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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1943
lAemorials and Poppies
Saturday will be poppy day and we are
all reminded by the little red" flower that
men have died that we might live in a land
of freedom, liberty and opportunity.
Let us all as we wear the memorial flow
ers remember the supreme sacrifice made
for us and ours, and let us pledge anew
that we shall support with all diligence the
millions of men who now fight for the
preservation of this country and all that it
means to us.
Somewhere today Americans have died
for their country. Their country means the
American Way of life, with all its benefits,
privileges and opportunities.
May it not be said that they died in vain.
But their sacrifice would be in vain should
the people ever lose sight of the fundamen
tal principles which have made this coun
try great among the nations of the earth.
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Patrioti*m to Whom?
This country has jus,t witnessed the hu-
militation of our government by American
coal miners and their leaders in war time.
There is no use trying to overlook the
facts—^the men walked off the job in de
fiance of requests of the President of the
Uhltekf tStertps; they refused to
work at his request, and only returned to
work on orders from the head of their
union.
This flagrant disregard of public wel
fare, and establishing agencies of govern
ment, was but one step removed from open
revolution in war time.
And yet the head of the United Mine
Workers, according to news reports of
May 4, says to the men who struck. “Your
record of patriotism can ne^er be challeng
ed.”
Food Conservation
In Wilkes county more food will be pro
duced this year than ever before unless
weather conditions are drastically unfav
orable.
Our people have responded as never be
fore to the appeal to prepare to produce
their own food. Record field crops have
been planted and there seems to be victory
gardens for every home.
Now that the planting phase has start
ed well, .it is time to begin a campaign of
impressing upon the people the great ne
cessity of canning and otherwise preserv
ing surplus food for use next winter.
A surplus of food going to waste in
the gardens does not help the war effort.
The home should have an ample supply
of food canned, dried or otherwise put up
for future use, and any surplus above that
amount should be marketed in order that
it may not be wasted.
We anticipated a surplus of vegetable
foods locally during the growing season.
This surplus must be conserved for future
use. Food is too precious to waste.
Some communities are establishing can
neries to take care of the situation. In
this connection the Charlotte Observer
carried the following editorial comment;
“Community canneries are being estab
lished where wise person.s now realize th|t
a grocery store doesn’t necessarily contain
groceries and that ration coupons are not
will be only a few months until winter
arrives and prudent persons who have veg
etables in the summer are trying to arrange
to A»rry some of the production over when
Victory gardens will be only a memory.
' “Interdependence is the basic factor be
hind the community cannery. Rich and
rtoor aristocrat and plebian are utterly
in one thing. They are have stom
achs of identkai pattern.”
swl iproaps of homes in most
C0B. work^^out their canning prob-
II
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*r; The hohse ^
' bounty serve (is
‘tton to ciny %,|PP«ild foir Ipb?
tion to ail the fiomest and understTOq
the ladies of the. clul^ are doing a,very
good job? ^ ^
The home demonstration agent, MlSf
Annie H. Greene,,will be glad to help any
housewife with their food conservation
problems, and the extension service has
some very helpful booklets of instruc
tions. ' ’
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If some of our Congressmen and Sena
tors would go to the front and fight the^
Japanese as hard as they are fighting the
Japanese-Americans in war relocation
camps the Pacific war probably would be
over within a few more weeks.—Winston-
Salem Journal.
V
Mr. Churchill has admitted that taking
over North Africa was Mr. Roosevelt’s
idea. Then give him credit for the suc
cess of it for if it hadn’t turiied out that
way, he would have been cussed aplenty.
—Statesville Landmark.
V
More than 40,000 patents and pending
patent applications of enemy nationals of
enemy-occupied countries are under the
control of the Alien Property Custodian,
as compared with 17,000 seized in the last
war.
V
During 1942, American forces stationed
in Australia and New Zealand received
throught reverse Lend-Lease 80.^ million
pounds o*f fruits and vegetables and 30
million pounds of beef, veal, lamb, and
mutton,
V
LIFFS BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM
A READER
As author of this department, “Life’s
Better Way,” which The Journal-Patriot
publishes from week to week, I wish to
give space to a letter from one of our
readers which we greatly appreciate. The
letter follows:.
the hms eufterlng .U«
and Compeay presenU this «ol^
umB tor Upproral, or 4lte.
We know the reedera of, thla
newspaper deMire aomethlng
bettor than they hare’been 'get
ting under the guise of e column.
Let us say in the beginning
that any similarity between what
appears in this column and actual
happenings, past- or present, is
purely none of your business.
One reader of the ao-called col
umn which has been appeared in
this newspaper and Which will
continue to appear on Mondays in
spite of us, said that every col
umn had a lesson in
The only lesson we have ever
found in them is the knowledge
that newspaper space can be wast
ed.
It that plain, or is it? ^
We have been been told that
the other column, which boasts
(yes, we said boasts) of 12 rdad-
ers, has already declared war on
us. So if war Is whet they want,
that’s what they’ll get. And you
know how Sherman defined war.
It shall he our policy to enter
tain our readers, and we shall
welcome contributions, or guest
writers, at every opportunity. If
you don’t like our writing, write
something yourself.
We shall have something better
than stale jokes which had their
origin before Noah’s Ark. This
is hot an insinuation, it is just
telling the truth.
And if you ever object to any
thing this column has, we’ll -refer
you to the complaint department.
There you will receive the in
formation thoj" the person respon
sible is out.
May 10, 1943.
Dear Mr. Isenhour:
Today I will take time to drop you
a few w'ords to tell you that your col
umn in The Journal-Patriot ha.s been
a great help to me. Maybe you didn’t
^know that it is such a help and guide.
perhap.s no one has written and told
you. I think that ‘Life’s Better Way’
should be read and obeyed by all. So
I hope God will guide you and help
you to give us great things. I always
look forward to your department
every week. It sure is a big help and
guide. So many people don’t even
think how they could live a better life
and have peace to their souls. I hope
this will help you to feel that you are
doing a good deed in writing ‘Life’s
Better Way.’ May you keep on going
as you have been. May God’s riche.st
bles.sing.s re.st upon you and guide you
daily.
A reader of
“LIFE’S BEM'TER WAY.”
Dear Unknown Reader—I greatly ap
preciate your very encouraging letter. It
indeed gives me a lift and a boost. You
are the first reader of this paper to write
me that you appreciate my department,
“Life's Better Way.” No doubt there are
hundreds of others who read my articles
from time to time in The Journal-Patriot,
and greatly appreciate them, but they
have only been silent readers. I have la
bored to give my readers the truth, and to
show them life’s better way, and it does
me good to know that my efforts are not
in vain. Thank God forever.
My articles, poems and messages go into
quite a number of publications, and I ha^;^e
many, many thousands of readers, all of
whom I love. My great desire is to do all
the good I possibly can while going
through life, and help every pilgrim reach
heaven that I can. I have a (iepartment in
the Union Republican of Winston-Salem,
captioned “The Quiet Corner,” which
thousands of people-read each week. Many
of my readers of this department write me,
expressing their appreciation, quite a num
ber of whom send offerings to help me in
the work of the Master. This is very help
ful and encouraging. For more than thir
ty years I have preached the Gospel and
given my country God’s truth from both
the pulpit and the press, which. I hope and
pray been the means of many thous>
ands finding life’s,better way heavenward.
Amen. Pray earnestly for me.
TRAVEli .AND SONG—
We offer you this bit of com
ment about songs and automobile
driving:
Thirty-Five Milhs An Hour—
"Highways Are Happy Ways.”
Fifty-Five Miles An Hour—"I’m
But a Stranger Here; Heaven Is
My Home.”
Seventy-Five Miles An Hour—
"When the Roll Is Called Up
Yonder I’ll Be There.’’
Eighty-Five Miles An Hour—
-..^-..'ivtolted' Mr-
Nm. h. »
-. Mr. and Mr*. D. K.
W. Tvmer, Mn. P.
Mikaea Mtutoarat and Erelyn Tor-
- v“-^l5,.|n6r attended church aervtcd st
Graisy Knob In Iredell
Sfuaday..
Mr. and Hi*. Connad
spent Snndar Tisitlng rklStfrliVIcl;
Pnriear. ■ '.('r?#
Mrs. W. jr. Carlton has return
ed home fro^ Wlnston-^dem.
Mrs. J. M. Nichols and family
attended the home jcoraing rt
Friendship church, Sunday.
Misses Geneva Green and Marie
Turner spent the week-end with
friends and relatives at StonyL"
Pork. ^
Misses Ruth Barnette and Ma
rie Yates were dinner guests of
Misse Mozelle Turner, Saturday
evening. ' ,
Mrs. ,Ben Harrison has return
ed to Washington, D. C., after a
visit with her mother, Mrs. J. P.
Crysel.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beshears
visited Mr. Beshears’ father at
Summit Sunday.
Mrs. ReeeS (jentry and Nelda
spent Friday with Mrs. L. T. Ber
nard.
Mr. Ebert Gentry was the
guest of Tommy Turner, Friday.
Woman’s Society Meets
The May meeting of the Wo
men's Society of Union Methodist
church was held with Mrs. D. E.
Turner Tuesday afternoon with
the' vlce-ipresident, Mrs. J. P.
Crysel, in charge. During the bus
iness session a quilt was sold.
Mrs. D. B. Turner was in charge
of the program, which was on
‘‘Child Welfare.” Mrs. Howard
Owens and Mrs. Worth Blackburn
gave the devotionals, and Mrs. J.
P. Crysel directed prayer. ,
Little Beth Hines sang two
numbers. Mrs. Ruth Warren
gave atU interesting talk on
"Child Labor Safeguards In War
Time.”
Mrs. J. P. Crysel was delight
fully surprised during the social
hour with birthday gifts. Misses
Marie Turner and Virginia Ma-
haffey served refreshments to 12
members and six young people,
guests of the society.
a voice we loved is stilled, a place
is vacant in his home, that never
can be filled.
Written by
MRS, JOE SPEARS
READER Sfi
Just to show that this new
column is needed, we print here a
letter received by this newspaper
yesterday addressed to the Editor
of the New Column, and which
goes to show that some of the car
ryings-on of the so-called column
do not meet with public approval:
“Having read the front page
Monday, I turn to my favorite
column of The Journal-Patriot—
‘namely (sez LIT Abner) Local
.Absurdities.’ There I am struck
in the eye by a picture of a gent
I never saw before. What is
his business at the top of my
favorite reading matter? He
looks like he’d murdered some
body and hid the body. If that is
supposed to be ‘my favorite auth
or,’ excuse me if I giggle. I’m not
in favor of this new idea—chang
ing the contents of ‘this here'
column. I PROTEST".
That, dear readers, is plenty of
evidence that Us and Company’s
new column will be a relief to a
long suffering public.
The picture which appeared in
the .Absurdities column Mohday
was a misrepresentation. The
printers who set up the heading
cut oft the bottom part of the pic
ture, which, incidentally, had the
numbers across the chfest.
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Group/riding is a familiar conser
vation prartice these days and
group cooking — the planning of
meals so that one operation serves
several purposes—operates on the
same important principle.
Save fuel and food by
careful planning of
oven meals, proper use
of the thrift cooker,
and other economy
practices made possible
by your efficient gas or
electric range.
HOME SERVICE DEPARTMENT
POWER COMPANY
In Memory of Re'v. J.
M. Par$ons
The Teath angel came for Rev.
J. M. Parsons. Who died at his
home near Walsh post office Mey
9. 1943. He was born Sept. 28,
1860. Died -May 9th. 6:15 a. m .
being 82 years, seven’months, and
11 days. old.
He was ordained a Baptist min
ister in 1891!, being a minister of
the Gospel for about forty-seven
years. He had been in poor
health for several years. He Uvqd
to a ripe old age and quietly slip
ped out to his peaceful rest while
a Heavenly choir s.^ng.
Once more the mighty hand of
God in his infinite wisdom has
taken from among ns one of his
followers, who had fought
good fight and had kept the faith.
We do not understand. We can
not understand, but we know God
doeth all things well. We well
remember how sad we were at the
dawn of that spring morn, and
while it brought a sad farewell to
ns, his was a happy good morning
to Heaven, meeting and greeting
loved ones who had preceded him
to that fair city. -
He leaves his «ged widow and
sevep children to mourn his lo
We miss his so much, but would
not wish him back.. Lets be faith
ful to the end, anil he will meet
us at the Station of 4lory, where
the gates are pearls and the
streets are gold. i » —
A preciotfa one from us is gone.
BE FAIR TO YOURSELF AND TO YOUR
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Get Rid Of
Don’t forget that we are equipped to keep
your car or truck in perfect steering condi
tion, thus saving your Tires, Parts and Cash.
If your car or truck is not steering properly,
and has the SHIMMIES, bring it to us. Our
BEE LINE Equipment, operated by an ex
pert, can soon remedy the trouble.
WE St^feCIALlZE IN StftAmfttENlNG
WM0»ED
We Are Also In Powtidh to R^tih the Front End of
.Ydtir Car or Truck, ahd We Have in Stock King
Bohs and Bushiti^ii For AH Makes. Be
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