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MONDAY, MAY 22nd, 1944
Delinquency Remedies
Since the wave of juvenile delinquency
has become rampant throughout the coun
try, many curealls have been promulgated,
but with little results.
And it has been suggested, among other
things, that delinquent parents are causing
the greater part of juvenile delinquency.
The Reidsville Review with the follow
ing editorial offers another good sugges
tion, and that is that for boys and girls to
work on farms during the summer season.
The editorial follows:
“We have had a great spate of juvenile
delinquency cures prescribed—more rec
reation, more home life, more understand
ing, more spankings, and so on. All have
probably been given local tryouts but none
has been generally adopted. The problem
is still with us.
‘This isn’t going to be another prescrip
tion, but it is going to suggest that there
may be temporary relief in sight. We are
going into a third wartime season of maxi
mum food production and a minimum farm
help. And preparations are going forward
to recruit a million or more city boys and
girls for another summer of farm work.
That is more volunteer youth help than has
ever been required before from the cities.
And if the need is met, there ought to be a
notable drop in delinquency cases.
“There can't be a much better cure foi
mi-schief than a day of hard, physical work
out of doors. .Most city kids are going to
be too wear>- to do anything but lay their
aching muscles and sun-toasted bodies
down to sleep.
It’s probably too much to hope that such
a cure would be permanent. But it ought
to be awfully good while it lasts”.
V
Basic Freedom
Did you know that there is a law on the
statute books which takes away the privi
lege of free speech?
.And did you know that such a law has
been rigidly enforced, mainly through ac
tion of a bureau of the goveniment instead
of the courts?
We refer, of course, to the Wagner La
bor Relations act, which says that an em
ployer cannot advise his employes to vote
against union membership.
Employes should be protected against
coercion by employers, but denying em
ployers the right to talk to employes and to
say w'hat they wish to say is destroying
freedom of speech, which is one of the ba
sic freedoms for which men are dying to
day.
Under the title of “Can’t Gag Employ
ers” the Statesville Landmark carried the
following editorial comment.
“The United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals in Philadelphia has ruled that an em
ployer has a right to discuss labor unions
with his employees, without violating the
Wagner Labor Relations Act. The court
holds that if there is anything in the Wag
ner act that deprives an employer of the
right of free speech, that section of the act
would be invalid.
“The wonder is that it took all these
years, to get a ruling to this effect. The
National Labor Relations Board has brow
beaten employers ever since the Wagner
act became law, making them out criminals
if they so much as posted a notice on a
bulletin board advising employees to weigh
and ponder before they sign on the dotted
line'with any union.
“Counsel representing the NLRB in the
teat case said the practice of sending out
letters to employes was becoming preva-
le^ and unless it was stopped by the
courts j the board was "about to throw up
i ^ because the letters interfered
with eUforcemtint b^ court decreea'IS^fiwft
employers.’?''?’ - ' S'.
Jb ttie sales talk the unionp use on mot-
gahized workere, so ,weak that a little
friendly advice from an employer cm stop
their activities? Are' labor organizations
offering so little for the dues Md initiation
fees they collect that it is necessary to gag
the mildest form of opposition? If their
arguments in favor, of collectivism are so
insipid that an Innocent form le^r can
3end them howling for help from^ the
courts, then they are hardly performing a
worthwhile service for their membei^hips.”
-V-
War In the Pacific
From a great distance It appears that ttie
war against the Japanese in the South Pa
cific has made encouraging progress dur
ing the past few months.
The war against the Japanese to date is
more or less a holding action until Germany
can be finished off.
■ Bqt General MacArthur and Admiral
Nimintz have taken the initiative and
with but a fraction of Uncle Sam’s strength
have made tremendous gains on the out
skirts of Japan’s conquering empire.
It is true we have great naval strength in
the Pacific, but the sum total of armed
strength there is but a pittance compared
with the total now being thrown against
Germany.
From here it is difficult to conceive of
the almost insurmountable obstacles that
Pacific warfare afford. Probably the great
est problem is the moving of troops and
supplies for thousands of miles before di
rect action can be taken. The war in the
Pacific is a long way from our shores, a
much longer way that two years ago, and
it is going to be farther, for which we are
all thankful.
The American people must be proud of
the tactful manner in which operations
against the Japanese are carried out.
Casualties have been light in the last three
major operations. Much credit goes to our
militaiy leaders in that txieatre of the war
for careful and practical planning and
preparation before every action. And
when the time for action arrives, we notice
that the operations are carried out swiftly
and efficiently.
Perhaps you never thought about it, but
the Army can’t just throw a carrier pigeon
out the window of a plane that’s breezing
along at two hundred miles an hour. The
slip stream from the propeller would blow
all its feathers off. So they drop the
pigeon overboard in an ordinary grocery
sack. Seconds later, loosed by the driving
air-stream, the sack drops away and the
bird is free, with all its plumage still intact.
One of the hardest shows to get into in
New York these days is called “One Touch
of Venus”, with music by Rudolph Goehr
A native of Germany, musician Goehr is al
so responsible for a stirring new Infantry
song . . . Now he’s been inducted into the
army . . . And where is he? ... He’s in the
Infantry.
9 LIFE'S BEHER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hifidenite, N. C.
WATCH YOUR FOOTSTEPS
Watch your footsteps, fellow pilgrim,
As you travel day by day.
Lest you take the wrong direction
That will lead you far astray
From the Beulah land of blessing,
PYom the goal of grand success.
Far away from God and heaven
Where there’s only sad distress.
K you take the road of evil.
Though you travel with a throng.
Just remember you shall suffer
Consequences of the wrong;
For there is a law of nature.
And a moral law of God,
That a man shall reap a harvest
For the way that he has trod.
So it pays to walk with Jesus
Up the blessed path of light.
Leading always from the evil.
And the things that curse and blight,
To the heights of righteous beauty
And the saints’ eternal goal,
Where the blessed peace of heaven
Shall forever fill the soul.
Watch your footsteps, fellow pUgrim;
Do not run from God away;
Hunger after truth and goodness;
Never cease to watch and pray;
Set your hearts on heaven’s portals
And the life of true rezown,
That with prophets, saints and sages
You may some day wear a crown.
JTJ8T CEUmStl—
After a ronxid on tho itreeto
tiTinz to find -what. U anythlnz,
is going on, we come in to write
it, and often there are several
notes on onr typewriter. One day
this -week there was a note which
said: “Lady (good looking) will
be hore to see you at 11:S0. Be
here”. After those two words in
parentheses, the last two Words on
the note were saperfluoue. But
she was two hours late. . . .
Some ladies hare been helping
with some extra work here in the
office. One was asked if she reads
this column. She said she had
been reading it until she began
working here In the office. Now
she doesn’t look at the column.
She says she can get a laugh Just
looking at its writer. ... A want
ad in a city newspaiper said: “Will
the person who picked up a fur
coat on Riverside drive please re
turn the blonde that was In it. No
questions”. ... A soldier said he
had not been pinched for speed
ing but had been slapped for
going too last. ... A good test of
Sunday religion is Monday be
havior.
SANG h:s sentiments—
'The North Carolina Methodist
Advocate came out with this last
week:
Here is a Methodist story. The
annual conference memorial ses
sion had Just ended the memoirs
of the deceased preachers and of
the deceased wives of ministers
when the husband of one of the
departed wives asked permission
to Bing a solo. The request was
granted and the brother with deep
emotion began: "I sing because 1
am happy; I sing because I am
free”.
FOR HXrSBANNDS ONLY—
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story of ancient China. An em-
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Telephone 10
North Wilkesboro, N. C
WANTED!
Experienced Knitters
and Loopers
Apply At
Wilkes Hosiery Mills Co.
401 T’ Street
North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Number 59^s a ”local”. ♦.
C ROWDS don’t,gather at the station to see
No. 59 pull in. She’s no sleek streamliner.
She sports no fancy trimmings. And she has no
jealously-guarded reputation for speed. For .. .
No. 59 is “just a local” on the Southern Railway
System.
But, when their soldier son came home on fur
lough .. . Mr. and Mrs. Jones met No. 59,
When new gears were needed to keep farmer
Stevens’ tractor working on the food front. ..
they arrived in the express car on No. 59.
' When bad weather came ... the mail and ex
press and the passengers continued to come in,
and go out, on No. 59.
Yes, No. 59’s a ‘local”... one of the many
Southern local passenger and freight trains that
proudly serve the wartime South . . . that haul
your farm products to market... that serve your
local industries . . . that stop in your home town
to take you where you want to go.
Today, No. 59 — and all the other trains of the
Southern Railway—are proudly serving the Southi
and helping to speed Victory.
Tomorrow, when Victory comes, they’ll still bfc
serving the Soirth . . . proudly supplying the-
economical, dependable, efficient transportationi
service upon which the modem, forward-looking;
Southland is bdng built.