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3. CA*m aad JULTOS 3, HUBBARD
SUBSCRIPTION RATES;
One Year |l.60
Six Mentha — 76
P'tHB’ Months .50
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
Entered at the i^t office at North Wilkee-
bero. North Carolina, ai Ncood-clasa matter
^OBder A.-t of March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943
Labor Six Days—
This get to work movement Governor
Broughton put on in the state brings to
mind a part of one of the Ten Command
ments.
“Six days shalt thou labor . .
Many ministers preach on the first phase
of the commandment, which says “Remem
ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy”, but
neglect to say much about laboring the
other six days in the week.
“Six days shoult thou labor” is just as
much a command of God as the other part.
And now when religious liberty and all
the other good principles of government
are in danger, it is doubly important that
people labor to achieve victory over the
forces of evil.
And we should not forget that the Bible
also says “By the sweat of his brow man
shall eat . . . ”
V
Bonds and Taxes—
The public has a great fear of the with
holding tax which now goes into effect,
thinking that they will have to pay 20
cents of each dollar in wages or salaries
received.
This misunderstanding has come about
by the publicity which has come out of
W ashington.
• The withholding, tax„;njerply replaces
the income tax which persons would have
to pay anyway.
In many cases, wage earners with de
pendents will pay less under the with
holding tax than they had been paying un
der the victory tax.
This fear of. the withholding tax has
caused people to slow up in buying bonds.
The withholding tax is nothing to be
afraid of—it is merely the income tax on a
pay as you go basis. It is the tax you would
have to pay on March 15 forthe past year,
except that you pay as you get your mon
ey.
By paying as you go, you will not have
a big income tax bill coming due all at
once. The money you actually receive will
be yours to pay your expenses and t^ buy
war bonds. You will not have to put aside
a fund with which to pay your income tax.
This should mean more bond buying, be
cause when a wage earner draws his pay
he will know that the income tax on that
money has been paid and that he has the
remainder tax free.
Few Casualties—
From the Winston-Salem Journal we get
the following edtforial with interesting in
formation about war casualties:
Most families in this country are look
ing forward to the next great drive against
the Axis with optimism tempered by dread
of heavy American losses. So far the loss
of life and limb has been considerably low
er among American forces in this war than
in the last war, although the period of ac
tual hostilities has been much longer.
.The reason is, of course, that in this war
the United States has not yet launched an
offensive involving a large proportion of
land forces. In the Meuse-Argonne battle
of 1918 alone, no less than 1,200,000
American soldiers took part, according to
War Department computations. The num
ber of American soldiers in actual combat
action in North Africa had been probably
less than one-tenth of the Meuse-Argonne
total ‘ Casualties in the. Meuse-Argonne
action, whidh lasted 47 days, were 120,-
000, or ten per cent of the number of sol
diers engaged.
Also, the United States Army and Navy
have been spared in this war anything like
the influenza epidemic in 1918, which
took almost as many lives of soldiers as
did actari combat. In the Army, deaths
from all toUled 57,600 from bat-
tie. caiiiW, including ac-
8,000, fwa total li«t of 115,-
to 10,000 for a grand m *186,
deaths in tlie armed fo^€» inJIL917-i8.
S^f Some other sfeilistica of 1917-18 Are
follows; %, , -V.-
» Of every 100 Americans in the unifofi^,
two,died as a restfit of battle.or disease
" For every man killed in battle, six were
wounded. Five of the* six recovered sufft
ciently to return to duty. The advance of
medical science should make the proper
tion even higher in World War II.
The casualty rate for officers was high
er than for enlisted men. The American
air arm did not really get going until near
the end of the war, and the battle* death
rate among officers who reached France
was almost 2 1-2 times as high in the in
fantry as in the air service. .
About one in every two menTn the army
uniform in 1917-18 was sent abroad. Of
those sent abroad, two in three took part
in battle.
As against 126,600 deaths, from all
causes in 1917-18, the Office of War Infor
mation reported Sunday that the casualties
in our a.rmed forces since we entered this
war totfil 91,644. This includes 16,696
dead, 21,828 wounded, 31,679 missing,
and 21,641 prisoners.
In the Army missing list were about 10,-
000 Phillippine Scouts and 6,000 other sol
diers from the Philippines. It is believed
that by far the greater number of these
are prisoners of war, so that perhaps only
about one-third of the Army missing must
be considered as dead. On the- other
hand, hope must be abandoned for probab
ly three-fourths of the Navy missing.
These estimates bring the total number
of battle deaths in the two services to be
tween 30,000 and 35,000.
In this VI ar the United States has seen
565 days of hostilities as against only 200
days of actual hostilities in 1917-18. The
battle death rate words out to less than 62
per day so far in this war as against 275
per day in 1917-18.
In studying the above figures, it must
be remembered that deaths occur also in
civilian life. The latest available figures
show a death rate of about 3,500 per 1,-
000,000 men between 20 and 35.
Borrowed Comment
BABY PICTURES
(Reidsville Review)
A lot of soldiers are going to be made
happy by the War Department’s latest rul
ing about V-mail. This permits the trans
mission of pictures of children bom after
their fathers left this country for foreign
service, and also of babies under one year,
who in many cases were too tiny to have
developed personalities and individual
characteristics when their fathers saw
them last.
The picture can include the mother “or
other person” holding the baby. We sus
pect there w'ill be few “other persons” in
the V-mail photographs. What fighting
men want is pictures of their wives hold
ing their children—the combination for
which every father is fighting.
LIFE’S BEHER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
MUTUAL INFLUENCE
1 would not have you give my .son
A drink of liquor, beer or wine.
Nor have you cause his feet to run
In ways of sin on any line;
I would not have you wreck his soul
For all the diamonds of the earth.
Nor keep him from his highest goal
For what tke richest man is worth.
I would not have you wreck my girl
For all the treasures of the seas.
Because, to me, her life’s a pearl
That’s greater far than all of these;
A gem that money cannot buy,
A name that’s more than riches great,
By which she has to live and die.
On which depends her hope and fate.
I’d have you treat my son just right.
My daughter as the fairest queen.
And help them reach their grandest height
Far, far above the vile and mean.
I’d call you then a noble man.
Or woman high on honor’s roll.
And pray as only Christians can
God’s richest blessings on your soul.
So if I’d have you treat my son
As one of noble, royal worth.
And have you treat my girl like one
Of highest rank or queenly birth,
I then must treat your son likewise^
Your cherished, precious daughter too
And help them gain their goal and prize
Where wisdom owns and crowns the
true.
m
SNOOPSR.
m
OB; BOYt («, BOYt OB, BOYL.,
Tint iras tli^ beadllDe wblch
«ppMF«d over a daily newspaper
article telling abont the birth o{
triplets—tbree sons. ^
And after irhift >e put In tble
cplumn laat Thuraday, we are In
clined to make some kind of ex-
Ckunations in triplicate.
It anyone wants to run a gos
sip column, they cad run it, but
Us & Company will have no part
of it.
' That squib about the married
man and the local girl seen in
Winston-Salem a week ago Satur
day night has caused • plenty of
grief. ,
One man writes a long letter,
bragging on us, our column and
how much better^ we ere than the
so-called contemporary column
which appears in the Monday is
sue.
nio&g wtth my ahine da it.”
»“Me neither! I tiny
ahput ^my naipe on ' no'-IMiell!
wortleA abodt Is may-
merted *Io Whom
DalightetlJ#^
bui now I aniR
PhychplogY,’ PbHofogyy bMi1F-“
^Practlcat • WoUier ;> “Stopj
The letter made us feel good,
until we got to the bottom and
the P. S.
It said please find enclosed five
dollar bill. That is how much'I
appreciate your column.
A second P. S. said ‘‘Will you
do me a little favor? Call my wife
and tell her it was not me seen In
Winston-Salem, etc.’”
Only thing wrong was the man
forgot to enclose the five spot.
Another letter had a different
attitude. It said; “Keep quiet
about that Winston-Salem busi
ness or I will ”
Another said he was supposed
to be working that night but was
not through no fault' of his own
but how was he going to make his
bitter half believe it was not him
which was seen?
Another said he was drunk and
in jail but was going to have to
get a court order to prove it.
And the rationing board want
ed to know how we got to Win
ston-Salem and why.
From now on we stick to facts.
The whole incident reminds us
of the yarn about the colored
preacher who had not been paid
his salary in months. Before the
sermon he announced that the of
fering would be taken and that If
the person who had been flirting
with another man’s wife did not
give five dollars he would disclose
the name of the guilty man. In
the offering were twenty flve-dol-
Igr biltt.l ^ '• • ’
The preacher did not know of
any guilty party.
Neither did we when we had
that little squib in last Thurs
day’s column.
Now we hope you are all satis
fied it wasn’t yon. Because it was
not anybody.
U Blevini;
hod Mr«. W. Mv ProRt
virtt«4 Biflvint
Lanrreoce Handy
Odrdbit, from
jfS., viilM Mr,
pareiRa, Jllr,''.*ndAlr«. YJ
ffe'.:
Cdtfdm nd Mii
mnm VMlted Mrs. H»t*
'.'SBd Blevioo
to help, f«ed, house or give mr
’ilploTmoat^ to my minor son, Desn
;Hl^is. urib Is Ji sheers W, or
ei^m^ehild of ttrnlly. , ^
Aeyoae vkbittiig ute lev
arranged for yoft a thorough' UMVntxT'nleht
daraology, P»^Io- ief; gon; obrttan .Wevlnsf'Tiien-
gfi gdneral domeRtic hurtle-'
oiogy.”
Spri^lV
Ifenis Of hterei
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad :Handy end
little son, Jimmie, of Bichmond,
Ky., have been visiting Conrad's
parents, Mr. and Mra. T. P. Han
dy.
Mrs. Clay Caudill and • litUe
daughter, Thelma, have b^n vis
iting Mr. Caudill’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Caudill.
Mrs. Major Caudill spent Sun^
Mri/ Preemea Belt. of^Pkie^
plains, is spending ..a fev diys
vlih Mr. Beil's igirents, Mr. and
Mrfc W.'B. BeU.'-y ,
Mr. and M». Claude Bell and
little, son, Bmce, at Winston-Ss-
have been visiting Mr. Bell’s
parents, Mr. and’Mra'W. B. Bell.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Msndy^s lit
tle son, Layrie, spent Priday with
his ‘grandmother,' Mrs. W. M.
Pruitt.
. ‘ V
COTKW
Foreign consumption at cotton
has declined eac^ year since 1939.
Consumption in this country has
increased from 6.9 million bales to
day night with Mr. and Mrs. M.. n,2 million bales.
^T^ls to notify the pnhMe hot
thig re«p«Bt .viU he proseented ;
Route 3, North N- C.
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CO.
^WtLUAlfS.'Mfr.
• BEAR#
FraBie Sei^
GOOD USED CASS. TRIK^
AND TRACTORS ;
Easy Tenm
• Comidete
Body Rebuilding
Will Pay Cash for Late Model
Wrecked Cars and Trucks
Electric and Acetylene Weldinf/
’Phone 334-J
SERVED HLM RIOHT—
The tightwad, out of town on
his wife’s birthday, sent her a
check for “a million kisse#’*as
a present.
The wife, a little annoyed at
his thrift, sent back a post card.
‘Deer Jim: Thanks for the per
fectly lovely birthday check. The
milkman cashed it this morning.”
DIREXTr H.ANIJIJNG—
An elderly man put a dime in
the tambourine, then he asked the
girl in charge: "What do you d.i
with this money?”
‘Give it to the Lord.”
'How old are you, young lady?”
‘Nineteen.’’
‘Then you don’t need to both
er,’ said the man as he recovered
his dime from the tambourine.
‘I’m eighty-seven, so I’ll probably
see the Lord before you do.”
I\ THE TREXCHBS—
A couple of colored boys were
crouched In a shell hole while a
berrage whanged away over their
heads.
‘Looka here. Rastus.’’ said one.
ABOUT
Most everyone is familiar with the difficulty that is encountered
in buying merchandise during these war days . . . what is true with the
many other lines id true as to hardware . . . but fortunately, so far, we
have bean able >to carry a nearly complete stock . . . and in order to do
so we have had our buyers on the go much of the time . . . visiting this
manufacturer and that manufacturer and picking up hardware stocks
wherever and whenever we found them for sale.
But getting down to the point . . . we want all our patrons and
friends to know that we are leaving no stone unturned in order to have
on hand as complete line of hardwaf«, farming implements and the
many
oth^ neettithfesfaiwitp^te^sefcbt^iPfrom
stock of merchandise . . . and if we do not have it in stock, we’ll get
it for you if it can be obtain^ anywhere.
We want tp‘ thank all our patrons for their co-operation in the
past, and we want all of yon to know that our best effc'rts are not too
good for you; that we will do all that we can in the future lo supply
you with every item of hardware and building material possible under
present war conditions.
Hr
Jenkins Hardware Co
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Reddy Kilowatt’soys, *Tm Really busy these days helping
with the freezer lockers and the home canning. It m^es me
feel mighty bad when jars ore broken or food spoiled be
cause someone didn’t know whether to screw the lid down
tight or leave it partially open when processing. This is an
important part of corning and well worth a little study.
Why not check witih your Home Demonstration Aoent or
the Home Service Adviser at our office?
DUKE
‘‘Electricity Is Vital IhWai-Don’t VIam It!”