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MOlNOAY, JAN. 1,1945
It Can Be Done! ’
Full use of America’s limitless energy
and ambition, together with a liberal, for
ward-thinking policy on the part of busi
ness and cooperation on the part of the
public, can usher in an era of plenty when
the peace is won.
Business is pledged to do its part—by
increasing the opportunities for all to earn,
for all to buy. It pledges a just and en
lightened wage policy, and proposes mak
ing use of the technological “know how”
accumulated during the war to market the
finest products at the lowest prices.
Accomplishment of business’s program
for the future wil require the public’s co
operation, for legislative action will be
needed. The public’s action can encourage
postwar tax policies that leave sufficient
funds for expansion, laws that clearly pre
vent unregulated monopoly, and labor pol
icies that establish the responsibilities of
both labor and management.
Cooperation Essential
There seems to be one fact upon which
there is no diagreement—flood control is
needed in the Yadkin Valley, and is essen
tial to progress, agriculturally and indus
trially.
There is bitter disagreement over, pro
posed means to bring about flood control.
It is evident that not all can be satisfied,
and for the good of all concerned, more co
operation is sorely needed.
Without bitterness and with co-operative
inclination, advocates of flood control
should press their fight for flood control
and rot be too contentious about the meth
od, if effective results can be obtained.
It is -evident that if the people do not
unite for flood control, no project will be
carried out. We need and must have co
operation in this matter. It is not a question
with us whether or not power is manufac
tured and sold in connection with the flood
control project. We are not interested in
power developments. It is flood control we
want, and flood control is what we should
strive for with unity of purpose and a max
imum of cooperative effort.
The New Year
Today begins another year.
And as each and every one of us con
templates that fact, let us consider that the
New Year is a new opportunity.
To the people of this section this news
paper serves, we wish a happy New Year,
and perhaps the greatest happiness to the
greatest number of people would be a com
plete victory for our nation in the present
struggle and for return of the men who are
away at war.
It would perhaps be too optimistic to
predict an end to the war in the year be
ginning today. In fact conditions do not
permit a logical prediction of that nature.
But there is nothing against hoping for a
victorious end to the war this year.
If the nazis and the japs continue in
their fanatical resistance in the face of in
evitable defeat, the war will not end this
year for the simple reason that it would
be impossible to kill all the enemy in the
next twelve months. However, there may
ke a possibility that the enemy will “soften
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up” under the increasing pressure that our
ftnned forces are exerting on every front.
It should be our resolution to do watever
we can to hasten victory. It is just as im
portant now to back the war effort to the
extent of our ability as it was on the day
when the war began. The length and cost
^ the war will depend to a great extent on
--i the induct of the home front as well as
- the movements of our troops, ships and
Planes. This is toUrwar. with aH'our re-
i^^ces pledged to the cause of complete
‘‘Standing By” Hospitals
Full credit to communities that are
“standing by” their local hospitals in the
wartime emergency is accorded by Dr.Mal-
colm T. MacBachem, Associate Director
of the American College of Surgeons, in
reporting that 3,162 hospitals in the Unit
ed States and Canada have earned a place
on the 1944 approved List, Which includes
The Wilkes Hospital in this city.
When the American College of Sur
geons began its program of Hospital Stan
dardization in 1917, the public had no way
of evaluating the quality of Ijospital serv
ice, no guidance in choosing a hospital, in
fact little interest in hospitals. The Col
lege formulated standards, started annual
personal surveys, and has published each
year reports of the surveys and lists of ap
proved hospitals. The year after year em
phasis upon the importance of approval,
with education in the fundamentel require
ments upon which it is based, has led to
quite general appreciation of what consti
tutes good hospital care. It has also devel
oped a sense of public responsibility for
the kind of hospital service furnished,
growing out of realization that to have
high standards, there must be demand for
them and provision of adequate support
to maintain them.
During the war crisis the people of most
communities have their hospitals to con
tinue to give service. What would have
been a desperate shortage of personnel in
this and other communities, endangering
the lives of patients, has been relieved by
volunteers in nursing, dietary, and other
services, performing the more routine tasks
and releasing professional workers for du
ties demanding special knowledge and
skill.
LIFE’S BEUER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
HiddeiiRe, N. C.
The World’s Great Need
The world’s great need is Jusus. This
need stands supreme. It towers above the
need of learning, better methods in busi
ness, better methods of farming, better so
cial conditions, better preachers, teachers
and reformers. We realize the condition of
the world is very critical. This cannot be
truthfully denied. It is critical from the
standpont of war, bloodshed and destruc
tion; critical from the standpoint of finan
ces, as multiplied billions of dollars are
being expended to carry on the greatest
of all war, and to carry on the dirty busi
ness of sin and wickedness along every line*
critical from the standpoint of drunken
ness, adultery, immorality and a spiritual
dearth. No doubt milions of people are
homeless, hungry, almost nakad, heart-
broken,uneasy and distressed. Many are
wandering up and down tl v earth seeking
shelter, food, raiment, coi *\»rt, and that
which will satisfy their need of body, mind,
soul and spirit.
This need can only fce found in the
Christian religion — found by accepting
Christ into the heart, soul and life, and liv
ing to do His blessed will. He said long ago,
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
(Matt. 11-28). Again He said, “Seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his righteous
ness; and all these things shall be added
unto you.” (Matt. 6-33). That is, all neces
sary things of life shall be given unto those
who seek God and His righteousness. In
God, in Christ, in the blessed Holy Christ,
all need is found. Our Lord came in person
to this earth that He might establish a
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Isn’t ft a shame
that people
don’t act like it Christmas
time the year ’round? . . A man
we used to know played five aces
and now he plays a harp . .. Ac
cording to a feature story we read
in a daily, newspaper recently, one
of the principal characters grad
uated from high school- at the age
of three, judging by what the
story said her age is at present
. . . One man says a motorist is
like a married man. ^ Soon as he
gets a license he tries to see what
he can get away with . . . People
who complain abcut our corney
jokes should come around and tell
us a few good ones sometime . . .
Harmony is a freckled face girl in
a polka dot dress and a leopard
coat To add the harmony, let
her lead a giraffe.
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WE’LL STICK TO SLACKS—
Man—^Women didn’t wear slacks
in the days of Shakespeare.
Friend—jWhy do you say that?
Man—If they had worn slacks
he never would have written:
“There is a divinity that shapes
our ends”.
Brig. GcB. EoeH Dea 2ewble da
Costa, field commander of Uie Bra-
aillaa Expedlttonary force ia Italy
, (kneeliag) witti some of hia staff of-
Ifleers at a Brasilian automatic rlflo
post in Italy, lliey have been giving
a good accent of themselTca.
The best way we know to do
this is to give your car genuine
Ford service regularly and to
use Oen urns Ford Parts
whfiiever it’s neccomry to re
place any port
To B« Sure—See Us
WIFE TELLS AL^-
This letter ran in “A Letter to
the Editor” column and went as
follows:
“Army Headquarters
“Mr. Headquarters
““U. S. Army
“My husband was intited into
the surface long months ago and I
ain’t received no pay from him
since he was gone. Please send
me my elopement as I have a four
months old baby and he is my only
support and I need him every day
to buy food and keep us enclosed.
“I am a poor woman and all I
have is at the front. Both sides of
my parents are very old and I do
not suspect anything from them.
As my mother has been in bed for
13 years with the same doctor and
won’t take another. ^My husband
is in charge of a spittoon. Do I
get more than I am going to get?
Pleasfi gpnd me a letter and tell
me if my husband made an appli
cation for'a wife and a child and
please send me a wife form to fill
out.
“I have already wrote Mr. Roos
evelt and got no answer and if I
don’t hear from you I will write
Uncle Sam about you both”.
and
NO RATIONING THERE—
Junior—Mother, do cows
bees go to Heaven?
Mother—What a strange ques
tion, son. Why?
Junior—Because if they don’t
the milk and honey the preacher
said was up there must be all can
ned goods and I don’t want to
spend all my time up there count
ing ration points, too.
CHANGE ADVISED—
'It is extremely difficult in
these times to be well dressed”,
complained a troubled subscriber
to the query department of a cer
tain newspaper. “Every time 1
put on a clean shirt, there are
some buttons missing. What
would you advise me to do?”
“You should do one of two
thingrs”, was the reply. “Either
get married or get a divorce”.
Air Medal Awarded
S.Sgt. Ceber Creech
Mrs. Merle Owens Creech was
presented the Air Medal awarded
her husband. Staff Sergeant Ce
ber M. Creech, Tail Gunner in the j
Third Bomber Command. He has ;
been a prisoner in Germany since
January 24, 1944- |
The citation read as follows r>
‘‘For exceptionally meritorious
chievement, while participating in '
bomber combat missions over en- \
my occupied Continental Europe. I
The courage, coolness and skill dis-1
>layed by this enlisted man upon
hese occasions, reflect great cred
it upon himself and the Armed
Amp nteltttion to 80 conduct oiir
plan of redemption whereby we should be
saved from all sin and wickedness, which Forces of the United States
is the cause of all want and distress, and Corps officers from
to supply all our need “according to his
riches in glory.” Praise.His holy name.
However, men and nations seek every-
he ofnce of Flying Safety In
^insten-Salem made the pMaenta-
ion at the residence of J. 3. Bum
garner on 'KiMdsy afternoon. De-
canber f9, 1944. Major W. M.
thing else, generally speaking, and leave Harrison read the ciUtion, and
Christ the Saviour, God of Father, and the Major John G. Glennon presented
Holy Ghost the Comforter, out of their I he staff Serg^t Crere^s
rp, , Buster, and his mother, Mrs.
lives. They absolutely reverse the orderp xbsher, aicmg with other
that Christ gave them. Hence war, hunger, nembers of the family, wore Ms©
distress, strife, hatred, envy, revenge, trou
ble, heartache, poverty, want, misery, woe,
death, and damnation. 0 how the world
needs Christ and all of His wonderful prin
ciples, purity, holiness, peace, love, iimo-
cence, goodness, greatness, beauty and
wonderful power! O reader, seek Him,
.Qieigg HIM! Let Him rule and reign in
your Heart and SouL This, is life’s better
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Genuine Ford Protective Service and
‘ use Genuine Ford Parts.
Automobile parts may look rdike but
they are not alike. Ford manufaetjj
parts only tor Ford-built cars—i -very
part is precision-built exactly lik s the
original part which came with yoi r car
—it’s made of the same identical \ nate-
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Piedmont Carolinas industries of many kinds
have made a war record that speaks for itself-^and
we are proud to have had a part in their achievement.
The boys who are doing the fighting needed
countless items of munitions, clothing, and food from
the very start—and tkeff still do.
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Our Resolution again this year is to help in the
job of erettiT*" them what they need, when they need
it, quantity.
With 1,250 of our own employes in the armed
gerv'^'es we are sherthanded in a good many places,
but those who remain at their posts in power stations
and in offices, on service crews and on the buses
which daily serve thousands of war workers, are
proud to carry on’in the service of our industries and
of a vigorous home front.
DUE POWnt COHPANT
CHARLOtnX N. C
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