J. CARTBB and JULIUS C. HUBSARD
PttbUBhen
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year S1.60
Sx MMlths — .76
Pour Months 60
Out Of the State $2.00 per Year
Bntered at the port office at North WUhaa-
boro, N. C., as second dass matter under Act
af Ma^ 4, 1879.
THUKSDAY, APR. 30, 1942
^ Sign Your Pledge
Uncle Sam, in this War effort, mu.st
know from every production plant just how
mnny guns, tanks, planes and ships he can
expect to receive within the next few
months so that he can lay his battle plans
accordingly.
I By the same token he must know from
the people of the nation just how many
dollars he can expect to receive voluntarily
in the purchase of U. S. Savings Bonds, so
that he can lay his tax plans accordingly,
to pay for the War cost. The more dollars
voluntarily pledged for the purchase of
Bonds, the less will be the tax load.
With this in mind, the Treasury Depart
ment is conducting a nation-wide inventory
by states wherein every income earner is
being asked to sign a Pledge indicating
how much he will lend from that income to
buy Savings Bonds.
The pledge campaign in North Carolina
? is to be conducted next week—May 4-9.
’ This community is a local sector of the
state and nation-wide battle front. The
Voluntary workers in the campaign are ci
vilian soldiers serving without pay, with
out glor>' or thanks, and are as surely
fighting a battle for freedom as the soldiers
on the battle fronts. They are conducting
a campaign which we as a nation cannot
afford to lose. Their only weapon is a
i Pledge Card and a cheery word,
i They will offer every income earner the
privilege and opportunity to pledge an in
vestment in the safest risk in the world,
the United States Government,
j Every person who is financially able
.should support this Pledge Campaign to
;his or her utmost financial ability. The
‘Fledge is entirely voluntary on your part,
but upon the success of this campaign will
deperd the freedom of America, for with
out the tanks and guns and supplies to be
purchased by your inve.stment, voiu
pledge, we cannot win this war.
So join willingly, cheerfully, in this mo-
"l)ili7.ation of American dollars, so that
America will continue to be free. Sign
the pledge and do your .share.
Playing With Fire
People who store supplies of gasjline on
their premises, fearing that rationing ma.v
make it impo.ssible for them to obtain as
much gas as they want in the future, are
taking a dangerous chance. That highly
important warning has just been issued by
the Engineering Department of the Nati-
'' onal Board of Fire Underwriters.
In the early days of motoring, gasoline
could be bought in special five-gallon con
tainers. Today, cans of that type of not
available. Obtainable containers, for the
most part, are not tight. Some are ea.sily
broken. Even when a tightly-capped met-
•al container's employed, a hazard still ex-
irts. A hole may be eaten in the bottom
which will allovv slow leakage of the gas.
That leak might not be noticed until
enough explosive vapor had accumulated
to cause a disastrous fire.
When gas is stored in a basement, the
vapor released can be ignited by the fire in
the furnace. And even if the container is
both leak proof and structurally sound, a
very great danger arises when the gas is
poured into the car. Many ca.ses are on
record where static electricity exploded
the vapor—at the cost of lives.
X The National Board of Fire Underwrit
ers urges fire chiefs and other officials to
do all they can to prevent improper storage
of gas. Garages should be rigorously in-
epectei and all mediums of communica
tions should be used to show the public the
danger involved.
So don’t store gas in or about your
' home. It may void your insurance policy.
And it could very easily bring death and
disaster to your family.
planes and fast enough to win
War of Survival. ^
Industry can’t do its-job for nationaVse-
curity—as well as it shoul^^nless it is
free to hire, promote, keep—the best
American workers'it can find.
What has become of the desires of the
workers themselves as expressed by the
full 25 per cent of the employees of the
company in New Jersey who dared to re
fuse to pay their dues in a union while ex
ercising their right to work ?
The National War Labor Board on April
8 imposed “maintenance of union member
ship” on that New Jersey company, manu
facturers of vital machine tools. This rul
ing compels the employer to discharge any
employee who withdraws from the local
union.
This sort of action does not help to win
the war.
This method of arriving piecemeal at a
fundamental policy, as followed by the
War Labor Board, does not get us any
nearer to a set policy for labor relations
for the duration of the war. It does not
give industry the freedom from anxiety
about “What will the Board do next?” so
essential to the progress of the production
of war material. It separates us farther
from our goal of victory.
Only the elected representatives in Con-
gre.ss cun decide which of two roads our
nation shall follow—whether we shall es
tablish a basic national policy which will
prevent any conflict with our one objec
tive, to win the war as speedily as possible,
or rather shall encourage time-consuming,
costly excursions into such questions as
maintaining the strength of union.*; when
the national strength is at stake.
The time has come for Congress to pro
vide concrete evidence of its own realiza
tion of the nation’s goal; subordinating
all else toward winning the war.
THEIR OWN EDITORIAL
(Winston-Salem Journal)
The mammoth forest fires which have
been raging in the Western North Carolina
woods during the past several days are
writing their own editorial in letters of
flame.
They plead more eloquently for greater
local, state and federal forest protection
than any words set down in a row across a
piece of paper could ever plead. They
preach forcefully against carele.ssness and
incendiarism in the woods.
No one can view the blackened, charred
skeletons of valuable trees ranging ovy
wide areas, sees the flame-swept black
earth which is now devoid of plant, insect
and animal life in those deva.stated areas
without realizing how enormous are the
economic losses emerging from fore.st fires.
Vet is seems difficult for u.s to learn this
le.sson. Despite the annual burning of
thousands of acres of valuable timberlands
in this state, our forests are .still without
adeciuate protection.
One of the best investments local and
state governments could make would lie
in increased appropriations for forest fire
prevention and control.
burner, one trash basket.
The rubber in four pairs of
men’s overshoes would make a .sin
gle pair of army galoshes, 60 con
tainers for 75-mm shells can be
made from a pile of 100 old news
papers, and one pound of brass
ipipe contains enough metal to
make eighteen .30 cal. cartridges.
There’s enough steel in one set
of 60-pound bed springs to make
two 4-inch shells for a 105-mm
gun, a 2.50-pound kitchen stove
contains enough iron to make a
single .500-pound aerial bomb, and
LIFE’S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
SHE HAD A PEARL
5he had a pearl—not from the sea.
But from God’s grande.st, highest throne
A pearl that’s priceless, yet it’s free,
If you desire the pearl to own.
It is a good and noble name,
A character without a spot.
Worth more than wealth and earthly fame,
And things that people prize a lot.
You cannot buy this charming pearl
With silver, riches, gems and gold.
Although the humblest, poorest girl
Can make it her’s fore’er to hold,
If she but lives a noble life,
Both clean and pure through God’s rich
grace.
Apart from sin and worldly strife,
And whatsoever would disgrace.
This pearl of beauty and true worth
Should be the treasure of each soul,
For nothing so enriches earth
While ages come and ages roll;
For womanhood, in all its charm.
Helps stay the awful pow’rs of sin,
And is to man a mighty arm
That helps him in life’s race to win.
The more Bonds you buy through lend
ing your money to your government, the
less you taxes will be.
We’re fo hear from
the boys , In the service. ’This
week wo redelved thS following
from Howard A. McNeill at
Camp Chaffee, Arkansas:
“Dear Dwight:
“Ehiclosed yon will find' check
for which please send me The
Journal-Patriot.
'•I am In the tank division of
the arm .ffed; regiment. I took my
first tank ride a few days ago
It certainly was some ride.
“I hear the first sarg calling
me so I’d better close’’.’
ARTIST IN TOWN
A young man and his best girl
friend were out cruising around
one night last week and stopped
to enjoy gazing at the moon. As
far as they knew, no 'one was in
miles.
But imagine next day when the
young man went to work to find
at his place of work an ar'.lst
drawing of that “secluded” spot.
The drawing included his car and
the countryside In detail.
SOME THINOS I DIDN’T
KNOW UNTIL NOW
A single domestic hot water
boiler would yidd enough steed
for a 37-mm gun.
One broken five-pound Hat iron
contains enough iron to make four
hand grenades.
The cotton that goes into a me
dium-priced auto would make four
uniforms for soldiers.
WPB’s order halting the produc
tion of golf clubs will save 3,000.-
000 pounds of steel for the war ef
fort.
A Weirton, W. Va., steel plant
participating in the War Produc
tion Drive broke records ii. 200 de
partments during a single month,
mail in Asheville has invented
machine which he says will pull
up trolley tracks as easily as a
dentist pulls a tooth. He wants to
use it in the Salvage for Victory
campaign.
The Michigan State Highway
Commission made a survey to dis
cover just how fast America’s au
to tires are wearing out and found
that the average tire was using
up its rubber at the rate of three
and a half per cent a month.
Why we are collecting scrap for
war;' A51 the metal needed to
make a .30 cal. machine gun
could be obtained from the follow
ing collection—a pair of roller
skates, two dooi- hinges, one door
lock, one old spade, one trash
THAT
Hfiahand—Confound k! I’ve
locked the keys Inaida.the or.
' Wife—-Never mlnd^ dear. It’a
such a nice night we might as
ride home In the rumble'seat.
iha
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' 8««¥t)^4re-‘tlw
Anaa^.Jbd^.
D. C. of-Yl^fnitWi-Balemt
three ehaa;ij[; S. Brown,^ of Win
ston-Salem;' KiSty Brown, Qt
Witkeeboro; and Sherman Brown
of Richmond, Va.; and three etep
sons.''
Captured Nazi Order
Warns Of’Red Drive
This 27th dajr^
NOTICE SERVICE SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
North Caroliim,
Wilkes County.
IN the SUPERIOR COURT
TROY BYRD
Kuibyshev, Russia. —Russian
troops of the central front have
captured a German order of the
day warning that a Russian of
fensive is expected by the Ger
man command and might be pre
ceded by artillery preparations
wfaicU would Infilct heavy loBses,
the official newspaper Izvestin
said today.
The order, issued by a regi
mental commander, warned the
troops that the maximum of can-1
tlon must be observed. , I
Observers here interpreted the |
order as additional evidence that
the Germans were losing confl- j
deuce in Adolf Hitler’s ability to |
open a spring offensive on the I
scale of which he bad boasted. !
Front diflpatches said melting'
snows all along the front had un-1
covered the bodies of tens ofj
thousands of German soldiers
killed in the winter campaign.
A huge snow mound inside the
city of Yukhnov revealed thou
sands of bodies heaped together
it was .said. i.nd more thousands
were found iti ditches outside the
city.
Militiamen and thousand.s of
civilians have been detailed to
salvage German weapons and
equipment on former iiattlefields
now far behind the German lines,
it was reported.
Special dispatches said that on
the southern front the Germans
had given up. for the present at
least, their counterattacks after
suffering a heavy defeat. Now
the dispatches said, the Germans
were fortifying populated places,
for defense.
vs.
L A. BYRD
The defendant, L. A. Byrd, will
take notice that an action entity
as above has been commenced in
the superior court of Wilkes coun
ty, Norlb Carolina, for an abso
lute divorce and the said defendant
(Will further take notice that he is
f 0 V E ir
To Socond Floor Dr. W. A.
Taylor’s Buildmc
Ninth Street
Specializing in Servfcfaig Type
writers, Office MscUbcs, Bi
cycles,' Photo-Equipment, Gaaw
Locks and Keys.
M. H. Meade Co.
TRUWAY. SERVICE.
C. F. Brown, 79,
Claimed By Death
Columbus Franklin Brown.
79. died Monday night at 10 o’
clock at his home here after an
illness of two days.
Mr. Brown .spent his entire
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MARINE NEWS
We are grateful to a M.-uine at
the New River base for a copy of
.Marine News, a service publication
there.
Believing that you would be in
terested in some of their humor,
we glean a few paragraphs:
TALKED BUSINESS
Mazie—That guy I went with
last night did nothing but talk
business.
Ruth—It must have been pret
ty dull.
Mazie—Not so very. I got a
mink coat out of him.
PROMPT ACTION
Is that insurance company very
prompt in paying?
Prompt! You know they have
officers on the tenth floor of the
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the Pow
er of Sale vested in me as Trustee
in a certain Deed of Trust e.vecut-
ed on the 1st day of April,
by Claude Mmton and wife, Vada
Minton, to semre the payment of a
note therein mentioned; and, de
fault having been made in the
payment thereof, and demand hav
ing been made on me!
I will, therefore, on Monday.
May 18, 1942, at the hour of ten
(10:00) oclock A. M., at the court
house door in Wilkesboro, N. C..
offer for sale for cash to the high
est bidder, the following real es
tate, viz:
Adjoining the lands of John Par
sons, Broyhill Heirs, G. C. Walker
and State Highway No. 18;
BEGINNING on a stone and
pine stump, Broyhill Heirs’comer,
J. C. Persons’ and John Persons
comer; running North 5 degrees
East to Highway No. 18, 26 poles;
then running ■with Highway No.
18, 40 poles and 17 links South
west; thence South 97% degrees
East 32 poles, less 10 links to the
beginning. ^
See deed from Earl T. Minton
and wife, Vivian Minton, dated Oc
tober 16, 1939, to Claude Minton
and wife. Vada Minton, which deed
is recorded in the office of Regis
ter of Deeds for Wilkes County in
Book 192, page 287. ., » T^
'This the 15th day of April, A. U.
1942.
A. H. Casey, ’
5-7-4t (t) Trustee
TIME WILL
TELL!
Wo,. Time!
TIME to make ammunition.
TIME to ??iake ships.
TIME to tram soldiers.
TIME to manufacture tanks.
HEDDY
KILOWATT
Says—
TIME is'also an all-important factor on your home
fronts. Eificient aids in cooking and saving of food
are imperative if we co-operate with the War Program.
We have to make what we have last longer and •“va
better. Keep your electrical servants in good (
I
HOURS 9 TP 5.