WlLKESl . ■' ^ . •>-•_ IOM0AY. MAiL IS, !9»^ m Mondayt Mid numdasra Nn^ Carina p\ 9. cAittts^ jutias a hubbabd. . 1'' ' ■'■ ' PidAtiMn ' ^ SUBSOUPTION RATES: Y«ar:. S1.50 Mon^ 76 E6lir.'Mbiith« — .60 Out of the State |2.00 per Year V • , _ ^ Eote^ at ^ post office at North Wilkes- >lina, as second class matter bore. North CaroL—, abder Act of Uarch 4, 1879. MONDAY, MAR. 15, 1943 The American Way Never before has the need been so great for the American Red Cross This year it will reach into the battle fronts and into the countries where the sick and suffering lie helpless To operate this great institu tion through the coming year $125,000,- 000 will be required, a small amount com pared with the huge sums invested in the tools of war. Let us be thankful that we have such an organization, for while it is necessary that the forces of evil be put down, the purpose of the Red Cross is to relieve the unfor- , tunate and to spread the doctrine of a hu man democracy throughout the world without regard to race, color, or religious belief. -V The “Maginot Line of Security In a recent speech on the nation’s post war economic problems. Assistant Attor ney General Thurman Arnold said: “For the pa.st ten or twenty years . . . we have been obsessed with the economics of security. We have been thinking of stabilizing profits, keeping a fool from los ing his money, social security, ironing out depressions, creating a situation waere anybody elsi'’s wife was assured of a com fortable old age. “I ara not opposed to any of these i^eth- bds of* social security or KumahitaVian measures. I only sa^ that if your whole thinking is obsessed with the idea of secur ity, the same thing will happen to your in dustrial structure that happened to the French Army that was obsessed with the idea of the Maginot Line. We must get back to the old economics of opportunity, of taking a chance, which made .\merica great, and I think thi. war is going to do it for us." V Are You Content? In a recent radio address Secretary of War Stimpson put some interesting ques tions to the American people in support of his contention for an army of 10.800.- 000. Following is an excerpt from his ad dress: “It is the duty of every citizen to exam ine into his own life and his own communi ty and see whether production in indu.strv and on the farm cannot be increased enor mously in efficiency, whether absenteeism, threatened strikes, general complacency, insistence of “Business As Usual,” or even insistence on hoped for standards of living, are not going a long way to prevent what could be accomplished by an all-out war effort. If you are content with the pres ent situation and with the present results in industry, in agriculture, and in our civ ilian life, then I suggest that you go to one of our great camps and see our boys in uniform working. I suggest that you read the detailed dispatches from Tunisia and the Southwest Pacific about the fighting efforts of our soldiers. I suggest that you compare your comforts of life with theirs, and then ask yourself again—are you con tent. I hope and pray that it will not re quire tragic disaster to bring our people to a realization of the facts. The great wave of patriotic ardor which was shown so dra matically in the weeks after Pearl Harbor must not fall away into arguments of rights, wages, profits, and relative advan tage of one man over another. “The armed forces, the men who are go ing into actual combat, have placed their house in order. Their spirit and their pro gram are all that patriotism and careful planning can effect. I now ask whether industry and agriculture should not like wise be put on a more efficient wartime basis. When you are driving a team of ^horses and one of them goes lame, you do not lame the other horse to equalize the team. Credit ^ 1 in a “democracy such as our own all people'are to think, to speak, aija to act for themselves there is always ft great variety, of opinions concemtog a number of vital natidnal 'probleihs. But thOre is one issue now before the coun^ upon which most of us are a«reed--that this war must be won and won as quickly as possible. On the credit side of all-out war produc tion so essential to the winning of the war, we have great industries which have turn ed from the production of peacetime pro ducts to the production of ships, planes, tanks, guns, trucks, and hundreds of other war needs with the greatest possible speed. We have millions of skilled workers who are not only performing their regular tasks but are helping the new workers to learn their new war jobs. We have house wives, businessmen, the handicapped, and even older children who spend either a part of the time or their whole time in the war plants. These are the 100 per cent loyal Ameri cans who, while giving up many of the things they are, accustomed to having, are putting in extra time, extra money, and ex tra effort for the common good. They are the people who will win this war and keep its cost in lives and in dollars to a minimum. On the debit side we have those who would make a profit or a holiday out of the war. These thoughless or unpatriotic men and women are not only unwilling to give up the things to which they are ac customed, but actually stay away from their jobs or go out on strike because they want more leisure or more money. . Between unauthorized strikes and un warranted absenteeism, America is losing millions of man-hours that should be de voted to the production of weapons so ur gently needed by our armed forces. The great majority of the American people who are doing their jobs have every right to expect equal effort from those who shirk by staying away from their work without good or sufficient reason.^;, or striking for no reason at all. Resentment toward these strikers and absentees is rising on all sides. It is re flected in the press, at public meetings, and in the Congre.ss of the United States. . V By DWI6BT NICQOLB. «t tL ' ■ H' { m THERE Ig liUCK ' Haa someone ever told you that there la no such ' thing as good luck? Well,-this" U a yarn about all the luck being on one aide. ^ We use to try to play haaebiji. but being endowed with a email stature when a iMtsehaU' player should %e six or more and with up toward'200 - pounds of avoirdupois, we were bandicep- ped. But there never was a more ar dent student of the national pas time. TTr LIFE’S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR, Hiddenite, N. C. You try to get two sound horsesJ' ^ LEVEL HEADS AND BRAVE HEARTS Every country, every nation, needs level heads and brave hearts. In fact, we as in dividuals all need level heads and brave hearts as we go through life. We are in a world of danger because of the powers of .sin, darknes.s, hatred, war and bloodshed, therefore it requires the best there is in us, and the best we may obtain from God, to enable us to be soldiers of the cross of Christ, face the powers of wickedness bravely and courageously and be victor.s f,)r our Lord. In order to have level heads and brave hearts wo must have God with us. He keeps us evenly balanced in our heads and brave in our hearts as we go forth for the right and against the wrong. A man does not have a level head if he lives for the devil, neither does he have a brave heart. Ho is not at his be.st. Oftentimes he is at his worst. Every age of the world needs great lead- cr.s, great thinkers, therefore if is absolute ly nece.ssary for mon to be levelheaded In the meantime such an age needs men of great influnce and power whose hearts are brave. They must face great problems, great issues, great dangers, and if they have brave hearts becau.se they are godly and righteously, then they are capable of leading their fellowmen aright and to vic tory. No doubt multitudes of people have plenty of brains, plenty of intelligence, and great learning, but if the devil has their head and heart, then he is going to use it for destructiveness rather than construe- tiveness. His business is always to destroy rather than save. And what he desires most to destroy is the lives and usefulness of men while they live, and at the end of life destroy their precious souls in hell. Nothing means so much to men and na tions as heads and hearts consecrated un to God. He will lead us in the right way and to life’s best. We believe all the pow ers of wickedness combined can never de feat those whose heads, hearts and lives are consecrated unreservedly unto God. He enables men to think right, to do right, We lived between two com munities, one of which always had a good basebell team. The other had had but little of the game, but the boys there got ambitious when there was mention of a county league and wanted to or ganize a teem. Three of them came to us one night and wanted us to do the managing, and maybe play some. Next day we went out to their field for practice. There were two or three play ers, you could class as fair ama teurs, one good pitcher and one good catcher. The rest played a ragged game indicating little or no experience, even in a sandlot game. After two or three evenings of the lousiest practice you ever saw, we scheduled a game with the neighboring community where the boys really played baseball and always had. We went to their field minus uniforms and had but little play ing equipment. When our motley bunch of boys appeared the home team was hav ing hitting pnctice. The batting practice pitcher was throwing ’em over with considerable speed and each batter was calmly hitting them over the pasture fence some 350 feet away. It looked awful easy. Being manager of the new learn, we quaked in our makeshift baseball shoes and thought of the big score our opponents were go ing to roll up, and how humiliat ing it W.3S going to be have it ‘‘nibbed in." Our players took their turn at hatting practice and couldn’t get one out of the infield. Practical ly every time a hat contacted with the horsehide the best result was a foul lip. It was worse than awful. The game finally got under way. ?s games will, to the taunts of the rabid baseball fans of the home team on the sidelines. W‘ got nothiing in the firs! inning. Rut the surprising thing w.is that the mi.ghtly home team didn’t even get a man of base either. The sluggers who hit ’em over the fence in practice were worse than helple.ss when our iritcher got warmed up. ^ About the third inning our sec ond baseman, whom I put in the game because of his pockeibook and ills .generosity in giving o dol lar on buying the balls, fell out and I had to take charge. .‘U thri time we had two men on base and lit was his time to bat. We hit 0 hot groumier toward the .second lia.‘'eman rnd it looked like an easy out. But providence wa.s with ns as tiie hall struck a pebiile and went wide of the sec ond iiaseman. The liacking nut right fielder wos ready to hold it to a single when the hall strut k a rock, went over his head an! through the fence. Tliat kind of luck held out all through the game. Our pitcher tried to get his glove in the way of a line drive when the home team had the bases loaded and merely touched the ball enough that it changed its course straight into our glove on sft-ond base. The result was we won the game l»y a good margin but we don’t know ’til this day why or how and will lead His people unto certain vic tory. Amen. THEY’KK off: An Englishwom.''n had never been to a hoise race until she came to this country but she had always wanted to see one. She went to the race and el bowed her way to « vantage point where she cou'd stand at the race track fence in front of the grand stand. ■While standing there she. felt something under her dress snap .and slip slightly. She whispered to the woman nearby: "Give me a pin.” At that time the race started and the crowd in unison yelled: “’They’re off!” The woman fainted. Miserable With A HUOCOID? Just ^ I kyeuM Va-tro-iiirf up each R (1) shrinica awoOen mem- bt^ «) soot^ JniiatioiH and (3) helps clear cold-clogged nasal peswges. Frf- low the ooi^dete - rections in folder. Vi mi one for'’4v4Weliir nlBg Harclt 22. l-y p' fy '' ^ -*■ ■ Price Admladatt^; Brown announced saying the “welcome newe^'\te^ American coffee drinkers is’ made possible by the improvement during the last few weeks in the’ impon situation.” The current ration is one pound a person for six weeks. The next coffee sump. No. 26, in ratioii book No. 1, which is also used for sugar and shoes, will be valid be tween March 22 and April 25, Brown said the Increase amounted to 16 per cent and ex plained that “coffee Imports for February have exceeded estimates by more than 20 per cent, adding substantial amounts to previous depleted Jenuary inventories of approximately 14 5,000,000 lbs.” The army and other govern ment agencies have co-operated' in improving the supply situation, Brown said, adding that the in- crepse ‘‘exemplified one of the basic principles of OPA policy, that of relaxing rationing restric tions wherever and just as soon as circumstances peririlt.” V lii^s Md r^6^«d ^ Oull- i.BwbciF’ot yean. -In ' hiR.^.i’liii!te id' years. earllsr life M WB8.epij|agi^..to the. iuailB'eei'" In Ipniana, to whichrautte hk ' firom Ndrtir CkN>Rila"ln e^^ inanhocM. He had also lived lit the State of Washington. ' ^ ' «■*' Surviving in. addition to his widow and children are two broth ers, Fletcher Harris, of Seattle, Wash., and Walter Harris, of Los Angeles. California.; one sister, Miss Metta Harris, also of Seat tle. ' Dr. Harris was a nephew of Richard L. Harris and Mrs. R. G. Pnanklin, of Elkin. V- Nine-tenths of the feature mo-| ticn pictures shown in Barbados! were made in the United S'tate.s. To Keep Your Shoe* Repaired It Helps Uncle Sam! See Us For First'-Qass Repair Work TENTH STREET SHOE SHOP N. A. Howell, Prop. Palmyra, Pacific isle 960 miles southwest of Hawaii, was for a century, and a half an ‘‘island without a country”. Now it has been taken over by the United States. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as administra tor of U»e estate of Epmia Jane Henderson, late of Wilkes county, N. C., this is to notify all persons haring claims against said estate to present them to the under signed, whose address is North Wilkesboro, N. C., duly verified, on or before the 2^d day of Feb ruary, 1W4. or this notice will be plead in bar of their right to re cover. All persons indebted _ to said estate will please make im- m^iate settlement. ‘This 22nd day hf February, JOHNSON SANDERS, Administrator of the estate of Emma Jane Henderson. 3-29-M THE ASS THAT STARVES WITH HIS MASTER Both are hungry. For both there is not much promise of food. Why? Because they live in Greece. Because in Greece the Axis took every scrap of food and every source of food—and deliberately left the people, the dogs, and a few useless burros fo starve and to die. Remember the farmer of Greece as you eat your Friday evening sup per. Remember him the next day, as you market your produce. Re member—and buy Bonds. All the U. S. War Bonds that you can. Buy Bonds with every cent that you don’t actually need to run your farm. Buying Bonds will not only help win the war, but will provide you with a nest-egg for the future. They are the best investment in the world today. They never sell for less than you paid for them. They increas# in value every year. In ten years, they are worth a third more than you paid. And you can cash them any time after sixty days. Buy Bonds DOW—from your bank, post office or rural mail carrier. 1 I MAKS SVERY MARKET DAY BONO DAY • ‘THIS ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED BY • Manufacturer Of Lumber For Defense WILKESBORO ROUTE 2 NORTH CAROLINA .-V. / ! 1 .V