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Entered at the peeisffice at Nertk WSkea
boro, Narth Gaia&a, as Sec«id-cla*8 otatter
under Act of March 4, tS7S.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 194S
President Truman
The American people have the confi
dence to believe that our new president,
Harry S. Truman, is an able man, else he
could not have succeeded in election to the
second highest office in the land.
However, in succeeding President Roose
velt, for more than 12 years chief execu
tive and with wide knowledge of world af
fairs, President Truman stepped into tre
mendous responsibilities.
His first public utterances to the people
of this country and the world were con
tained in a brief 'policy address Monday
before the Congress of the United States.
People everywhere listened eagerly in or
der to size up the man who is destined to
have such a powerful place in national and
international affairs during the critical
period ahead.
What they heard was a straight-for
ward address, containing commitments to
the course American people everywhere
are fighting for. There was nothing in his
address to cause any disunity, but on the
other hand was calculated to unite the A-
meriean people as never before.
The people of America today feel better
because of what his address contained, and
better still for what it did not cantain.
There was nothing in his address to cause
disagreement or strike among the Ameri
can people or those of other allied nations.
Because of the striking sincerity so ap
parent, we quote here the concluding re
marks in his address to Congress:
“We have learned to fight with other na
tions in common defense of our freedom.
We must now learn to live with other na
tions for our mutual good. We must learn
to trade more with other nations so that
there may be—for our mutual anvantage
—increased production, increased employ
ment and better standards of living thru-
out the world.
“May we Americans live up to our
glorious heritage.
“In that way, America may well lead
the world to peace and prosperity
“At this moment, I have in my heart a
prayer. As I assume my heavy duties,
humbly pray to Almighty God, in the
words of Solomon:
“Give therefore thy servant an under
standing heart to judge thy people, that I
may discern between good and bad: for
who is able to judge this thy so great peo-
ple? ,
I ask only to be a good and faithful ser
vant of my Lord and my people.”
—
Thumb Screws On Liberty
How often the complaint is heard that
the main trouble with our wartime regu
lated way of living is that the present rule
writera don’t know what they are doing
The assumption is that if we had a sensible
bunch of rule writers things would be dif
ferent. Acting on this assumption, a lot of
people are laying plans for a permanent
regulated existence (with the right kind of
regulation, of course). The CIO, for ex
ample, has come forth with a plan for the
establishment of a national production
council as a top governmental agency to
direct reconversion and then to control the
entire American economy through sub
councils for each industry. No new busi
ness could be started without the permis
sion of the appropriate council. Prices
and production would be controlled per
manently.
Labor spokesmen are not alone in blind
ness to the fact that it is impossible in a
nation the size of the United States to
write rules which will at all times be fair
to all people in all sections. Plenty of busi
ness men and farmers have complained
bitterly at this or that rule and yet advo
cate perpetuation of the system generally.
One group has proposed that processors
and distributors be made agencies of gov
ernment.
It might as well be said bluntly that
these people, as long as they speak favor
ably of living under a centralized system
of ruthless regulation, may as well shut
up insofar as criticizing the inequalities.
‘As long as they favor the system, they will
have to suffer the inequities. They will
also have to tolerate other things such as
a permanently lowered standard of living,
the gradual disappearance of competition,
less progressive distribution and selling.
Why should any merchant strain himself
to do a better job than the merchant across
the street when the businesses and profits
of both are fixed by political decrees thou
sands of miles away? And lastly, these
people will have to submit to the inexor
able extension of the rules until their very
political liberty is squeezed to death.
These are but a few of the things that a
nation may look forward to when, through
fear of unemployment, inflation or some
other bogey, it abandons the safeguards of
freedom in favor of humiliating restric
tions that have no higher goal than a speci
fied level of material comfort for a sped
fied number of people.
WAR ARAINST CANCER TAKES GOOD
TURN DESPITE RISING DEATH RATE
New York—Eighteen million
Americans now alive—one out if
every eight—are doomed to die
of cencer at the present rate, For
tune magazine points out.
Yet, despite the fact that the
cancer death rate has been going
up year by year, Fortune finds
a "changed and encouraged out
look" on the part of scientists
This article, "Cancer: Notes of
Hope," follows by eight years
Fortune’s first report on the sub
ject, “Cancer: The Great Dark-
nees", for which the magazine
was awarded the medal of the
American Cancer Society’s New
York’s committee in 1937.
Today, says Fortune, new re
search foreshadows “the first
oiigrltisl cancer-control principle
since a frightened Egyptian doc
tor had the notion, about three
thousand years ago, of burning
out the cancer cells.
"The new principle: to prevent
or reverse abnormal ceU growth
by feeding or injection.
"Snch a development might en
tirely eliminate surgery and ra
diation as cancer treatment, rout
ing cancer as easily as penicillin
routs hosts of bacteria and sulfa
drugs rout pneumonia. True,
such cancer magic (or science) is
in the future, a future to be
reached, If at all, only alter the
organist, rational erpenditure
of millions of dollars and the
energies of the best scientific
brains the race can muster.
"TUs month the American Can
cer Society launches its tint de
cently ambitious money-raising
drlre. Eric Johnston heads it,
and will try to get from _ the
Amarisnn pwblie fire million dol-
Inn tor edamUlon, wiwveatlon and
raaaarch.
i “For polio research, about $500
I per polio death becomes avall-
lable,” Fortune points out. "For
cancer, not more than $5. What
is needed is emphatically not a
cut in polio funds, but an increase
in cancer-research funds. But
that is not enough.
“Cancer research, like much
other medical research. Is badly
organized. Too many well-inten
tioned donors make grants with
some hopefulness hut little plau.
Projects struggle to get started,
lose support, bear no fruit. Most
operations in the war against
cancer are brave sorties crippled
by lack of rational strategy as
well as by supply defects."
But there are signs of improv
ed organization, Fortune adds.
"Last fall scientists and doctors
interested in cancer-genetics re
search laid down a program of
voluntary co-ordination to be de
veloped under a national comm t-
tee. When such a committee gets
going, any good sclpntlst plan
ning research In cancer genetics,
whether on public or private
funds, will want to have its en
couragement and guidance.”
One reason for the rising can
cer death rate. Fortune explains,
is that more and more people ev
ery year are saved from other dis
eases by serums, plasma, sulfa,
penicillin—only to die of cancer
on reaching middle age. On the
other hand, early detection Is
playing its part in the cancer
war:
"If treatment is delayed,
chances of cancer cure are as low
as one In ten. But cure begun
early enonch may in some types
run np to 76 paremit In the laat
half c«mtory the percentage of re-
coverlea In some typea has risen
to a level earlier undreamed of.
In not too long It should rise even
higher, If only as a result of the
detection clinics, of which there
are now only about ten.
“To these clinics come many
persons who think themselves in
perfect health hut who have the
good sense to seek periodic check
up. Among the ostensibly healthy
who come to the Strang clinics In
New York City 1.6 percent have
cancer.
"Treatment continues to rely,
as It has for centuries, on elimi
nation of diseased tissue by re
moval or destruction—radiation,
with the new ono-mllllon volt pre
cision violet energy, backed up by
plasma, penicillin and the sulfa
drugs. Yet even after the best of
treatment some cancers recur.”
The current scene In the real
cancer drama Is laid In the labora
tory, where scientists are looking
for "cancerlgens’’ (agente -which
cause cancer, such as certain tars,
organic dyes and oils, and arse
nic), In the hope that learning
how to cause cancer may teach
them how to prevent It.
"Scientists have now identified
284 cancerlgens —including a
Whole group of substances related
to tar that are extremely potent
producers of cancer in rodents,"
Fortune reports. "And all in
this group share one molecular
base. Strangely enough this
molecular structure Is also basic
to such Buibetances as the female
sex hormones and the male sex
hormoBiS.
"Soma laboratories invest
ing heavily in hormone research.
The notion is that perhaps in the
body’s manufacture of hormones
something may go wrong. Then
whgt are produced may be not
proper hormones but others so
cloeely related as to affect the
growth of top very tissnee affected
by ^pp«r tomphes."
Anotoer utimck is being made
(See CAJKJBIU-Pag* 8)
AiWdRM AL'
ABSmHNTIES
By.'
Dwiiit
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A CDBSINO gUBJBOT—
It Is difficult to write about
this subject without using pro
fanity; but anyway, we’ll try.
With hardly enough gasoline
for the needs of barest necessity,
and with the supply of tires for
civilians being cut month by
month, vro still have any number
of nitwits who deliberately waste
gasoline and destroy tires In
reckless, fast driving.
There are still those who brag
about how they can stort off with
a Ford and spin the wheels on dry
pavement. There are still those
who brag about turning comers
on two wheels, leaving precious
rubber scraped off on the pave
ment. There are still those who
brag about making speeds of 90
or more miles while going no-,
where with all the time there Is
to get there In.
iSuppose you can spin the
wheels In starting off -with a car?
Suppose you can make the tires
squall at every corner? Suppose
you can drive at 100 miles an
hour?
What we ask In all sincerity is
what in the h— do you think you
have accomplished when you do?
All right, we’ll answer that
question for you. You have de
monstrated that you don’t have
enough brain to rattle If It were
placed In a peanut shell.
FRIDAY, THE 18TH—
'This was written on Friday,
13 th.
Which reminds us that if you
didn’t have any bad luck today,
and Friday, the 13th, didn’t come
up to expectations, you might try
any one of the following 13 ways
the next time Friday, the 13th,
rolls around:
1. Fall—out of bed or down
the stairs.
2. Bum yourself while, for In
stance, using gasoline for dry
cleaning.
3. Get in the way of a flying
or falling object.
4. Cut or scratch yourself—^and
don’t do anything about It.
6. Show your strength by lift
ing * stoT* or lc« box.
6. Gulp medicine in the dark
without examining the label.
7. Bat food that looks bad
and smells worse.
8. Walk right into an open
door.
9. Get something In youy eye
10. Poke your fingers Into
wringer.
11. Handle guns without deter
mining whether they’re loaded.
12. Forget to turn off the gas
jets
13. Tease the dog until he bites
you.
CHFTTER OIL4TTER—
There are three sexes: male,
female and insects . . . The last
word in airplane Is—-jump! . . .
Kleptomtnia is not catching; it is
taking . . . One come hither looks
and the sap begins runnin. That’s
make* a pretty |lrl remind
6a* of aprlag, ^
FKBD10rR»»~.
The flret of erery year we neu-
ally come out with a lot of pre-
dletions. We are only a little
over four months li^ but beUer.
late thap later, or eumthln*. Our
predietlona oorer a field of en
deavor altogether too large for
our aingle-traok mind, but yon
won’t mind, Will jron?
As for bnstaiMs, we predict
there will be plenty of it, includ
ing monkey bnatneee.
As to travel, most people not
in draft age will stay close to
home.
The war: We predicted in 1941
it wonld be a long, but not per
manent war. It will end this
year or the next. '
As for food rationing, It will
continue until housewives buy
enough In frantic effort to use
all points until their pantry
shelves are full uid running over.
Sugar rationing will continue and
no one except moonshiners will
get much.
Weather: It will be hot In
summer, cool in fall and cold in
winter. You can talk about it
all yon want to and still not
change it one degree, nor cause
one more or one less drop of rain.
A MONKEY’S MEDITATION—
A monkey, musing in his cage.
Upon the progress of the age.
Half-whispered, as I happened
by,
“This Blvolutlon is a He.”
Surprised to hear him speak so
plain,
I paused, profounder truths to
gain.
Unconscious I was there to
heed.
He thus continued with his
creed:
“For mortal man to try to trace
Descent from our illustrious race
Is rank injustice to our clan.
The monkey much surpasses
man.
“In bloody wars, men butcher
men.
They slander both with tongue
and pen.
They cheat, they lie, they
swear, they steal;
And wild with wine> they rock
and reel.
"They trample justice in the dust.
They loll In luxury and lust.
They sell their very selves for
gold,
The men, their women, young
and old. '
"They laugh at law, they twist the
truth.
They crucify the dreams of
youth,
Tbefr hearts are hard as solid
stone, *
mgr worriiip God with lips
*lea».
"ItonUnd has )a(t a traH of crime,
Too fool to aanetify vrlth time.
Tha neord of toa human race
Brings flaming blushes to my
Caoo.
Ko raakotoen o«r ranks (Mtom*
Ogr rawrd ataads, an of«t
. hot*
At which tha world has loavo
to look.
"Hio monkey leads the simple
Ufa. ^
la loyal to his wadded wife.
No lady monkey yet, of couras,
Haa over sought or won divorce.
The monkey koine ie stjU serene,
The father, king; the mother
quean.
Hie little monkeys, too, obey
Their parents, In the good old
wwr.
"We kgTO BO haunts of sin and
» j»g7» ®
MIMM,
'No self-reapeetlng monkey can
Admit hlmsolf aklB to m*av% '
By all the gods that reign
high. > t
This Bvolntlon is a lie!" ^
NOTICE!
The Wilkes County Board of Educa
tion will receive bids in the Board of Ed
ucation office in Wilkesboro until 2 P. M.
Monday, April 23, 1945, for the follow
ing materials delivered to Mountain View
School for school Bus storage shed: .
24 Pieces Oak 6”i6”..10’
6 Piece* Oak 6”x6”xl2*
298 Piece* Oak 2”x6”xl2»
48 Piece* Oak 2”x6”xl0’
2500 Board Ft. One-inch Oak Board*
3600 Lin. Ft. Pine Board* l”x3”
47 Square* 12* Galvanized Roofing
Bid forms and specifications may be
had in the Board of Education office on
request. Bidders not using regular forms
should specify the ^ade of materials
they propose to furnish.
The Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
C. 0. McNIEL, Cbairman,
Wilke* County Board of Education
— ‘
Sirs, whst must I do to be saved? ...
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shall be saved.—A(^ 16:30, 31.
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**Afraid?
That earthquake wonld scare anyonol
It tore' open these iron doors!
I knew the prisoners had escaped/
My head wonld soon come off!
The way you two Christians took that
beating yesterday turned me sick.
I reckon I began then to want some
thing that now I know I mu$t have.
Later, in your stocks, you talked
with Someone 1 couldn’t see.
You even sang.
And now. you beg me not to kill myself.
I can’t go on the way I’ve been-
selfish, and mean, and cruel,
/ want what yotfve got.
What must I do to get it?
NOTHING?
Nothing 1 can do to get it?
Then / can’t rave myself?
Oh, Sir, must I only believe that
there is One whom you call Jesus
who can and will save?
And depend on Him to do it?
/ wilt—
I do believe on Him NOW!
For by grace are ye raved through
faith; and that not of yourrelves:
it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should
boast.—Ephesians 2:8, 9.
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