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Complete the Job
The
made s
Cross War fund campaign has
ipJendid progress and much money
has been donated in Wilkes.
But the amount to date is far short of the
$18,200 quota.
To every worker and to every person
who has not given to the limit, we urge that
you do your part now to put this compaign
over the top.
The money asked is for the comfort, wel
fare and well being of the men who fight
for our lives and liberties.
The matter of over 40,000 people giving
$18,200 is infintesimal compared with
what our fighting men are giving. Let’s
complete the job, and make of it a task
well done.
Girl Scout Week
Much too little attention is given locally
by public spirited citizens to Girl Scouting.
It is essential that a community builil
men, and it is equally essential that there
be the proper environment and training for
girls who are to be the home makers of to
morrow.
On PYiday night, 7:30, the Girl Scout
court of awards will meet in the religious
education building of the Presbyterian
church. The meeting will afford a good
opportunity for the parents of this com
munity to learn more about Girl Scout
work, which has made much progress dur
ing the past year.
Don’t miss an opportunity to boost Girl
Scouting, and don’t fail to support the Girl
Scout organizations when you can. It is an
investment in the future, one that will not
fail to provide the best in dividends.
Young People Speak
Business and professional men of North
Wilkesboro may hesitate to go into the
matter of building and maintaining a Y. M.
C. A., but it is apparent that the young
people are determined to have such an in
stitution.
And they are not content with slowly
raising a building fund and maybe getting
a Y. M. C. A. some time after the war. They
want a program for young people now, be
cause it is now in wartime when juvenile
delinquency is rampant and so many youths
are finding the wrong road in life.
The progress of any city or community
can be measured according to its citizen
ship. Good citizens are not born that way.
Good citizens are made, and many things
influence the life of a boy or girl before
they attain the age of individual respon
sibility.
Those who have reached the age of ma
ture judgment cannot retire into their
shells with smug complacancy and let
things take their natural course. They
have a responsibility to the public welfare
which cannot be successfully evaded.
Every Town a Harbor
For centuries, commerce has followed
the seaways and the waterways of the
world. Hitler’s grandiose scheme for
world conquest had, as one of its objec
tives, the capture of*Suez, water gateway
to the fabulous ports of the East. The
banks of the Don and the Dneiper have
bloody battlefields because these
been
rivers carry supplies to the army that con
trols them, even as they onCe brought food
and ores and manufactured articles to a
people at peace. Stalingrad and Kiev are
important cities in that country. Boston
and New York, and Seattle and San
Francisco also became important because
of their fine harbors. But now the picture
.•« changing as a new means of transports-
Ooldly to tho^fore. I„ the
dawning Age of Flight, business centers
Jrill bloom about airports just as surely as
have to handle three or four
ent amount of air traffic immediately irfter,
the war. ” aj„i
Not only will airports become essential
to a community’s business life, bu ey
will help provide jobs for many men now
in the air forces who will return after the
war with a desire to continue in the call
ing they know best.
Airport planning is not something that
can be done^overnight. It requires months,
sometimes years of study, not on y in e-
termining the best possible location for a
flying field, but in acquiring the land, ar
ranging finances, improving roads, ex
panding public utility services, and myriad
other details. Progressive communities are
preparing now to receive the miracle of air
commerce which will begin to spread over
the world when the war ends. It will keep
them humping to be ready for that day.
North Wilkesboro should get busy now.
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Borrowed Comment
STEALING FROM DEPENDENTS
(Statesville Daily)
Stealing of government checks has
grown to such proportions in a number of
cities that mail carriers have been instruct
ed to ring doorbells when delivering en
velopes that may contain such checks, and
the Secret Service is broadcasting warn
ings about cashing checks for strangers.
Enlisted personnel have been urged to
impress upon their home folk the impor
tance of safeguarding their dependency
checks to'prevent theft and forgery. Check
thieves often follow the mail carriers on
their routes and lift the government enve
lopes from unlocked mail boxes. Cashing
them at stores has heretofore not been
difficult, but merchants throughout the
nation are cooperating with governmental
efforts to put a stop to the alarming spread^
of thievery, for the loss of a dependency
check is a severe one to any beneficiary
and the chance of recovery is remote.
The Secret Service recommends that
beneficiaries be at home, or have a mem
ber of the family at home when checks are
due to arrive. Notify your postmaster at
once of any change of address.
While this city has so far not been
troubled with the check stealing racket, it
is well for local beneficiaries to be on
PRlVTIiB PEATTliB—
Cine of the biggMt boners we
ever ipnlled was when we met up
with au old acquatntanee one hot
day last summer in Winston-Sa
lem. We asked how her husband
was standing the heat, not know
ing he had been dead almost a
year ... Some have magnetic per
sonalities. They have everything
charged . . . The man whose
steak was so tqngh he couldn’t
dent It told that welter that when
he ord^ed beef he expected to
get horse meat but he thought
they at least should remove the
harness 'before serving it . .
When the father was accompany
ing the doctor to his home to de
liver the 12th child the doctor
made some remark about a duck
which crossed the yard In front
of the house. ‘‘That was not
duck, it was a stork with Its legs
worn off” ... D. C. may mean Dis
trict of Columbia, but ‘‘Dispatch
of Confusion” would be a more
appropriate title.
THEY CAN’T KELL YOU—
eama from Hapi^, Ya]l«Y''Q'rBnge,
2{r. €.'7. Jones, manager of the
WUkes 7.O.X. wns'^lBo present
from Vrilkesboro. Bvery one en
joyed the degree work and also
the recreation and refrealiments
after the exercises.
■"rhe Womanlees Wedding”
will he given again at the school
building next Friday night. This
performance was so wall taken be
fore that it was thought best to
give it agsin. It will then be
carried to Haippy WaDey.
A number of farmers and their
families from here attended the
stockholders meeting of the
Wilkes F.C.X. last Thursday af
ternoon.
Among the former residents of
this community attending the
Grange meeting here last Tuesday
night were Arnold Rash and
daughters, Geneva and Ruth, and
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. B. Barlow, all
Lubricate motor appliances
regularly.
Pull the plug-
Today Is March 16th—the day now of Happy Valley,
after March 15th. If you filed | We have a large number of lo-
your income tax return before | cal boys who are In the service In
guard against possible losses of this type.
This depraved form of thievery has .spread
throughout the nation, and sooner or later
it may turn up here too.
V
midnight last night you are o.k.
If you felled to do so, don’t wor
ry too much for the most they can
do Is to send you to the pen for
the duration and several years
thereafter.
CUB REPORTER—
A young man had made his
first attempt at writing news
stories. He had been warned to
use the words “claimed," ‘‘alleg
ed”, or “rumored” when he was
uncertain of the facts. Here Is
his first write up:
“It is rumored that a party was
given yesterday by a number of
reputed ladies. Mrs. Smith, It was
said, was hostess, and the guests,
it is alleged, with the exception of
Mrs. Jones, who says she Is fresh
from Wlieellng, were all local peo
ple. . Mrs. Smith claims to be the
wife of Joe Smith, rumored to be
the president of an alleged bank”
TATl'OOED MAN—
A doctor examdned a man in a
hospital. As the man bared his
chest he ' revealed tattooed
portraits of Churchill, Stalin and
Roosevelt.
“Want to proclaim your pa
triotism, eh?” said the doctor.
“Right,” was the reply. “And
you should see where I’ve got
Hitler”.
Army psychiatrists urge action to keep
mentally unfit men out of the services.
Well, some of the I. Q. tests used by the
psychiatrists often seem remarkably like
Alice in Wonderland nonsense, but if they
can keep out fellows lij^e that army lieu
tenant who went on a murdering spree out
West a few days ago, maybe they’re worth
while.—Winston-Salem Journal.
9 LIFE’S BETTER WAY €
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hiddenite, N. C.
TRUST GOD
P. B. I. CHIEF WARNS OP
JUVENILE MENACE
What is responsible for the
alarming increase in juvenile de
linquency? Why do many boys
and girls wander from their
homes? J. Edgar Hoover, director
of the P. B. I., reveals where the
blame lies and offers suggestions
for its correction in a new chapter
of his exciting series. Look for
this article In the March 19th Is
sue of T.ie American Weekly,
America's favorite magazine with
the Baltimore Sunday American.
Order from your newsdealer.
■V
A military secret is an army trust,
To zip the lip is an ai-my must!
The world outlook is dark today—
Dark from the human point of view,—
For sinful men have mighty sway.
While faithful Christians seem but few.
The curse of war is in the earth,
„4nd hatred seems to be in .style,
While demon forces still give birth
To things more cursed all the while.
But God is yet upon His throiie
And rules the mighty universe.
And will protect and bless His own
And save them from sin’s dreadful curse.
And takes them safely through the clouds
Of danger, darkness and despair.
Then safely lands them with the crowds
That get to Heaven sweet and fair.
Then, listen dear, trust God today
In spite of all the crime and sin;
Look up to Christ and’humbly pray
That He will ever keep you in
The narrow way that leads to God
Where angels, saints- and sages reign.
And where there is no chastening rod,
Nor sorrow, suffering, death nor pain.
Be humble, gentle, patient, good.
And live to do God’s holy will,
’Then walk life’s pathway as you should.
And climb up manhood’s noble hill.
Until you reach the summit grand.
And Heaven smiles upon your face.
Where you shall dwell in that fair land
’ And with the holy take your place.
The element in sweet clover
which causes a type of bleeding
disease in cattle, is now being
adapted to use in human medi
cine to prevent dangerous post
operative blood clots, says the
veterinarians.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulslon relieves promptly 1m-
catlse ft goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid natme
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mjicous mem
branes. Tell your drug^t to seU you
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un
derstanding yotrmust like the way it
quickly allays Oie cough or you are
to have your money bade.
CREOMUi-SION
for Couehs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
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vhtIoub parts of the country ^nd
many of them overseas. The rela
tives of Syco Hartley and Clay
Hayes advise they have recently
had letters from them from Italy,
stating that they are well and get
ting along all right.
A number of farmers from this
vicinity are expecting to attend
the farmers meeting at Elkin next
Thursday afternoon and night at
which, time the Governor and oth
er noted officials are to speak.
Altho we have recently had
some nather severe winter weather
with the cold winds brushing
down over us from the'^ow cap
ped Blue Ridge we can’t help but
believe that spring la just around
the corner. We have also had
lots of rain but farmers are pre
paring their land for planting
when it is not too wet.
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The United Nations began
World War II '-with 54,000,000
tons of shipping.
Keep appliances CLEAN.
Look out for loose bolts and
nuts—they hold your appliances
together.
Use all your Household Aids to
Victory according to manufactur
er’s instructions.
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