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iz' NUUMd sQu'^Uiui'^ E ft j. nanis d mrisASDr^ >iHradClUPTlbN RATES: One T^nr S1.60 Six Moi^ .75 "^our Mmtfas .50 Out 6f £^e State $2.00 perTear •Estend at the post office at North Wilkes* boro, North CaroUna, as jiecond class matter ander Act of March 4, 1879. THURSDAY, MAR. 4, 1S43 Victory Garden Tinie Importance of cultivating vegetable gar- dfins this year to the fullest possible extent cannot be over ethphasized. And this applies to town people as well as farmers. Under the ^est possible conditions for food production, this country- cannot pro duce too much food in 1943. Government leaders are hoping for ano ther record year in food production but there is little on which to base such hopes. The past year saw a new record in amount of food produced in the United States. But we must remember that it was the best year in history as far as climatic con ditions were concerned. And we must bear in mind that millions who produced food in 1942 will be in the armed services and in war industries this year. The farmer is called on for a bigger pro duction with far less labor and with less farm machinery. Our advice is grow your own food as nearly as possible. Point rationing which allows as little as three cans of food per month is ample evi dence of the severity of the food situaticn in America today. year? - If your garden is not plowed, have that done as soon as possible. Secure your seed now. Use your own as far as possible- seed which you cannot buy get from a neighbor who has a surplus. This should be a long gardening season. Plots planted to early vegetables can be used again in the late summer and fall. Every part of the garden should produce two crops of some kind of food if possible this year. Let us repeat that the importance of producing food at home cannot be over emphasized now. V Wilkes And the War We are pleased to note that the activi ties on the home front in Wilkes are gain ing recognition. In the Winston-Salem Jounial Sunday Editor Santford Martin commented edi torially on the subject, “Wilkes and the War.” Commenting on the part Wilkes is carry ing out in the war effort, Elditor Martin said: “Wilkes, along with other counties of Northwestern North Carolina is doing its full share in the war program. The county has sent hundreds of young men into the military services, other hun dreds have entered the war production plants, shipyards and obtained employ ment on war construction jobs. “The people of that county have pur chased thousands of dollars’ worth of War Savings Bonds and Stamps, contri buted liberally to the USO, the Red Cross and other war emergency funds.” And we appreciate the following com ment relative to our “Food For Freedom” edition to be published in the near future 'The Journal-Patriot announces the ‘ early publication of a large special edi tion designed to encourage in a practi- - cal way the farm food production and victory gardening program in Wilkes county.” s Editor Martin’s editorial was concluded with the following comment: “Wkai Wilkes is doing is being dup licated h the other counties of North tCerfftih”^ Ito town and county, on farms 4k|i4 hf offiOea and elsewhere are going all-out tke Axis. There are no Congress.” ‘ : '''% . —-4—V- _ maleontents in , - AinttncAtfti ImiIco iJw JT /-• Labor toda:^ is the most powerfuf>inglh g^oup4 the datihn. It can make or break the war "effort Labor leaders, by demand ing their pound of flesh duHng the emer gency, can bring disastrous inflation wbteh would wipe out a half wntuiy of labor gains, together with the savings and stand^ ards of living of every man,, woman and child in the country. It is any wonder* that -Captain' Eddie Rickenbacker has asked labor to make sacrifices along with the rest of us, forego extravagant overtime demands,* help to protect the working rights of men retuim- ing from war, cease disruptive jurisdic tional, strife and make-work tactics; are these things too much to ask labor at a time when .the country is fighting for its very life ? They most certainly are not. The public agrees heart and soul with every word that Rickenbacker has utter ed. Those who attempt to discredit him as a labor hater, will hurt labor, because the words he has spoken were bom when he was very near to death. Men near death think and speak the truth. And Americans like to hear the truth, no matter how unpleasant, V With the coming of spring, promises Goebbels, Germany’s fortunes in Russia will improve. On the other hand, the Rus sians may never give Hitlei[ an opportunity to say: I came, I thaw, I conquered.—Nor folk Virginia Pilot. V In Russia the nazis are falling back “to previously prepared positions.” Most of them some six feet Under ground, folk Ledger-Dispatch. -Nor- A Cleveland investigator concludes that “fat people substitute food for life.” Only last night we saw a chubby brother hav ing an affair with an outside steak.—Rich mond Times-Dispatch. LIFE'S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR, the blessedness of hopi O'the blessedness of'hope! specially the hope we have in God, and of what He has in store for us. While there may be many vain hopes that people try to hold to along the pathway of life, but when we realize that we are living for God, loving and serving Him, then we base our hope upon Him, realizing that He will never fail His people. Praise His holy name. The Psalmist asks himself the question, “Why art thou cast down, I my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?” Then he exclaims, “Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my coun tenance, and my God.” (Psalm 43:5). There are many conditions and many things that would cast our soul down as we journey through life. Discouragements come, disappointments come, failures on our parL and on the'part of others come; tests and severe trials come, along with strong temptations from the devil to for sake God and His cause, and to go in the way of sin and wickedness. However, as we pray, grasp the promises of'God, hold to His mighty hand, humble ourself and keep close to the cross and down at the feet of Jesus, we can say to our soul, "Hope in God for I shall yet praise Hin who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Again we can say with the Psalmist, “But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and (Psalm 71:14). What blessedness there is in hope based upon God and His holy Word! How up lifting, strengthening and sustaining! O how it prepares us for battle against wrong! How it equips us for the onslaughts of the enemy! How it keeps us in the midst of gloom, severe temptations and fiery trials, and keeps us going on in the footprints of our precious Savior! Hope saves us from despairing gloom. It sus tains us when demons seek to defeat and devour us. Hope reaches up and takes hold on God when everything seems to be going against us. Perhaps it is not until all hope gives wav and is gone that people commitsuicide and sink into despair^ However, if they .would say to their despairing soule, “Hope ir God,” and lay hold, on Him and Hii promisee by ^ple faltit, they would come out as conquerons instead of going down U utter despair. life’s better way is that oF »- ■ HOPE.” ' MMi otti.- eli'i ia Mhistime aad fort. , i BVST afirrtd it Vtf- trao tlmiPwo didn’t into > looking fUUi^ ^ - yoR tdll to Vi. Pznrton, «1h» wa« IQZ, tb« hdttTbd •Mr, SnglJwd'.y f-4.1 ON smT viUunNO 4 ’ ili6 “Ptod T6t BVeedom" edl-i tlon tho pnblisSdn Vn |>lan!tl#g for tte near fntu'ro is rifebt down our auey. in facC we art n.rti.'t (don't be anrpllMd the Better adds a “T" on a word ^ tbis Bentence).^^' ■'7 '' We were not raiaed on a farm, no,t even Jerked up. . We jerkSd oanelf up. ; - We know. ^solnethlng about farming. - f . We hare bean cbf»«d by mad bulls, kicked by oirneiy horses, hit In • the solar plexus by plow handles, dired on rocks In shrl low swimming holes, been stung by stinging worms and "saddlers”, chased away from hornets’nests, got molasses candid in oar' hair, had frostbitten feet and trefted them with, steaming pine needles, lugged newborn calves a half mile from the frrthest comer of the pasture to the hern on the very worst days (alwrys), got mad «t horses and used them for punch ing, bags, had stone bruises, pdlsoii Ivy and b%en thrown off horses’ backs Into soft beds of blackberry briars and thorn hushes. , So, as pny fool can plainly see, we qualify as dirt (no ‘‘Y’’) far mer. Never will forget o-ar first horseback ride. Induced by en older brother to climb aboard the bareback mare, we rode her to the creek for weter. On the way back the mare, encouraged by a lash from a rein in the hands of said brother on another horse, took off . . . When the mare took off, we couldn’t get off, .\nd held on for deer life, end every yard the mare traveled life seemed dearer still. On went the mare to the barn. WtoikUmedw : Standing once thought was a s«re.^S^jrt», W* started with a slfngi^otattk atiidii ;p^bies to bopiban) a hdmiit’a; nbat before, the Infantry-adrah^' tojwipa it out. : * Jirt having the^ correot^riiige, Uu) Brrti pebble, inttead pf af^lk- fi^et:a naat, hit ^ki^Uaih. on which' It was auspendad.' add f that, wo learned qplckly,- fs ak; way to soften up the enany foi'' direct attack if the entg^ is a nest of hornets. Without I warning , a^ horpet sipped out of the nest, covef^ the 75 yards in nothing flat, and struck us between tjio eyes. Whf t we have always wonder-1 ed is how a hornet can ^ that! fast backwards, having heard that • a hornet’s stinger is located In the I extremity of the stem. If one can travel thrt fast backwards, deliver us from getting In the way of one flying front end first. It wouldn’t need a stinger. It would go through whatever It hit. Having lost the first roand of the attack, we changed our strate gy, waited until the protective cover of darkness enveloped the scene, and with incendiaries de stroyed the nest, hornets end all. A YARN ENTITLED “IT’S NOT THE PALL, BUT THE 8UD-' DEN STOP, THAT HURTS’’ And while we are on the sub ject of farming, let us tell yon abont an incident at a molasses boiling once upon a time. Molasses bojllngs nsed to be wonderful social events in the fanning communities. On this occasion a group of ns ’teen rgers of both sexes were do ing amateur acrobatics on a Boft pile of ground cane. Somersaults in various modes were the stunts under way and ;CoQi under the shed and Into the sta- we tried a backward flip in,dou ble. By that time we were al most a part of her. (No, not the part you think) Once in the stable the mare stopped, naturally. We slid off and led the mere outside, Jiack In, outside again, and inside again. The reason for this going back and forth was to get a realiza tion of Just how small we were. The mare’s back lacked only about three Inches of reaching the top of the door as she walked In end ou^i qt^. wa..gptjn ble time. . i But there was little light and' we didn’t know we were on the | brink of a gully about so many feet deep. ) It seemed we traveled at 'least a hundred yards straight down before the sudden stop when our head struck the not too soft bot- tona of the gully. | ’That hurt. Our head was pushed so far down between our shoulders that some of those who saw us for the next two weeks said only our hair PAllfollVE For gQllp moEmnmm OUVEaMiniUlOtS 9® 5 For .rt\N OCTAGON NEW AND IMPROVED 21® POWDER-Lge. Size, 5for21^ OCTAGON—. TOILET SOAP—3 cakes for |,2® OCTAGON— CLEANSER-can Department Store, “North Wilkesboro's Shopping Center” 9 are On thousands of farms Reddy Kilowatt, the Wired Hand, is doing "^^the work of the Hired Hand now at war. This stout and tireless fellow is today rendering dis tinguished service on the dairy, poultry and crop production fronts as well as in factories and homes everywhere. Lettuce, tomatoes, okra, beets, not to speak of strawberries—fresh from your own garden. You will get some thrills—and probably some ca- louses And with the advantage of electnc eration and modem home canning methods you will save some money. PuXn ;^rbeltoained to meet G^emment miotas Let’s help save it where we can and let s help produce it where we have^the land and the determination! VisU Any Progressive Seed Dealer For Advtce On Your Victory Garden 1 I- - tyfnitu,'.V
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