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THURSDAY, bEC. 24, 1942
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Hi«h Court Rights Wrong
*^Us the SiiprelPfc Court of the
United ^tes, the last i^ort of appeal by a
person who believes that he has been
wrongfully convicted, rightfully removed
the thiwt of priaon from over 0._ B. Wil
liams and Lille Shaver Hendrix, of Cald
well county, who were sentenced to three
to ten years in the penitentiary on a charge
of bigamy.
It seems from the record that the man
and woman went to Nevada and there un
der the easy divorce laws were divorced
from former mates and “married up” with
each other ia Nevada. They came back to
North Carolina and were thrown In jail
because they were living as man and wife.
The decision of the United States Su
preme Court is not surprising. What is
surprising and at the same time disappoint^
ing, is that the court of North Carolina
would be so “biggity”, if you would par
don the slang term, as to take such action
as it did in convicting and senten^ing the
man and woman, who were legally marri
ed in another state, to prison.
And what is more surprising is that the
supreme court of North Carolina would
uphold the superior court’s action.
We by no means uphold the divorce
laws of Nevada, but we can point out that
if the precedent of the superior court at
Lenoir and the state supreme court were
followed far enough, chaos would re
sult.
The majority opinion of the supreme
court pointed out that thousands of chil
dren in this country no\v would be illegiti
mate if such procedure were followed con
stantly and that states musf recognize the-
judgments of other states.
Suppose that every' couple living togeth
er in the state, who had obtained divorces
in other states, were brought before the
courts and put in prison. Such would be
possible if the U. S. Supreme court had not
intervened.
The Goal Is The Same
About the only good things that cap be
said for any w'ar, were said last week at
the National Chemical Elxposition in Chi
cago. There was e.xhibited at this wonder
land of indu.strial development a wide va
riety of “war babies,” war-opportunity
products which will alter drastically the
economics not only of the chemical indus
try but of the many indu.stries dependent
upon chemical research.
It is significant too that improvements
and inventions have not been wholly con
fined to arms and armament althoujgh
most of our efforts are in that direction.
Products are being produced more cheap
ly, as industry, working with large war
orders, carries to new heights the miracles
of mass production techniques. Time is at
a premium during a war, and industrial re
search, meeting the requirements of the
day, must accelerate its pace as never be
fore.
Many civilian products have come forth
in industry’s tireless search for substitutes
as priorities curtail regular production.
Most things are best judged under du
ress, and American industry has proved in
these trying times that, although burdened
with war orders, its aim is still to make
life in the American home and office and
factory as easy and pleasant as possible
for all people in good times or bad.
About 1,300,000 women are members of
AFL unions and 1,500,000 belong to CIO
unions. The Railroad Brotherhoods also
'have women members.
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>lrls in Czechoslovakia are excluded by
Nazis from all but elementary schools, and
$0 are the sons and daughters of “progres-
aive” parents.
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TOhSil. ^
ly Btrack at “loose "and
talk about the rubber problem.
ber-problem is not licked; there
nite rubber shortage; there will ba^tirte
for all only if the most stringent measures
are applied and received with 100 per ceht
cooperation on the part of the public That
is the grim truth.
There is no easy short cut to rtibber con
servation, or to the production of more
nAber. “The facts are,” Mr. Jeffers said,
“that the Japanese cut off 90 per cent of
our supplies and that as a result the Unit
ed States is compressing into two. years the
building of a tremendous synthetic rubber
industry which ordinarily would take a
dozen yekrs to build.
“The greatest reserve supply of rubber
we h*ve in this dountry is in the million
tons of rubber in the tires of our passenger
cars and trucks. We roust stretch that mil
lion tons as far as it will possibly go—and
maybe a little farther.”
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A new design for a metal-lined gunpow
der box is saving Army Ordnance enovtgb
copper eVery month to fill Specifications
for 269 166 mm. guns.
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A New Orleans fai^ture Store is look
ing into the possibility of tslttg raule-
draw carts to save tires bn deliveries of or
ders.
U. S. Army training and proving grounds
are contributing five million pounds of fir
ed cartridge cases a month as copper
^rap.
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The 1942 production Of new typewriters
is less than half Of the more than 860,000
additional machines needed by the mili
tary and other Government services and
agencies.
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The Athens, W. Va., county jail, vacant
for a year, was scrapped and yielded 30
tons of steel.
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A Denver, Colo., grill offered a free
hamburger for each five pounds of scrap
metal brought in by customers.
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LIFE'S BEHER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
LAYING THE RIGHT FOUNDATION
Common sense tells us that in order to
build a strong, substantial building of any
kind it is absolutely necessary to first lay
a good foundation. If the foundation is
poorly laid, or constructed of unsound ma
terial, the building cannot endure the
jtorms and rains, or the wa.sting elements
of time. The building will warp and twist
and eventually collapse.
Is not the same true of life? No one can
build a great, noble, royal, sublime life
upon the wrong foundation. And sin and
wickedness is that foundation. To begin
life with bad, injurious habits which both
destroy the health and morals, and which
eventually destroy the character and the
soul, s»hould be guarded and advised
against. No habit that is hurtful should
be laid as a foundation upon which to
build life. Parents should guard their
children, as much as possible, against any
thing and everything that would injure
them in body, mind and soul. In the mean
time they should pray earnestly and sin
cerely that God would protect them, and
come early into their lives and souls.
When I was a boy in school we were
taught that character meant ibore than
learning. Our readers were full of the best
stories which inspired us to aim high, aspire
for the best things, and have a purpose
that was great and worth while, then do
our best to bring it into effect, or accom
plish it. We were taught the goal of life
was high up in the manhood and woman
hood, truth and honesty, uprightness and
godliness, sobriety and nobility, and in or
der to achieve success we had to measure
up to this.
Anything that was low, degrading, vile
ind mean was to be beneath us. We were
not to partake of it. We were taagrht that
“it is noble only to be good.” In our ex
aminations we were not to cheat. In our
dealings we were to be fair. We were
taught that to live a heroical life we had to
be manly, womanly, virtuous and righte
ous, and take no unfair term.s, or seek no
buyers, in our effort to reach life’s highest,
grandest goal. Our success in life depend
ed upon laying the right foundation and
putting into life’s structure the very best
material. If that was true forty and fifty
years ago, it is equally as true today. In
deed we know that it is true.
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Want To Butcher Beef LesrUly?
Get A'lNSqnare and Slide Role
The following storr out of
Weehington, and by an Aseociated
writer, la rteht op our al
ley. Here It' la:
Want to butcher a beef and
stay out of Jail?
Then grab yonr skinning knife,
a T-sqnare, a foot rnler and a
copy of revised ihkkitttbm pfl^
regulation No. 169.
This 24-page Illustrated docu
ment at the office of price admin
istration, which lays down speci
fic standard ^or eittlng a side of
Beef to be sold at wholeskle, was
held up by Senator Butler (R),
Neb., as bei'ig sp specific as to be
Incompreheaslble.
“The whole thing’s nutty," But
ler said. “It Ju^ shows what a
bunch of young lawyers can dp
when they meet up with a beef
chart."
There are three columns of fine
pAnt on eech of the first 20
pages. The appebdlk contdiiis.
sort of an X-ray view of a beef-
crltter, a working plan of how to
dismantle It into component
steaks, and a good county map of
the United States.
Suppose you went to cut a
trimmed full loin, per OPA speci
fications. It’s easy as falling off
a logarithm. If you’ve got some
body to hold the book.
“After the severance of the
round from the hindquarters.”
section 1364.455 of the regula
tions stipulates, “the flank shall
be severed from the full loin by
a cut starting at the heavy end of
the full loin at the ventral point
of severance of the round from the
hindquarters and continuing in a
straight line to a fixed point on
the inside of the 13th rib deter
mined by measuring off ten In
ches in a straight line from the
center of the protruding edge of
the 13th thoracic vertebra, but in
making the cut no more than one
(1) inch of cod or udder fat shall
be left on the flank side of the
face of the loin.
Parenthetically, the Instruc
tlons .say. “the 10-inch measure
ment shall be made from the cen
ter of the protruding edge of the
13th thoracic vertebra end not
from the hollow of the chin bone
where the 13th rib joins the 13th
thoracic vertebra.”
(Albert, maybe you’d better
run Into liouse and get dad
dy's theodolite. Yes, and ask
mamma for a paper clip. That
durn 13th thoracic vertrebra
keeps slipping past the 13th rib.)
Next you trim away the excess
lunihar and sacral fat. Bnt that’s
only half the battle in preparing
trimmed full loin, the book
cautions:
‘Then all fat shall be removed
which extends above a flat plane
using the following two lines as
guides for each edge of the plane:
An Imaginary line parallel with
the full length of the protruding
edge of the lumbar section of the
chine bone which line extends 1
inch directly above such protrud
ing edge; a line on the inside of
the loin two inches from the
flank edge and running parallel
with such edge for the full length
of the loin."
(You can move the theodolite
over by the woodshed now, Al
bert.)
-pArtlenlar bursan.
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Blay
Washington.—^Tbe cold hacts qf
the man power sltnation today
point almost Insvitabiy to gradual
ii^bMdfninent of dependeaiey as
grounds for defbrmsnt IpjjM iisr-
yiee in the armed forces.
The facts «.e that the army and
navy, as now projected, wlU want
more men than there are In this
country without d^endents. |
A system of payments to de
pendents of men in the military
estaUishmeot already Is In opera
tion and It would absorb much of
RIe khOek of the Indnction of men
who now are deferred because
they support others.
President Roosevelt’s executive
order of December 5 authorizing
War Sian Power Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt to stop induction
of ..Iwill'
Bible for a sltaa
ably will reiqulfe the Indhctkih of
many, men i^qw deferrM. T^re
is aoi)^ p^ibillty, it is. n^er-
stoqd U>at the 38 age tignrq may
be rsdnced ntllmalely to 1)5,. sl-
thodgh no decisions are expectiwl
soon.
’riiere has been some congrss-
siouU criticism to the 9,700,000
military fbrce projected by the
end Of 1943. or that nnm^r
abont 7,SOO,QOO would be in the
army. The ^nate committee in
vestigating the war program Is
gathering data to determine
whether—In the light of produc
tion schedules—^the country can
properly arm and maintain a 7,-
500,000-man army by the end of
next year.
Responsible officials emphasize
that any abandonment of depen-
pency deferments would be grad
ual. They explained that there
would be no justificatioin at this
time for the nation to get Into a
jittery dither because dependen
cy must be given progressively
less weight in determining . who
shall bear arms. And, of course,
Inductions Into the snny*and na
vy would exhaust men without
Now, at the time of the year
when gladness and thanks
giving are first in the minds
of all,-we welcome the op
portunity to express our best
wishes fora Hoppy Christmas
and 0 Prosoerous New Year.
FORESTER-PREVETTEINS.CO.
ALL’ FORMS OF INSURANCE AND BONDING
’Phone 368 C. C. Faw, Mgr.
CAN HAPPEN HERE
The above story reminds us of
an account brought in by one of
our news scouts. It concerns some
Wilkes peo,ple.
It seems that a couple of men
back in the hills were butchering
hog. They started out in the
approved farm style of the hill
country.
But after they shot the hog and
stuck it In the back part of the
throat with a long knife they took
time off for a little drink of fire
water in the approved fashion of
rural people of the hill country.
One drink called for another
and before long one thought the
other was sick, because he could
see two hogs and his partner
could not see but one.
Anyway, bjr the time they got
to cutting the bog up in pieces
according to the approved cus
tom of the hill country, they
could not very well tell one part
from another.
First of all, they dropped the
dressed hog on a shovel and the
shovel cut a long slit angling
across the back and side.
Seeing two hogs, they cut first
one way and then another.
The women folks, seeing such a
mess, decided that, maybe the men
had killed a horse instead of a
hog and refused to touch the
meat. They couldn’t recognize
anything that resembled the usual
cuts of farm meat as they had
been accustomed to seeing.
The men, still nnder the influ
ence, as our police officers say,
threw the pieces of hog into a
truck, pulled out to town and
shipped it to Washington. Being
patriotic, and after hearing that
the government wanted meat for
the armed forces, they thought
that would be an Iderl way to dis
pose of the meat that the women'