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TH.IJRSDAY, MARCH 13,1941
Word* To The Wise
If there is one nation anywhere on the
face of the earth that can comment with
real knowledge on the various phases of
our current defense program, it is surely
Elngland. For under the stress of a need
to “get things done” that was even more
immediate than is ours today, the little is
land across the seas made most of the mis
takes and achieved mo.st of the discover
ies from which we should now’ be able to
profit.
From this point of view, some words
written recently in the distinguished Lon
don Economist should be" of particular in
terest to Americans who want to know
the facts about defense. The Economist
in this particular passage is explaining
tl»at it takes time to build military equip
ment; and what it has to say should help
to show w’hy our national defense pro
gram is now beginning to offer real re
turns, after a period w’hen some benighted
critics of industry were clamoring for
clouds of tanks and airplanes immediate
ly, and claiming that the manufacturing
^ort was at a standstill.
Says the Economist:
“Because tanks and locomotives are
both heavy vehicles made of steel, it is far
too easy to assume that a shop experienced
in making the one can turn over to the
other. Even for a diversified and re
sourceful engineering industry the trans
formation takes a long time. Munitions
are infinitely more complex than peace
time machines, very few of them lend
themselves to the method of the conveyor
belt. In Great Britain it took something
like four years of planning before the
curve of aircraft production really began
to rise, and a still longer period for ai*my
ordnance. Even a standardized merchant
ship takes a year or eighteen months t
build when the yards have first to be laid
down anew or brought back into servic'
That is the experience of Britain. And
among other thoughts, it leads to the r
flection that the United States is fortun
ate in having an industrial system'so adapt
able and so imaginative that it has already
profited from the experience of other
lands, and is drastically cutting down on
the delays experienced in changing ove
suddenly from a peacetime economy to onf
that must turn out vast quantities of ai
cles for defense.
-- The' ii|rTou. iS r®
Speaking the day to a group of
driverki' Ronald Hocutt, director of the
Highway Safety Division, paraphrased the
song title, “It's Not What You Do, But the
Way That YouJ)o It.”
“In driving a motor vehicle,” Hocutt
sait, “it’s not what you know but the way
that you show it that counts.”
Elaborating on this statement, the safety
director pointed out that around 90%
of the drivers involved) in reported acci
dents on North Carolina streets and high
ways last year had more than one year of
driving experience.
According to the division’s records, 6,-
By DWIGHT NICHOLS, «t «1.
te'
ord«r dire^^ the coi^
mlBsionere to vay tbe parchuse
184.93 for the chair.
OPEN SEIASON^OON [That chair should be good. That
Open season on p^Mtraina 1^11 money Is equal to the cost
comem Aprfl. By^thm all the principal furnishings In
cars which'prior to that llvingroom of
eonld not be started on account oll'^umkes home,
cold weather and because of “tin
fever” will be on the roads. '
the average
RULBB FOR SUCCESS
The editor of the country new.s-
paper actually retired with a for
tune which included a bank bal
ance of a cool (100,000. Of course
We hope that the money is
well spent and that judges sitting
In comfort will be able to discern
truth with more ease nnd admin
ister justice with lese margin 'or
error than they ever have before.
The new chair for the judge’s
people rushed to him as soon as it bench has vied with court pro-
653 drivers involved in accidents in ^ he ceedings as a topic of conversa
state la^ year had been drivmg for I"*-1 attributed his success. In his own'tlon In the old Wilkes town thl?
years or longer, another 3,626 had beqn!words, here they are: (week. ”ns said'that some with
... - 4... 4.„r, QTiH 9 I “I attribute my ability to retirela lot of curiosity and a hlanker-
dnving from six to te y > ’ j {a $100,000 bank balance after | ing to know what deluxe sitting
had been driving from six to ten years, and years in the newspaper field to is like slipped around to try out
2 396 had been driving from two to five close application to duty, pursuing, the chair while court was not In
’ a policy of strict honesty, practic- session,
years. rigid economy at all times, and
“In other words, what really counts is *t0 the recent death of my uncle,
not the amount of driving experience a "’ho left me $99,943.27.”
Sjg^t^PrrfJR. B. l^e
rpuTge'Tbto dgpwtmgHt Is pfi^^
College April 1 tor special train-jj^g W jS
ing in diesel engines, Dean Blake' .. -—
R. Van Leer, bead of lAe School fl. ,,. „
of Engineering, announce today. ' |j0W8l V \/011SI18
The men will stody 19 weeks ^ , _ Ti. M
then the Navy , will assign them
to duties aboard ..vessels powered
by diesel engines. They will come
from the U. S. Navai Reserve _ nrnwntlv he.
Midshipmen’s School at Northwes- oaSTR^SSsrS^toeSIrfS
tern University. 1 trouble to h^ loogen and «Kpd
Only two other scho^s in the na- germ ladta ^fegm, and jdd natw
been selected defmitely to teach tmiea. Tdl your druiglst to edl yoa
the diesel coarse to naval reserve abotUeofCieomulsian with the
oficers, it is understood at State dw^jad^youmurthJM
„ ’ miiokly allays the cough or you are
College. , XT r, to have your mosiey back.
An inspector for the Navy De- ^ q E/\kA III Cl^ Kl
paitment spent two days at State ^ KCViVl V V/
Ckillege rcenUy, and departed ap- forOHighs, Chest G>ldt, Bronchitis
t^f Hang On
ntfskm rdieves praoq^ [
; goes rtot to the aesft of 1
tolM^ tooeen and a
iden phlegnL 1
TOPS FOR DIPLOMACY
A diplomat is one who can say
something bad so it sounds good.
person has had, but the lessons he ha.s
gained from that experience,” Hocutt said.
*How to start and stop a car, apply t e man employed by a
brakes and give signals are important, but snobbish woman to trace her fam-
what is much more important is actually
doing these things at the right time, and in
the right manner.
“Driving experience may enable a per
son to acquire a great deal of driving skill,
but unless he also has learned to obey the
rules of the road and the motor vehicle
laws, and to employ courtesy, caution and
commonsense along with his skill, his ex
perience has not made him a good driver.”
‘Experience is the best teacher,” he
added, “only when the pupil is willing to
and capable of applying the lessons learn
ed from that experience.”
PROTECT THE BIRDS
'Tis said that ibirds should be
protected. Doves bring peace and
the stork brings draft exenrptlons,
tax exemptions, etc.
Improve Pastures
Good pastures are essential to the profi
table production of livekock. The Pro
gressive Farmer tells us there are two
questions a farmer must be able to answer
affirmatively before he can give himself a
good score on providing for his iive.stock.
Here they are:
(1) Have you improved your pastures
by clearing out the brush, cutting weeds,
draining wet areas, and terracing hill
sides? (2) Have pastures been treated
with one ton or more of ground limestone
and an application of 500 to 1,000 pounds
of superphosphate per acre?
A good plan is to begin with an area of
such size as will allow the completion of
all the above operations—clearing the
land, preparing and fertilizing the seed
bed and seeding—during the winter when
labor is available. Improved, fertilized pas
tures produce a larger number of grasses
and legumes, grazing is available earlier,
and the crop is Icee affected by drought
than unimproved pastures. Authorities
agree that the cost of maintaining a cow
of a pasture is not one-third the cost of
bam-feedlng on harve^d crops. The cost
of^blishing and improving a perman-
ent pasture should be considered an invest-
^ pernwment
Farm Philosophy
Some of the best homespun philosophy
we have seen in a long time is contained in
a “County Agent’s Farm Philosophy” by
“Uncle Tom” Marks in the Progressive
Farmer:
Live and help live.
Sell your feed on the hoof.
Be very proud that you.are not proud.
Do as the woodpeckers do: Use your
head.
A winner never quits, and a quiter never
wins.
The garden is the best paying acre of
the farm.
Ju.st pretending to be rich keeps some
folks poor.
Recipe for long life: Do not exceed the
feed limit.
Borrowing trouble is the worst kind of
debt.
You can absolutely depend on Luck if
you put a P in front of it.
A small jack can lift a car, but it takes
a lot of “jack” to keep it up.
The money the other fellow has is Capi
tal ; getting is from him is Labor.
A husband is like an egg; if kept too
long in hot water, he becomes hardboiled.
The world owes every man a living, but
every man must do his own collecting.
The man who is cruel to dumb animaL
would be cruel to folks if he were not a
coward.
Borrowed Comment
EDUCATED POLICEMEN
(Baltimore News-Post)
It is not a new conception, that of an ed
ucated police force, but one faintly for
shadowed in the columns of The News
Post in times past.
The functions of these officers are
manifold now and call for much more thar
brute force, such as was required in days
past, when the espantoon played the prin
cipal part in their activities.
Time was when the good old “Mayor 0^
South Baltimore” was the guardian of hi«
bailiwick, the father of the poor, and th(
adviser of his people — not learned in
books, but equipped with a fund of com
mon sense, which then sufficed instead.
The London “Bobby” was first aid to
broken laws and cracked skulls; now the
efficient policeman is an appeasemeni
agent, and if he must resort t© force he
tempers it with common sense.
He is the “Mayor of His Beat” now.
There are beats on which force is stiP
necessary, but on these the capable police
man may, by force of reason, gain an in
fluence which will awe the disorderly ele
ment.
The wiser the head of the police officer
the better the- hand.
ily tree. He hadn’t made any
headway at all until he found an
ancestor who had been electrocut
ed. He recorded it thus: “Grand
father occupied the chair of
applied electricity at one of our
better known instituions until his
death.”
ELIMINATE CHICKEN
DAMAGE
Two persons in North Wilkes
boro Sunday were discussing the
advisability of starting a vegeta
ble grarden when the subject of
damage to the gardens by chicken.s
on the loose came up. One sug
gested that if chickens damaged
their gardens they would kill the
chickens and the other said it
would be necessary to kill only the
rooster. But what about the
(.lens?”, the other asked. “They
will die of broken hearts,” the
smart one replied.
SHE TOOK NO CHANCES
In the old horse and buggy days
a young man took his sweetie for a
ride. He fignired the time was ripe
to propose. He proposed a num
ber of times and much to his sur
prise was furhed 3own.
When they arrived back at his
honeys house he thought he would
propose again. He did and was
accepted.•
After the wedding he said to his
wife, ‘‘Will you tell me why you
accepted me on the porch after
you had turned me down on the
buggy ride?”
She said, “I am superstitious
Years ago father proposed to
mother while they were buggy rid
ing. She accepted and on the way
to her home the horse ran away
and father was killed.”
(X)MFORT FOR Jl’IKJEfi
Only trouble with the new
chair bought for the judges who
preside over Wilkes superior
court is that it is so comfortable
(hccording to our second hand
information) that the occupant is
liable to go to sleep. Judges don’t
need a chair to do that. Some of
the lawyers’ speeche.= would put
them to sleep.
One look at the chair the new
Elect Wilkes Girls
To Society Offices
Boone.—Last week officers of
three women’s societies at Appa
lachian S'tiate Teachers College
•held elections: thos elected were
to srve In their respective capaci-
tls for the remainder of the year.
For the Phila Retien Literary
Society. Jaunita Baggett of Hr-
wln is the new president. .Vs her
aids will be Wilma Essie of Csi.o,
vice president; Margaret Goforth
of Rutherfordton, secretary; and
Lucy Crisp of Grover, treasurer.
Members of the Ve 'nician So
ciety elected the following: Ma
rie Eply of Vajley Falls, presi
dent; Rosalie Pendry of Hay.»,
vice president: Jean Stirewult of
Durham, secretary; and Sally
Miller of West Jefferson, treas
urer.
For the Thalian Societ/, the
following were elected: Joy Har
ris of Roaring River, president;
Jean Warwick of Laurinburg,
vice president; Pauline Sale of
Dover, Del., secretary; and Jos
ephine Nichols of Toast, treasur
er. f--
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MARLOW’S MEN’S SHOP
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The Stetson
of Tomorrow-
Today!
An )ther trouble with modem civiliza
tion is that too many j|)eo;D|e. try to
Here is the "hat of
tomorrow” in our store,
today...here is the modern,
streamlined Stratoliner
that does wonders for your
get-up! See the Stetson
Stratoliner...see the hat of
tomorrow, today. And a
fitting touch is its sleek,
exclusive, useful hat box!
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Compamy
The military post of Fort
Bragg Is located in North Caro
lina. Fort Bragg, California, ij
civil community.
NOTICE
The Board of Equalization Wiill Meet at the
Courthouse in Wilkesboro, N. C., on
Monday, March 17
STARTING AT 10:00 A. M.
For the purpose of hearing appeals of taxpayers
from assessments for the year 1941.
For the convenience of taxpayers from the
rural sections of the county, appeals will not be
heard on the above date from Wilkesboro and
North Wilkesboro Townships A date will be set
later for hearing appeals and making adjust
ments from these townships.
This March 5th, 1941.
Tax Supervisor of Wilkes County
Eight Balls of Fite
and haw they ain naval!
I F you like fireworks, and who
doesn’t, it’s really too bad you
can’t see what goes on inside that
sparkling big Buick FIREBALL eight
that romps you so easily down the
broad highway.
There you’d see eight busy cyl
inders, with pistons flashing up and
down... '
You’d see each fuel charge packed
tight into a tiny bundle shaped like
a flattened bail.. .
You’d see the spark leap, the flame
spread, the piston thrust down with
extra force as each furious fireball
lets go its pent-up wallop.
You’d see all this happening as fast
as thirty times a second in each of those
eight cylinders—and we think you’d
understand then just whs there’s
such a special and exciting satisfac
tion in the way, a Buick travels.
Gasoline gives up more of its power
when it’s packed as tighdy as it is here.
That special, flat-
tened-ball shape of
tbe compressed
fuel charge means
smoother, better
burning, full focus
of the power on
the piston head,
where it counts.
So when you’ve got these eight balls
of fire working busily under the
bonnet, you really travel!
You travel farther on every gallon
and you travel more pleasurably.
You travel—but, shucks 1 Why listen
to talk when there’s a Buick dealer
nearby waiting to show you how you
travel behind a FIREBALL?
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