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Mondays and Thursdays at I'' North W&esboro, N. C. P. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD Publisheni SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Que Year |1.60 Six Months .76 Pour Months 60 Oot of the State $2.00 per Year - Ebitered at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act af March 4, 1879. MONDAY, JAN. 26th, 1942 An About Face Our war effort as a nation will not reach its desired heights until the people become hardened to work and do an about face on some theories which have become preval ent in our national life. For several years, and especially in the last nine, the American people by many de vices have sought to evade the ancient commandment that “by the sweat of his brow man shall eat.” For years we have clamored for any thing to make life a bed of roses and in such process many thought they were get ting by with letting .someone else do the work. Wo have sought shorter hours, less work, more leisure and luxurious comfort, all of which are much to be desired just so long as they do not undermine our stamina and desire to accomplish. Now our way of life is threatened from without and in oi’der to maintain our free dom we must throw to the four winds our cravings for all leisure and no work, must tighten our belts and PRODUCE. During the years when we have sought something for nothing, and in some phases of life have kidded ourselves into believing that we were accomplishing just that. Hit ler’s hordes were laboring for the conquest of the world. But his hordes have labored in vain be cause America has awakened to the dan ger -and has awakened in time to succef?s- fully combat that danger. If there are those who do not realize now that the dan ger extsts, and who believe that victory can be won without streneous effort, are du" for a rude awakening. Any people who think that the other men can do eveiything might as well get a new slant on the whole i)ictiire. We are all in this war, all our lives are tied up, regardle.ss of whether we are on the fighting front in foreign or on the home front. Production Boss For a long time .Americans in the know about our huge war job have been asking for one-man control of production in Washington. In the past the overlapping duties and divided re.sponsibilities that existed be tween the various agencies charged with directing the war program produced a great deal of inefficiency. Manufacturers often had difficulty getting the go ahead signal on work that they were prepared to do. Last minute changes in contracts cau.s- ed countless delays. ..Alterations in the de- [signs of weapons that had already gone into production slowed down the entire program. No man can ser\'e two ma.sters, yet somehow makers of war equipment of- |ten had to try to serve—not two—but half a dozen or more, all because no centraliz ed authority existed. President Roosevelt’s decision to create a War Production Board with Donald Nel son at its head should help to eliminate this confusion. With one man in control the entire program should move more swiftly than ever before. It’s an enormous ob to adapt indu.stry to total war produc- ion, but it must—and it can—be done. Mr. Nelson’s past performance in ashington indicates that he is the man to 0 it. President’s newest progiHiiii reaches ihdoik’ try in the form of orders and specifica tions, it will require a.% least 60 per cent of all the factory output.' The job is so huge that it. will demand complete cooperation from everyone charged with doing it. As Mr. Weisen- burger pointed out, “This is no time to fight out old domestic battles, or to renew the traditional issues between capital and labor, or to continue in any guise the ef fort to master the business system. This is a time for all of us to abandon “business as DATUORT SAVING TDIB Anything to help win thte war we are willing to do; work day and night, or night and day, and if necessary start work at 12 and work backwards instead of for wards, around the clock. And when daylight saving time comes in February 9 we are going to accept it without a mur ! >Neayly a million persons visi ted the Blue Ridge Parkway during the past year, an increase of around 25 per cent over the 750,000 visitors estimated in 1940, officials of the national Park Service said. The total, number of visitors this year, covering the 12-month G^tlemen of the U. - S. Army, I attentioB! We have a message from Secretary of Agrieulture | ***’' Wic^rd which reads in effect that, to your gastronomical needs for 1942 a bottle OtaomuUoe with Um ^ are on ice. | dnstanding ytm like tihe way it C vss aw* I * as* w maw mssv wWmf aw * | “An aH-time recoid,” cries Mr.' ^ Wickard happinly in an official re- > ^ 1^ ■ 0%. k. ■ lease dated yesterday, “of 20,400,-j ^ LSI W N period ending Oc'ober 1, is ap“-j®®® lW)-pound bags of dry edible forCo«fI«,Cli«*tCoUf,BrWKWt» proximately 965,000 and of this I*’*®"®' basis, under nor- j—— number around 517,000 persons! mal growing conditions should be mur. In fact we are going to take In 161,911 cars traveled the 140. acreage usual’, ‘politics as usual’, ‘strikes as usual,’ like it whether we like it and ‘reforms as usual’, and as a truly unit- * ed and inspired nation to take up the su preme jobs of waging war.” Says England To Slackers— Before the war, Britain had 12 million acres of land under cultivation. This year, 16 million acres were ploughed. Accord ing to Triple A Administrator R. M. Evans, who accompanied Mr. Appleby to England and lost 10 pounds during the trip, ‘‘The British are not only distributing their food with utmost care but are straining to the limit to produce all they can.” They have farmer committees somewhat like the This 1b in the belief that the government knows what it la do ing and that daylight saving time is one of those things to help win the war more quickly. But when it is all over and daylight saving time is no more, we are going to do our dead level best to find out just what it ac complished. mile paved section of the park- f V” . •»=,. D ... A-._ifor this crop ... in 1942.” goal of 2,600,000 acres announced i . i;a*i„ further on, something i expanding military requirements. the Come, come, gentlemen. Click WTtONG SIDE .STfCKElW Come June 30 and we will have to buy another of those fed eral auto tax stickers which rep resents the-auto use tax. The other day we bought one which cost $2.09 and which will last only until June 30. After that we will have to have another and it will cost $5. The $2.09 sticker Triple A committees in this country, but with powers undreamed of in the United is breaking us in easy. States. If a committee looks at your farmj Funny thing is that the stick, and doesn’t think yon are making an ear- ™ nest and intelligent effort to produce windshield, where it was enough, you are told to improve your originally intended to be placed, methods. If you say, “It’s my farm. I'll doU**® would be toward as I please,’” the committee tells you, “You^*^® interior of the j , Genial Postmaster J. C. Reins are not farming here any more. Out you suggests that when we get the go, and the committee moves in with trac-!five dollar one that it win be tors and farms the way it thinks your place should be farmed.—The Progressive Far mer. made up more correctly and that we should not expect too much in a $2.09 sticker. German Forecast This War In 1931 Car Owners Creed ■What with the shortage of tires facing us, it is time that motorists resolve to do something to increase the mileage of their present tires. Either this or the old jalopy will soon be stored. One of the country’s leading tire manu facturers has announced the following creed for car owners who must face the'News Service story of January 16, facts. Motori.sts should wisely follow each 1931, preserved by Councilman and every point stressed in the creed, if they would face the present emergency with the idea of making their cars give them the maximum of gervice; I will drive my car only when absolutely necessary . . . avoiding extra trips by doub ling up with my neighbors whenever po.ssi- ble. I will drive at moderate speed to avoid burning up my tires. way between Roanoke and gap, near Blowing Rock. lu j * ui au- u a Nearly 25 per cent of the cars ' something about actually counted bore tags other i than North Carolina' and Virgin- . , t, , v av i ia which indicates that a majority of the travel on the parkway I “"I Z Twenty million, four hundred this state and Virginia, it is lOO-pound bags of -pointed out. j- j . » ^ .r XIA...4U 1- « a oa Roodics, aod a good share of them The North Carolina Route 21 destined for you. = - Sparta and Roaring Gap 1 addition” (we came danger- near Sparta and was the mo.st popular entrance point, park service figures show. At this point nearly 103,000 vis itors were cheeked. "The largest part of the county orlbinated in the vicinity of Winston-Salem, Greensboro and Charlotte, the official report states. Adney Gap, near Roanoke, the pre.sent northerly terminus of the men. paved park way, was the second i most popular entrance point. "Neither of these entrance ously close to forgetting this), "production of 6,300,000 bags of other types of dry edible beans and seed is expected.’’ Uh-huh: whatever you want to call them—and we have no doubt you have your little synonyms— they come to a staggering total, and you can have them, gentle- IfOU can have them. The horse and mule clinics are one service that Wilson county points, however, had the highest farmers really appreciate, reports entry for a single day,’’ it is sta-|J. A. Marsh, assistant farm agent ted. “This record was set at of the N. C. State College Exten- North Carolina Route 18 near sion service. Cumberland Knob, where 2,756 NOTICE To Taxpayers Of TOWN OF Wilkesboro North Carolina 1% Penalty will be added to all un paid Town Taxes for the year 1941 if not paid on or before February 1st, 1942. J. F, Jordan, Clerk and Tax Collector Use the advertising columns of this paper as your shoupiug guide. visitors entered the parkway on Sunday, July 27.’’ The recreational park areas along the parkway in the two states. Smart View and Rocky Knob in Virginia and Cumber land Knob in North Carolina, were visited by approximately 160,000 persons. In other wards, about one in every three who used the park way this year also visited the rec- Creational areas adjacent to the Martins Ferry, Ohio.-The pres- magnificent pa, k.to-park highway | ent World war was forecast 11 litearlly .soars along the years ago by the late General Lu-.m-est of the mountams. | dendoff, commander in chief of the' Cumberland Knob Park in German Armies in the first World at®*® heaviest used. | War, according to an International Daring the month of August a- - lone 16,000 guests were counted at this beautiful spot. i of Martins The General’s prediction follows; “Berlin—Civil war in Germany, leading to a world war and the de struction of EJurope, are predicted by General Ludendorff in a signed article in his newspaper, Volks- warte, today. Of the 160 miles of the park way that are graded and open but not paved, the .section be tween Linville and Mt. Mitchell was the most popular. President Roosevelt has ap proved a five-year extension of the soil conservation and domes tic allotment act to January 1, The German war general claims he has positive information that|1917. authorizing AAA payments .authonitive circles are negotiating' and CCC price-supporting loans, with the nationalist leagues to es-: , , tablish a dictatorship headed by Applicants for the regular N'a- I Will .start and stop my car slowly and Pi.^sident von Hindenburg, Minister vy .Medical Corps mils* be under .slow down on turns to avoid grinding off of Defense Griener and Chancellor 32 years old: for the Naval Re- the tire tread jBruening. with Mussolini in the serve Medical Corps under 50. 1 will park carefully to avoid scraping, and bumping my tires against curbs. Idorff’s claims the dictatorship 1 will keep brakes adjusted to avoid wou'ld be based on the Reichsw’ehr, steel helmcters and similar Fascist NOTICE! Just to remind you: That in buying Furniture and Home Furnishings you don’t need to wait for a SALE here, be:ause our prices are in keeping with our trade name—M.\RK-l)OWN —every day in the week. Comparison will convince you that our prices are lower to begin with, so before you buy furni ture make this comparison and l^y at savings .ANY DAY you choose to select here, and on terms, too! ALWAYS SPECIAL DISCOUNTS FOR CASH if you do not wish terms on your purchases. We never con duct GENERAL SALES ev’ents but do have special close-outs occasionally at end of season. Better get our prices before you buy el.sewhere—anytime. DO YOU NEED A RADIO? If sp, remember we have a good line of rarioM mkltee in table and console models, of many sizes—battery or elec tric—at low prices. CASH OR TERMS. Mark-Down Furniture Co. ’We Live On the Corner But fiive A .Square Deal” Corner B and 10th Sts. North Wilkesboro, N. C. spoiTv tread wear. I will have the air pres.sure of all my groups. ‘This means civil war,’ tire.s checked every week to get the great- e.st possible mileage. I will have my tires cro.ss switched at least every 5,000 miles to increase my to- will lend to a world war and the A..1 jdestruction of Europe.’ ' ^ ■ , 1 • J “Banner headlines over the ar- I will keep my wheels correctly aligned yde proclaim ‘civil war imminent.’ rites the general, ‘which will bring about what, without my work, the World War would have accom plished, namely, the destruction of Germany. Naturally this civil war , MONDAY *‘DID YOU HEAR HIM SLAM THE DOOR THIS MORNING.?’’ A Government spokesman, ques tioned about the article and the convictions it expresses, said: “ ‘General LudendorfFs state ment is not taken seriously. It will and balanced to avoid uneven tread wear. I will use my brakes carefully, shifting into .second gear going down si^eep hills, to avoid excessive tread wear. I will have my tires and tubes inspected]'’®J,^°5',®‘'’’.” „ ^ , , ,. . A ^ A • The Martins Ferry Councilman FG^uliirly ss a prBcaution against luturo jiag numerous clippings covering trouble and wasted rubber. events of years ago. ’This one re- If you think that your car is a nece.ssity to the German general s , , , , . J, ,, . A, . 1 prediction proves most timely for you should begin following this creed now, republication. or you’ll be forced to do without the use of’ that “necessity” shortly.—Newberry (S.C.) HOW DEFENSE DOLLAR IS SPENT (Winston-Salem Journal) The Office of Emergency Management, in Richmond, has issued a chart showing how the defense dollar is spent. oil, rOMPANiKS ASKKI, 'TO l^SE RAH, TKAFITC FRIDAY “DID YOU SEE HIM BRING HOME FLOWERS LAST 14IGHT?” Washington, Jan. 19. — The government tonight called on ail companies to increase the use of railroad lank cars for movement of petroleum products from the The producing fields to both coasts. Lnd Work Does It “Bragging won’t scare the enemy to leath; ballyhoo won’t do it; boasting of great mass production capacity is Buinglesa unless we really mass-produce war. AVoicing tthose opinions in a recent sech, Mr. Walter B. Weisenburger, Ex- ive Vice-President of the National As- eiation of Manufacturers’ declared that l^snccessful prosecution of the war will breakdown applies, however, only to the appropriations and proposals as of Novem ber 30. Since then the United States has entered the war and tremendous new appropria tions have become necessary. Neverther less this chart shows the proportions of ap propriations which are being used for the purposes listed. Out of every dollar appropriated for de fense, 23 cents is spent on ordnance, in cluding naval ordnance; 17 cents on air planes, engines, parts, etc.; 13 cents on na val ships and parts; 11 cents on industrial facilities; 9 cents on stockpiles, ’other equipment, etc.; 7 cents on posts, depots and fortifications; 6 cents on pay, etc., of armed forces; 5 cents on other munitions; 5 cents on merchant ships and parts; 3 PICKER A successful tomato picking machine has 'been developed and used by two growers of Lancaa- X ...» . ... A ter county, Pennsylvania, who cents on other defense agencies, and 1 cent varv^ted le acres with the de- on housing. jyice last year. The request was made by Ralrh K. Davies, deputy petroleum co ordinator, almost simtiltaneously with announcement by the navy that another tanker, the S.S. Ma lay, had been at'aoked by a sub- i.iarine off the Atlantic coast. The Malay survived the attack, hut three other tankers have been sunk since last Wednesday. Davies, in announcing his re quest, commented: "Tankers have been sunk on both coasts. Others have had to be assigned to military service. Ocean hauls are now complica ted by obvious hazards. “This means that overland movement has become more im portant than ever.” What happened in the Jack- son household Monday morning and Thursdoy night is nobody’s business. It started with a spat over a late breakfast; and ended with Mr. J’s sudden awak ening to the fact that Mrs. J.’s kitchen equipment should have been retired years ago — when he dis carded his roll-top desk. ELECTRIC COOKING does make a difference! Electric cooking does moke a dif ference. Domestic dispositions are sweeter when He Is well-fed and on time; when'She has an electric range to fit her cooking into a modern woman’s day. Honestly, wouldn’t an electric range make life brighter at your house? Look into the matter ot your favorite dealers’ today! HOURS 9 to 5 NINTH STREET
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