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I 9UBSCIUP110N RATES:
YOm YWj; „.$1.60
rSbcrlCanfhs 76
tPoup MontW 60
‘ Ottt'of the SUtfe „.... $2.00 per Year
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boa*. North Caroliiia, m second-class matter
under Act of March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1943
Here and There
Capt. Richard Johnston told of the re
action on the part of fightinj men to the
news of strikes and other complaints in this
country.
He said it was hard to keep spirits up in
‘the foxholes as the Japs dropped their
bombs, knowing that somewhere in the
United States somebody wag quitting work
because they didn’t get all they asked for.
On the fighting front the men risk their
lives for their country. They can keep
their spirits high when they know the peo
ple back home are backing them up.
And while the fighters lay in their fox
holes, trying to dig a little deeper, wonder
ing where the next bomb was going to hit,
they did not have sufficient planes to go
up into the air and fight back.
And at the same time war workers with
the utmost in security from foreign ene
mies refused for petty reasons to make the
necessary war materials.
Our fighting men appreciate real work
and concerted activity on the home front.
They feel that if we fail they have noth
ing to fight for. ,
And they want to win a complete victory
and return to a free country. Fighting men
are not going to appreciate the efforts of
some of the theorists to try to make this
country over along socialistic lines.
_V
Pulpwood Needed
Otften we think of pulpwood only in
terms of making paper.
But there are numerous other uses.
Pulpwood is a vital war product which
goes into many things other than paper.
Newspapers of the country are calling
on the people to cut more pulpwood.
Since we have a market here, we want
to urge that Wilkes people cut all the
pulpwood practical now.
in order that you may know .something
of the value of pulpwood in the war effort,
we submit the following information from
the War Production Board:
“Your average pulpwood tree yields
enough nitro-cellulose to provide smoke
less powder for thirty-five 105 MM. shells
or 7,500 rounds of ammunition for a Gar-
and rifle. Your cord of pulpwood will
make enough smokeless powder to fire two
rounds in a 16-inch naval gun. Parts for
Army and Navy planes are shipped in pa
per containers made from tree.s. Resin
treated w'ockI pulp is molded under ple^-
sure into airplane parts.
“Over 2,000,000 cords of pulpwood are
needed in 1943 to package food, supplies
and munitions for overseas shipment.
- “Great quantities of pulpwood are
nece.ssarv for making rayon for para
chutes; medical dressings for creating sick
and wounded soldiers and sailors; blue
print paper for the planning of submarines,
ships and plane-, paper for shell cases;
and a thousand other new and old wartime
^•‘Woodland owners! You have a vital
oart tQ play in supplying Uncle Sam with
pulpwood. Serve your country with saw,
axe team and truck.
And from the seme source we give you
the following pointers on how pulpwood
^■■?C:ronnger trees of b_e«e_r,u^ity
and a sufficient number to make a
and.
Cut low
stumps! Cut your tree top where
Do
heavy
stand.
ririule cutting destroys the’
careful .selection of your trees .s .m-
Tt means fastei; growth, frequent
po^nta Vetter trees and more
fukmf Yotir county agent
nMMiey .eWi toe
e« !*»• pwiaces will as-
•»Good foreet prwuf'
sure steady incoine ii^'continuQU?.
of ttaiiber.”
M
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Icial '©f the OP^i
Throw Tik^ Out
.Lou R. Maxoh, high o.
has resigned with the declaratipn that:
.“There it a strong clique ih'OPA who Be
lieves that the government should manu
facture and ’ distribute all commodities.
They are using the war as a means of fur
thering their reform ideas and will con
tinue to use honest men in OPA as a front
for their efforts. ^ 
“If this group isn't curbed, we are going
to lose a good slice of the very freedom we
are fighting for.”
Mr. Maxon’s charges are similar to
those of leading retail distributors, who
have reiterated many times that the dis
tribution industry faces total disruption
unless the pet theories of extremists are
relegated to a back seat.
With inflation gaining inexorably, the
spectacle of one of the principal agencies
established to combat rising prices experi
menting with the doctrines of socialism,
while the destinies of a hundred and thir
ty million people hang in the balance, is
intolerable.
The production and distribution system
in this county has been developed to a
state of perfection never before attained
in, history. The result has been evident in
every American home. Why, in the name
of heaven, should this system be scrapped
when w’e need it most? If given a chance,
our farms and factories and our merchants
will feed and clothe the country. They
will do it, inflation or no inflation. The
only thing that could conceivably stop
them would be hopelessly complex domi
nation by so-called “war agencies,” who
would rather see Americans growing in
rows than fighting for victory.
^V-
“Lord Haw-Haw,” broadcasting from
Radio Calais! last August 15, remarked
that, “This has been one of the vital weeks
of the war,” and went on to explain: Its
main features . . . like writing on the wall,
foretell the future—they forecast |the
downfall of a great empire.” Which em
pire?—Charlotte Observer.
9 LIFE’S BETTER WAY i
WALTER E. ISENHOUR-
Hiddenite, N. C.
“LET GOOD ENOUGH ALONE”
It is an old s ying, “Let good enough
alone.” Thi.s is good advice. No doubt
many people have failed in life, or failed
in some way, because they were not satis
fied with good enough, but wanted some
thing better, or something different, there
fore changed ou u;)ations, or locatiori.s, or
had changes made which were for the
wor.st. It .-eems to be human nature apart
from God. or of human nature, unconse
crated, unyielded unto God.
1 have seen churches with good pastors
who were doing good work, and having the
bles.sings of God upon them, but there
were members who were dissatisfied. They
wanted a change, usually because the pas
tor didn’t measure up to their petty no
tions or didn't just pat the man on the back-
and make pet of them, or visit them con
tinually, therefore they voted him.out, or
managed to get him out, and as a conse
quence the church suffered. When a
church wants a change of pastors every
year, it is a known fact that there is .some
thing wrong. Usually it is with the
church, or some member, and not the pas
tor. There are church bosses who are
never satisfied. They won’t give a pa.stor
time to do his best work, or if he is doing a
good work, they want .somebody ebse.
No doubt many a young girl has had a
very fine young man for sweetheart, but
she was not satisfied. He was not as light
and chaffy as she w'anted him to be. He
was not as full of fun and foolishness as
she desired, therefore she turned him
down and started in . with the fellow that
was much inferior. Perhaps the fellow
•that smoked his cigarettes, drank his beer
and liquor, indulged in the dance, and car
ried her about in a fine car to places of
arnusement, and into company that was
worldly, adultrons and demoralizing. L-at-
er she married him, only to find that her
life was wrecked. No doubt the same can
be said of many of a young man. He was
not satisfied to court and marry the noble,
godly, virtuous young girl, but turned fro™
her to some giddy, go(^les3 flirt and flap
per and married her to his own sorrow,
downfall, heartache,^ disappointment, re
gret and damnation. It is well to let good
enough alone, lest one exchange for that
which proves his def#^t in iife. “‘Let good
enough alone.” This is life’s better way.
if joift. 4 eut iiff wtiile a wom»n
&vttou to make it, ItthCer. make oai lor tnty^ hani
Piocketa. nelgHbifttioiod:if
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WE GOT A
We have recetvetf the followiDg
letter:
City
' Woito^us State
Poraot'the Elate
My Dearest Moron: ^ '
I sit myself down with pencil In
hand to type^you a letter, so
please excuse the pen. ' '
This makes ’17% times I’ve
written you. Why haven’t you
answered? But don’t blame ydur-
self too much, because 1 might
have forgotten to mall them. I
am sitting here, 4>ut I am going to
mail this one If I have to sell sec
ond hand chewing gum' to buy
stampi.
We don’t live where we live.
We live where we moved.
Love, I am sorry we are so
close apart. I wish we could be
further together.
We are having more weather
this year, don’t you tfiink? Our
next door neighbor is dead now
and doing fine. Hope you are the
same. Her breath, leaked out but
the doctor gave up hope when she
died. She left a family of two
sons, both girls, one pig, .u sow,
and a husband.
My brother has the mumps and
is having a swell time. He is near
death’s door, and the doctor
thin,ks he can pull him through.
We now have three hens and a
cat. The cat lays in the box and
the hens lay on the floor. .
I started to Colorado to see you
before you were moved and I saw
a sign which said, ‘‘This takes you
to Colorado”. I got on it and sit
for two days and the blamed
thing didn’t move.
'Im mailing' you a winter coat
by express. It was too heavy to
m Belghbot’a babies
Bwallowcfff a pin so we gave It'a'
l^ashton. and-nof It £| o.k. pis'
StaHi hub |lf«
fed bln A blotter, end he is db-
.7^11 hr an en&in^imttie ot-.
on a conier of a
stable in remembrance of
.. yonhi ’ui night mares.become
i^d]|e'hQrii«i. -
''' TODR;J«)R0R‘'
if ^n don’f jift this lob,
teV, let me know/^ I'u um von
another one. H yon think yon
can take lt.‘ read It, but lust re
member,^ I'm perfectly sober and
was the same when I wrote this
letter,^ tlut .is why’I typed 4- I'm
still noT completely, crasy yet,
here’s hoping I’lt be there soon.
JtsT RRmidS: raATiSkE^
When yon get eeasick you don’t
have to worry about what to do.
You’ll do it.
We got fine potatoes in our
garden. Some are big as marbles,
others big as peas; and of course
we have some small ones.
One difference between
Cdnttirxdw^lil the baiW shop
was^asWMTis^*: .wiintod i.''tham-
;POo. not, sire. a. gen-
olae poo‘bf nt^hii^ t eaiLi^rd
■the b«st.-’'_
-Afked > mi©i ysdtordayk’WhbrO
“f'
tM^Yhat L
tlo4i^'tfa«}r Ininps ia a Meltiidddii
rSjitoB.. A paraebtttiit^startsd Yo
ptee down on a Bold, near whieb
lived ait old mountaineer and Ilf-
topii. chlldinn. Qna 9t the young
sters saw Yher paradinte floating
down with a man attaehed to It,
and be ran intb-tbo house yelHag,
“Bilng jour shotgun, pappy—the
darn stork is brlngin''’em full
grown "now! ’’
MAYBE HE OOl’LD-r
’Two privates had Just enjoyed a
large fruit cake from home, when
suddenly one began to grorn.
doubling himself up and then
straightening ont again. ‘‘What's
the matter, Hanb?’’ asked his
buddy. The sufferer groaned;
"That cake I ate. I think Ma for-
man ' fot to shell the nuts in It.” His
and woman is this: A man Is sai-j buddy looked surprised. "Lordy
isfled to makb a reputation for he said, "and can you crack ’em
Yost;
jim Mil
Hnbby comes hieoougMng BoiuA
And meets sbibSdifd the Meps:
‘ Hnbbp^'Wbo are j«»? M'
sm the dssIL' ’■“
a*^h|t-Gli©’ tof'meet you.
mm
v«[U)or in-A*|dirAlia who held
sbidl^'S I|#w toy dbfi
sefaitAtien
INH’’," He fUei-
ly discorersd ft represented the
chenUcsl foi-.eaccliArtae.'
OBA!)^ AS
Asyln^ WSirden—So you think
yon are sanA-SOw. If I glvs yon
your freedom' will you'leave li
quor and women alone?
Inmate—^ftnire wUl,/-
Asylnm Wsrdeif'Yon better
stay here. You’re still crasy.'
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