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MONDAY, AUG. 4, 1941
We Defend This Truth
What are we arming to defend? What
is it that we Americans hold so precious
that w’e are willing to accept great ma
terial and physical sacrifices if need be to
make sure that it is not destroyed?
Not just the good land we have here, or
the wealth of useful goods and products
that private enterprise has spread among
the people of this country. Much as we
value these, a better answer than that is
needed- And Roy W. Moore, noted indus
trial leader, recently provided a sound de
finition of the heritage we intend to de
fend. Addressing the Commercial Law
League of America, Mr. Moore described
our American way in the following words *
“It is the way of liberty. It is the right
of a man to think his own thoughts
through, and to express them decently in
print or by word of mouth. It is the right
of assembly and petition. It is the right
of protection against tyranny of ukase and
edict as opposed to the due process of re
sponsible law. It is the right to choose that
device of relations with the Almighty spir
it of Life which best will nurture the indi
vidual’s spirit. rt is the right to choose
those officers of governance who must tru
ly represent the will and the conscience of
representation.’’
“And it lis the right of the individual to
engage in any decent occupation of his
choice, and to follow it where he wishes,
and to reap as his reward such returns- as
are in decency earned by his skill, his
ability, his energy, and his effort.’’
The words are moving because the force
they describe is eloquent, too. Needing
clear definitions of where we stand in the
difficult world of today, we can all find in
the above words a goodly part of that lar
ger truth in which all Americans believe.
HOW TO UVE LONGER
Logicians claim that those who cultivate
calmness and self-possession will enjoy life
better and live^ longer. Hence, there has
been collecte’d a number of precejfts to
practice:
Learn to like what dpesn t cost much.
Learn to like reading, conversation, music.
Learn to like plain food, plain cooking.
Learn to like fields, trees, woods, brooks,
rowing, hiking. Learn to like life.
Learn to like people, even though some
of them may be as different from you as
a Chinaman. Learn to like work, and en
joy the satisfaction of doing your job as
well as it. can be done. Learn to like the
songs of the birds, the companionship of s
dog, and the laughter and gaiety of ch-1^
dren.
Learn to like gardening, carpentering,
puttering around the house, the lawn, and
the automobile. Learn to like the sunrise
and the sunset, the beating rain on the
roof and windows, and the gentle fall of
snow on a winter day. Learn to keep your
wants simple. Refuse to be owned and
anchored by the opinions of others.—Sun
shine Magazine.
LIFE’S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
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By DWIGHT NICSOLS, et sL
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To
“Paul Revere’s Horse”
Announcement of a tiny new auxiliary
engine that will extend the flr-ng range of
bombers, now in mass production for the
navy,, brought about a brief spurt of inter
est in its inventor, Charles L. Lawrance.
Lawrance has invented other airplane en
gines in his time which were used to break
existing flight records, but he has never
sought or received public attention.
The occasion of his latest invention,
which will be of great service to defense,
calls to mind a story told concerning him.
Once a well-wisher inquired why I^w-
rance seldom received credit when others,
who depended upon his inventions for
their success, were wildly acclaimed.
“After all,” Lawrance answered humor
ously, “who ever heard the name of Paul
Revere’s horse?”
That quiet spirit of service is charac
teristic of American research. All over our
country, thousands of research workers
and engineers are making their individual
contributions to our national security.
They served progress in the past. Today
they are helping to make sure that the re
sults of that progress are preserved for the
American generations that lie ahead.
Often their names are not known or re
membered. But the composite result of
their efforts is so plain that no one can
miss seeing it—American superiority, with
its promise of security today and of better
living .standards tomorrow. Research, the
“Paul Revere’s horse” that has achieved
all this, c^n well be proud of the role it
plays.
We often wonder what it feels like to
jump out of an aeroplane with a para
chute and we hope to be able to keep on
tnd^ring about it indefinitely.-Bruns
wick Pilot.
All Europe is now divided into three
parts: Occupied, unoccupied and preoccu
pied.—Wiqhite Eagle.
THE FOOLISH INFIDEL
Now and then some little atheLst and in
fidel rises up and says, “There is no God.
God calls him a tfool. Listen to His Holy
Word: “The fool hath said in his heart,
There is no God.” Now when God calls .a
man a fool I have no right to deny it. He
may be a Voltaire, a Tom Payne, or a Rob
ert Ingersoll; but regardless of who he is,
God calls him a fool.
“Oh,” you say, “these men were intelli
gent. They were educated. They knew the
Bible. Ingersol was a great orator.^^ Cer
tainly he could not have been a fool.” Re
gardless of how well one may be educated,
or how intelligent he is, or how well he
speaks before the public, or what may be
the position he holds, God absolutely
brands him as a fool. He may be a fool
lawyer, as some are, or a banker, or a
statesman, or a writer, or a teacher, or an
inventor. That makes no difference. Who
bestows his honor and respect upon athe
ists and infidels? Why, people think so
little of them that they won’t name their
children after them. How many name
sakes do Voltaire, Payne and Bob Ingersoll
have today? Not one that I know of. Even
the followers of these infidels don’t think
enough of them to name their children af
ter them. That’s so. If they were so great,
brilliant, intelligent, so well educated, and
were right, why don’t men and nations
honor and respect them? Why don’t they
celebrate their birthdays? Why don’t they
name their sons after them? Why don’t
they erect great monuments to their memo
ries? Simply because they know they
were wrong. They cursed the world. And
all who rise up and follow in their foot-
.steps likewise curse the world, and when
they are gone they go “unwept, unhonor
ed and unsung.” Absolutely. And the
mo.st of them are soon forgotten, except
the fact that they were fools whose belief,
teachings and influence makes other
fools-
No infidel lives a great life, neither does
he die a victorious death. They call upon
God when it is too late. The dying testi
monies of atheists and infidels is something
fearful. How different to the dying testi
monies of the followers-of Jesus Christ and
the saints of God! No infidel can be hap
py in his infidelity, neither can he die hap
py. Only the true Christian lives a ble.ssed
life and has a triumphant departure out of
this world. This is life’s, better way.
WHAT WE never REGRET
We ne’er regret a kindness shown
To foe or friend or chum;
Wo ne’er regret good' seed we’ve sown
When harvest time has come;
We n’er regret the patience used
In times of sorest test;
We ne’er regret the wrongs refused
When God gives us His best.
We ne’er regret the choice we make
When it is truly right;
We ne’er regret the way we take
"That leads us in the light;
We ne’er regret our silence when
We’re tempted strong to speak
A word to hurt our fellowmen.
Though they be strong or weak.
We ne’er regret the prayers we pray
That reach our God above;
We ne’er regret nor mourn the day
We give all men our love;
We ne’er regret the years of time
We give to men and God;
We ne’er regret the upward climb
In paths that saints have trod.
We ne’er regret the noble stand
We take for righteous truth; ^
We ne’er regret the helping hand
We give to age or youth.;
We' ne’er regret the good we do
To bless our fellowmen.
And when to God we make it through
We’ll not regret it then.
NO LONGER NEGLBCTE®
Our seven readers, at least two
of them, have complained tb t
we have neglected to give them
the latest lowdown ou the fore-
iboding crisis over relations be
tween Hell’s Half Acre and Cut
throat Ridge.
We only get scattered hits* of
news from those places where
censorship has been clamped
down like nobody’s business.
However, a member of our In
telligence (?) department has re
turned with this gem of new."
from Hell’s Hr If Acre:
Hell’s Half Acre, Aug. 4 (Mon
day), By the United Pests—The
high command of the armed fore,
es of this imperial i-ealm today
was having trouble because of in-
surbordination.
Because of several incidents
which gave the appearance of an
uprising and glaring insurbordi-
nation, the high command la.9t
night posted a sign at headquart
ers which read: "Anyone disobey
ing orders will be shot at sun
rise.’’
The words were printed far a-
part and some subversive agent
late last night Inserted the word
“half between "be" and “shot.”
Then the .sign read: "Anyone, dis-
O’beying orders will be half shot
at sunrise.”
The men arose at dawn and
saw the sign. They wanted to be
half shot so badly they not one in
the whole batallion would obey
any order.
The high command gave the
order to have all the force shot
but there was no one to do the
shooting.
DIDN’T WANT IT
An old negro was taking a civil
service examination for the posi
tion of rural mail carrier. One of
the questions asked was: "How
far i» it from the earth to the
sun?” The old colored man look
ed frightened and exclaimed: "If
you-all is gwinter put' .me on tha’
route, I’s resignin’ before I te
gins.’’
SHE W.VS WOtlRFED
A little girl was taken to th
Zoo by her father. They stood
fore the lion’s cage, and her fat?
er explained how strong an,
fierce liona are and how i-. tb
wilds they attack and devour hu
man beings. She looked at then
thoughtfully, and then she said:
"Daddy, if one of them got ou
of its cage and ate you up, what
number bus would I have to take
to get home?”
KING WAS ITftHING
Teacher: “Tonuny, please
translate ‘Rex fugit’.’’
Tommy: “The king flees.’’
Teacher: "You should ust
’has’ in translating the perfect
tense."
Tommy: “The king ha,s flees.’’
BETTER FATHER
A father said to his son:
“When I was your age my fathei
would not allow me to go out a'
night.”
“You had a hrrd-hoiled fath
er!’’ replied the young scamp.
“I had a lot hotter father than
you have!’’ replied the irate eld
er.
Washington.—The administra
tion’s price control bill stripped
of a provision to curb installment
Danville, V?.. .Jn^ 29.—Ameri
can gobs m are having a
hard time with the clock and re
main more or less confused about
the time.
This was admitted by Averett
buyipg and drastically limiting Stephens, a Danville sailor
President Roosevelt’s authority to '^h^ was granted furlough to come
fix prices of farm products, was , back Itiome to be married yesterday
introduced in both houses y«eter- evening to Mi»« Maggie Cora
jThomias, of this city. Today he,
measure also fixed the was on his way back to his assign- j
year ended July £9, instead of ment.'^
June 30 as originally proposed, I i^e confusion over the Icelandic 1
as the base period on which the j tfane, explained, is due to the j
President is directed, to consider fact that some weeks have six
t^ueiilu
Last rites were conducted ’Pndt^j
day afternoon at Little *RoeR.
church near Boomer for J.' K .
Cline, age 35, idtlsen of that com
munity who died Monday after- ,
noon.
He is survived by his. wife, Mrs.
Florence Pipes Cline, and four
children.
AMIUMELBHMCi
price increases.
The compromise proposal was
offered by Senate Majority Lead
er Alben W. Barkley, (D), Ky„
for Sen. Cfrter Glass, (D), Va.,
ranking Democratic member of
the banking and currency com
mittee, and Chairman Henry B.
Steagall, (D), Ala., of the House
banking and currency group.
Its terms were finally fixed at
a conference among leaders of the
two houses and Price Stabilizer
Leon Henderson who is expected
to direct the new program.
Failure of the measure to au
thorize a brake on 31-down-and-
31 a week buying was a defeat for
President Roosevelt, Chairmen
Marriner S. Eccles of the federal
reserve board and Henderson
who contended that it was essen
tial to check uncontrolled infla
tion.
Steagall indicated that it was
overboard temporarily because of
powerful opposition from business
interests. He expects separate leg
islation on the .subject to be pre
sented later.
‘ Potent opposition from the
farm bloc forced special conside
ration for prices on the basic
crops. As proposed in the revised
bill, the President may not im
pose ceilings on farm products be
low prices which prevailed on
July'29, which then stood IQ per
cent above parity.
15 Jap Navy Ships
Arrive At Saigon
Saigon. French Indo - Chin-, j
Wednesday. July 30.—A convoy I
of 15 Japanese naval ships arriv. |
ed here today with troops as the :
Japanese sped the occupation of
bases in Indo-China. I
The arrivals here followed the I
movement of Nipponese forces in- 1
to nearby Camranb, French Indo- ,
China naval base 800 miles from
Manila.
days when there are 22 hours and
others when there are 26.
The dawn patrol is also some
thing of a trial, he related, be
cause the sun rises in Iceland at 1
a. m., and he further stated that
all the time he has been in Ice
land, it has not been completely
dark yet.
Reins-SturdiTaiit
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For the Wilkes County Courthouse up to and
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Separate bids on materials and installation of
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