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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
'>ue Year ?1.50
3lx Months .76
Pour Months 60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Entered st the poet office at North WilkM-
boro. N. C., as second class matter under Act
Df March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1941
Buying At Home
Often we have written on this and kin
dred subjects but it is fitting that all of
us be reminded of the many benefits de
rived from doing business at home as much
as practical.
Doing our buying and selling at home
will build a better, more prosperous and
happier community. In fact, the benefits
are of sufficient quantity to make it profi
table to make a temporary, financial sac
rifice if such should be necessary in order
to do business at home, but in 95 per cent
of instances we can think of, that would
not be necessary.
North Wilkesboro is one of the few
cities of its size in the entire country to be
so well blessed with places to buy and
sell. Because of the m.any people the
town serves, it has commerce equal to
some cities several times larger.
The variety of merchandise to be had in
North Wilkesboro is unexcelled for places
of its class in size. We make this state
ment without qualification and without be
ing afraid that someone will successfully
challenge it.
We would not advocate that a person
buy an article of merchandise here and
pay an excessive price just to trade at
home, provided he or she could obtain that
article much cheaper at a larger city or by
mail order.
But we do know from observation that
people within the trading area of North
Wilkesboro can buy in North Wilkesboro
articles of the same quality as sold else
where at identical prices, and in some in
stances, lower prices.
There seems to be some kind of romance
attached to making distant shopping trips
for some people. And that feeling is cost
ly to themselves, their home merchants
and to their community.
Often you have heard neighbors and
friends boastfully tell of shopping in cities
60, 100 or more miles away. They would
tell what they purchased and at prices “so
much lower” than in North Wilkesboro.
Investigation will lead to the discovery
that the same articles, m.ade by the same
manufacturer, and often sold by the same
organization, could have been purchased
here for the same prices.
Those who have products to place on
the market and for years have found a
profitable market in North Wilkesboro
should not forget this Wilkes city when
they spend that money.
Money spent at home helps pay local
taxes, build and maintain churches and
schooLs. It builds the home community—
the place where you live.
Remember that the next time you must
buy something.
The anny’r tank
are the best in the world, and we are
ducing them 10 times as fast as’we were 1^
year ago. ^
The R.A.F. has proved by use that ,par
airplanes are unsurpassed, and our pro
duction is rapidly rising to the point whew
it will exceed that of all other countries
in the world. The record in connection
with ships, rifles, ammunition and everj'
other requirement is similar.
The truth is that, working as free men,
we ^lave already outstripped in many
phases of' armament prodfletion Hitler
with his government dictated economy.
Hitler has been at it since 1935, and our
big program was launched only in 1940.
That is our record. To those who claim
that we lack ability to perform—quickly
—that record supplies the answer.
!OT. NORTH WILKESBORO. N
By DWIGHT NICHOLS, et id.
Looking Ahead
The recent announcement that hun
dreds of defense companies are training
new employees in industrial processes
serves to hi^light the efforts that Ameri
can management is making to deal with
the reported skilled labor shortage.
At last report 382,876 men, women and
youths were enrolled in these classes, and,
while their training is aimed primarily at
defense skills, it will undoubtedly help to
prepare them for other industrial jobs
when the present emergency is over.
Important as this training is, however,
it is only part of the educational program
that industry supports to help those inter
ested in preparing themselves for an in
dustrial career. Companies in every part
of the country are spending approximate
ly $12,000,000 this year to maintain
scholarships and vocational schools for
such young people.
Facts like,these indicate that even in the
midst of doing the biggest production job
ever undertaken anywhere, American in
dustry is characteristically looking to the
future and extending a helping hand to
those who are seeking their place in our
industrial world of tomorrow.
LIFE’S BEHER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
. Hiddenite, N. C.
SOMEBODY NEEDS YOUR SYMPATHY
Somebody needs your sympathy.
Your words of comfort sweet;
You’ll find him somewPere if you look,—
Perhaps he’s on the street;
Or maybe in a lonely room,—
An invalid on his cot;
Perhaps he’s suffered, suffered long.
Although you knew it not.
somebody needs your sympathy.
Your prayers amid the strife;
Perhaps it is a mother dear.
Who’s suffered much in life;
Or some forsaken girl or boy
Beneath the v/orld’s cold feet,
Unnoticed by the passing throngs
They chance so much to meet.
Somebody needs your sympathy,
A doctor, or a nurse;
Or preacher wearied with his toils
Whom men despise and curse;
Or teacher, who has done.her best
To educate your child;
Or man in business, worn and tired.
Whose brain is almost wild.
The Record Speaks
“Streets paved with gold!” Y’ears ago
in foreign countries that phrase was used
to express the amazement and envy that
life in America inspired throughout the
-world. The blessings we Americans ac
cept so casually were as incredible as that!
Here in America we need to remember
that today—need to remember that our
freedom has enabled us to have an econo-
mis system that has given us more of the
comforts and conveniences of life than any
other people has ever had. In spite of that,
however, there are many among us who
cry that that system has failed—^that regi
mentation can solve our problems and give
us the greater efficiency that they say we l unavailing.
1bc}c«
Lack efficiency ? The fact that we have
earned for ourselves the highest standard
of living in the world is sufficient proof to
refute that charge. Yet today we have
additional proof—our record of industeial
production in the present crisis. We have
set ourselves an enormous emergency job,
and we are doing it in record time. Arms
are flowing from our factories in quanti-
Somebody needs your sympathy,
A beggar by the way;
Or father bent with many cares.
Who longs to hear you pray;
Or maybe some poor sinner lost.
Because you passed him by; ..
Or wretched soul that’s strayed from God,
Who very soon shall die.
Somebody needs your sympathy.
Within a prison cell.
Thought guilty of a crime, yet he
Would like to hear you tell
The story of redemption true.
And how he can be saved
From evils, sin and wickedness
That have his life enslaved.
fjrst
1941.
President Roosevelt bought the
Defense Savings Bond on May 1,
Your bank or your post office is waiting
for you to call for yours—^today!
To safeguard and preserve the Ameri
can way of life—buy Defense Savings
Bonds and Stamps.
All reform except a moral one will prove
—Carlyle
Hollywood girls are said to be getting a
good substitute for silk hose by painting
their legs. Here’s hoping the WPA Art
Guild isn’t permitted to do any of it.—
Philadelphia Dispatch.
The trouble with most open minds is
SmPLBST RBA80N
IiouiB GmTes, tamed editor of
Chapel Hill Weekly, said in a
guest column In the Twin City
Sentinel Monday that western
North Carolina counties had far
more license revocations for
drunk drivlng^ than eastern coun
ties. *
His comment apparently was a
veiled argument in favor of legal,
leed liquor in that he wondered
why there were more revocations
in the counties west of Durham
and few in the eastern part of
the state where liquor is sold
legally.
He cited many reasons why It
could be that there are more re
vocations in the piedmont and
western part of the state but
overlooked the main reaeouT
West of Durham in North
Carolina Is where the cars and
the people arq. In order for
there to be drunk drivers, and
resultant revocation of license,
there must be cars and drivers—-
simple. Isn’t It?
EAST VERSUS WEST
And while we are on the sub
ject, let us do a little comment
ing of our own about western
North Carolina.
The western half of the state
has been made the goat In that
it has the people, the wealth and
the automobiles to pay taxes for
the eastern counties to spend.
There has been much too much
spending In North Carolina of tax
funds on the basis of geography,
as far as the eastern and western
halves of the state are concerned.
DRUNKENNESS HERE
On Saturday night more than
ten thousand people jammed into
the fairgrounds here.
In spite of the fact that the
fair is a gala event and that Sat
urday night is usually a time for
boisterous living, there were
amazingly few drunks in the
crowd.
Police tell us that they worked
diligently and locked up pII
drunks encountered, but they did
tmm
to Uve hig .bu
Fraakly/ w« dim^ Uke^ 9a'’gay
aK piernjttad and on-
Bragg. and >6Tt'’j>«iud|L ibi^ pjaip
meet in tfpty game^^^We'^Wwtfc^-''kiiddl«7.r*^ard}M|l ^of
to thlnb’he woe hi
C^ll^ but on the ot^r t^ed before, gaaie
there la-company A of tab 105thi "
Engineers at Fort Jackson, made tf*tarea^aomethlng d.-^erenf, eh-
'^THUUSDAY, SEPT. 2l
i«4r
r-
«^ve marriage Ucem jd
w«4« Iwaed daring
kf C.. C. Bidden, WUHa reglstar
of deeds, to the foUowingu Noah
C. Beehears, Snmnilt. and Alma
Florence Ashley, OUda; Major,
Pardue and Pauline ;8iaUb, both
of Ronda;- Eli Hnbbard and Doto-
thy BHer, both of Fergnaon; wel-
hbm C. Dillard and Nora BUllnga,
up of Wilkes county men, so we tertainlng to the ai^ectatora, and ! Both of Hays; Belo H. Qnaen and
guess the spirit of masglTe Ben' usnalljc i surprising to
will be right along with that com
pany. , '
Ben Cleveland fathered Wilkes
county and he would like for his
great-great-grandchildren, neidi-
ews, etc., to take after him in
military tactics. ,
coaches.'
both, Nellie Jane Ball, ^tb
reath.
of Oil-
L. p.
“Halt!” said the
again. .
"I have halted,’’ said the mo
torist. “What do you want me
to do next?”
“I don’t know,” said the L. D.
V. “My orders are to say ‘Halt’
three times and then shoot.”
Razzle-Dazzle Game
At Boone Saturday
Boone. — It will be straight
football against the razzllngest,
dazzlingest of all brands when
the Appalachian State Mountain
eers meet the highly publicized
Arkansas A. and M. Weevils here
next Saturday afternoon.
Lest the Mountaineers should
be dazzed by the dazzle in this
their second game of the season
Coach “Red” Watkins has per
mitted no let-up in practice. Per
haps the Boonemen ar pointing
as much to King College game
October 4, but Big Fluffy Watts,
Appalachian captain, says: “They
may play for fun as they say but
we play for keeps here in the
mountains.”
“The Marx Brothers of Foot
ball,” as the Boll Weevils have
been dubbed, are content to let
the Mountaineers do all the wor
rying though. The visitors are
traveling here as much for the
pleasure of the trip as anything
else, declared Coach Ferguson.
The Arkansas team is e.xpect-
ed to feature Its usual type of
crazy play, without using ortho
dox fundamentals or formation.
_ _ and violating nearly every prac-
not get over a half dozen there, tice and tradition associated with
« - 1 A—.—. - .... O r1 Frtwm Q i t/^no
North Wilkesboro has too much ' the game. Spread formations,
drunkeness—but it does have less I nine and ten-men lines, and weird
drunkeness than any other town grouping of players are Included
its size we know anything about. In the offense. Lateral passes
CLEA’EIAND IN 8. C. [characterize the plays, and some-
Col. Ben Cleveland has always times the blockers follow the ball
been our historical hero and carrier In order to feature on
imagine what a shock It was to, lateral passes,
us to learn that he went to South The Boll Weevils use a free
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