
could be increased. Probably both means
could be used.
But we believe that the American peo
ple had rather have a combination of eco
nomy in presec}t expenditures and in
creased taxes rather than more debt.
After all, a patriotic people do not want
to tax away all the income of the next two
4>r three generations. Forty-five billions
represent a tremendous amount of money.
In the interest of national defense and
financial stability, it looks like politicians
are going to be called on to sacrifice a few
W ^ , -
in the'wi^^ll^ is^^#lt'k"cira&only
called ‘^liblicity.” ^d'^ono ^l^M'^#ifeibly
quairel with the neceastty fof'iiHraninat-'
ing useful information concerning the acti
vities of government, and a lot o(f that is
included. But, on the other hand, ridicu'
lous examples are forever coming to light,
examples in which the taxpayer’s money is
heedlessly wasted.
One such example bobbed up to the sur
face recently in a report by the Federal
Trade Commission. The gist of its pro
nouncement is as follows; "The Federal
Trade Commission has ruled that the
length of macaroni or spaghetti is in no
way indicative of its quality
“The Commission finds that . . . genuine
macaroni and spaghetti products of the
fine.st quality are made in both long and
short lengths, and that macaroni and
spaghetti of the finest quality are in some
instances first niade in long lengrths and
thereafter cut into short leii^hs....”
This, as one CoBgressman comments, is
"epical as well ad ep^al.” How com
forting—how very cwrifdrtfeg—it ir-to all
of us to know al
ways on its toes, ’^^^twrtchflag outYor those
perfidious indivitfhals ’who >^uld Jiscri-
minate against spaghetti on'^the ’basis of
its length!
Borrowed Comment
ROARING RIVER, Route 3,
June S.—Serricea were held Set-
nrday end Sundey at Antioch aid
Sunday at the Roaring River
Methodist church.
-Mrs. B. li. JehQSon hsd ss her
guests Sunday her' cousin and
family from Stloam.
A yonii^'llr. Pllkei^n, broth
er of iMrs. draene Brown, has
ibttllt an addition to Mr. and Mrs.
Brown’s house (the Silas Johnson
place). He and family, which in
cludes a 2-weeks’-old baby, have
mored In with the Browns to help
finish the timber at the old Tilley
place.
Mrs. B. L. Johnson and sons
and foster daughter, Ina, recent
ly visited Mr. and Mrs. Resen
Johnson at Plney Creek and ga
thered rhododendron.
Kenneth C. Mastin was ser
iously injured in an automobile
accident in Huntington, W. Va.
last week. He is the only son of
the late T. Frank Mastin, for
merly of Wilkes and owns one-
seventh of the old Tilley place.
Mr. B. L. Johnson, of Ashe
ville, spent last week-end with
bis family. Mr. Johnson is second
man in the Asheville office of the
Park Service and may be head of
the office after July.
Misses Mattie and Armisa
Sale, of the Brier Creek section,
had the misfortune to lose their
cow some weeks ago.
Though Rev. N. T. Jarvis, of
the Cranberry vicinity, is report
ed to have attended the funeral
of Mr. J. I. Myers some weeks
ago, it is not known here whether
his health has substantially im
proved or not.
Mrs. D. S. Lane, Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. Mobley, and Miss Mary
Lane, of the Wilkesboros, spent a
short time with Mrs. Laura Lin-
ney Sunday afternoon. Mr. and
Mrs. Green© Brown and _ little
daughters, Virginia, Doris Jean
and Ruth also visited at the old
Tilley place that afternoonj
Friends and acquaintances
here will be intereatod to know
p-ln-law,
down
... houM on ^‘EF.atvi^ aaOy ireighe Mo«t i'4d
In TBjSk Phrtn*
h. They am llvln* **!”*^ ?!^^* -
In WflkwibW^.
- Mr. pamt Coo
sawed iight yard* on ttie east aide
of/Brter Crkek At th« old Tiltey
’plam and tiz bn the waet aide, Ik
moving back to the east aide to
saw two or' three yarda. .jrhidi
will finish the boundary them he
began laat June. _ _
. Tbla was originally 'eonalde^
an honest ne^hboAood.- Lately,
thibrea even ateal ’:fbnr beat coir
chain BO you can’t gmze your cat
tle. Or, at least, that’s what they
did near the cold Sjfttng' at -“the
old Tilley place SkMay *tRier-
noon.
Mr. Bob Bdmlnaten, who ua-
fhere’ nnr* j
Who atoppod nbar a mule for a
eh*t. ■ ...
When he «p in bed
A day laterV he" Wild:
"Well, 1 Bore got a kick out of
4fr-
^ Lady Drivw; "Ten
liaiekt Which is the
bf the rodd to kaeg-
^on’m running down 4 ^
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flee army 1
Py virtue of anTDWRFbt ’Bin Su-
perior (Jonrt of gBgte Ownty,
signed by the deikjPMofWi the
17th day of ’ SayTNO, fax7 the
Special Proeeedi^ Mpaed Mrs.
Luzie 'Dotson, Admr., and M Wid
ow of *Wney! Dotson, 'ddd^aed,
against Henry Dotson, Sr., . and
others, heirs at law and next of kin
of Wiley Ddtaon, deceased,
ing the undersigned^ Cohuniasioner
to sdl the lands described in the
Petition, situated in Wilkes and
Alexander Counties for 'Oa. yur-
pose ^ maldng asketa 'with"inuch
to pay debts, and for partem of
the remainder, the niiatel^||pied
Commissioner will on Sstuday,
June 29th, 1940, at 11:80 o’clock
A. M. at the Court House door in
the Town of Wilkesboro, N. C. sell
to the highest bidder at public
auction for cash all the intvests
Wiley Dotson, deceased, owned at
the lime of his death in the follow
ing described lands:
Lying and being in the County of
Wilkes on the waters of Hxmting
Creek, adjoining the lands of
Jesse Dotson, Mary ’Transou and
M. E. Transou on the West; on the
South by Magdeline Howell, and
A. Howell; on the North and East
by Nathan Parker'Heirs: 'bn the
West by Zeno Batty, ^d others,
and bounded as foDows:
Beginning on Jesse Dotson’s
Northeast comer, and nnming
East TO poles; thence South 69
poles to Parker’s line; thence
West on said line 20 poles; thence
South on Parker’s Weat line 80
poles to the Salisbury Road;
tiience West on said road to Jesse
Dtotson’s line: ttence North 100
poles on 3sid line to the beginning.
Containing 46 acres more or less.
This the 28th day of M^. 1940.
CHAS. G. OILRBIATH,
Commissioner
6-20-4t (t)
of
Appreciation
To the many voters of Wilkes County I wish to expma^
my most sincere appreciation for the wonderful vote you
me in the recent primary for ■Congress. It was such as to i
me feel everlastingly grateful to each person who honored me ‘
with his or her vote.
The way my home folks here in Richmond County
and my friends throughout the District, are rallying to
my candidacy in the run-off primary is such as to Make
me absolutely confMeitt of victory. Hy sopportera am
the type that will forever remain true, and I feel ao
grateful for their unswerving loyalty... Ef^Mcially I
pleased and apfpredate the many aasurance© of support
from those individnals who voted for Mr. S^le, Mr.
Newton, and Hr. Phillips, and many of those whb'voted
for Mr. Bnrgin. '
I have no apology to make in entering this run-off. I was
high man two years ago in the first primary and Mr. Bnxgin
called for a second primary. If I had been legitimately defeated
by my present opponent two years ago, I would not be a candi
date at this time. The Democrats of our District will, 1 feel
sure, welcome an opportunity to place their stamp of diaappro'^
on the methods us^ to defeat the majority vote of the peoplS'in
1938. There is no question but what victory will crown' our ef
forts on June 2^d.
C. B. DEANE
The thinking class of the American peo
ple are hoping that adequate national de
fense can be financed by a combination of
economy in other government activities
and moderate tax increases.
The Enemies Within the Gates
Events in Europe have underlined and
emphasized the urgent need for improv
ing and expanding our national defenses,
and making sure that the United States, its
shores and its traditional ways of life, are
rendered secure.
To do this most effectively, our military
experts are of course studying very closely
the methods of the “total war” that has
overrun so many helpless countries abroad
—the modem form of war, as one observer
has commented, is fought “with the mor
als of the cave and the weapons of an ex
quisite civilization.”
You need to know the danger that faces
your country before you can guard against
it successfully.
But there is one further step. The man
ned in which Norway and Poland and Bel
gium have been brought to their knees was
not exclusively based upon military pow
er. Before a blow was struck, security was
undermined from within. The advice of
Goethe—“Divide and command”—was
heeded with telling and destructive effect.
The “fifth column” of traitors and import
ed agents did their destructive work before
■war even began.
The danger that these tactics will be re
peated here also faces our own land. It is
not enough to have military prepardness;
we must also establish internal unity, in
ternal security. , .
■ To achieve this aim, certain principles
need to be kept in mind:
(1) We must guard—not in a mood of
hysteria, but through sound common
sense—against the misguided groups and
individuals in our own country who do not
believe in private enterprise, and would
sacrifice it for some other way of life. It
is they who, by word or deed, would fill
the role of “fifth columnists” in America
if the opportunity were ever offered.
(2) We must not let the erroneous
thinking of a second group to muddle our
thoughts on preparedness. This group
does not recognize the inseparability of
our various freedoms—freedom of speech,
a ! government or representative demo
cracy, and a business system of pn/ate
eiri^KiiBe—and its failure to appreciate
thla important truth is likely to be actual
ly M danEWDOS •» attitude of the de-
aiid geographically.
To the east of us, Europe is being ravag
ed and racked by one of the most fright
ful wars in its history. This war gets the
big headlines; but the war in Asia, to the
west of us, is no minor squabble. A na
tion of about 75,000,000 is in a death
grapple over there with a nation of about
400.000. 000, and the prize for which th(
75.000. 000 are struggling is the overlord
ship of Asia plus a springboard for world
conquest later on.
The moral for us is that we need to arm
more heavily than we have ever armed in
peacetime before, and faster.
There is a possibility that the British
Navy, or considerable parts of it, may fall
into Germans hands. Hitler is an unpre
dictable gent if not a completely craz;
genius.
Therefore, the Navy which we really
need is a Navy capable of taking on, one
after the other, the Japanese Navy, some
where around Hawaii and the British
Navy somewhere in the Atlantic. That
will cost a lot. But it will be cheap insur
ance against the loss of our independence
as a nation and of our power to spend oui
money as we please.
We need, too, an Army of about 1,000,-
000 mechanic-sergants—master mechanics
trained in all branches of modem mechan
ized warfare and ready to jump into the
job of quickly training as large an Army
as any emergency may call for. We need
to have those men equipped with all the
machines of modem warfare, and to have
that equipment kept always up to date.
And we need plenty of pilots and plenty
of fighting and bombing planes for those
pilots to fly.
That's what Two Ships for One means
nowadays.
NO REASON FOR TOO MUCH GLOOM
(The State)
The war news during the last -two or
three weeks has been anything but encour
aging and there are many people who have
begun to take a most pessimistic view of
conditions in Europe.
However, there’s an old saying to the ef
fect that history repeats itself, and we be
lieve it is going to repeat in the present in
stance.
During the World War, the Germans
ran over Belgium and wreaked general
destruction on that country. The Kaiser’s
forces began a triumphant march on Paris
which brought them without about twenty-
five miles of the French capital.
Bi|t you know what hap^ned after the
Germans shot their big bolt
Power and getaway—plus record economy!
ITiat’a what yon get with Ford’i'^fficient
V-8 engine. It peHorme more hriHiantly
—gives inore infles per gallon—than any other
7of the three volumosellers.
Yea .... the amart 1940 Ford aiiigger
“‘mdiiey’i Worth in everything!
'Jnst slip behind the wheel. Look at the finely
tooled instrument panel, Ae luxurious interior
ap^iittments. Notice the extra leg room, the
soft, comfortable seat cushions.
Then drive it ! You’ll be amazed at the steady
big-car ride. You’ll marvel at its handling ease,
with the new finger-touch gearshift on steering
post, and the responsive hydraulic brakes—Ing-
gest ever used on a low-priced car.
See your nearest Dealer today! You’ll agree
Ford has more than low price ever bought before.
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