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MONDAY, SEPT. 1, 1941
School Days
Today all the .'schools in this vicinity had
begur or were beginning the new term.
School opening is always an interesting
event for students, teachers, parents and
friends of all the participants.
The educational processes embodied in
the public school system offer a diversion
from ordinary ways of living in addition to
opportunities for preparation for living.
From the si.\-year-old who timidly walks
into the school building for the first time
to the eager high school senior, is a space
of about 11 years, the actual formative
stage of the characters of the boys and
girls.
The kind of foundational characters
which are formed during that time will
determine the future citizenship of our
community, county, state and nation.
What happens there will determine the
course of human events which can influ
ence, or make, the history of the world
during the next period which we refer to
as a generaion.
Schools are so important that any who
put personal or group ambitions and de
sires for gain above welfare of the chil
dren in the formative stage of life are hell
ishly criminal.
Theirs is not a crime of one injuring ano
ther, but is a devastating offense against
all future citizenship, results of which can
in later years loom as a curse to all man
kind.
Thus it behooves all to be intensely in
terested in schools, in all activities which
influence the lives of children. It will seem
only a short time until the children in the
schools become citizens.
Those who have the responsibility of
management and operation of schools,
who select the personnel, the course of
study and affect the invironment of school
life have a moral responsibility unparallel
ed in human endeavor. If they fail the
only course is a plea for divine mercy on
all who are affected.
There is a great responsibility on teach
ers, who should endeavor to teach every
child a maximum of knowledge and try to
instill in their young lives the fundamen-
t.al principles of truth.
Parents are responsible for proper train
ing of the children in the homes in pre
paration for school and they can determine
the attitude of the child toward school.
The activities of the parents will determine
whether a child looks on school as some
place they have to go or whether they con
sider .schools an opportunity.
While observing the gaiety and play of
school children we are prone to forget the
solemn seriousness of school life and re-
ipomsibilities of all participants. Nothing
short of the best that can be accomplished
in school management, teaching and par
ental training is good enough.
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The Four Horsemen Ride Again
“Again the four horsemeii of the apo
calypse are riding,” says the Journal of
the American Medical Association. “Once
more war, disea.se, hunger, and death de
stroy mankind. The horsemen of today
travel with the increased speed of me
chanized transportation. Today the pos
sibilities for sudden and widespread out
breaks of disease arising far from their
endemic foci are more likely than ever
previously.”
News dispatches and other reports from
Europe are not comforting. Typhus is be
ing held in check only with the greatest
difficulty, and in some areas, notably Po
land and the Baltics, this killer is rumored
to have reached serious epidemic propor
tions. Other potentially murderous ende-
Biic diseases are malaria, yellow fe^ and
plague. And the fact that we far
from the battlefields and the stricken.
starving nations doM'not give us assured
protection.
As the Journal also says: “Cleariy the
insulation of this country from the disease
consequences of war will provide a colo.s-
sal task and will require the most care
ful planning and effort.” Fortunately for
the United States, we have the finest medi
cal service in the world to act as our main
line of defense against the bacterial kill
ers. Nowhere else in the world has medi
cal research progressed so far. Nowhere
else in the world is the average doctor so
well fitted to perform the dual tasks of
preventing and curing disease.
The scientists are working to protect
you from the four horsemen. All of the
130,000,000 people in this country will
benefit.
Politicians Poor Example
The whole theme of the defense pro
gram can be expressed in the single word,
sacrifice. Public officials from the Presi
dent down have rightly emphasized that
modern mechanized war requires appall-
Absardities
By DWIGHT NICHOLS, et al.
A little ways south
Five miles froof to,wn, '
All were cosy and snug
After riding around.
Parked In a model T Ford
Beside a pile of chaff,
The only sound that one could
hear
Was an occasional, stifled laugh.
One broke her watch
Another broke her glasses
What kind of fellows were they,
A bunch of wild jackasses?
OH, MT GOSH!
“Why, Mary, what a lovely
nude. ‘Good heavens!’ It’s of
you! Did you pose for It?’’
“No, No, Grade, Ralph just did
it from memory.’’
AVKDDING IN »LAS.S
Can you visualize what a Mor-
.mon weudlng would be like? Our
ing quantities of a nation’s resources, conception •would run something
Home owners and consumers must of like this:
Minister to groom—“Do you
take these women to be your law
fully wedded wives?”
Groom—“I do.”
Minister—“Do you fake this
man to be your lawfully wedded
husband.”
Brides—“We do.’’ ^
Minister—"some of you girls
in the back row will have to
speak louder if you want to be
in on this.’’
FUTITRE GOLFF.RS
Children' who use bad words
when playing marbles grow up
to be golfers.
TOO MANY BEDS
The bride was very much con
cerned at seeing twin beds ^ in
their bridjl suite.
Groom—What’s the matter,
dearest?”
Bride — Why, I certainly
thought that we were going to
get a room all to ourselves.
DOWN TO BUSINESS
The latest'golf story strikes a
celestial note.—St. Peter was
playing St. Paul. St. Paul drove
off anti his ball landed squarely
tlie cup. St. Peter drove off
and his hail likewise landed
squarely in the cup.
“Well, what do you say?’’ said
St. Peter as they approached the
second tee. “Let’s cut out the
miracles and get down to busi
ness.’’
necessity depart from normal American
living standards. The manner in which the
people of America have responded to the
call for ever greater cooperation, is exem
plified by the recent aluminum drive. Citi
zens of communities from Maine to Califor
nia, “chipped in” to fill parks, civic cen-
ter.s, and street corner bins with moun
tains of aluminum. Their response was
unhestitating.
Have the nation’s lawmakers been
equally cooperative? They have not! Pork
barrel politics has been carried on as usu
al. When President Roosevelt attempted
to iron out some of the inequalities in the
new tax bill, and recommended that ex
emptions be lowered so that the income
classes which are receiving the bulk of the
war spending’ would be taxed, the House
killed his request at once, with hardly a
hearing.
Crowning congressional ignominy fol
lowed the President’s statesmanlike veto
of the $325,000,000 “strategic” road con
struction program, on the ground that it
did not give enough consideration to mili
tary needs. Due to the ease with which
it can reach “politicaltj’” strategic areas,
road construction is a natural pork barrel
activity. The Senate overrode the Presi
dent’s veto 57 to 19. The fact that the
House later upheld the veto, by a hair-line
margin, does not excuse the Senate’s ac
tion.
It is high time, to put it bluntly, that the
people of this country demand that their
representatives practice what they preach
—sacrifice. Millions of citizens stand
ready to do their part in guaranteeing a
better world for the future. It is too much
to expect our public officials to do the
same?
Fire Preveniton Week
Each year in October, Fire Prevention
Week is observed by proclamation of the
President of the United States. It is a call
on the citizens of this country to reduce
loss of life and property by fire.
That week is always important. This
year, with the country engaged in the
greatest defense drive in all history—a
drive which means that a large part of the
human and material resources of this
country must be turned to the gigantic
task of making us militarily impregnable
—the week is a hundred times more im
portant still. It has been said many times,
and it should be said many times again,
that fire is the enemy of defense. Fire is
the waster, the implacable destroyer of
tim.e, of human effort, of life, of resources.
Fire fights against the swift production of
airplanes and cannons and battleships and
tanks. Fir.j fights against the nation’s
safety.
In the past years, it has often happened
that fire losses have gone down during the
week and the period immediately follow
ing, only to rise sharply thereafter. In
other words, we Americans have had shoVt
memories. The lessons learned during the
week were quickly forgotten, and we re
lapse into our old careless, thoughtless
habits.
That must not happen now. We-must
regard every week as a fire prevention
week. We must regard every day as a
day in which to keep in mind the hazards
that breed fire, and the means of eliminat
ing them. Only if that is done, can fire,
our ever-present foe, be beaten. The war
against fire is a war for American safety
in which every one of us can play an ag
gressive part
Every reform, however necessary, will
by weak minds be carried to an excess
which will itself need reforming.
—Coleridge
Addresses-Got. 'J. M,
^ODghton,, Hon. Smith W,' Pnr-
dam, ASst. Post Master Ooneral,
and the Honorable Robert L.
Donghton will be some of the
main features of- the Caldwell
County Centennial Celebration to
be held Ir. Lenoir September 14-
17 Inclusive. The addresses will
be delivered from the reviewing
stand on the Public Square.
A monster Floral, Pioneer and
school parade Is set for Tuesday,
September 16th, which promises
ta surpass any parade of Its kind
ever attempted in Caldwell coun
ty, with floats, bands, 'marching
bodies, horsemen, a Pioneer sec
tion with covered wagons, oxen,
etc. and a school section of all
schools in the county.
The City streets and store
fronts will be gaily bedecked In
flaigs and bunting in keeping with
a celebration of this kind. Merch
ants’ windows will display old
antiques and a museum of old
relics and gowns, guns, etc. will
he a feature of the Celebration.
On the Public Square will be
rides of all kinds. There will be
an old fiddlers contest, hill billy
band contests. Vaudeville Acts,
band concerts, and street dancing
nightly on the Square, as -well as
the Queen'.s Ball to close the
Celebration on Wednesday night
at the Armory following the last
showing of the spectacle.
A mammoth historical spec
tacle will be presente’d nightly at
the Athletic Field of the High
School, with a cast of 800 per
formers in beautiful costumes,
with special scenes, backgrounds
and lighting effects. A water cur
tain will he used to change the
different scenes of the 18-episode
spectacle.
In addition to the large cast
will also be seen approximately
4 0 head ot horses, oxen, dogs,
sheep and cattle as well as cov.
ered wagons, automobiles, a loco
motive, aeroplane, buses, bicycles,
etc.
The spectacle will be presented
nightly 't 8.00 p. m. ■
The celebration will be not only
a Home-Coming Festival, but
people from all over the State
and from other states will be in
attendance.
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14 hens in the flock of Harold
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