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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.
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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."
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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.
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By DWI6BT NICQOLB. «t tL '
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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.
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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?
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■ 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.”
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lii^s Md r^6^«d ^ Oull-
i.BwbciF’ot yean. -In
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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.
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Nine-tenths of the feature mo-|
ticn pictures shown in Barbados!
were made in the United S'tate.s.
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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.
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