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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Tear : $1.60
Biz Months .76
Poor Months 60
Oat of the State $2.00 per Year
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boML N, C., u Nebitd cUm matter ODder Act
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 26, 1940
Will Pay The Bill
Fo;" at least seven years the American
'taxpayers have been mildly kicking about
mounting taxes and during the past few
years many have more enthusiastically
kicked about mounting expenditures and
skyrocketing national debt.
No doubt they have had cause to com
plain vociferously. Practically all of them
knew of instances of governmental waste
and they feared for the Stability of the
financial structure otf the country.
Now that the security of the nation it
self is threatened by foes from without,
there is little complaint about defense
taxes. On the other hand, the American
people are clamoring for a pay-as-you go
policy on armaments and that means pay
ing plenty.
The American people, including indus
try, the big corporations and the “Liberty
Leaguers,” have patriotism to stand four
square for the defense of liberty, even if
it makes, not only a dent, but a big de
pression in the pocketbooks and dwindles
bank accounts to small figures.
Retailing’s Big Job
There never was a time when effective
retail distribution was more important to
the well-being of American agriculture.
That is the logical deduction to be made
from a recent survey showing what the
war has done to United States export
trade.
The study compares Januar>’ to August,
1940, with the same period a year before.
And it shows that foreign sales of meat
and lard are down 17 per cent; fruit ex
ports are down 32 per cent; wheat ex
ports are down 71 per cent; tobacco ex
ports are down 29 per cent; fresh apple
exports are down 84 per cent. So it goes
all along the line, with only a few farm-
produced commodities showing an in
crease.
The war, in brief, is rapidly depriving
the American farmer of long-established
and profitable markets. That threatens
purchasing power throughout the entire
country—agriculture is industry’s largest
market. It affects employment in all
fields.
Forunately .something can be done—and
it is being done. American merchants,
large and small, chain and independent,
are doing :t. Organized retailers cannot
restore the farmers’ lost foreign markets,
but they can help e.xtend the farmers’ do
mestic market. They can encourage the
public to try new foods and dishes to vary
their diet, which increases consumption.
By cutting di.stribution costs whenever pos
sible through increased efficiency, they al
so aid the farmer in getting a larger sh.are
of the final selling price of what he raises.
That is the big job that retail industry is
carrying on today.
And what retailers are doing for agri
culture, they are also doing to a considera
ble extent for manufacturing industry.
Reasonable price plus good quality plus
uniform distribution, constitute the best
“sales device” ever invertted. Today’s re
tailers are giving the consumer a better
deal than he ever got before. This is the
kind of industrial cooperation that helps
the whole country.
Our Heroes
We who remain behind and follow our
regular vocations offer our best wishes and
✓ salutations to you Americans who are
leaving your daily plan of living to better
learn how to defend the country that we
all love and cherish.
This applies to volunteers in the regular
army, navy or marine coJps, the national
’>'“;guardsmen Md conscripts alike. Maybe
^ some of os will join you later but in the
jnesBtime let us say that we appreciate
i ' JrhCi^no^^^>ditQrial ¥rom.3^he
kyuie Review aptlyi expresses the
.wishes of us left behind:
We Americans'who remain behind at
our regulai' jobs and a.ffairs, salute' you,
Americans who are leaving all that to
learn to defend the land we love.
Regulars, volunteers. National Guards
men, National Army conscripts, men of
the ArmT, Navy and Marine Corps we sa
lute you! Though you enter now a spec:-;
tlized field of national defense, that of
learning how to master machine weapons
and the tactics of 1940, you are not apart
from us.
We are all parts of a great mosaic pic
ture of a nation rising from lethargy and
the quiet pursuits of peace to meet in all
its strength any menace which a turbulent
world may offer.
Modem war has destroyed the distinc
tion between civilian and soldier as never
before. Ask the women and children of
London. Ask the middle-aged air raid
marshals of Berlin or Birmingham. Ask
any citizen of any of the beleaguered
countries of Europe, or Asia.
We are all in this together. And as the
men of one branch of the service salute
proper authority in other branches, recog
nizing the unifying principle that all are
part of a single defense force, so we who
remain for the present in civilian life sa
lute you who go to become the first line of
defense.
It would be idle to promise that you
shall under no circumstances lose anything
by the year or more you give to your coun
try. To many it may well mean real sacri
fice. Every effort is being made to make
those sacrifices as infrequent and as light
as possible.
But on the other hand, many who ap
ply themselves to this new life with a will
may make gains by it: there is improved
health, the knowledge of how to cooperate
and work with others, direct promotion,
training in useful trades, associations and
friendships with men from all regions, a
bigger, broader view of the responsibilities
of being an American. These may be won
by those who don khaki with the resolve
to treat it as an opportunity as well as a
duty.
You are going out to do your job. We
promise to do ours, together we shall make
America strong, ready to play her part in
the world with honor and without fear.
Amwiewiltm 1» A .vrlm^rr
Th*
tlvlty of Ifc* jUatcrteui' I^ou. |,bU4—fciia
la reerat yean, Wbcsb»b . of TPWt tbH |>rogr^; d
the growth ’of Coaunnaiit actlvW
ties in this eountry and an nn-
healthr spread, of alien ‘‘Isais”
presenting other phlloBophles
which are contrary to American
concepts of good goTernment, the
Legdon has heen devoting much
of its Americanism effort to a
determined and militant national
campaign against subversive ele
ments in America.
It is well that the Legion, com
posed as It Is of men who fought
for, America In the World War,
should emphasise this condition.
wpap
pro-^
to. Veteru»-’d^^«'Wofldj^tlfiai;;
who are>:^lgibte should
thdlr support by , joining ' Hie
American Legion without furth
er delay.
Mounted Marmes
Are Still Active
but it would be a mistake to suiw
Ever Ready
The New York City classified telephone
directory is a “best seller” that goes each
year into hundreds of thousands of homes.
The cover of this bulky volume is, there
fore, an excellent place to use in putting
across an advertising message.
Thi^ year, however, instead of the custo
mary commercial advertisenfent, the Ever
Ready Label Corporation, which had pur
chased the space, offered the public a
Decalogue of American principles and
added merely the following sincere state
ment: “We the people of Ever Ready,
Employer and Employe alike—living in
constructive accord—have resolved that
this space, which for ten years has success
fully vended our product, be dedicated in
tribute to the American Way under which
our business has grown great from humble ^
beginnings.”
The sentiment expressed is a worthy
one. And this company, in thus emphasiz
ing* the value of this nation’s way of life to
millions or readers, is performing a genq-
ine service to Americanism at a time when
those who love that institution must stand
“ever ready” to defend it!
pose that this is the only Inter
est of, the Americanism program
of the Legion. It is hut one of the
many. The Legion’s program of
Americanism, for instance, in
cludes youth training activities,
the promotion of education, com
munity service, highway safety,
instructions of immigrants and
many other things we shall not
stop to enumerate here.
A few statistics might be en
lightening. In connection with
the youth training program, Le
gion poets now sponsor more
than 3,000 Boy Scout troops; the
Legion annually enrolls more
than 500,000 boys in a junior
baseball program, the 'primary
object of which is training for
citizenship rather than baseball;
more than 1,000 Legion posts
were cited by the National Edu
cation Association for outstand
ing service in support and pro
motion of better education; safe
ty highway campaigns are now
being conducted literally in every
community in the country under
Legion auspices. Again we pause,
not for lack of additional facts,
but because we have much to say
in a very limited space.
The Legion’s Americanism ef
fort is headed-up by a National
Americanism Commission. An en
tire division of National Head
quarters Is devoted to American
ism work, under a director and
staff. As with so much of the
Legion’s '^ork, great emphasis is
placed upon the child and the
youth. Frequently the youth
training activities of the Ameri
canism Division are contused
with the responsijbillties of the
Child Welfare Division, another
iimportant department of Legion
activity. The Americanism inter
est centers upon training; the
Child Welfare Division dpvotei
itself entirely to the direct relie'
of underprivileged c h 11 d r e n
spending more than $1,000,000
of Legion funds annually for this
purpose.
The Legion’s interest in sub
versive movements begins and
ends with the borders of th(
United States. It makes flo effort
to dictate or suggest the manner
or form of government under
which other peoples shall live. It
holds that other nations must
respect the same right of the
American people to determine
their own government. The I..e-
gion does not claim that every
thing in this country is perfect
or incapable of improvement. It
does hold that i.Tiperfections'‘can
be remedied and improvements
made by American citizens, in the
orderly American way, without
the help or interference of paid
propagandists from foreign
countries who seek to overthrow
our government by force and vio
lence.
Whether it be Communism.
Fascism, Hitlerism, or any other
Horse Marines, whose' adven
tures were told in song and atory
long before the days of the Imag
inary Captain Jinks, still take to
the saddle now and then, even
though they are seldom mention
ed in these days of mechanized
units.
"Some mounted marines may
be found at the nava] ammuni
tion depots, Hingham, Mass., at
Hawthorne, Nev., at the Ha
waiian Islands and at scattered
poets and stations elsewhere,’’
says Sergeant Jud H. McDonald,
2.38 Post Office Building, Win
ston-Salem, N. C.
The Marines never had any
cavalry. In the Coips, where such
troops usually serve for brief
periods, they have been known as
“mounted detachments.” Ordi
narily, the horses are purchased
In the country where they are to
be used, and are disposed' of by
sale when they are no longer
needed.
One mounted unit of marines
at Peiping, China, remained ac
tive lor aibout twenty-five years.
‘fiiTea
J8IIHN4 not to
mOhtion'^'lniin%«r ;^ Iumuo sta
tions, McDonald Mja;- In view of
it is ' bdd that there
have bera so anatty punning allns-
iona to horse marines.
Speh'quips were going the
rounds more than 300 years ago. |
Captain Jinks was the hero of a
play which enjoyed some popular
ity in tlie Unito States at, the I
turn of the century. I
"Nevertheless, mannes stl’’
take to the saddle,’’ says McDon- |
aid, "and the files of the Marine
Corps contain many a true story I
about their thiilling exploits.”
DOG medicine.,
Foe worau, fits, and raBnlo^
condition, findersed by • bm-
' dr^ of user*—found O.K.
GUAKANTEBD BY
T. E. CAIN
At City'Barber Shop
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
Motor Service Sales Company,
Incorporated, vs. Joel A. Minto".
Under, by virtue of and pursu
ant to the power of sale contained
in a certain Judgment of His Hon
or C. C. Hayes entered in the a-
bove-entitled cause, appointing
the undersigned Commissioner and
directing the Commissioner to sell
at public auction, the property
hereinafter described, the under
signed will, therefore, offer for
sale for cash, at public auction, to
the highest bidder, on Monday,
September 30, 1940, at 12:00 o’
clock noon, at the Courthouse door
in Wilkes^ro, North Carolina,
:he following property, to-'wit:
One 1937 Model Chevrolet, Mo
tor No. T273215, and one 1930
Model Buick, Motor No. 2485304.
Done this the^ 30th day of Au
gust, 1940.
LEONARD BROOKS,
•-26-4t-(T) Commissioner. -I
BeWs Dept. Store
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
THE PIONEERS
(From the South Bend ((Wash.) Journal)
They live within nature, sustaining
Themselves by their labor’s reward;
Existence was won, uncomplaining.
Relying on neighbor’s accord.
They vanquished the forests and mount.,ins
By sheer perseverance and will;
The deserts were turned into fountains
Of bounty, the fruits of their skill.
The nation was built by the vision
Which scanned o’er the future with care.
When crisis arose, the decision
Was made in the spirit “to dare”.
Awake, ye old pioneer spirit,
And enter our people anew!
Rouse dormat intelligence, sheer it;
Through self-help reliance imbue.
-JOHN J. LANGEiNBACH.
The use of cavalry in modem war is
confined principally to Trojan horse bri
gades.
Haile Selassie has returned to Elthiopia
to fi^ht the Italians. If he loses they^ may
make him take the country back.^
Low Prices Eve
110 DISGUISE ...
Ye«, this ifl a Prescrip Uon
pharmacy* That fact is
immediately evidentasyou
step across our threshold.
We have no qaarre* with
and cast no dinparagement
upon any other type of
mercantile establishment.
But since we specialize in
drugs—and in the proper
compounding of presenp-
tionSy we naturally empha
size this point.
But the professional at
mosphere so apparent hero
does not mean that you
pay a higher price. Actu
ally* because of our large
volume and low overhead*
it costs no more—and
haps less—‘to have us fill
your prescriptions.
blessed
flnierica
Filling Prescriptions is our busi
ness, and safeguarding health is
your business. To do this best, j
see your doctor at the first sign, {
of illness—then bring us your
Prescription.
• REUABLE,*
V0V
PRESCRlrilONS
HORTON’S
DRUG STORE
Fountain Phone 300
Prescription Dept. Phone 350
Two Registered Ihmggists on du
ty at aU times—C. C. (Charlie)
Reins and Pahner Horton.
Low Prices fve-v Day
N othing can soften the sadness of parting
from our young men who are answering the
call to the colws.
But just watching them swing by, you know there
is a cause for giving thanks on bended knees that
they are the kind of young men they are.
May we all find ways of telling them the brim-
ming appreciation in our hearts for the high pur
pose behind the noble sacrifice they are making.
God speed them... and return them home safely
and soon.
4
DEANS
“THE QUALITTY GIFT STORE”
North Wahv»aboro — — — — — —
— NMrth Carolina