,T*S--,
19#
-y •
■‘f'?
^ 101
/w
Jdamal • Patriot
INBBPBtrPEWT IN POLITICS
f tMbl^ocI Mottdkys aiu)' Thursdays at
NorUi Wiflcasboro, N. C.
B. J. CARTEL and JUUUS C. HUBBARD
. Publishers
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Year $1.50
3x MonUis .76
Pour Months - 50
Otit ctf the State $2.00 per Year
Sntnred at the post office at North Wilkes-
boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act
af March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, NOV. 13, 1941
x^ltarthCe
CaroOoo 1
ASSOClATK
Red Cross Roll Call—Join!
Has any Red Cross worker contacted
I you?
If not there is likelihood that one will,
[will you respond to the membership call
and enroll in the organization that is help-
I ing suffering and needy humanity through
out the world?
It is needless to go into the many
things that the Red Cross is doing and has
done, even in our own community.
The people should know by now that
the Red Cross is the greatest humanitarian
organization we have. If it suffers from
lack of memberships and financial sup
port w'e can know that the people of our
country have been negligent in an im
portant duty.
Writing On The Wall
The San Francisco News, a newspaper
which has always been a strong supporter
of organized labor, recently said this: “1\ o
wish to see organized labor endure and
continue to grow'. But we know that or
ganized labor cannot endure if the things
from which it derives its prosperity and
security do not endure. If organized la
bor is to endure, the system of free en
terprise must endure. Organized labor
cannot flourish if business sickens anc
dies. Economic peace and economic se
curity cannot be obtained by use of force
which makes their existence impossible.
Organized labor has never had such
power as it po.sse.sses today. But by that
same token, organized labor never has
had such responsibility as it is charged
with today . . . What happens to the labor
movement, what happens to business and
industry, what happens to the thousands
and thousands of small wage earners who
have no interest in! the politics of the labor
movement, will depend on whether laboi
leadership beconres state.smanlike, wheth
er it recognizes and assumes its proper re
sponsibilities, whether it yields its power
with reckle.ssness and stupidity.”
Organized labor should be solidly at
the forefront of those who are today fight
ing the trend toward socialism—a trend,
which if it continues, will mean the end of
free enterprise, and the end of social and
economic freedom for capital and labor
alike. .•\nd organized labor, for its own
selfish reasons alone, should take the lead
in preventing .strikes in this time of emer
gency and danger, and should, like indus
try, submit its gidevances to arbitration.
The racketeers in the labor movetnenl
will do.stroy all gains made by labor. And
the working man, not the tat-salaried la
bor leaders, will do the paying. C;inno:
labor see the writing on the wall?
RULES OF THE ROAD
Drive On The Right
Section 108, Motor Vehicle Laws of
North Carolina:—“Upon all highways of
sufficient width, except one-way streets,
the driver of a vehicle shall drive the same
upon the right half of the highway and
shall drive a slow-moving vehicle a.s close
ly as possible to the right-hand edge or
curb of such highway, unless it is imprac-
tible to travel on such side of the highway
and except when overtaking and passing'
another vehicle subject to the limitations
applicable in overtaking and passing set
forth in (other) sections of this act.”
In other words, share the road with fel
low travelers. .Stay on your side—the
right side—except 'Vhen passing.
Borrowed Comment i
BRAINS INSTEAD OF POWER SHOULD
♦ BE PUT TO USE
(Thomasville Tribune)
We never had any sympathy with Secre
^~ry Ickes’ gasoline shortage; we never
could make ourselves believe therei was
no way to make the hurdle,' and, conse
quently were not convince4 that there was
^ gasoline shortage. Subsequent evens
have corroborated our belief. We are not
willing to say the same for the shortage in
electric energy, but are more or less open
minded on the subject.
In the case of the gasoline shortage, it is
patent that Secretary Ickes used his “pow
er” rather than his brains, and failed to
look about for a remedy before cracking
down on the users of gasoline. In one
manner of looking at the thing, we might
hope the “shortage” in electricity might
turn out the same way. But in a saner
viewpoint, we would prefer to think that
the 0PM is using brains, rather than pow
er and knows what it is about.
There are indications, how'ever, that the
shortage in electric energy will blow up as
did the gasoline shortage, the five per cent
curtail in consumption in North Carolina,
ordered effective November 19, has been
“postponed indefinitely,” the 0PM stat
ing that “increased power deliveries into
the shortage area from other sections as a
result of improved power pooling arrange
ments along with heavy rains last week
make the postponement possible.”
The rains probably did a great deal of
good but we doubt if their effect was eve*,
felt in the rivers which furnish the water
to turn the turbines which produce elec
tricity, and so far as “improved power
pooling arrangements” are concerned,
why wasn’t this done before?
We do not mean to say by any manner
of means that the order for “blackouts” of
non-essential lighting, or a reduction in
power consumption, if and when ordered
into effect, should not be complied with.
Rather, we think that whatever orders
may be issued by those in authority and
who have the power to make such orders
should always be met cheerfully and wil
lingly. because humanity is given to mak
ing mistakes, and in a crisis, such as we
now are going through, many mistakes
doubtless will be made, but there is also
the possibility that the power shortage is
not one of them. What we want to see is
more use of brains, if any, and less of
pow'er.
m
Woikm
This I column will carry a list
of local, interstate and intrastate
openings. For further Informa
tion concerning these openings,
apply to your local office of the
State Employment Service betwen
the hours of 9 a. m. and 1 p. m.,
located over the Duke Power
company.
Local Openings; 10 tenant
farmers; 15 farm hands; 6
maids and cooks, white and col-
ored; $3 per week.
North Carolina openings: 1
teacher, vocational training, $200
per month; 2 tool designers, $55
per week; 1 design engineer, me
chanical, $76 per week; 3 pro
duction manager assistants, $60
per wk.; 2 tool draftsmen, $1 per
hr.; 1 shoe repairman, $15 per
week plus commission; 3 case
Utters, 50c per hour.
United States Openings: 100
crane rigsers, $1.06-$1.18 per
hr.: 400 machinists. Marine,
$1.06-$1.18 per hr.; 200 ship fit
ters, $1.06 per hr.; 250 machine
operators (boring mill planer,
shaper. Blotter, lathe, thread cut
ters), 88c per hr.; 20 pattern
makers, wood. $1.24 per hr.; 100
moider helper HI. 59c to 71c per
hr.; 10 sand blasters, 72c per hr.;
100 coners (yarn winder) (fe
male) 50c per hr.; 100 doffers
(female) 50c per hr.; 10  twist
ing frame operators (female)
50c per hr.; 100 spinners (rayon
and allied products) (female)
50c per hr.; 4 loopers, full fash
ioned hosiery (female) $22-$25
per wk.; 6 seamers, full fashion
ed hosiery (female) $18 per wk.; |
3 Keller machine operators 85c j
per hr.: 6 brass molders, 8.'>c per |
hr.: 500 flieet metal workers, i
Aircraft. 80c to $1.15 per hr.;
250 millwrights, SOc to $1 per
hr.; 100 electrical assemhiymeti, |
75c per hr.; :!60 stock control
clerks, 75c per hr.; 150 shaper
operators, S5c per hr.; 2,000
sheet metjil helpers, machine
shop helpers, and riveters, 60c
per hr.; 2,400 assemblymen, 60-
85c per hr.—Anyone who has
had experience in any type of oc
cupation that requires the use of
hand tools and working on or
assembling material parts, or
anyone with any previous me
chanical experience may he able
to quality for this job. Yon are
encouraged to contact your em
ployment office.
WTill BiiN4:y;2^
Raleigh.-— Hundrede ' of alnn-
ni are expected to return to State
College for the annual Home-
coming Day, Nov. 22, date of the
State-Duke football game. Alum
ni Secretary Dan M. Paul repor
ted today.
The festivities will begin on
the campus on the eve of the
football game with a pep rally
in Riddick Stadium and the an
nual .Stunt Night program In
Pulliam Hall. Sponsori|ng orga
nizations are the Monogram Club
headed by Woody Jones,' of Rox.
boro; Blue Kay, headed by W. .B
"Cutie” Carter of Raleigh; and
Golden Chain, headed by Reece
S'edberry of Concord.
Dormitories and fraternity
houses will be decorated in com
petition for prizes.
An alumni luncheon will be
held in the college cafeteria on
the date of the game.
ootilkty by to Ar A T
British farmers are being ask
ed to plow up another 2,000,000
acres of hitherto uncultivated
and, including golf courses, to
help meet food needs.
I Four years have passed and again
we wish to express our sincere Ap
preciation to our friends for the fine
business we have received.
Here’s wishing you all an enjoyable
and prosperous future. In case of
sickness and you riiould be in need
of our service, please call us.
Diiie Barber Shop
CALL HOTEL BUILDING
►M
►04
►tM
►04
►04
►04
►04
NO ARMISTICE WITH WRONG
(Twin City Sentinel)
Never have w'e known better than we
know on this November eleventh of 1941
that the victory we hailed on November
eleventh, 1918, was no real triumph.
Never have we known better than we
know today that the allied armies, struj?-
glinp to protect free people again.st the
power of militarism and imperialistic am
bition, had on this day inn 1918 broken
the Hindbenburg Line, but had not brok
en the spirit of Junkerism in Germany or
wiped out forever the determination of
the Prussian clique to bring Europe under
the thralldom of the Reich.
Today we realize that militarism wa.-;
not dethroned in 1918. We al.so know
that while a number of cruel and repres
sive features were written into the treaty
of Versailles to make more difficult the
task of the nobly conceived but futile
League of Nations, the onus of responsi
bility for the chaos which now engulfs the
world does not rest upon the shoulders of
those men, living and dead, who labored
at Versailles to bring order and peace tc
Europe and the world.
We know that the cause, the real tap
root cau.se of this chaos, this bloodshed,
this tyranny, re.sts in that .spirit which
molded Hitler. He is not a cause but ar
effect, not a creator but a creature.
Again.st him not only but against the spir
it which created him and his Nazi program
must free peoples everywhere arraign
themselves if liberty is to live among men
in the world of tomorrow.
This being true, it is not appropriate, it
is not realistic, it is not quite honest, that
we observe Armistice Day this year in the
mood of futile regret or in the spirit of
irony cynicism. This anniversary should
come to each of us as a challenge. There
can be no mere armistice with wrong—no
compromise with those forces which recog
nize no moral values, have no ethical
standards, and w'hich depend upon might
alone as the supreme arbiter of the af
fairs of men and nations.
It was graphically and tragically re
vealed in the long controversy over states
rights and the slavery question in the Unit
ed States that compromises, however, in
genious, never settle great issues properly
and finally. If compromises could have
done that, the War Between the States
would never have occured. We have this
thought to remember as we move forward
in the spirit of determination to strengthen
the ramparts of our democracy and protect
our American heritage from the dangers
which now surround it.
Farmers Seeking
Parity Of Income
Raleigh, Nov. 10. — Harry
B. Caldwell, of Greensboro,
master of the. State Grange, will
ask the National Grange to con
cur in a resolution passed by the
state organization calling for
parity of income by farmers.
Caldwell will atte'-d the na
tional convention ir W'orcester,
Mass., November .2-24.
“Farm prices have improved.”
he commented, “but have not
advanced to a point where farm
ers’ income has canght up with
labor and Industrial income."
JALUES AT...
LERNER’S
It Won’t Take A Lot of Money For You to Look Your Best Thanksgiving Day.
Just Pay Us A Visit aind You’ll Find Out How Far Your Dollar Will Go.
I.adies’ and Children’s
COATS
Sport and Dress-Up Coats
$5.95 “ $29.95
Ladies* Jackets
All Fall Colors in Flannels
and Plaids
$2.983„d$3.98
Ladies’ SUITS
$4.95 ‘“$12.95
THANKSGIVING
SHOES
Ladies* Oxfords and
Dress Shoes
$1.98$5.00
Ladies’ SKIRTS
Sweaters and Blouses
$1.29 ,„$2.98
NEW HATS
Fur Thanksgiving—All
Sizes, -Vll Colors
$1.48„d$1.98
Lerner^s Department Store
NORTH WILKESBORO
¥■>4
Horse Calls
On Mrs. Ellis
Goldsboro. Nov. 10.— Mrs. E.
D. Ellis, who lives at 505 East
Ashe street, heard such a clatter
on her front porch that she ran
out to see what was the matter.
There on the porch was a horse
which had gotten out of control,
and behind him was a wagon
and in the wagon was the horse’s
frightened owner.
However. .Mrs Ellis feels that
she is becoming a veteran at the
handing of such matters, and she
took care of the, situation. Sever
al years ago while living on the
same street she heard such a
racket and clatter on the porch
she ran out to see what was the
matter. Sitting on the front porch
was an automobile which had got
ten out of control of the driver
and hud almost come into the
house.
Don't S-h-i-v-e-r These
COLD MORNINGS
Questions
Answered Bg
State College
QUESTION: How can a far.
mer best conserve his woodlands?
ANSWER: There are any num
ber of things a farmer can do to
help protect the state's timber
resources. For fuel wood, he
should not cut trees of saw-tim
ber size and qquality, but trees
that are crippled, diseased or
otherwise defective. Then. too.
he should thin overcrowded
stands of young trees; he should
maintain a growing stand by har
vesting timber selectively: he
should uutilize all trees cut; he
should prevent forest fires; and
he should reforest idle or eroded
land.
automatic wood
BURNERS
$27-50
1)0 YOU KNOW HOW 'TO
MANAGE YOUR HllSBAND?
A novel quqestlonnaire which
gives every woman a chance,
through self-appraisal, to find out
if she is handling her husband
the right way. Don’t miss this
unusual feature in the November
23rd issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
The Big Alagazliie Wstrlbuted
with tliA
BALTIMORE
SUNDAY AMERICAN
On Sale At All Newartands
If Your Furnace Needs Repairing, We Have The Men To Do The Job Right
Jenkins Hardware
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
NORTH CAROLINA
That cold weather is here . . . every
morning now we may expect to wake up
with freezing temperature with us . . . but
there is no need for you to worry about the
cold weather . . . just pay our store a visit
and select the type of stove, heater, or circu
lator that best fits your requirements ... we
can make immediate installation and furnish
all the necessary tin, pipe, etc. We are now
showing a wide selection of . . .
Stoves, Heaters,
and Circolators
Prices Range From
$1.75 to $45.00
Maybe you need a new Range or^ Cook
Stove for the kitchen so that your kitchen
will be warm and cozy this winter . . . and
you’ll enjoy cooking more ... or maybe you
need a new laundry stove with water jack
so that you will have plenty of warm water
... we have these in stock at the lowest
prices.
■ ^
i
r
f
AX