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MONDAY, DEC. 6th, 1943
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Christmas Availing
We use a portion of this column to urge
that you do your Christmas mailing early,
or your friends may be disappointed when
Christmas arrives.
The mails will be heavier than ever this
year. Another difficulty is that the postal
department is short on manpower and
.transportation facilities. Mail cannot be
moved in great quantities as rapidly as in
former years.
We presumed that the postal authorities
knew what they are talking about when
they urge that you mail your packages and
cards by December 10.
The warning has been given plainly,
and if you want that Christmas mail to
get to its destination .before Christmas,
there is no time to waste.
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Buy Christmas Seals
The accomplishments of .the Tubercu
losis association in fighting one of the
worst diseases in the wcrld are so well
known that it is hardly worth while to
make additional comment.
But we do wish to point out that the or
ganization is supported by funds'from the
sale of Christmas seals, and for that reason
we urge that you buy seals in large quan
tities this year.
If you have received seals in ^the
mails, send your contributions in return to
Mrs. Jack Swofford, Wilkes chairman for
the campaign^. If you have not received
seals, send you contribution anyway. It
will do as much good in fighting tuber
culosis, which is the main objective.
Cut a Cord of Pulpwood
When the big artillery shells of the A. E.
F. fell on Sedan, France, in early Novem
ber, twenty-five years ago, the East and
West armies of the Kaiser were cut in two
and the Kaiser’s goose was cooked.
Then came the Armistice.
De Fuerher’s goose will be cooked one
day, too, and then Tojo’s. How soon de
pends on us at home as much as on our
fighting men. For they can’t win victories
unless we keep them supplied with more
and better equipment than the enemy’s.
Planes, ships, tanks and guns are es
sential needs, we know, but just as essen
tial are ammunition, equipment, food,
medical supplies and a hundred other ma
terials of war needed in each day’s battle.
One of the essential products for hun
dreds of items of war today is pulpwood.
It goes into the manufacture of smokeless
powder, surgical dressings, mine covers,
cargo parachutes, vests for aviators,
weatherproof maps, containers for blood
plasma, first aid kits, emergency rations,
just to name a few.
Tons of food and equipment are shipped
overseas each month in waterproof boxes
and bags made of pulpwood which has re
placed millions of pounds of critical
metals.
Now the nation, at war, is suffering from
a serious pulpwood shortage which can
only be relieved by the famers and wood-
• cutters in pulpwood producing areas like
ours.
We cv^’t all work on the planes and
ships and tanks and guns but every able-
bodied man in the community cyi give
them life by the fruits of his axe and saw.
Remember the Victory Pulpwood Cam
paign slogan;
“Cut A i3ord of Pulpwood for evwy Lo
cal Boy in Service". ^ ^ '
T^rculows takes an American life
jvaty niae minu^f when the Christmas
Campaign rtarted'it killed at the rate
am RWn 8 Vi winuXeB.
•fLepoir Newa^l^ic) ■ '
Thfiw is" much ^peculirooh ebbUt tH^
probability of Turkey gkng Active
taute tiy the United Nations. Ahrea^^, ac-|:
cording to im lAssociated^ dkfpatch
the ’Turks-are giving sed^ asrfstahca^^
the AlUed anhed forces.^f ^ ^'
With the advance of ®® Bt*ssian Army,
which threatens the enti^^ Balkan regto^
the entrance of Turkey kit^he
would afford the Allies bases for attaijp
in the BaHuma, would he
tance. Nevertheless, it would be foonsfc;
to conclude that the action of Turkeir
might precipitate peace. ' ' •
Certainly, there is Uttie justification, so
far as we can see, in extravagant assertions
that Turkey’s belligerency wpuld “be more
important than the Soviet attack, the
bombing of the Reich or the'invasion of
Italy.’’
The fact is that the offensive of the So
viet Army is of paramount importance and
the bombing of the Reich is a close second.
The invasion of Italy represents a military
development that equals, if it does not ex
ceed, in importance the entrance of Turk
ey.
The observation is made that the Turks
“will open to us territory from which to
stab at the very heart of Germans’’. Tlus
is additional verbal extravagance. Turkish
belligerance will assist in the overthrow of
the Axis throughout the Balkan area, but
SO far as the “heart of Germany’’ is con
cerned, we are much closer to it at bases
in England.
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Tuberculosis deaths have mounted in
the warring countries. Latest available
figures show that the death rate in Eng-=
land and Wales increased 12 per cent in
1941, and in Scotland to 20 per cent over
the 1938-39 mortality.
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More than 600,000 Americans are now
suffering with tuberculosis, and the dis
ease claims the lives of 60,000 in our nation
every year.
i LIFE’S BETTER WAYj
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hiddenhe, N. C.
VICTIMS OF DISCOURAGEMENT
It seems that some people are victims of
discouragement. Undoubtedly this is the
means the devil uses to defeat them in
life, especially if he sees that they have
the ability and sincere desire to accomplish
something good, great and worth while.
However, where one has ability, aim, plan
and purpose to live nobly «nd bless mah-
kind, and prays and trusts God as he
should, he wins out over the discouraging
obstacles he meets along life’s pathway.
Praise God. But it is sad to see those who
should be bright, burning and shining
lights for our God, and who should be real
leaders in the clause of righteousness, and
should be blessed soul-winners, and should
be helning their fellowmen heavenward,
plodtling through life defeated themselves
and accomplishing nothing toward the sal
vation and uplift of others, all because of
grim discouragement. God would not have
it so. God’s words to Joshua, “Be strong
and of a good courage”, (Joshua 1:6), can
well be applied to us. God would have us
say with the Apostle Paul, “I can do all
things through Christ which strengthened
me”. (Phil. 4:13).
If the discouraged would pray much and
wait upon God, it is unknown what they
could accomplish in life. Listen to the ex
hortation of the Psalmist: “Wait on the
Lord: be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the
Lord”. (Psalm 27:14). It takes patient
waiting and lingering in prayer before God
to receive courage and strength oftentimes
for the conflicts, tests, temptations and
trials that would utterly discourage and
defeat us. ' .
Discouraged soul, look up. Yom- help
must come from God. Remeihber He is
still upon His throne, and that He still
hears and answers prayer, and brings
courage to His dear children when they
.call upon Him sincerely, and will tarry nn-
til He speaks to their heartt.'lief use to.ke
overcome through discouragement It is
a trick and plan of the devil to defeat your
life, and to defeat the livM of oth^; and
to keep you out of the kingdom of heaven.
Everybody who has made a success in
life at something good, great and worth
while have had discouragements to con
tend with.^ But they kept on in the right;
way, and kept sticking to the right and
holding to God^ hene®; This ia
life’s better way.
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.DWIQHT
HlCHOLf^
t ml
and
Same peorte biStvtt in dfadinp.
wM Mhfir irnp
«U of Mtinf eskM'WUl
np to fltitt the 1)Uaket''ms
SWBO, ir
7ha Uttla bor'in sebool deftm^
krpodnte Sa. who foee to
Bchobl with a tahla on .bis face.
Some people olaiiBrtb be self
made. In wbkh msr roliere
the Lord of a-8Teat xpspiMUlbUlty.
naniriNG dfaab;.li[N;hgaN—
It ie told aronna toehrtbat two
people from ’way Imclr *ore
talking and one aald that be had
heard "they ere fighting a war’t.
Ibe other wanted to know what
the fighting was over.' “I think It
Is a woman :hy name of Pearl
Harbor”.' •
SOUND ADVIC®—
Don’t be what yon ain’t.
Just be whet yon Is,
If yon is not what you am,
Then you am not what you is.
If you’re just a Ittle tadpole.
Don’t try to be a frog.
If you’re just the tail.
Don’t try to wag .the dog.
Yon can always pass the plate.
If you can’t exhort and preach.
If you’re Just a little pebble,
Don’t try to be the beach,
Don’t be what you aInX
Just bo what you Is.
A OLIMPSD OF BEAUTY—
'Some men”, writes Louis
Tucker in his book Clerical Er
rors, "can see the beauty of a
tree^ some men love well-tiUed
fields, or sunrises and sunsets,
some love flowers, the see, good-
looking people, a good dog,'or a
good horse; many love nothing”.
•Now and then, though,” he
continues, "there bursts upon
some sordid soul the synthesis of
beauty; ^and suddenly he re
discovers paradise . . . Every con
valescent, walking out for the
first time after a long illness,
knows what that is, and every
man who has escaped death by a
hair’s bTjsadth sees it; but most
forgj^jtglila’;. , . .
WHY THBYt>BSas—
The belief that women dress to
please men is a masculine fatuity.
They don’t dress to please any
body. A woman dresses to make
some other woman- burn np; the
triumph Is achieved when the
other woman betrays herself by a
certain glint In the eye, a certain
cattiness of phrase couched in
terms of poisonous sweetness.—
Baltimore Evening Snn.
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Sbperlor
Icburt' itfdie^tfis govern)^ stdd.
'sbd irifi bem'kii dot!^ iinuAiT
Mperh record mads '■bY
SrvtB,. bkl. reestred the
aotsmendation. of lawyers.:
and .^e pbldis. gbpert^’.
Brot^ton Mid. ’’dsd
;t : troiB tii* bnteb is
to ike
Jbdidary'
RidiBitI, • Catawba
eottbty, attended Lo0!}'*B&ybe
ColUi^ and Wide® Forest 1^
sebdol. He bae praeftidsd laA lb'
Nrwio&.^oe IbSb. fito ap^int*^:
ment is Ydr a term ezptrinx’4(dib’
S0, 1946.
,
Mroiixiitm an*'
noanled:’til>dsy that
Jr., olTldi^ton,* |«d mtgnsdL.
as loiMtdl Jndge to sMOMs bis law y-;??
practice in ^
■Justus ?1
bu ’bees s s
ron
molt-
f -tstitfr "mcM
' a- #eelc^'tifiii9'-Ufe:
rotiwftd .io qyer fSte ♦ taoatb
qt Newton, new deWSB^w«Msw.
Bbi Wife njBi reeelvV |60,-tl
flnf obUAAfO^vKU cicb'Of t]
rei&sbtbdpr
. ^ks.'-foldierikai^
tltrb#;fii. fIt opt 'of bla own |80
|i0k OMOB&ti
A)tbesy''.t]iilMe- o| tte cbU|rea
iWlnlt^iUntAM
Fadns. IjOTor Cue
ObstgCs of OHclt liquor activl-
ties have beM made against Clyde
Turner AndSrson,- Junior Combs
and James Parks, Wilkes county
men, the office of United States
Marshal Edney Ridge'states.
J. W. Dul^ federal commis
sioner at WUkesboro, found
probable cause for %n alcohol tax
unit complaint charging Andersen
and Combs with maoufacturlng
and possessing whisky and. pos
sessing an unregistered distillery.
Both were hound over to the
May term of United States Dis
trict ’court at WUkesboro, Ander
son being at liberty under |600
bond -and Combs committed to
Stanley conn^y jail after falling
to post bond In tha^t amount.
PiSrkB posted' »600 temporary
bond to come before Comptission-
er Dula Saturday, December 18.
for preliminary hearing on an
A'lTr complaint charging him with
manufacture of whisky and pos
session of an unregistered distill
ery.
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legislator DEES
Greenville, S. C.. Dec. 1.—^Wil
ton H. Eatie, Greenville attorney
and a former state senator from
this county, i died In a hospital
here today of a heSrt. attack he
suffered Monday.
Mrs. H. M. Call, Mr. and Mrs.
W. a, Curry, of North WUkesboro;
Mrs. Hugh Smithey, of Baltimore.
Md., and Mr. and Mrs. Gray Har
ris, of Brier Creek, visited Sunday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Shew and family, of Roar
ing River route two.
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Money can fight, buy bonds.
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LIMP STONF
• AN AMERICAN LIMES’TONB COMPANY PRODUCT •
Now Available to
Wilkes Farmers
and Orchardists
AT ONLY
For Sale. At All
Times!
Pmr Ton Cs^
Delivered
We waiDeliver
anywhere in WttKBS county
:*Brin«V
DDESTt
I^DiD-Cheainut wood'com^'tlie
tracres^ntial to tlw of
shoe leather. Our ^Idiers stul
on* thejr f^t and need the. hfest
that can be made. 0ur Armies must be
supplied I ’ ' 4
.The 0. P. A. Office has made ceilings*'
firice of ’ ■
$fD.50F0B160CDBie^
of Chestnut wood, ddivered to mill jj
by truck, and that price is being paid by
North WUkesboro, N.C.'
who will take Chestnut wood- in any quantity every day ex
cept Sunday.
Tan Bark will have very good market this coming year.
Information given by:
W. F.DEeXER, ASHEVILLE, NC.
, w Ciure,l-wigiw Hotel„ ^
ALONG THE HOME FRONT
Service Mari ,,
■ The job of your service man 'is;to- help you
continue to enjoy the use of your range And re
frigerator and your other aids to. efficient house-
^ooninw. - tT
^ He cannot come immediately, as;be jused to, be
cause tires and trupks are rationed,” teki^Besides
ma"’' of bfyfeHows are among the^40 Duke
Power men in unifornfi.
• , But he .is hard at it day after Aay,' reoarrHig
■hsre., natdhing thete, lending a Ji^h'ng AhatS
Rom^'wheTe ^se. flelS'll^bud Qf tm asrvi^ heV
be;«ppreci#d®'Your fri.en
ryt
ttoa fn oaOing him only when yob
to Abjl—'Above all—tskinsr' sacbj
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