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Food Preservation Workshop
Since the United States was plunged in
to the war by treachery of the Japanese,
the policy of The Journal-Patriot has been
to place victory first, and this newspaper
is dedicated to the cause of victory.
It 'was our privilege recently to issue a
"72-page edition primary to encourage
greater production of food and to give our
readers the very best information obtain
able on methods of food production. We
are grateful that our efforts have met with
public approval.
With the food production phase of the
war effort in our county well under way,
we now turn our attention to a related ac
tivity which is just as important.
The food produced on gardens and
farms, and more especially gardens, will
be of little use except in the growing sea
son unless it is properly canned-; dried
or otherwise kept in good condition for
later use when the gardens are not pro
ducing.
It is with this in mind that The Journal-
Patriot joins with the Civilian Service
Corps, the home demonstration agent. The
Duke Power company and the Liberty
Theatre in sponsoring a Food Preservation
Workshop, which will be held at the Liber-
Theatre on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday of next week, 9:30 to 11:30 a.
m. each of the three days.
Miss Addie Malone, home service spec
ialist of Duke Power company and whose
ability is well known to many housewives
in this community, wdll show those attend
ing the best methods of canning and dry-
[or$wo thfiir be tor
' bewtfkW. ■
Pabll8her’iCAu3i#ary,'*'‘li
d^euleWd weel^ newspaper;|or the
l_y^e»^ the ualiQn, in the of
canded the followteg cemnwait, wj[rich.
tpe only North Carolina news Jteins in^^^
state-by-state recording of happening8s,k
the newspaper business:
“D. J. Carter and Julius C. Hubbard,
. publishers of the North Wilkesboro
Journal-Patriot, are undoubtedly being
complimented by the advertisers and
riders of the May'6 edition of this very
fine semi-weekly newspaper. It was one
of the largest editions (72 pages) ever
published by a non-daily newspaper, in
"North Carolina. It was devoted to war
activities on the home front, and more
especially to the production of food.”
Borrowed Comment
ISSUES BIG “FOOD FOR
FREEDOM” EDITION •
(North Carolina Press)
On Thursday May 6th the Journal-Pa
triot, published semi-weekly at North
Wilkesboro by D. J. Carter and Julius
Hubbard, issued a big “Food-for-Freedom”
edition—72 pages in nine sections. It car
ried a wealth of valuable general and ag
ricultural material, was attractively illus
trated, well edited and nrinted. The co
publishers and their helpers have been re
ceiving much commendation upon their
achievement.
A VEXING ISSUE
mg.
Every person interested in conservation
of food should plan now to attend at least
one of the three sessions. It will be open
to all, regardless of where they live, and
will certainly be worthwhile. You are in
vited, and urged, to attend.
Schools At War Award
In our opinion, award of the School At
War flag is one of the most distinctive
honors conferred on North Wilkesboro
school during its history.
This flag was awarded the school for
participation in war activities; in other
words, for helping toward victory.
The award recognized the school’s out
standing record in the war effort as does
the army-navy E flag for industries mak
ing war materials.
Included in the war a(ftivities at the
school have been the purchase of students
and teachers of more than $17,000 in war
bonds and, stamps, collection of over 140,-
000 pounds of scrap metal, liberal support
the U. S. O., Red Cross and other organiza
tions, Civilian Defense work and other
things directly related to the war pro
gram.
And this valuable ^work in the war ef
fort has been done without curtailing or
injuring the scholastic program of the
schools, which have maintained highest
standards.
Victory in this war is the foremost ob-
jactive now, or should be, of schools and
other institutions. Without victory we
shall have no free educational sysfem and
our children will be taught what dictators
want them to know and nothing else.
The award to the school was made in.
the commencement Thursday night by J.
B. Hix, was bond sale chairman in Wilkes,
■who highly praised the school’s record in
war activities.
In order to attain early and complete
victory, and fissure freedom and oppor-
T toldty for our children, it is necessary that
(Elkin# Tribune)
The Carolina Motor Club has been spon
soring page advertisements in many of the
leading newspapers of the Carolinas.
These advertisements make interesting
reading, and may be responsible for North
and South Carolina being left out of the
recent rulings that seek a still further cur
tailment in gasoline consumption in this
area.
The advertisements’ chief line of reason
ing is that the system of distribution is
honeycombed with faults that are prejudi
cial to the interests of the motorists in this
area. It is openly charged that gas, truck
ed to Charlotte and a number of other cen
ters, is waybilled to Wilmington and back
again without making the trip. The idea
being to collect additional toll for trans
portation. And further: it is charged,
with proof, that motor fuel, is being divert-
! ed from this drastically rationed area back
into Tennessee which enjoys a four gal
lon allotment; that transportation facili
ties are not being used anything like to ca
pacity to bring gasoline into this territory;
that many distributors have more gas stor
ed than their customers are allowed to
buy. And there is a long list of other com-
plarfits that are weighty enough to demand
investigation by somebody.
The petroleum administration admits
that these charges are partly true but
seeks to argue plausibly why the faults
cannot be avoided. But at least there is
the consolation that the Carolinas escape
the pang of further curtailment which
stopped at the Virginia line. We can thank
the motor organization for that.
North Carolina motorists are ready to
take gasoline sacrifices and restrictions in
stride, when they are satisfied that such
restrictions are necessary to the war effort
and when they tell they are not being dis
criminated against. They are quite will
ing to give up pleasure driving and hoof it
to such places as they cannot resist. But
they like to think they are not doing this to
satisfy the whim of somebody in Washing
ton or to help the motorists of a neighbor
state out of a bind.
This plainly is a complicated and vexr
ing issue, but it is neither too co.mplicated
nor too vexing to merit a sincere effort to
iron out the faults. That is all gasoline
users in North Carolina are asking. Prove
to them that all the far-flung restrictions
are necessary and equitable and they’ll
shut their sassy mouth.
According to the records North Carolina
gasoline stocks, as of April 28, were 98 per
cent of what they were on the-correspond-
ing date last year when there was no ra
tioning. That means that motor fuel is not
scarce in this State but that those who need
it can’t use is for geographic reasons.
every person support the war program
work and with money if possible.
^ School ebadren of America have been of
Ijatieb lielp already, and it> evident that
the war emfltlnaes through another year
Ships of the Royal Indian Navy guard
ing India’s coast and on patrol and convoy
duty in 1942 traveled a distance equal to
33 times around the’ earth at the Elquator.
On January 1, 1943, there were 25 mil
lion A ration books tor passenger cars in
the bands of consumers, 6,409,000 of the
B books, and 3,600,000 C books. ' *
•MiliH!
rJ>WJGHT
mcilou
So ai^ like we baa
just tnjuj^ocvcl ... and
hid die. b^, eh T
■We haven’t murdered eny-
body yet, but jwrt Wait nnkO
and if ve meet with the so-called
columnist who wrote that junk
und«r the heading of “Subnormal
Suppositions”.
tWi yoa’U have a murder to
talk about, and we guess well hide
the body. We just know it wouW
loob so bad that we would not
want anybody to be shocked look
ing at it.
mate much differ;^
■hhi name, Th« im^ftaiit tht&i^
^died, in pMwt wd awful IS^
naess, out somewhere on a waste
of sand. But ba a rtarleas MIence
tea tfaouasad ntilei fnwi home.
•■Mtertng in e«ition-*, read an pb-
“hrtijiaejn the momliig corny
mnnlque._^TliBt .wai'tlt^Now he
Ues therd,' There cmmnled beside
the twisted wreckage that yester
day wag hip shlp^rldtog high in
the sunlit heavens. Ute fln4 bead
and the shhiing lace and the
broad sheuldpra ramath only a pie-^
'-iaig
jitafibv.
tt«r. ^TIuMt uarfhUshed le^ In
btense. ^ ttosa l^r;for
1m fiitttre.*^Jtoddlu hsev.at -the
field |i«i( UtpUgand mjl^'aertMS
w«uNI^\mndefhgg>.gattlda,^ some-
fteffS him fleseef' The
Wm-AA-
iMt ai^ Just,
thai, 3( cdipid only
mkrtnd
oesip into .vihelr thinking, " the:
stark, the terrible rtaii^ of IV
every petty, selfish Interest,'’"
■ ■
• ,aoet tatJ^wting years of a -wmr
, "The ')Bf#i|wo or ^wee Irtata^l
ihsitrsha « t*eiaty.P8e.i" -
WANNA FIGHT?—
Incidentally, we're hopping mad,
and we wanna fight. We71 meet
that “Slooiper Stupor” guy half
way or just any old way.
We’ll knock his eye teeth out
backwards (through the back of
his neck). We’ll black both eyes.
We’ll pin his ears back and then
knock ’em off. We’ll take him
apart to see what keeps him from
ticking. We’ll stomp him into the
rest of the dirt and filth. We’ll
hammer his brains (no, not brains,
head), into pulp. We’ll . . .
Well, to make a long story
.shorter, we’ll meet him anywhere
and with no holds barred.
We suggest Saturday evening,
eight o’clock, at Bad Eye’s place
in Rattlesnake gulch, and he’d
better be there.
But if we’re not there—don’t
wait.
PRICE Ql OTAITO-VS—
Once upon a time while loafing
about a jewelry store, we asked
just out of curiosity the price pf
a diamond ring. $100, the jewel
er said. We whistled and picked
up another and asked the price of
it. “Two whistles,” he said.
I'ATRIonc WO.MA.V—
In time of war I’ll never cheat,
Black market food won’t cross
my lips:
I'lVuat taas butter, «uggr,.
For God, my country aind my hips!
HAVE YOU HKARI) IT?
This happened a long time, ago
'but maybe some of you younger
people hare not heard It. A
Wilkes farmer drove to town in
his buggy and for once bought a
new suit of clothes. On the way
home he decided to make it a
surprise by wearing his new suit
and he stopped the buggy, got
out, took off his old clothes,
threw them in the creek and
washed himself. When he was
ready to dress he reached into the
buggy and found no clothes.
Someone had stolen them, and he
bad already let his old dirty
clothes float down the creek. Af
ter a moment’s though he climb
ed into the buggy seat and said
to the mere: “Giddap, I’ll give
her a real surprise.”
10,000 WORDS PER DAY—
A magazine article says the
average person speaks about 10.-
000 words per day. We know
some women far above the aver
age.
V
Late Spring Has
Delayed Crops
Raleigh.'— The annual spring
crop report released by the statis
tics division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture states that the
late April freezes killed or de
layed all truck crops,' reduced the
prospective peach crops to one-
third of the 1942 production, and
delayed general crop preparation
by about two weeks.
Commercial early potatoes were
hit severely, and yield prospects
were materially reduced, the re
port states. Despite the late frosts,
however, indications for most
small grain point to a yield larger
than average except for wheat,
which- is expected to be 14 per
cent less than last year. •
Production of commercial straw
berries is less than forecasts of
March indicated.
Statistician J. J. Morgran said
that replanting of damaged crops,
such as com, cotton, is completed
and that planting of other general
crops is advancing rapidly.
SEA MYSTB»IX»—Wllifi THEY
EVER BE SOLVED?
Another in the popular series
of true stories of weird voyages,
phantom ships and bloody muti
nies taken from musty record? of
maritime courts, sea-soaked log
books and'tales of old-time sail-'
ors. Look-for the latest story in
the June 15 issue of The Ameri-
3sn Weekly, the big nuigsilne dis
tribute^ irlth The .Btltbaore .Ssm
American.
vlth your,aew*li(
ture that looks out upon a quiet
Uviag room on a shaded street on
eternity away. “ Y
Last night, in those agonizing
Even in. Ahe United States,
^rhere diets are comparatively
good., a privnm of adequate con
sumption will require Ijl to 25,
per cent more eggV.than In pre
war days; 40 per cent more toma
toes and^citms fruits; 70 to 80
GDOilHiain
per cent more taita 01111 milk pro
ducts; and 126 to iSO per cent ^
hours of unspedkaUe'isolation, he Is*?? vegetables
went through a thousand deaths
without the one thing that might
have (helped a little. That of a
familiar voice. They would be
swept away. They would sacrifice
anything and everything just to
make themselves worthy of that
boy. They would hasten to forge
an instrument of revenge that
would wipe from the earth the,
traffickers in war. (
If the people who have basked I
and prospered, and walked secure
in a lend that had felt no more
than the shock qf a fourth of July
fire cracker since 1865 would un
derstand about that boy, they
would wait no longer for'govern
ment promulgation and the urg
ing of rallies. There would be
no one left to think any more
what the war might do to his
BUY MORE WAR BONDS
Body ; R^bfiil
wai”‘ps» cwh fop u
WreekelSffs sod'
EUectric and Ace^eae
’Phaiie'334-J
mere personal Interest tomorrow 1
or the next day.
People would rise up and de
mand that their government take
anything and everything neqded.
Make them work. Feed them the
common fare. Blackout every
city. Take away every last penny
of profits, and all privileges of
hours or wages. Render uncer
tain every commonplace comfort
and easy security just to avenge
that boy.
He died last night', you see.
There’s no way to get around
that. The pat of a friendly
hand. Many people died last *
night. In their beds at home, sur-1
rounded by those who loved. He ;
died in utter desolation, in an un- j
maglnable loneliness. 1
The pain was terrible enough,
but then there had to be that
dreadful, burden of thought in ^
tholr^dhSB«''1»sP~»oiufni. Mora f
and Pop. The flowers blooming
again in the back yard. The good 1
97,652 BANS PEBPLE
ANSWntEB THE CALL
'The April W»r Loan goal of $13,000,6M,0M mu
exceeded by 46%! Banks were called upon to hdp
in the drive and voluntarily, 97,852 bank men and
women (1 of every 3) gave their
time, with no a^ed compen
sation . . . America’s 16,060
banks can be proud of this
reewd of unselish patriotism.
m NORTHI^TERN BANK
Resources Over $8,000,000.00
jIBtattfirTfederal Deposit Insarimce Co'rporation
>■
JUST LIKE
CHANGING
A LAMP BULB!
Help Conserve Precious Tires!
Gasoline! Motor Vehicles—
BY REPLACIlVe
vavH awN
FUSES...
It’s Easyl
. . . simoat as simple aa replacing a lamp bulb! You help youraelf, too, be
cause you can reatore aerviae. immediately without waiting for a aervice man ...
who may be delayed in theae war daya. Each serrice- ctU you elmmate con
serves critical materials needed for Victory.
PULL COPJDS FROM OUTLETS-If
you’K not certain what cauaed the fiaae to
blow, diaconnert all apfdianca and eaten-
tion cotda.
TURN ON MAIN SWITCH —If the
new fuae Uom agein, and yon cannot lo
cate the Iroable, cell your elcctticten.
•$URN OFF MAIN SWITCH—Stand on
e dry auefece.
REMOVE BLOWN FUttf^RepIace ibc
Mown'fasMBth -a uasf otta of the aaina
titt ,.. btanch
circuita,;' ■ Y--
EXAMINE ALL CORpS-Befm tecoii.
necting or eKtanaioa coed?'«ak*
any neceaaary repatra.
DObTT ySE SUBSTlTUTESv^Ncm
tubaiiBite a eoiat for a'faac.an'M i ISM
of^tbo Ugh an aapengc.