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r*aWBWWPBW IN POLITICS
D. J. CaiTSR and JULIUS C. HUBBAKD
.t. POblUMn
StJBSCRIFHON RATES;
Ono Yonr 12.00
(b inikM and Adjoining Caonties)
Ono Yanr J. »8.00
(OQli)f]« WikM and Adjoining CoostiM)
Rates To Those In Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at the potteffke at North WSkes
boro. North Carolina, aa Second-class matter
under Act of March i, 1879.
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1945
WAR LOAN
Reverse Scarcity Philosophy
After reading the statistics and argu
ments relating to various phases of ration
ing and price control in the United States,
one comes to the inevitable conclusion that
the job of telling each family what it can
eat and wear, and each farmer and manu
facturer what he can produce, involves
over-all planning of interlocking details
that would stagger even the creator of all
things.
The effort to make all phases of pro
duction and retailing a matter of statist
ics, has become a job beyond the concep
tion of man. The factors that went into
past production and selling costs, may
have little or no bearing today because of
entirely changed conditions that face pro
ducers and retailers. The confusion and
shortages which the consumer faces on
every hand do not mean that the idea of
rationing is unsound, but they do mean
that the incentive to produce and sell in
too many cases has been stifled by red
tape.
Quoting statistics alone will not fill the
bread basket. There must be developed in
this country a friendly governmental at
titude toward producers and retailers.
Cooperation must be a two-sided affair.
It is all right to hold dowm prices, but
when necessary there must be a quicker
adjustment in the cost of production and
selling.
The Food Problem
With food shortages getting to the place
where food shopping is a difficult task,
people no longer think that a plea for
food production and conservation is just
50 much propaganda.
As never before, it is important that
the 1945 crop of food be properly con
served. It is highly important to save food
this summer for use during the coming
months when food will not be produced.
It is important now in our own commun
ity to save blackberries, the limited amount
of fruit from orchards, and every thing
possible from the fields and garden.
It is unfortunate that the supply of can
ning sugar is so strickly limited but the
five pounds per person limit still enables
housewives to have some sugar for can-
ning and preserving, and there are many
things which require little or no
The canning season is here, and
who have or can get products for home
canning should take advantage of the op
portunity. It is important this year to save
food, not merely from a financial stend-
point, but because there is a food shortage
and will be a serious food shortage before
another crop is grown. Our country w
committed to the task of furnishing
food for war stricken people of allied na
tions, and none of us want to waste food
while fellow humans starve.
Those Who can, dry, or otherwise con
serve and save food during the present
growing season will be in an advantageous
position when the food shortage becomes
even more acute than now.
THE-
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugb, D. D.
How chickens come home to roost was
interestingly revealed recently in a story
printed in The Charlotte News, (N. C.)
concerning a local lawyer.
It seems that on a fox hunt sometime
back the automobile in which this lawyer
and his party were riding slid into a ditch.
He went to a nearby farmhouse to seek
assistance.
A man came to the door, and the lawyer
introduced himself telling his trouble. The
man asked him to repeat his name, then
he said, “You say you are a lawyer?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh, now I know. Don’t you remember
one time when you had me on the witness
stand in a case, and how you browbeat,
lambasted and harangued me? Well, you
can stay in the blankety-blank ditch all
night,” replied the man as he slammed the
door.
Things we say and do, then forget, have
a way of bobbing up on us in unexpected
places. The Charlotte lawyer got quite a
laugh out of this incident as he told it on
himself, but there is a serious lesson in it.
Chickens have a way of coming home
to roost sometimes with much more serious
consequences. Many indifferent dispensers
of merchandise are going to find them
selves out in the cold after the war when
merchandise becomes more plentiful. Cus
tomers are going to remember the careless
indifference and often insolence with
which they have been treated. Most sales
men today are simply order-takers and
allotment makers. But these days will not
always last. Those who retain the respect
and friendship of their customers will reap
a highly satisfactory reward in the future.
But chickens are going to come home
to roost in a more fearful way, as a result
of the new low level in personal morals.
As a police chaplain, I have access to in
formation which terrifies me. I can’t un
derstand why so many wives of service
men overseas think that they can play fafet
and loose with other men and not reap an
awful harvest. Not only do they betray
their husbands and their country, but in
violating the laws of society and Almighty
God they are storing up for themselves
an awful day of reckoning.
This is not confined to servicemen’s
wives; it’s becoming alarmingly general.
Instead of perfecting plans for more ra
tioning of scarcities, why not put more
emphasis on adopting policies which will
produce plenty?
For thousands of years men and women
have felt that they might flout the laws
of Almighty God and organized society.
The result has always been the same—
misery and disgrace.
As a resulj: of the loose attitude of men
and women today, homes are falling apart
by the thousands. MAY I REMIND YOU
THAT THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
DEPENDS UPON A RIGTHEOUS AMER
ICAN HOME.
Yes, chickens come home to roost.
Children Get Old
. Age end Surviror*
InAnrance Benefit*
OM-Ak« and Surrlvors In-
uSmce benefit* are n^ being
•id erery month to about 677
and girl*. a«4er age 1*-
^ to tlie flMteWinr area. In tee
rt^alate of North Carolina
K?ar« eome 13.600 yonngatew
ST^e monthly pajmenta
» Artlw ehUdron, under age
e M Amraera. la
a daemMod vage eamera.
Sw teSTth* mother aUo gete
TL Olomont, manager of
the Salisbury office of the Social
Security Board, said today that
the -widow of an Insured worker,
regardleM of age, la eligible for
benefits if she has, in her care,
his chUdTMi, stepchildren, or
adopted cilldren, under age 18
She may apply for her benefits
at the same time that she claims
paymenta for, th# -children.
Monthly beneflta are payable,
also, for the children, stepchil
dren, or adopted children, under
age 18. of a retired worker who
is receiving monthly payments of
Social Insurance. Application for
the children’s bmiefits may be
made at the time that the parent
fllee hi* oSTi claim.
The wege earner who has
reached age 65 or the surviror of
a deceased wage earner who has
any reason to believe that he or
she is eligible for payment of
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
should call at the nearest office
of the Social Security Board and
talk with the manager or his as
sistant. If it appears that benefits
are payable, clalment will be as-
dated (if reqsested) In fill
ing oht his papers and In obtain
ing any evidence that may be re
quired in connection with his
claim.
The Salisbnry office which
serves the connUes of Ashe, Alex
ander, Aneghesy, Iredell, Bowan,
Wilkes and Watauga, Is located
at 308 p. o. BMf. in gjslisbury.
WOMEN’S HATS—
Recently we heard of an Inven
tor who has worked for 30 years
on a project and has utterly fail
ed. All that time be has been
trying to make something that a
woman would not use for a hat.
And that reminds us of the fol
lowing poem from an exchange:
WOMEN’S HATS
See the hats
The crasy hats
Some tall
Others flat
Round hats
Square bats »
Floppy hats
Hats with peaks
Tricornes, stove lids
Regular freaks
Saucy hats
Some with veils
Anything to catch the males
Hats with fur
Hats with lace
Some cast shadows
Across the face
Doughnut rolls
Hats with holes
Around the rim
Hats happy, hats grim
First they’re startling
Then pleasing
Darling, teasing
And somhow
They’re all In style.
MORE POETRY—
And while browsing around in
other papers we found this bit of
rhyming prose: "I hate the guys
who criticize and minimize the
other guys wnose enterprise has
made them rise above the guys
who criticize”.
TALKED IN WHl.SPERS—
Ministers sometimes have fun
ny experiences. It Is related that
a young North Carolina preacher
went to town in Eastern North
Carolina to accept the pastorate
of a church there.
Shortly after he arrived, the
minister developed a cold, but he
didn’t let that Intefere with his
visits to his congregation, as a
matter of fact, his cold was so
deep that he could scarcely talk
above a whisper. Whenever he
went out to make calls on his
"flock” he bundled himself up in
a sweater, muffler, overcoat and
a number of other articles of
wearing apparel.
One morning he called at a
home and knocked on the door.
The lady of the house—a very
charming young woman—answer
ed the knock.
Minister (whispering)— How
do yon do?
Young Woman— Pretty well,
thank you. Won’t you come in?
Minister (in the same whisper
ing voice)—^Is your husband
home?
Young Woman (whispering
hack)—No. Come right on in.
IDLE CHYTTER—
A true musician has been de
fined as a man who put his ear
to the keyhole while the woman
in the bathroom sings . . A
new style evening gJfen has been
named “Lo and Behold!” . . . .
Being young and broke is said
to be worse than being old and
bent .... ’The reason cupId
Noncas TO creditors
I, Richard Shew, having: qaaU-
fied as administrator of the es
tate of John W. Shew, late of the
County of Wilkes, North Carolina,
this is to notify aU persona hold
ing claims against said estate to
present them to the undersigned
for payment, duly verified, on or
before the 14th day of May, 1946,
or this notice will be plemled in
bar of their recovery. All persons
indebt^ to said estate -will make
immediate settlement.
This the 14th day of May, 1946.
RICHARD SHEW,
Adm. of John W. Show, dee’d.
J. AlUe Hayes, Atty. 7-6-6tT
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra-
afcats’
loidttng at
**«»**»® \]ia«aatxav\4 AO amsaaaaaow*
tor of the estate of Joseph 0. Jar
vis, deceased, late of WQkes eonn.-
North Carolina, this is to no-
tify_ all persons ha-ving clainm
agfainst the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the nndmigned
at Wilkesboro Route £, on or be
fore the first day of Jane, 1946,
or this notice will be plead in bar
o.' their recovery. All persons fc-
diibted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
'This 1st day of Jane, 1945.
MISS PEARL JARVIS,
Administrator of Joseph C. Jar
vis. dec’d. 7-lOT
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualtfled as administra
tor of the estate of Mattie M.
Sprinkle, late of Wilkes county.
_ie unqer-
rigned. whose address is North
wilkesboro, N. C., route 1, duly
verified, on or before Um 6th day
of June, 1946, or thU notice wiU
be plead in bar of their right to
recover. All persons IndeMed to
said estate w:m please make im
mediate sottlement
Ihia 6U) d» at Jfine> 1946.
, , . . , 'J Tie army .
a WAC takes the pliee of ^ei
men. But ehe had rather the men
take her pieces.
HOW TO HAVE FUN— ,
In the gremmer lesson oai
the teacher wrote'on the hlic^'
board: _ .. , ,i, .■
"I didn’t have no fun at the'
seaside."
Then she turned around to her:
pupils and aald to one;
"Roland, how should I corr^
that?”
"Get a boy friend," he answer
ed.
German Inventions
Will Help Bring the
Japs to Their Knees
Washington.—Assistant Secre
tary of SUte Will Clayton said to
day that Japan may be brought
to her knees more quickly with
the aid of wartime inventions
that have been developed in Ger
many.
Clayton told a Senate.subcom
mittee that the United States and
Great Britain have sent missions
of industrial experts to Germany
to get technical information which
can be used in the war against
Japan. He said that already re
ports from the missions indicate
that scientific information of con
siderable value is being obtained.
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Hall’s Furniture
Store at Cricket
Hall’s Furniture Store, owned
and operated by C. D. Hall, has
opened for business at Cricket.
Mr. Hall has a large stock of
new furniture for the home and
also carried in stock are many
desirable items of used furniture.
Your visit and patronage will be
appreciated.
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Land Army girls in England
are planting seeds to start new
forests.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tors of the estate of Nannie A.
Dimmette, late of Wilkes county,
N. C., this is to notify all persons
having claims against said estate
to present them to the unders^ed
whose address is North Wukes-
boro, N. C., duly verified, on or
before the day of May, 1946,
or this notice will be plead in bar
of their right to recover. All iwr-
sons indebted to said estate will
nlease make immediate settlement,
"niis 30th day of May, 1946.
GRADY A. DIMMETTE,
J. H. WHICKER, S»„
AdministratorB of the estate of
Nannie A. Dimmette, dec’d. 7-6-T
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Truck Body
Buildin
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all kiMb of WELDING.
Soo It for you Goneral Aiteno-
biloor Trmk Repairiog. We hive
good men to tnrn out you work
for yon.
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BUY MORE WAR BOHDS TODAY!
ODELL
Whittingtoo, Jr.
WELMNG& MACHINE SHOP
Telephone 483-J
Located Bet ween . The Wilkesbores
jtrator ^
Mattie M.
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With summer just ahead, it*s worthwhile to
check your refrigerator. If it is the open unit
type requiring oiling, don^t delay this important
little bit of care. Be sure to defrost regularly and
keep the inside clean ond odorless. As the weather
grows hotter guard especially against overloading.
Ol'H POWW COMPANY
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