»■
tWE-TOUR
Cu«lin«.
mi lULniS C. mJBBAlffi.
r^J^nia&ksp^mH
...flJO
.76
— .60
62.00 per Year
Public Library—
The Wilkes county public library report
for the past year reveals some interesting
figures about its growth.
But statistics rarely ever make good
reading, and we confine our comment
here to commendation for the civic mind-
td people who made the library possible
and the urge that the people of the coun
ty use its facilities more.
The library was started by the collec
tion of a few books which were donated
and by loans of books from the State Li
brary Commission.
The library, which is located in the
North Wilkesboro town hall now has more
than 4,000 volumes.
In reading there is education and cul
ture.
Why not relax a few minutes each day
for some good reading?
It will cultivate the mind and broaden
knowledge of the affairs of the world.
V
Women In Service—
Enlistment drives for women for the
army and navy have bogged down.
Some unfavo'l-able publicity which was
more gossip than anything else has hin
dered recruiting efforts to secure women
for desk jobs and thus release men to fight.
The WACS and the WAVES are mot un
like other groups of women. In getting to
gether a large group of women it is per
fectly natural that some without highest
moral standards would be included.
If you got together a. crowd of women
anywhere you would have the same re
sults.
According to the present rate of enlist
ments, the women branches of the service
are not going to get the required number.
There is talk of registration of women
for service. In fact, Mrs. Roosevelt com
mented Monday that registration was a
definite and likely possibility.
It would not be surprising to learn that
a registration date has been set to record
the name and address of women in the
United States and that machinery for their
draft into the service will be set in motion.
FBI Does Amazing Job—
The Federal Bureau of Investigation de
serves highest praise for an almost perfect
job in the war effort.
Since the war started sabotage damage
has been held to an almost irreducible min
imum. There has been no organized sabo-
•tage in the war effort. ,
The accomplishments of the FBI are
more amazing when it is considered that
there were thousands of enemy aliens in
this country at the outbreak of the war.
But the FBI under direction of J. Edgar
Hoover, who is a genius if there ever was
one kntew the names and whereabouts of
the most dangerous aliens when the first
bombs fell on Pearl Harbor.
By midnight of December 8, 1941, 1,700
had been arrested and now the total has
passed 13,000.
The FBI chief should be granted the
congressional medal of honor for an al
most perfect job.
The accomplishments of the FBI con
tinually must be inspiration for headaches
for Hitler and Tojo. who banked so
beavily^n things they were going to do in
the United States through their agents.
dOvr aukjwA th1& tnne'cfn^-»ot f
aewr ijrtlfle 0^ aJverton»«nt
which appeared OB page eight of The
We^ava ey«^^«fi®nce in the
of our iaem to ^tiiah the
fo^es.Of Gennnnyi«f.»P«0 andjtal^. ^ ^ r
This natfbn is materially able to defeat
and eruah ita enemiea. :
'if But man alone is'not able'to satiwac-
torily solve .the'41‘eet problems of the
world."-’ . .
i To do this job; man must ^ve the divine
guidance of God.
War-busy plastics products are looking
to peacetime markets. Some novel
scheduled for tomorrow s customers;
table eletbe lltat een be rirapl..
' ^ by wiping, with a wet cloth; (2)
;r-^°.,.ta Ure. end aphobtory fabrics;
piaSu »»An.d*nrro8ive window.
ioTm *»>aii8ittceBt non-corrosive
plastic bathtubs;
etesmif t»^^*** ** ....
jlstery >^hrics and blankr
forbes.
guidance oi uoa. v- r.-’-. .f. -i ^
The material might of our nation can mvE cs
1 + V. , la order to settle J mue
defeat its ene y.» rnd eaWng eean'io .
But unless we as a nation turn to gubjecu to write - - ‘IBnBMMBi
and incorporaw the Golden Rule as a part  ■we have made
of our lives, there will be no lasting peace
The Christian religion is still the great
est power on earth and will remain so re-
gardless^of the armed might of nations. ,
But Ihere is altogether too little Chris
tian religion.
On the other hand there is altogether
too much greed, selfishness and other at
tributes of the devil. * ^
There is too much neglect of the church
of Christ and too much effort to accumu
late through greed, wealth,, political power
and other things entirely of the world.
Man cannot live by bread alone, and
neither can a nation exist and prosper en
tirely on material wealth and power which
is of the world.
People who wanted to worship God
founded the United States, and built its
government orf the principles of Christian
religion.
We as a nation have strayed entirely too
far from those principles, which had their
foundation on the teachings of the Master.
By military might we can win the war,
but unless this nation turns back to God
we can have no assurance that the destruc
tion of war will not be with us again in a
few years.
War is the natural result of sin. War
grows out of greed, selfishn4ss and the
craving for worldly power. ,
War does not gyow out of service to fel
low man; war is not the result of worship,
war is not the result of prayer.
Too many Americans have neglected the
church, have neglected religion, have neg
lected to read and study the word of God,
have neglected to seek through prayer the
guidance of a divine power.
Now practically every town in America
is worried over the juvenile delinquency
problem, or should we say, youth delin
quency.
Cities and towns are passing curfew
laws to keep ’teen age girls off the streets
at night. Delinquency is rampant and
moral standards are breaking.
The greate.st power for the solution of
the problem is closer contact with God on
the part of every parent in America.
The solution to the problem of securing
a lasting peace is through a revival of
Christian religion, and the spread of
Christianity to the people of all the earth.
„„ —
subjects to write abditt. .
have mada
^ager than wo-will "write 8)0j
^orde or more oh any Shbject.
Only stip>ulatton ih that jAib-
jecta must be known genertlly.
For Instance, we couldn't he ex
pected to write 300 words about
John Doe’s dog. in - Kalamhimo.
Send In the subjects, first come,
first used.
1,000 V-Mail letters on films weigh only
four ounces ... a single sack is equivalent
to 37 full postal sacks of ordinary mail.
Borrowed Comment
'hehe'*||t:^~
abteks. »athlnk*»~ -
II "How much hestiK it woui*
, on and other jinln
sTlwir'^jiiaw' thettyteclat"
“ -
number (hhfore the p^ily
gatea)^^ ttorliln’, Hoddiifo!
'WK9U pore t aRpJlr,tPi bam't toy*
IfOKea'c'Bfh|td'tool! ^
Fehrt ’dshuy'
Jgyi Wt tl??
M.-oie.MF yipsr.
Tretr ,^6ni ^^hyr
iWirempr on aai^
yoirt'tools og^
4nd'’ l&
time!'
•work. ^ _
..tpm
D^ntsaaftt (to barber'
sbbtt
bly settled to fie #Mr‘h «tolr,
bBtb#.litoerad^
eralir and'tbmiJmi flown
ftoe^lBUtoa had*
WAMDbiKiNG 'ruu!;uu'rs-^
Man has been described as «n
animal with an apT>etite, an ego
and 76 bad habits.
A Chinaman called the dentist
for an appointment. "Two-thirty
all right?’* the dentist asked.
“Yes, tooth hurtee all right. What
time I come?"
‘‘Just the same In the. army as
in school,” growled the father
who received a cablegram from
General MacArthur which said:
“Your son got three zeroes to
day."
The new file clerk got mad and
quit because the auditor asked
to see her pink slips.
The Saturday night drunk was
fumbling with his key and trying
to get the door unlocked. A
neighbor walked up and inquired:
“( an I helpr you unlock your
door?” '‘No, I’ll unlock it all
right. Just hold the house still
'til I get this'key In."
FUABBICRGASTKIJ—
A young lady of the town who
is usually quite glib and has of
ten talked herself Into a tight
spot and out again, was tripping
up the street chewing her gum—
without a thought to her name—
met Captain Johnston who gave
her a nod and a smile, as he does
everyone, but she was so over
come—as she afterwards told us
“I stopped dead still In my
tracks, with ray mouth open—^he
was so grand looking—and I gulp
ed a time or two and said Uh—
goody do J’ ^ ^ 1, f *
^ j’fr' ”
Are, On
To Serve You And
Their Nation!
They have to be—their task Is to con
tinue indis’pensable services' to regular
civilian customers while at the saTne time
extending efficient electric, gas, and
transportation services to war plants and
war workers. They have to do this with
ar\ additional handicap—a handicap they
are proud to have—that of having 740 of
the'r fellow workers in uniform.
{
POWER CO.
TO GIVE US THE LOWDOWN
(Statje.sville Daily)
Jimmy Brynes, war mobilization direc
tor, promises shortly to reveal the results
of his thorough study of the gasoline and
fuel oil situation, a study and survey un
dertaken to ascertain present and future
demands, the available supply, the possi
bility of new sources and the question of
rationing what is available for civilians.
The result of Mr. Brj^nes study will be
awaited with particular interest, because
it will be the first reaT evidence of what
may be expected from over-all authority,
and also because the people, all of us, ir
respective of color or creed, have confi
dence in Brynes’ ability to searA but the
■facts, and his honesty in presenting and
applying them. , ' ,
There has been all too much confusion
of tongues within administrative circles.
Harold Ickes says one thing today and to
morrow some equal hlgh-bracketer de
clares that it ain’t so: That is not only cal
culated to confuse but to breed distrust.
It is to be hoped that the Byrnes survey
will reveal conditions that warrant a
loosening up of some of the current incon
veniences, If on the contrary, what he
finds does not justify relief, the people.will
be in a better framb of mind fd remain aii,
der the yoke, now that competent and’
dependable spokesmah..gives them the low
down on it. A,' lot of current and past dis
content would have been’'removed if this
confusion of tongues had not been the or
der of the day., . , ,l ”
Clean
For SaJe at Once!
MANY MAKES AND MODELS—FROM
1931 A Models Through Good
I • 1941 Models •
4
uti! ?■ tin 1 ,bi«8
WE ALSO HAVE SOME GOOD USED