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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year : $1.60
Six Months .76
Four Months .60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
boro, North Carolina, as second class matter
nnder Act of Mar^ 4,1879.
MONDAY, DEC. 21st, 1942
Practice Sanity This Christmas
This is a reminder that all should prac
tice safety and sanity this Christmas sea
son.
It has long been a custom for some peo
ple with a misconception of Christmas to
celebrate the joyous season by shooting
firecrackers, shotguns and pistols, drink
ing, reckless driving, fighting, etc.
This is a wonderful time to quit such
practices. Let us leave off the use of ex
plosives and firearms and not fight among
ourselves during the holidays. Let us leave
the explosives, firearms and fighting to
the men who fight the enemy.
It is nothing short of criminal to waste
things here wh'ch our soldiers, sailors and
marines need to use against the enemy. We
cannot properly conduct ourselves on the
home front and support the war effort if
we waste things which are needed in pros
ecution of the war.
It is not necessary to waste something in
order to enjoy Christmas.
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Where Manpower Is
It is not our desire to criticize just to
have something to say, but it does appear
that it is time to put in a word about the
manpower situation.
The government is seeking allocation of
manpower in order to prosecute the war
'to the fullest possible extent.
We are informed that the government
has 2,600,000 civilian employes.
Is it not possible that any surplus of
manpower which may exist now, if there
be any surplus in the nation, is in the
ranks of government employes not in uni-
■ form?
News commentators tell us that in some
bureaus in Vv'ashington hundreds of em
ployes loaf all day while in other bureaus
the employes work almost day and night.
Every one of the multiple branches of
multiple bureaus seek to “hog” the labor
available, whether they need it or not.
Meanwhile industry and agriculture, as
well as the branches of the armed services,
need more manpower.
It seems that some central agency could
put an end to piracy of labor for the gov
ernment, as well as for industrj'.
The new manpower setup could very
well start on a big job right in Washing
ton, before ■: .ling out to the indivi
duals in thou.sands of communities.
There are three government agencies
whose purpose it is to loan money to
farmers. They are; Farm Security Admin
istration, Farm Credit Administration and
Emergency Crop Loan. One could do the
work and thousands of employes could be
released for essential w'ar work.
The same comment can be made rela
tive to the U. S. Department of Educa
tion and the National Youth administra
tion.
It is high time for Washington to clean
house of surplus manpower, consolidate a
few hundred bureaus and agencies and
release some labor and manpower.
Please, Washington, cut out some over
lapping before trying to regulate every
body else.
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Drastic Measures
The first of war time drastic measures
to come suddenly and affect many people
was the order Friday morning suspending
gasoline sales temporarily to the average
motorist.
Generally speaking, the people accept
ed the suspension without much complaint,
because they felt there was reason for
drastic action. The shortage in the east
developed because of the increased need
of gasoline to our fighting men in Africa
and other points.
Perhaps there will be other drastic
4neasurea. In sach event, the people
should he well informed of ti» r^esdn
tte action, and if the reason is good tHefe
wm be Uttle complaint.
However,.the people in this part of the
country cannot help but feel that the gas-
olinie matter has been bungled frequently.
But there is a much better feeling, pow
that all the people are in the same ration
ing boat.
We never could get in through our
heads that we should do without gasoline
just because we lived in the 17 eastern
seaboard states while the big interior of
the country and the west had plenty.
Much of the country which was not rat
ioned before December 1 depended on
railway tank cars. It so happened that the
eastern states before the war depended
mainly on sea transportation for gasoline.
Instead of using some of the tank cars
which had been furnished the west and
midwest, they rationed us for months and
let the remainder of the country alone. It
took the rubber crisis to beat the politi
cians and put rationing on nationally as it
should be.
Now, we have nothing along that line to
complain of, and we feel that all are in
the same boat.
A recent survey of 10 Rochester war
plants revealed that nine have kept their
promise to inegrate Negroes into produc
tion jobs.
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When three men in Passaic, N. J., living
within a radius of three blocks of each
other, pooled their cars on a 36-mile daily
round trip to work, each man began to
save '.,200 miles of driving a year.
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Although only about 4 percent of Eas
tern householders with fuel oil furnaces
have switched to coal, about 2,860,000
barrels of light fuel oil will be saved. Con
version by 50 percent of fuel oil users
would save 36 million barrels.
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By DWiaHT NICHOLS, et «L
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(From Desert Dust)
(Old faithful Nat White, the
fella who fell otVn the bicycle last
month, was called to - the moun
tain section of North Carolina re
cently, on account of his sister
being sick. He brings back the
following item—which most cerr
talnly is worthy of re-pnbHcation
—and we appreciate permission
from Bryson City Times to use
It.—Ed.)
“If North Carolina really Is the
'Land of Opportunity,’ said an
out-of-state friend of mine, “why
don’t you Tar Heels do more
boosting?"
“Why,” I said, "every true Tar
Heel can tell you that the Old
North State stretches for nearly
800 paved miles from Manteo to
the famous quarries at Murphy,
whose unique marble courthouse
is near the capitals of seven other
States than to Its own Capitol
building In Raleigh, which since
1933 has been regarded as one of
the most perfect architectural
types In America and which
stands In the very center of a
State whose wonderful mountain
ranges include the highest peak
in eastern America; whose won
derful lakes Include the bluest,
the greenest, the clearest, and the
largest inland waters in the en
tire nation; whose eastern shores
are washei by hundreds of mites
of the gr«i.t Atlantic Ocean and )
whose wonderful climate, fertile
soil, and abundant flora and fau
na in mountains, sandhills, and
seashore make It the playground
of the Nation, a variety vacation-
land whose myriad charms are
rivaled only by ita industrial de
velopment — which includes the
world’s largest hosiery mill,
world's largest denim mill, world’s
largest demask mill, world's larg
est towel mill, world's largest
tobacco and berry markets not to
mention the oldest State Univer
sity, the birthplace of aviation
and sundry other wonders of pres
ent and historical interest, and
from -* Bbetwi^Ia-Dtate
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In New York State, Navy engineers have
authorized erection of 2,500,00'0 square J
feet of roof deck built of poured gypsum
in order to save metal and lumber, scarce
stragetic materials. Tongued and grooved
flooring board of gypsum has also been
developed, saving wood.
th/iieUi,
lilkakets, and a
aprlad, step oat oh a *1^011 jrng,'
ofi«Q LaorinhBrg -mrtato to tot
in light enough to shave before a
Ncrth Wllkesboro mirror, using a
Cliffside wash cloth and a Kanna
polis towel. I would open a High
Point bureau to get out a set of
Winston - Salem ' underwear, a
Kinston shirt and a Taylorsville
tie; sit down on a Thomaaville
chair with a Roanoke Ropids slip
labver to'pnll oh Dtirliam sodks
and tie Hickory shot laces. I
Would then arise to don a Bilt-
more homespun suit with a
Greensboro made belt, light hp a
cigarette made In Reidsvilto with
tobocco grown in Wilson and roll
ed in paper made in Brevard.
"After breakfast, smoking a ci
gar made In Greensboro, I would
meet a farmer dressed in Char
lotte overalls, wearing Newton
gloves, driving a Wilson-made
wagon filled with paints made in
Wilmington, fertilizer In New
Bern, and brooms made at Liber
ty—^who was taking home to his
wife a Lexington dress in on Eli
zabeth City box wrapped In paper
made in Canton and tied with
twine made In Hickory.
"Of course I wouldn’t have you
think everything there was made
in North Carolina. For Inabance,
later In the day aftqr a pot of
English tea, Russian vodka, or
Scotch whiskey, I would cross a
yard covered by an Ohio mort
gage to get in e Detroit Ford fill
ed with Texas gasoline, ask an
Irish cop the way to a Greek res
taurant to watch a Mexican girl
do a Cuban rhumba by a Harlem
swing band. For dinner, I would
"Bdefc:lioiiif’8gi|}o I Foald put
on Chinese slIk-ntijamas^-Tead «-
few verses from P Bible, pklhtod
in' England, say a. prayer wrltles'
In Jaroealem, Jump back in tire
High Joint bed, and spend the
rest of the night fighting flees
and mosquitoes—the only native
products in the whole damn
State.
"He he moved back to. North
Carolina!"
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"That's all very fine,” he inter
rupted, ‘‘but what about Job Op
portunities In North Carolina? I
know a young fellow who heard
so much about job opportunities
elsewhere that he left North Car-
LIFE’S BEHER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
olina and moved to another
Slate.’’
‘‘That’s true,” I admitted. “I
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This Is a Good Old Fashioned American
Christmas For All!
GREETINGS OF THE SEASON TO YOU—
AND MAY ALL YOUR/WISHES BE FUL
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TER! OLD TIME GREETINGS! IN OTHER
WORDS — A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
TO YOU AND YOURS. WHEN THE HOI^
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EVENLY BALANCED
It means much in life to be evenly bal
anced and not lopsided. Perhaps the ma
jority of people are, in some respect, out
of balance. If it is not one thing, it is
something else.
Many are out of balance politically.
They are extremists, or lean too heavy to
one side. The same is true of lovers of
money, pleasure, and the things of this
world which are material and temporal.
Everybody in sin and wickedness are
unevenly balanced. Sin swings men hell-
ward, and this is always the wrong direc
tion to lean and travel. What God said
to King Belshazzar when he wrote his doom
upon the wall of the banquet hall can be
said of every sinner today: “Thou are
weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.” (Daniel 5:27). It is a sad and
deplorable thing to be found wanting be
fore God as men travel through life, and
more especially when they come down to
die. However, the sinner can repent be
fore God, obtain forgiveness, then walk up
rightly and righteously before God and
man and have an even balance.
Many people are unbalanced religious
ly. They lean too heavy and too one-sid
ed to some false doctrine, or some creed,
type, shadow and form. They take the
shadow for the substance, the non-essential
for the real. They have a formal worship
they observe and go through, but they fail
to realize that God is a Spirit, and seeks
such to worship Him as worship in spirit
and in truth. (John 4:23-24). Mere for
mal worship is but empty and void. It
never brings the soul into fellowship with
God, neither will it bring the ffoul'to' "the
haven of rest” when this life is ended.
It is good to be evenly balanced educa
tionally, politically, and in our plans^ aims
and purposes, and in our opinions and
views, and in our undertakings; but they
may not always be in every particular with
the best of people, as we are all subject to
mistakes, weaknesses and blunders; but to
be unevenly balanced religiously is the
most serious. It is so easy to go to some
extreme in religion, or to be extremely
cold, or formal, or lukewarm, or fanatical.
Only by a life consecrated unreservedly
unto God,,and by much prayer and a close
walk with him, can w0 say evenly balanc
ed.
T his is a happy occasion, and because your
patronage makes possible our very exist
ence, we want to take time out from our
Christmas rush to say ‘Sincerest greetings,
and may your Yuletide joys last all through
the year”. From now until next Christmas,
we shall continue to do our best for you.
W. F. Gaddy, Owner
Gaddy Motor Co.
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Best Wishes For the New Year!
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