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FttbBalMtd Mcmtay* rad! Thursdays at North. Willca«b»*o, North Carolma D. J, CARTER snd JUUUS C. HUBBARD PnUisiMn SUBSCRIPTION RATES; One Year $1.60 Six Months .75 Four Mpnths — - .60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, North Carolina, as second class aiatter onder Act of March 4,1879. MONDAY, NOV. 9th, 1942 S3rmbol Of Our Freedom ! Throughout the history of mankind symbols have exerted an impelling influ ence upon the lives of men. In Ameri ca, the symbol of freedom, the symbol of independence, the symbol of everything we hold dear, is the American flag. As the war goes on and as our armed forces move into battle lines all over the world, the American flag goes with them at the head of the columns. Yet, here at home, except on rare occasions, our flags are stored away for some future day which may never come if those afield are not held aloft with strong hands. In support of the war effort and the in fluence which our flag has upon the nati onal morale, would it not be appropriate now to hold aloft our flag on the home front on our factories, on our homes and on our public buildings? To kindle a more alert loyalty to the America we love, to foster a truly cohesive national unity, to create for postwar America an increased appreciation and love for the American way, let us raise the flag on the home front. And let it remain to found more firmly the determination that the national ideals for which our flag was born and for which it stands shall not perish from the earth. ; They Deserve Notice The consumer has many problems. And so has the retail merchant The draft has taken thousands of store workers, and others have left their jobs for the big pay offered by war industries. It is increasingly difficult to obtain new etiuipment, and tO- keep old Equipment in repair, especially that of a mechanical na ture. The price of practically everything the retailer sells is frozen, and in many instances the ceiling price allows little or no profit. It’s a tough job to keep his .shelves filled, as more and more brands and products go off the market. In the face of all this, the merchant ’’s doing a remarkable job. Long before the OPA. retail merchandising went to work on a voluntary anti-inflation program of its own. Stores of all kinds and sizes in creased efficiency, reduced overhead, and cut already mode.st profits in order to keep prices in check. While many factors encouraged kiflation which brought about government price control, retail merchan dising was not one of them. Today, retail merchants, whether inde pendent or chain, are doing an almost superhuman job in supplying their custo mers and their community. Their efforts deserve notice-—and .commendation. upW proj^i the horizon. " * Controls For Emergency, .According to 4 high army condemned “loose talk” and tlie ddmpla-> cency of some leaders, at a recent Massing- of-the-Colors ceremony, “The financial jupport given to the government by the masses and their ready acceptance of the few curtailments of their pleasures and comforts, should inspire hesitant leaders to take full action to insure early and ulti mate success in our war efforts. If we fail it will not be through any lack of spirit and willingness on the part of the great mass of our people.” Our present national leadership, under the pressure of war demands, is forcing the controls over our national economy in to fewer and fewer hands. The tremen dous authority vested in the virtual dicta torships over our time, our money, our oc cupations, and our lives, carries with it a responsibility, the gravity of which is both awesome and dangerous. With the life of the nation at stake, a democracy bows to the dictates of the war, but with the acquiescence of the masses so well expressed by the army spokesman, it is for those who now run our war machine to steer a straight and narrow course and to return to us, at war’s end, the free eco nomy for which our forefathers fought and for which our sons are fighting today. Dictatorship, in a democracy, is a war measure and a war measure only. Carry it through, after the war is successfully con cluded, and the blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifices of this world cataclysm will have been in vain. Were sportsmen, skeet shooters and other marksmen to turn in all their discharged shells and cartridges, they would add more than 2,000 tons of war metals to the nati onal scrap pile. Last year the average wage earner, driv ing for necessary purposes, made 385 trips covering 3,782 miles. UFE’S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR, Hiddenite, N. C. Postwar Outlook According to a special report which is now' being completed for The Twentieth Century Fund, an endowed institute for research in economic problems, “Postwar America vdll easily be able to produce enough to'provide every man, woman, and child in the country with a decent mini mum standard in the ‘Big Five’; food, clothing, housing, education, and health care.” In the matter of food supply, the report says that while we have been growing enough food to meet the standard, the crop pattern must be shifted from wheat and cereals to more dairy products and vegetables. The American clothing indus try, the report says further, from cotton in the fields to garment shops, has been en tirely capable, for more than thirteen years, of turning out more than we can conveniently wear. The housing budget will call for some where between a million and two million dwelling units over the country, every year for at least ten years after the war ends. THE GOLDEN RULE The Golden Rule is that we do unto others as we would have them do unto This rule was given by the Lord Jesu.s ChrLst and recorded in Matthew 7:12. It this rule were practiced we would have a wonderful world in which to live. It would be different to what it now is. There would not be any war. There would be no mur der. Crime would cease. No man would take advantage of anyone else, because he would not have anybody else take advan tage of him. As people would have their fellowmen treat them, they would treat their fellowmen. However, because men and nations do not practice the Golden Rule we have a world of trouble. Men kill.each other. They wage war upon one another. They i lie, deceive, cheat and defraud. They do unto others as they wouldn’t have them do unto them. They take advantage. They lay undermining plans and schemes in or der to make money, gain power over their fellows, get Dheir possessions, get a living out of life without ju.stly earning it, thus gratifying their covetous and lustful de sires. A.11 this is unfair. It is absolutely wrong, therefore brings heartaches, trouble and much destruction. There is no rule in all the world that equals that of our Savior. It puts all men on an equal basis. Nobody would have others do him wrong, or take advantage of him, and if he would only treat everybody else right, then our country and the world would be at peace and in brotherly love and sweet fellowship rather than in confu sion, holding hatred and seeking revenge. It is a fact that all men like to be treated right, but so few will absolutely trea al&iost wltkont' legal -wanHAg the weather would 'indicate that the Ideal October continuea. A moat beautiful autumn we have bad thuB far and It baa afforded farmers a' rare opportunity for harvesting crops and the seeding of grain. Scarcity of IA^OT-has of course been a .handicap In get ting work done in due seaBon. This correspondent having been absent for awhile has .posaibly de layed our news items so that some of our current happenings may seem old. Certainly deserving honorable mention is the very successful revival at the Beaver Creek Baptist church which cloa- ed more than a week ago with Rev. R. A. Oakley, Methodist minister of Lenotr preaching the concluding sermon. The meeting was conducted by Rev. A. J. Fos ter, pastor, and Rev. Ed 'Hodges, of Mt. Zion. A baptismal service was held at the conclusion of the service Sunday, October 25th and about fifteen young converts were baptised and added to the church membership. Mrs. Eugene Shepherd has re turned from a Statesville Hospi tal where she has been convalesc ing from an illness of two weeks duration or more. Friends will be glad to see her back home. Miss Janie Spicer left today for several days visit with relatives at Dalzell, S. C. She went by bus. The small child of Mr. and Mrs. Genio Walsh was taken to the Wilkes hospital Sunday for treat ment. Danny, the little son of Prof, end Mrs. O. M. Profflt, spent some time with his grandmother. .Mrs. O. F. Blevins in Wilkesboro last week. Glenn West, who is in the army at Fort Bragg, spent two weeks furlough here and at Wilkesboro visiting friends and relatives. The nation-wide election which is taking place today, remlrds us forcibly that we are still living in a democracy. Despite our pres ent world conditions we believe America will still be a democracy one thousand years from now. As much as we abhor war, great les sons to humanity issue tjierefrom, et great cost in life and wealth it is true and as paradoxical as it seems the world has always mov ed forward with the culmination of every major war. “There is e divinity that shapes our end.s rough hew them how we may." Betty Jean Ferguson entertain ed.a number of her young friends at her home Saturday night at a Hallowe'en party. Spooks and hobgol)lins were not so much in evidence, but file youngsters were more especially entertained with games and refreshments. The local P. T. A. will have their regul-ir monthly meeting on Wednesday night, November 18th. and this is timely warning for good attendance at this guther- ing. A special program is being prepared by Hie program com mittee and some important busi ness will be tranacted that will possibly concern every parent and child in school Mr. L. F. Wiilsh. newly elected president will pre side. • The Farmers Cooperative Ex change commonly known as the F. C. X.. is establishing a store in North Wilkesboro right away. The capital slock, we understand, has alrciady l/een subscribed and paid in, and the concern will han dle feeds, fertilizer, seeds, farm implements, paint and many oth er items used extensively by farmers. The F. C. X. is a state wide organisation, and now has, 29 stores in the state, besides it owns its own feed and fertilizer factories. Stock may be taken in the local store by local farmers and several from this community are now stockholders. This correspondent. In company with his wife and Miss Blanche Ferguson, of Wilkesboro, attend ed the state grange convention which was held in Burlington on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week. Miss Sara Lackey, of the Happy Vailey Grange, was also a delegate from that Grange. Inspite of the difficulty in transportation, there was a splen did delegation present from all over the state, and many impor tant matters converning the well being of the fiarmers were dis cussed. The governor oMhe strte delivered an address, and will be with ‘‘politics «Ad Neir.] for th^ duMtidA"—^ to war-time problems arisiitg;! IJie close p^y alignm/»ts in House and Senate. ‘T , a: ,. - ‘ His idea is that Congpress shouK now create a “unified coihmittei on war co-operation”. The admin istration “should deal more open!;, with Congress”—including the Re publican leader^p—and with the country.. The election, he added, had demonstrated popular dissat isfaction with the conduct of the war. '■ Meanwhile, the House heard de mands that the wage-hour law ano national labor relations act be re pealed, while a Senate colloquy- found a prominent Republican anc leading Democrat agreeing that Tuesday’s many Democratic losses could not be attributed to any lack of unity on the war front. Senator * Connally (D), Tex. arose, he said, to make it cleat that the reverses of the adminis tration party could not be inter preted by the propagandists of Berlin and Tokyo as any “repudi- ation of our war purposes”. He attributed them to public im patience with the prosecution of the war and resentment agains 'Washington bureaucracy. Actual ly, he said, the voters had ‘‘regis tered a more desperate -wjll to car ry this war to triumph and vi tory.” Senator McNary of Oregon, the Republican floor leader, agreed t.hat “no issue' of patriotism or unity” was raised in the campaign, and added that the administratior had committed “enough mistakef and errors” to justify the peopU in calling it to account. The Democrat defeats, he said, represented revolts against wast in expenditures which “astonished, abashed and shocked” him and against unnecessary employment by the government “of people who should be home working at real next convention will be held a year from now at Statesville. We are advised by Prof. Proffit that there v ill be a Thanksgiving program at ibe school building on Thanksgiving Day, end that a prominent speaker will be present for the occasion. There will be no holidays granted this year aside fropi a short period at ^hristmas. we understand. Nellie Taylor-Ross, director of the D. S. mint, advocated a nh- tion-wide slanghter—or, at least, vigorous shaking — of piggy banks. She told a group of women In Chicago the conversion of piggy 'banks Innards into war bonds and stami^ would ‘‘give a big push to the Allied effort to defeat the Germans and Japs." Forty pennies put back into circulation by each of the nation’s families would equal the mint's entire output of one-cent pieces in 1941, she said, and the copper used in the coins would make 1.- 250,000 shells for big guns. V Five purebred Guernsey bull calves placed recently on Transyl vania farms are expected to im prove greatly the dairy industry in the county, says Joe L. Heff ner, assistant farm agent. MOTOR CO.- T. H. WILLIAMS, Mfr. BEAR Frame Service Good Used Cars, Trucks and Tractors Easy Terms Will Pay Cash for Late Modal Wrecked Cars and Trucks Complete Body Rebuilding EHectric and Acetylene Weldmg Phone 334-J WANTED! Hickory Logs Cut 29 Inches, 58 Inches or 87 Inches No. 1 No. 2 $30.00 No. 3 Delivered HICKORY FIBRE C0..« Saw Mills, N. C. everybody right. Men do to others what they don’t want them to do unto them. We initiated into the order at a later , ... . . date, other noted features of the find it to be so in the home, in the church, occasion was the address of Dr. in the community, in the school, in busi- Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, end Mr. ness, in religion, in politics, and through- Huston, of New York City. The out the world. No wonder we have crime, corruption, hatred, war, and men and na tions seeking revenge. There is absolutely no way to live right, and be acceptable in the sight of God, ex cept to practice the Golden Rule—do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This is Christlike. It puts men on an equal basis. It makes men brothers in Christ, and fit subjects for the kingdom of heav en. Nothing else can and will. This is God’s plan, and it is life’s better way. Dr. E.S. Cooper —CM’ROPRACTOR— Office Next Door To Reins-Sturdivant, Inc. —Telephone 205-R— Office Qosed Every ThiiradBy / ftemoon APPRECIATION FOR VOE VOTE AMD EXPRESSION or CONFIDENCE As it is impossible for me to thank each of you personally, both Repub licans and Democrats, who cast your vote for me for Sheriff of Wilkes County on November 3rd, I wish to take this means of publicly thanking you for your support. I am truly grateful to each of you, and I will endeavor to do my very best to fulfill the duties of my office, fully realizing the new responsibili ties that will soon fall upon my shoulders. Again expressing to you my sincere and most grateful appreciation for the support you gave me, I am, Yours most sincerely,
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