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sf March 4. 1879.
THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1941
X^jensS
many f^xooit
^tuPes thht the most peMtileeflil $py il ^
to find that he’s licked before he begins."
In. "addition to high fences, floodlights
guards and other .customary measures, of
protection, industry is going to extra len-[
gths to insure continuous, safe production |
of armaments. Whenever possible, fac-,
tories are being built in clearings in
wooded, rolling country to make camou-
flag easy. Bomb-proof windows, extra fire
walls, double-locked doors and blackout
equipment are being provided in many in
stances. Plant visitors are checked in and
out of the building and are often watched
carefully all the time they are on the
premises. Power rooms are heavily guard
ed to prevent sabotage.
Today American industry is not only in
venting and manufacturing secret wea
pons; it’s doing everything it can to keep
them secret.
ITRIOT^.
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By DWIGHT NICHOLS, et »1.
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Going Up
“In this year's fir.st seven months .Ameri-
n manufacturers sent to England nearly
dee as many combat planes as were lost
the Rritish Isles tiuring the
hole of 1940.” Walter D. Fuller, presi-
:nt of the National Association of Manu-
cturers. recently u.sed that comparison
illustrate the speed with which Ameri-
n industry has stepped up armament
anufacture.
Spectacular as the record for airplanes
“American ship production is even more
ectacular,” Mr. Fuller says. Two hun-
ed destroyers were ordered by the U. S.
jvy in 1940, and 197 of them already are
te’d as ‘building.’ . . . This is a construc-
>n pace superior to that of any tw’o Axis
mbined.”
Already the flow of munitions to Great
itian has exceeded anything^hat Britain
ceived during the last war. And .\merica
just hitting its stride. In the months to
me even today’s high record will be sur-
,ssed. For, as Mr. Fuller points out, “in-
Btry, operating as free enterprise, can do
e job. Free men working together at a
,own task in free lands can do any job.”
of W^ter
lays ;k« hM
M M
BcK)k Week
There are so many special weeks during
the year, some two or three hundred in the
62, that it is practically impossible to keep
track of them.
But this is Book W’eek and as such we
should give it more than a passing thought.
Books are the expressions of the human
race put into form for others to gain.
Books are a great source of knowledge and
of entertainment.
There are thousands of good books. And
we might add that the busy people in thi.«
age are losing because they do not give
enough attention to good books.
On the average, we read too little, and
too little of what we read is for any good.
Too much of our liw.le reading is for en
tertainment alone.
The man who compiled the Harvard
Classics said 15 minutes of good reading
each day w'ould result in a well rounded
education. That is only -1-96 of the time
in 24 hours—certainly a small amount of
time for so great a benefit.
On the subject of Book Week we wish
to quote the following editorial from The
Greensboro Daily News:
“This week, November 2-8, we note by
reading the papers, is National Book week.
For all we know it may also be Anti-Hay
Fever, Fatten Your Turkey, Eat More Pop
corn or most any other sort of week. In
these latter days collisions of such special
observances are becoming more and more
frequent. Withal, we never regarded
good literature more important than just
now, trusting, as all must, that devotion to
it will somehow outlast the period set aside
for its appreciation.
“Particularly to the point, too, we think
is the comment of the Kinston Free Press
which believes that fitting and appropriate
for the observance of Book week .“would
be works in histoiT which portray the
background and foundations of our civili
zation and the world’s civilization.”
To our notion the Free Press has hit the
nail squarely on the head. In other words,
if we’d all quit trying to make so much his
tory and instead spend a little more time in
study of that which has already been
made, civilization might give up some of
its intractable ways. That is some or
der for Book Week; but we might as well
aim high while we are having a week,
mightn’t we'.’”
Unf&iT To Spies
Foreign agents bent on retarding Uncle
^m’8 mounting armament production are
for a tough time. Defense factories are
Borrowed Comment
DOUGHBOY’S CLEAN LIFE
(Reidsville Review)
The post property officer at Fort Dix
in New Jersey, where a large number of
Uncle Sam’s selectees are being trained for
the army, is getting writer’s cramp. Half
his time is consumed in scribbling requisi
tions for soap.
Not only did he recently ask for 2,000
cakes of face soap, but also for 135,000
tablets of laundry soap, 10 tons of dish
washing powder, and 13,200 pounds of
soap grit for cleaning pots and pans
It’s pretty evident that when the army
gets through wdth them, all those lads are
going to make excellent hdsbands. They
will be able to launder a handkerchief and
polish a pan with the best of them.
That’s national preparedness, that is.
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
(Greensboro Daily News)
Two negro convicts assigned by the state
of North Carolina to Craggy prison camp
make a break for freedom at Asheville; a
a guard, who is a white man, fired two
loads of buckshot down Oak street in
front of David Millard high school. He
bags:
One prisoner, one negro girl of H years,
one negro woman of 30 and another of 42.
None of them dead, it is true ; but a double
with both barrels would be called good
shooting.
Personally we’d call it the sort of crimi
nal carelessness for which somebody
should pay. How long the convicts were
in for we have not heard, but even If they
were life-termers of the most desperate
type no guard has any business turning
loose a load of buckshot into the midst of
innocent bystanders.
What will a court which so often quotes
that it is better that 99 guilty escape than
one innocent suffer do under such circum
stances?
And what has Supt. Oscar Pitts, who i?
doing so well with his club affairs in best
national penal circles, to say about it?
We do not know that -either, but we are
much more interested in learning what, if
anything, is done to prevent a recurrence
of such tomfoolishne.ss than that a guard
who probably should never have been
placed on the public pay roll has been
fired.
REACTION TO THE POWER
BLACKOUT
(Charlotte Observer)
Whatever reasonable and nece.ssary sac
rifice the public of this local and larger
ccinmunity would be called upon to make
in the way of being deprived of electuic
power would be cheerfully given, no mat
ter how much ofi an inconvenience and
deprivation it might be, if only the people
were quite sure in mind that it was im
perative. _
However, they can not feel that way
about it when Stanley Winborne, Public
utilities Commissioner of North Carolina,
not the power companies themselves, say
that this curtailment is unnecessary.
It is an enforcement from on high in
Washington, the edict of the Federal Pow
er Commis.sion which proposes to divert
electric energy developed in the Carolinas
to needy markets in the southeast, and Mr,
Winborne is of the opinion that the situa
tion of scarcity in'other areas does not jus
tify tl'.e five per cent decrease in availa
bility here.
So long as that official view of the case
is held by the North Carolina commission
er, it is a little irritating to have a super;
authority in Washin^on issuing its orders
right and left without having been in posi
tion to convince the public which is to suf
fer that there is no way around this sacri
fice in the National interest.
JEALOUS AS AN OLD HEN
You have often heard the ex
pression;..'‘Jealous as an old hen.’’
Just - how jealous is an old hen
and is a hen jealous?
That was tried out here recent
ly by a couple who have a pet
hen about the place. The gentle
man member of the couple had
been playing with the white, leg
horn and later sat down with his
wife. TTie hen showed numerous
signs of disfavor, even to ruffling
its feathers and threatening the
lady.
VISION OV’ERTAXED
A man from a ’way back at
tended the fair here and took in
a show which featured the dis
play of the maidenly form to a
greater extent that that to which
he was accustomed, and the next
day he was obliged to go to a
specialist to have his eyes exam
ined.
“After I left the show last
night,” he explained, “my eyes
were red and inflamed and
sore.’’
The specialist examined his
eyes, thought for a moment and
then remarked, “After this, try
blinking your eye.s once or twice
during the show; you won’t miss
much.”
FORTY IX>NG YEA RS
First old maid: “I wish I could
stop -dreaming about having a
husband.”
Second old maid: “Some day
you’ll wake up to yourself.’’
First old maid:’ “Say! That’s
all I’ve been waking up to for the
last forty years!”
CONFIDENTIAL DOPE
TOO GOOD'J.;
Oscar came to the city and got
a job as janitor in a girls’ board
ing school, and was entrusted
with a pass key to every room in
the building. , v
The following week the Dean
ran across him and asked, “11(017
didn’t you come aYound Friday
for your pay, Oscar?’’ •
"Vot! Do I get wages', too?’’
HAD RIGHT AUDIENCE
Professor—I am going to speak
on liars today. How many of you
have read the twenty-fifth chap
ter of the text?
Nearly every student raised
his hand.
Professor—Good! You are the
very group to whom I wish to
speak. There is no twenty-fifth
chapter.
EVOLUTION OF A
WARDROBE
When I was small around the
bouse
I wore a colored drawstring
blouse:
For church or town, I was too
cute
In my little middy suite.
At man’s estate I die! assert
My preference for a tucked-ln
shirt;
New second childhood might ex
plain
Why my shirt-tail’s out again.
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H. w HUS to
said
to pirto^
«.i, to. N^ _.
boro, N. C.. doty VerlfieiJ, onjnfj
fore the 6th- day of Nere
1942, or this notice will be-jph
! bar of their right to recoVi^.
‘ persons indebted to said estoto.'sM
please make immediate settIfitoOti,
This 6th day of November IML
JOHNSON SAM)^,
Administrator of the estate of,, j
Mrs. Lela L Shoehiaker, dec'd.
12-ll-6t (t>
Tesis .Retonga, Then
Writes Son To Get It
‘Few People In N. C. Felt
More Run Down, Nervous
And Weak Than I Did,”
Declares Mrs. Combs.”
Like Different Woman
Now.
Many of the destroyers in the
U. S. Navy are named in honor
of enlisted men who are remem
bered for outstanding acts of
bravery. A record of the service
rendered by the individual for
'whom a ship is named is embla
zoned on a plaqque mounted on
the ship and a duplicate of each
Last week this column remark-: plaque hangs on the wall of Luce
ed that there were some local | Hall in the United States Naval
girls wearing sparklers and the Academy.
Praising Retonga in grateful
public statements for the relief of
their suffering, well known citizens
are telling how this noted medicine
brought them prompt relief from
the harassing distresses of nervous
indigestion, muscular pains and
aches, sluggish elimination', loss of
weight and strength, weak, run
down feeling and similar debilitat
ing symptoms due to insufficient
flow of digestive juices in the
stomach, constipation, and need of
Vitajnin B-1 for digestion, nerves
and strengd;h. Among hundreds of
well known Greensboro residents
praising Retonga is Mrs. Combs,
912 Silver Ave.:
“I have written my son in John
son City, Tenn., to get Retonga,
which shows what I think of it,’’
stated Mrs. Combs. “I suffered so
much distress from acid indiges
tion and sluggish elimination that
lots of the time I ate only one meal
day and I did not want that. I
seemed full of toxic poisons and
often I Iiad such terrible dizzy
headaches that I hardly dared
walk out on the street. Even the
little food I managed to eat cau.s-
ed so much gas in my stomach Wilkesboro
that I could hardly sleep at night. Store.
Pew people in North Carolina felt
more rundown, weak and nftwou.s
than I did.
Retonga gave me such remar
kable relief that I am now hungry
all the time, I experience no dis
tress from indigestion and the
sluggish elimination and terrible
headaches are relieved. I feel so
good that I again enjoy going to
church and to town. Retonga is
certainly grand.”
Thousands praise Retonga. Ac
cept no substitute. Retoi^a may
be obtained in North Wilkesboro
at Horton’s Drug Store, and in
at Newton’s Drug
(adv.)
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TOO FAR OUT!
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telephone. When it comes to ser-
vice on your car just call 112.
We call hr and deliver service jobs
promptly.
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render better service on all makes
of automobiles.
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