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QTDISPEMDEan’m POLITICS
iHdilished Mondays and Thursdays at
North WIHcesboro, N. C.
D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD
PuUiahers
SUBSCRIPTION RATES i
fhje Year 1 11.50
Six Months .76
Four Months 66
Oat of the State 62.00 per Year
Bntered at the post office at North Wilkes*
boro. N. C., as second class matter uader Act
it March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, FEB. 9th, 1942
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Volunteer Method
Despite criticism from some sources, the
U. S. navy continues to rely on voluntary
enlistments for its man power and the U.
S. army continues to accept volunteers.
The volunteer method is one of the
greatevSt phases of a democracy in periods
of crisis and by all means should be re
tained as one of our cardinal principles.
A radio commentator last week directed
some criticism at the sy.stem of receiving
volunteers into the army, saying that the
government should be the only voice in the
matter and that men should not be accept
ed unless called for in the regular form of
selective service.
While granting the efficient of such a
system in handling manpower, we point
out that the commentator failed to consider
the greatest force, the morale of the sol
dier and his desire to serve.
It would be di.sastrous to tell a man that
he could not enter the service until he is
called. That would undermine morale of
the men who mu.st do the fighting.
Acceptable volunteers should by al!
means be accepted and welcomed into
whatever branch of service they wish to
join.
As an example of the value of the volun
teer system, .just consider the record of th’?
30,000 men with -General MacArthur on
the Phillipines. They were pre-war volun
teers. They were pre-war volunteers who
joined the service because they wanted to.
They are making a record which will be
known in every household in years to come.
The volunteer method is best illustrated
by this actual example of what happened.
A handsome young man was a law stu-
I dent at one of our leading universities. On
a mid-winter vacation trip he saw many
soldiers near army camps and came in con
tact with men of the navy along the caa.st.
After his vacation trip was finished he
went to the nearest navy recruiting .sta
tion and enlisted for the duration.
He did it because he wanted to do his
I part, to share with other young men of the
nation the dangers, toils and labor of de
feating the enemy.
“Every time I see a man in uniform it
seems I can hear him say: There is noth-
i^ng wrong with you. Why aren’t you in
uniform. Do you expect us to fight your
while you continue your way in ease,
t«gfety and comfort? The liberty which
l^e will fight for will benefit you just as
jeh as me.’ ’’ Those were the words of
e young man when he stated his inten-
to volunteer.
.Do we want to do away with volunteer
stmenbJ when that method enables
eager young men^tq'get
cmintry earlier than waiting fo)r l^elf d^r^
numbersto be called? ‘
I
Borroiii^’ Comment
HdARE^fNG '
(Waynesville Mountaineer)
We are a firm believer in thrift. We
consider the man’ who does not plan ahead
for his wants and needs, is an unwise per
son and ordinarily would be copsidered
shiftle.ss not tp provide at the present
things that later he knows he will need.
But the tendency on the part of some
American citizens at the first .suggestion
of food shortages to start buying whole
sale, where formerly they bought retail, to
’J
By DWIGRT NICHptS, Hkl-
Iv Ji ' I
HE USES BLACKOUTS
It has been told that a local
youth is using the backkout man
euver to hie own’personal advan
tage. Elvory time now when he Is
with his girl and hears the fire
siren be rushed to turn out the
lights.
Boy Scout Week
The Boy Scouts of America is celebrat
ing its thirty-second birthday this week.
This is an anniversary that the whole na
tion could well celebrate—celebrate with
thanks in its heart that such an organiza-
zation exi.sts!
The aim and purpose of Scouting—
character and citizenship—are the aim
and purpose of every Democracy. With
out the.se two ideal qualities Democracy be
comes a sham—a dictatorship.
America was wrested from a wilderness
by a determined people—people who had
fine character; people who understood the
responsibilities as w'ell as the privileges of
citizenship. Therefore it was only natural
that the ideals of the Scout Movement, as
expressed in the Scout Oath and Law,
should meet with such widespread appro
val in this country.
Scouting builds men; it develops citizen
ship. Scouting is America—it is as Ameri
can as Indian corn, as American as ice
cream sodas. Americans accept Scouting
because it is continually strengthening and
invigorating democracy.
- NOW YOU TELL ONE
The lady who was asked by the
census taker If she was unmar
ried said she had never been
married.
And then there was the girl
us is a mark of lack of cooperation with j who was likd' paint. Get her stir-
thi present emergency. '
We are told that the sugar shortage is The judge told the man he was
an artificial one, and that had not persons letMng him off light and for him
all over the country starting hoarding this
desirable commodity, there would have
been no reason for rationing. This is a form
of hysteria, and is not .strictly speaking,
thrift.
When we at home consider how’ our lives
go on from day to day, in the most part ini know he did not make
normal fashion (certainly so here in years.
to stay out of bad company. He
told the judge he’d never see
him there again.
People who sta.v S', or less will
never live to be 100.
The husband whose wife *old
him that she had given him the
best years of her life wanted to
them
Robert Young is surrounded ty two other “|rpectant fathers” in this
.American family, at the Liberty Thursday and Friday. In order to
avoid the jitters the to-be-daddy on the right is producing some card
tricks to calm his nerves until that heir, arrives'.
a
Haywood county) against the life of men
in the armed forces of our country, (many
of whom are now actually engaged in
fighting), the idea of complaining about
an extra spoonful of sugar in a cup of cof
fee reveals a spirit we don’t like to en
counter.
If, in time, the government rules that we
must have strict food rationing, let us look
upon it as our part of “service” in the home
guard that is also doing its bit to win the
war. If sugar is needed for the manufac
ture of munitions how can any red blooded
American citizen take its rationing any
other way?
This war has to be won. There are
things at stake for this country that are
far more vital than our appetites. Things
of both spiritual and material values, that
we do not know how to estimate, for here in
America we have enjoyed them so long,
that we do not understand how it would
be to exist without them.
We cannot afford to be confirmed pes-
.simists about the emergency, but we mu.st
all become realists before we can take our
place either in the armed forces or the ci
vilian defenders as competent fighters.
So let us refrain from hoarding, but go
along with the demand of the times, re
member we are no better than the other
fellow. If he can take it we can too.
THE TRUTH ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO
(The San Francisco Call-Bulletin;
The San Francisco Bay region and other
West Coast communities are seriously con
cerned about the distorted conception of
A OOITLE O’ CHUCRLKS
It is more than a century ago
that Napoleon hot-footed It to
Russia, got cold feet after he
reached Moscow and hurried back
home friz to an icicle. Now we
hear that, Hitler, like Napoleon, is
complaining about the weather
in Russia. And we bear the Rus
sians reply, “Cold? What do you
meansky? You ain't seen nothing
yetovich.’’ Which brings to mind
a iimerick written by Rudyard
Kipling in one of his lighter mo
ments. It ran like this;
Ther.j was a young man of Quebec
Who was frozen in snow to his
neck.
When asked. “Are you friz?”
He replied, “Yes. 1 is.
But we don’t call this cold in
Quebec.”’
So let this b'o a warning to Hit
ler and his horde to keep out of
Quebec.
Another country we’ve been
hearing about lately/is Thailand.
Until the Far East countries got
into the news, few people had
heard of Thailand or l^ew that
it was the new name tor Siam
who gave us the famous Siamese
Twins and whose emperor came
over here some years ago to have
a tooth pulled or an eye fixed or
something. Just why Siam chan
ged her name to Thailand, we do
not know unles.s she didn’t like
the limerick about the Siamese
maiden that ran--
There once was a maiden of Siam
Who said ‘o her hoy friend young
Kiam,
“It you kiss me, of course,
You will have to use force.
But the Lord knows you're
stronger than I am.”
It looks as though we’ve gotten
ourselves into a limerickk rut. We
may as well make the hes!
so we'll hop over to Guam which
is also much in the news
Guam once had
which, brought
Action, susp^se and excite
ment are adroitly mixed in “Joe
Smith, American,” with Robert
Ydung giving a powerful perfor
mance as a man who outwit; a
gang of thugs in as unexpected
a climax as has been seen on ktte
screen in some time.
The story is as timely as this
morning’s front page. Young ha.s
the title role as a steady, unas
suming worker in an aircraft fac
tory. Marsha Hunt is his wife,
and ten-year-old Darryl Hickmon
portrays their son.
They are symbolic of the aver
age young American family.
Young is detailed to work on a
secret bomb sight which draws
the attention of four enemy ag
ents. He is kidnaped and tormen
ted, but refuses to divulge the
secret mechanism. His escape by
a dramatic ruse is logical and his
swift memory serves to capture
the gang in a brilliant climax.
Blindfolded while their prison
er, ho remembers what little he
can see below the bandage. .^n
ink spot on a shoe, a finger ring,
a scra'ch on a door and a broten
hub cap on an automobile, all
serve to lead the federal sleuth
to the haunt of their quarry.
Richard Thorpe, who directed,
has captured the tense flavor of
the story by P^ul.Galileo, which
attracted wide attention in a na
tional magazine. By a clever fea;
of photography, the audience is
permitted to see only what Young
can vision beneath his blindfold.
The ligures of his enemies
In our senjor Socfoli^y cUMealf
we h*ve a group of 1>oMe frijiB^
the Llbrair of the State tnlVer-T
sity in order to extend odr stndy ’
in Civic Sociology.
we are reading Shakespeare’s
famous play “Macbeth” in the
elevehth grade English class.
The floors in both the high
school and elementary school
buildings have been recently oiled
Mr. Frank Spencer of the Win.
ston-Saleip Journal and Sentinel
was out at Mountain View and
“ook the pictures of the boys and
girls basketball teams and also
the class officers of each grade
in high school.
Last week we had a lire drill
in high school. We all got out of
the school building properly, con
sidering the fact that we had
I ' never before had a fire drill.
On Thursday. January 29, the
.Mountain View school purchased
la twenty-five dollar defense bond.
I Mr. Halfacre, vice president of
I the Bank of Nortli Wilkeshoro,
w;a.; present at the assembly ex-
I ercises and gave a speech which
I was enjoyed very much Ity ’he
I student body. We all feel that we
[have been patriotic to our coim-
. try now that we have contributed
a small part toward 'hi; bond.
The tenth grade are now prac-
jticin.g their junior play which is
■'to be given March 13. The name
I of the play is “Trouble in Para
dise’’. The tenth grade have im
proved the appearance of their
home room by pu'ting patriotic
pictures on the bulletin board.
.SCR.AP
To aid the war program. 4-H
Club members of Sampson county
are collecting scrap metal as a
club project, reports J.P. Stovall,
sre I assistant farm agent.
'shown either below the knees, or
merely in indistinguishable shad-
I OWri.
I The gangsters are well por-
' trayed by Jonathan Hale. Noel
Madison, Don Costello and Joseph
Anthony. Harvey Stephens and
William Forrest are excellent as
federal detectives.
Beware Coughs
from common c^s
That Hang On
Cuba Si^ar MiU
Activity Soars
Workers Needed
This column w;
I local, intrastate,
, carry a list of
and interstate
war condition.s here, increasingly prevalent
elsewhere in the country^
Ever since the outbreak of hostilities,' days,
residents of the Pacific coast in contact limerick which, bmugut up
with relatives and friends in the Ea.st have ^'otiid go
There once was a Jap in Guam
been busy discounting the wildest sort of who said. “Now the ocftan*s so
rumors and allaving baseless fears. calm
The first pisposition here was to be
' I will swim for a lark.”
amused, and then to be angered and final- L^t us now sing the 90ih Psalm.
ly to be distre.ssed. | -And finally, with no further
The great majority of people here have'
Havana, Feb. 1.—Sugar i.s again openings. For further information
king in Cuba. One hundred and concerning thee.s openings, apply
fifty of a total of 168 niUls wer.i to your local office of the United
grinding today at full capacity. States Employment Service be-
manufacturing the largest suga' tween the hours of 8:30 a. m. and
output in Cuba since 1917—4 500,- i;00 n m., located over the Duke
000 tons. The remaining seven, Power Company,
milks will start grinding before the! Maids, Tenant Farmers, Farm
end of next week. Hands, Tool Grinder Operators
The mills will grind day and Automobile Mechanics, Airplane
night, seven day? a week until the Mechanics, Water Plant Attendant,
alloted amount or .quota for each Radio Mechanics, Bench Tool Muh
[mill is completed. ers. Jig and Fixture Tool Makers
I Four million tons of the sugar Loggers, Industrial Engineers,
'Alfcady has been bought by the Dairymen, Women’s Garments
United States at a fixed price of Salesperson, .Wood Patternmaker,
13.74 cents per pound. An additi- Male and Female Stenographers,
of it onal increase in this price, repre- Female Typis's. Powder and I'.x-
sented by a reduction in duty of plosive In.spectors, Motor Irans-
these 1.6 points—from 90 cents per bun- port A.ssisBint Instructors,
a popular dredweight to 75 cents per 100.Plant Operator,
to pounds—will be enjoyed by all Cu-1 Helper, Trainees—wood working
ban sugar entering American ports machine, metal working machine,
under the new tariff as a result of athe, punch press, drill presses,
the recently negotiated sugar pur- stamping presses, bearing mill, arc
chasing pact between Cuba and welding, blacksmith, sheet metal,
the United States. foundry and pipe fitting.
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phl^m, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Ten your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to ha've your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs. Chesf Colds, Bronchifis
Gas 1
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REMiNDEnS
There’s nothing like food.
He contentedly cooed
As the buttons popped off from
his tunich.
of conditions here have tended very defi
nitely to undermine national morale.
It should not be a difficult matter, and
it should .indeed be a matter of plain duty,
to ascertain and tell the exact truth about
the effect of the war in this region.
^Casual observation would disclose, and
competent analysis would confirm, that a
completely norma! order of life is being'gciiool as juvenile delinquents,
maintained. j threatened to jump off th. four-
Of course, there have been
’ Sheriff Weaned
Okmulgee, Okla.—Sheriff John
Lenox says he will make no more
sporting offers to his prisoners.
Saturday two boys, held for
transfer to the state training
blackouts building unless they got
their freedom.
and preparations for civilian defense.
Lenox countered with an offer
ofi a 10-hour start if they would
come down.
... One of the boys got as far as
derly routine of fheir daily living, and are ,Hurant before he was captured.
There have even been alarms.
But the people are going about the or-
performing their usual tasks, and conduct-' The other still.is making the
ing themselves in all respects as Americans of his lo-hour opportunity.
SHOULD do in a time of national peril and
duty.
There are relatively few departures of
people to be specifically attributed to the
There are absolutely NO evacuations.
Industrial' activity is not merely thriving
but booming.
And productive and profitable employ
ment is easily beyond the peak of the nati
onal average—which is at its most whole
some lever in many years.
There is surely no malice or -vindictiv-
enes behind that false picture which has
been presented.
Why should carelessness and irresponsi
bility be permitted to accomplish injury
and wrongs of the same nature actual mal
ice would produce?
CALVES
Dairy farmers can step up
milk production to take advan
tage of good price prospects and |
help meet national dairy goals by
breeding well developed heifem
at 15 months instead of 18 to 20
months.
“Where Friends
Meet—To Eat”
Genuine Homemade Mec
can Chili. Regular Din
ners. (Voters. Finest of
Western Steaks.
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The Hne Circic
The inventive geniyt of men
has mode it possible for me
to perform oil sorts of house
hold tasks os well os indusit'r'l
operations.
My job in the home a good
mony years ago was simply to
furnish light-y-ond it was glar
ing, un-diffused light at that.
Today I do oil sorts of jobs—
operate your radio, cook your
food, refrigerate your food,
sweep your floors, wosh ond
iron your clothes, keep you
worm or keep you cqol, curl
your hair, light your cigarette,
and perform a host of other
tasks.
And I do oil of these jobs so qbeoply thot I can literally soy:
"I CERTAINLY CUT THE COST OF BETTER LIVING."
Your Servant,
Reddy Kilowatt
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