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lliie Journal-Patriot
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MONDAY, FEB. 16th, 1942
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School Attendance
It has been called to our attention that
there are many parents in Wilkes county
who deliberately refuse to keep their chil
dren in school.
There is a law which says parents must
send their children to school regularly and
each day that a child is not in school with
out a legal excuse represents a violation of
the law on the part of its parents.
But so much for the law, which is not en
forced.
Parents should welcome the opportunity
to send their children to school and it is a
shame and hardly short of a disgrace that
there are sufficient parents in the state
who will not keep their children in school
to warrant passing a law.
It is a reflection on their intelligence, if
any.
We have had campaigns of various
types. It now appears that the time is
ripe for a campaign of education among
parents on the importance of .sending their
children to school regularly. By regularly
we mean every day when it is practical to
send the child and we would not call one,
two, three or even four days per week
regular.
Aircraft Courses
Ail public .spirited people in this com
munity welcome the news that a coui-se in
aircraft sheet metal w-ork and riveting will
jegin on March 2nd at the North Wilkes
boro schbol.
The course is for boys and men from
17 3-4 years of age and up. In .six weeks
or less any person with any aptitude for
that type of work can become suffiently
trained to enable him to handle a job in an
aircraft plant.
Saturday the employment office receiv
ed an order from an aircraft plant want
ing 3,000 trained men from aircraft .schools
such as will begin here.
The school wil give men an opportunity
to become trained men from aircraft
schools such as wull begin here.
The school will give men an opportunity
to become trained to served Uncle Sam in
the factories.
What Can You Do?
These men who are leaving local jobs to
I seek employment in defense centers shoulti
first talk to some who have been there and
get a first hand picture of conditions
[which exists where Uncle Sam is arming.
This is hot meant to di.scourage any
[trained w'orkmen from taking jobs in de-
Ifense industrie.s. This nation needs those
lirained workers and tho.se who can do a
[the job.
[job which needs to be done .should go do
But we would discourage any laborer
[who is not qualified for any of the skilled
Itrades from leaving his job or farm here
lin search of the pot of gold at the rain-
Ibow’s end.
If you are contemplating going away in
search of a defense job call first at the em-
)loyment office here and learn what types
|of workmen are needed and what wages
rill be paid.
It may be that the employment office
;all will save you much expense and grim
lisappointment.
Treasure Islands
When we were children most of us
ireamed of hunting buried treasure. To-
iay we can make that dream come true.
can really have our treasure hunts,
i’or in every part of the country men and
?omen are digging for valuable metals,
parching in unlikely places, scouring
^eir homes and their yards, remembering
tings they had forgotten and half-for-
jtten many years ago.
Today our factories need scrap iron,
Ihber, waste paper, pieces of copper and
other metals. They must have them so
that they can produce more steel, more
rubber, more weapons.
There’s no telling where we’ll find the
scrap they need. It might be anywhere,
for there are treasure islands all around
us. Some people have found valuable
“junk” tucked away and un-rembered in
attics, cellars, garages, barns. Employees
in one factory even dug up the ground
around their plant and uncovered 50 tons
of metal in odds and ends that had been
thrown away in previous years.
Borrowed Comment
Uiniese Idolize
American Fliers
With American ’Volunteer
Pliers, in Southwest China (Der
layed)—They’re devils in the
sky and gods on the ground.
The majority are six feet tall
and blonde.
“We love our work here and
mit-s only one thing— Arnerlcrn
blondes,” they say.
The Chinese, to whom they
brought safety after years of
peril, worship them. Dogs tag a*
their heels. Children beg them
for food and money—and get It.
The Japanese fear them.
There, then, is a thumbnail
sketch of gallant American you'h
School RepoMf
AN EMBARRASSING PICTURE
(The Elkin Tribune)
Several ally papers, and it can hardly be fighting and dying under the red
calling plugging to name them—The Char- white-and-blue banner of China
lotte News, Greensboro Daily News and ri.ennauit commander
, , . . , They are the American voliin-
Durham Herald, have been giving space to gj-o^jip^ commanded by wiry.
Tom P. Jimison, whose observations about
the conduct of the Morganton hospital for
the insane during his year’s stay in that in-
.stitution, makes interesting reading. The
la.st of sixteen articles have been printed,
and the State has been so aroused about
the picture Jimison paints that Governor
Broughton is ready to order an ipvestiga-
tion. And that will be fine—if the investi-i
don’t carry along a whitewa.sh
gators
brush.
Jimison regards the Morganton in.stitu-
tion more a prison than a hospital—an im
pression that will be shared by all who
have had occasion to visit there. One does
not have to be an inmate to conclude that
the State is not doing for its mental unfor
tunates all it should.
In his inimitable way Jimison has drawn
a word picture of the North Carolina Hos
pital for the Insane, that has brought most
of us up with a jerk; because he hasn’t
seemed to be resentful of his own personal
treatment while there; becau.se whenever
he consistently could he has sought to sof
ten his wallop for those charged with the
administration of affairs, we are willing to
believe the unbelievable; to take Jimison’s
word for it, until he is proved to be in er
ror.
And if he is to be believed, the unfor
tunate mental cases carried to Morganton,
constitute a segregation of human derelicts
herded together, not in the hope of cure
or rehabilitation, but purely to get them
out of the public’s hair.
And may we not .say this word for tho.se
in charge: A great number of ca.ses are
entirely hopeless, dangerous unless confin
ed, and therefore the prison aspect is un
derstandable and justified. On the other
hand there are many who, under compe
tent supervision and .sympathetic treat
ment, coulo regain their mentality. Under
the condition Jimison describes, a perfect
ly .sane person would soon become de
mented.
The State itself is partly to blame, for its
stinginess, but the entire load cannot be
shifted to the State’s shoulders
wind-bittpn. Col. Claire I,. Che-
nault, retired American air offi
cer who holds the rank of briga
dier general in the Chinese army.
Their main job is to protect
China’s Burma Road lifeline.
Now they rule the air above if.
They have the best living quar
ters in all this part of China.
They have hot and cold running
water.
Their food i.s American. There
are tennis and basketball courts
and baseball diamonds here for
them. They have movie shows
once a week — but the pictures
sometimes are six years old.
The fliers frequently eat in a
Chinese restaurant. They con
sume pracMcally nothing but ham
and eggs and pie.
Hundreds of ragged beggars
children swarm outside the res
taurant. The pilots always bring
something out for them to eat.
Most of the fliers wear lumber
jackets. I had one on similar to
theirs. Beggars tagged behind me
shouting:
“Foreign flyman! Foreign flyman!
Please give dollar!”
Every mother’s son of them
owns a mongrel Chinese dog as
a mascot.
The Chinese can’t do enough
for the American heroes.
Refuse Pa,v)»ient
Several times I saw shopkeep
ers refuse to accept payment
from them.
“You. our American friend,
-protect us,” they say.
When they make tours through
ancient Chinese cities, the Amer
icans are greeted by cheers ev
erywhere they go.
The pilots—I wi.->h I could give
you some of their names but that
is impossible — dismi.ss their
feats with a wave of the hand.
"Our planes are much
In our senior class home room
on February 9, we had a program
on Boy Scouts. Charles Younce
and Ray Taylor gave a talk on the
duties, etc., of a Boy Scout...
The Jioy Scout organization is
one of- the biggest in the coun
try and we hope to have an orga
nizatfon of Boy Scouts at Moun
tain View before long.
We discussed plans for the se
nior play to be given soon. We
haven’t yet decided upon one but
will as soon as the Dramatics club
play has been presented.
The senior class has a commit
tee, which consists of Nancy
Johnson and Johnnie Mae .Sebas
tian. to sell candy and drinks a’
the basketball games. They have
a small stand in the gym where
the candy is sold.
We are planning a senior class
chapel program on Thursday
February 12, since that is IJn-
cbln’s birthday. We plan to have
the famous Gettysburg address
given by some member of the
class.
.The senior class plans to take
a trip to Washington. D. C.. some
time in the spring. While there
we will visit the C.spifol building
and many other points of inter
est in the city.
Higher Oil Content
Of Soybeans Sought
Farmers of North Carolina have
been asked to increase their pro
duction of soybeans by 111.000
acres in 1942, to provide a source
of vegetable oil for war-time use.
The itate College Agricultural
Ex>periment Station has speeded
up its soybean research program
in an attempt to develop varieties
of soybeans which have a higher
oil content.
Dr. li. D. Baver, Experiment
Station director, announced that
E. Fred Schultz, a gradiia'e stu
dent, has been added to the re
search staff to help with the soy
bean work. He will cooperate
with Agronomist J. A. Rigney
who has devoted a major part of
his time to this problem.
Rigney reports that Wood’s
Yellow, Tokio and Herman vari
eties of soybeaas have been supe
rior in the production of seed in
the Coastal Plain. In the Pied
mont, the same varieties do well,
although Wood’s yellow is late
maturing and is not recommen.
ded for delayed plantings.
The Sta’e College agronomist
says that Wood’s Yellow is fair
ly shatterproof, but is compara
faster i tjvelv low in oil content. The To-
than the Japanese.” they say. “It
is comparatively easy to knock
nut the Japs with such machines
.As soon as the Jap honihers see
our ptirstiits, they drop their
bomfe and run home with its
chasing them.
'‘Curiously, their homhers are
faster than their piiisiiits. Tlia”s
probably hecaiise the homhers
have .American engines.”
Short of .Jjips
Tlieir big worry now is tliat
are running short of Japan
Those in j they
^ ese to shoot down.
charge could give sympathetic service as, .
tor Hs their menus would hIIow, could 111"^ Moro pursuit ships;
si.st on cleanliness, decent food and enough 2. more homhers; and s. More
of it, and adequate medical attention that 'Japat'ese,
, /»/» • A I moiitiis. tho Americans
would assure against undue .suffering. And
if the money was not available to make
these things posible, who better than they,|
could demand enough dollars to do the job
right, without waiting for a newspaper
man to worm his way into the institution to
get the lowdown on conditions there.
HIS GENIUS NEEDED
(Winston-Salem Journal)
Wendell Willkie’s plea that General
Douglas MacArthur be removed somehow
from the foxholes of Bataan to serve as
Commander-in-Chief of the American Ar
my will find a favorable response in many
American minds.
Whether this should be done, or wheth
er MacArthur should be removed, if pos
sible, from the Sataan peninsula to serve
as Commander-in-Chief of the American
or United Nations forces in the Far East is
an issue that will intrigue other students
of the war problems confronting the Unit
ed Nations.
What everybody will agree upon is the
obvious necessity of preventing loss of
General MacArthur to the Japanese
through death or capture.
General MacArthur cuuld fill the post of
Commander-in-Chief of any American or
Allied force abroad with distinction. He
has the native ability, the training, the ex
perience, and the “guts” to stick in there
and keep pitching, mixing courage with
discretion, imagination and determination.
They pulled no Pearl Harbor on Doug
las MacArthur. These qualities deserve
more than verbal commendation. They de
serve to be utilized in a way that will re
bound to the best interests not alone of the
Philippines but of the United States and
+he cause of free men.
have driven the Japanese sneak
raiders of the Biirnia Road to
rover.
‘'Bart of onr sitcee.sn.'’ he said,
“is due to our inobility. TheJiips
never know where we are. We
operate simiiltaneonsly over
Burma, Thailand, China, and In-
do China.”
Many of the .American victories
were scored over Rangoon, indi
cating how the boys get around.
kio and Herman (Haberlandt)
varieties are higher in oil con-
lent. blit they shatter severely
under any but the best conditions
Rigney suggests that the soy
beans be planted in rows and cul
tivated a few trmes in the Cen
tral plain. In the Piedmont, how
ever, erosion is a prime consider
ation and it i.s usually best to
plant soybeans broadcast or in
close drills. Soybeans leave the
land in ver.v loose, ero;sive con
dition and any ciiltnral practice
that will reduce this on rolling
lands should be used, the agron
omist declared.
The State College leader said
seed supplies of the Arksoy. Bi
loxi, Clemson and Mamredo va
rieties of soybean.s ate small this
year: and supplies of the Herman
and Mammoth Yellow varieties
are medium: and seed supplies
of Tokio and Wood’s Yellow are
comparatively large.
CHKKSK
A new method of cheese-mak
Ing developed at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute cuts the
customary time in half and has
been selling at a premium on
the market.
l-X)OI)
Moderate but definite improve
ments were apparent in the food
si’nation of the United Kingdon
from the spring of 1941 to the
outbreak of the war in the Pacific
SCR.AP
Scrap dealers last year supplied
a record quan’ity of 25,000.-
000,000 gross tons of scrap, as
much as the combined purchased
and home scrap used in the first
World War.
MOVED
I wish to inform my customers and friends that
I have moved my stock of
Allis-Chalmers Tractors And
Tractor-Drawn Equipment
from the Colvard Building on “D” Street to my
home on Wilkesboro Route 2, where I will be
pleased to serve you.
I also have several good horses and mules for
sale at the right price.
G. G. WELBORN
Distributors of Allis-Chalmers Farm Machinery
Route 2 Wilkesboro, N. C.
London.' —- Prime Minister
Churchill’s coalition government
formed in the dark spring of 1940
last night was threatened by an
organized revol^becruse of ih!
failure to plan a winning war In
the Far East.
The opposition, Churchill’s first
since he took over the govern
ment, highligh’ed mounting con
cern over the imminent loss of
Singapore.
Three prominent members re
signed from the Libera! Nation
alist party and two of them an
nounced they planned to opera’e
as independent members of Com
mons, advocating a policy of a
reconstructed “government of
national union” in which the do
minion;? and empire would have
a voice.
fry “Rub-My-Ti$m"—a WonSerful Liaimwt
T. C. Wagoner
— NOW WITH —
COMMERCUl
Barber Shop
Across Street from The Liberty
Theatre. He invites his friends
to see him.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
TO CREDITORS
North Carolina,
Wilkes County:
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of Wesley L.
Church, deceased, late of Wilkes
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceas
ed to exhibit them to the under
sized, at his office in North
Wilkesboro, on or before the 13th
day of January, 1943, or this no
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make im
mediate payment.
This the 9th day of January,
1942.
J. ALLIE HAYES, Administra-
,tor of'Wesley L. Church, dec’d.
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2S1^ LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other largest-seUiog
cigarettes tested — less than any of them — accord
ing to independent scientific tests of tha smoke itselU
CAMEL
THE CIGARETTE OF
COSTLIER TOBACCOS
OOD and cloth
ing cost more to
day; will probably go higher. The natural
thing to do is to conserve both. An electrie
range and refrigerator enable you to effect
real economies;
With cheaper meat cuts.
By getting more nutriment from
vegetables properly cooked.
By doing more home canning.
Through better use of left-overs.
By buying foods in quantity and
taking advantage of food bar
gains.
Other appliances too are money savers—
your automatic electric iron, for instance.
It is smart to anticipate your future needa.
Visit the electrical appliance department of
your favorite store right away!
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