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■t iOT^ NORIW WUXE3BORO. N. L? ifc *-g~* [•rrawi lHl«ma)»IT IN FOUfSOt Hoaday and Tkxmdv* ^ vNortt WiikMboro. NoA Cafblina P. J. CyUtTBR ud JmfUB G. HUBBABD gUBSCMPnW BATES: One Year |2.00 (In WmcM sad Adjoiaiila 0>OAtiM) On% Year l«00 (Outride Wfikee end Adjolninc Oountiae) Rates To Thoee InSerHce: One Year (anywhere) |2.00 Bntered at the poetofflee at North WUkea bOTO, North CaroUna, aa Second-olass matter nn^r Act of liaieh i, 1879. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1^5 THE Miemr Community Fair The North Wilkesboro Lion’s Club begins an annual event this week by sponsoring the annual Wilkes county horse show. It has been suggested among the club that the project next year and thereafter be combined to include a community fair, and that it be made an annual occasion which all the people could appreciate. A horse show is a splendid event for those who admire fine horses, and a ma jority of the people enjoy horse shows. But there are those who would be more in terested in other things. To combine the horse show with a com munity fair would get the support of a grea^r number of people. F tl If the Lions Club w'ould sponsor and operate a community fair purely for the purpose of promoting progress and wel fare of the community and county the proj ect would have practically unanimous sup port among the people, who wmuld sup port the fair generously. If such a project is contemplated, the sponsors should be on the alert to forbid the practices so often associated with fairs and which nullify any good influence which the fair might otherwise have. So-called gambling joints, which rob the “suckers”, and shows below a decent mor al standard can easily nullify any good in fluence of a fair and take from yie project the support of the good people so neces sary to make such projects successful. Losing The Prize Men of Allied Nations are dying today that freedom may be retained and that the forces of agression may be wiped off the face of the earth. But there is just as great danger in los ing freedom by other means as to an agres- sor nation. After the war if the people of America continue to trade their individual rights for handouts, they will nullify the sacri fices of the men who have died to rid the world of despotism. “Freedom is all right, but you can’t eat it”, is one of the sly ways of approach to the average man when those who favor socialistic control spread their propagan da But the fact remains that the people with the most freedom ultimately have the most to eat. ' It is better to be hungry temporarily with individual freedom than to have a Bufflciency rf the things which a eocWfatic government would P«>vide in exch^ge for liberty. It all goes ^ BiWical example of seUing your birthright for a ”*The°rS^^^^e individual to produce, to build, to be hia own majter has ^aced America in tha fdwfront^ toe Even if the-lMt have been loptjf, tte .^erican my and allow their livee to be dic*»*®^ government bureaus from Washington TTie “Arithmetic of Geograiihy As the Japanese retreat from then- earlier conquests into an “inner” defense zone of Korea, Manchuria and the Japan ese Islands, the war against Japan is changing into a war of distance and ge ography. Geographically, of course, Japan is vul nerable both to blockade and bombard ment. Yet, because of the immense dis tances of the Pacific, Japan’s ever short ening lines of communication give her an advantage over the United States in sup ply” differential that Nazi Germany never enjoyed. In other words, the problem confronting our Army and Navy chiefs is to equalize the enormous differential in distance be tween our supply sources and our fighting lines, to balance the incomparably short er communication lines of the Japanese. That meaqs, first and foremost, more ships, since it takes almost three cargo vessels in the Pacific to do the work of one in the Atlantic. It also means more bases, airfields, stag ing areas, and the construction of new ports. And, finally, it means gigantic addition al quantities of paper to double and triple wrap material for protection against the long 15,000-mile journey from Europe to the Pacific, and for protection against tropic-rot after the material gets there. The pulpwood you cut provides that “extra” paper so necessary to equalize the present “supply” differential. Your peeled, top quality pulpwood, cut NOW, can divide the distances that sep arate supplies from our fighting men, even as they multiply the- effectiveness of our Pacific forces. Pulpwood is a vital factor in the “arith metic” of geography. A#normAL DW1( LIFE’S BEnER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR Hiddenite, N. C. HUMAN DERELICTS Here is a question from J. Wilbar Chap man, that mighty prince of preachers: “Some time ago, I came up from Porto Rica. The ship that brought me was caught in a fearful storm. We were locked in the stateroom to keep us out of danger. After It was all over, I asked the captain if a storm like that was not the* thing he most feared. No, it was not. Such storms, he said, were common. I asked him if, in sailing to the north, an iceberg was not the thing most feared. Again he said there were other things more to be feared. ‘What is it then,’ I asked, that you fear most?’ ‘A derelict,” he said, ‘derelict—a ship that bears no compass, no chart, no sailors, no commander, that sails for no port, and to no port, that simply drifts’.” This incident from the Chapman’s writ ing makes me think of the human derelicts all about us, and all over the world. There are multiplied millions of them. Who are they? Well, they are people without God as their Captain to protect them, to guide and direct them; people who do not read nor study the Bible to know how to live; people who do not pray nor live spiritual lives; who have no high aims and no great purposes; who merely eke out an exist- ance by drifting along with the tide of sin and wickedness. Some of them are drunkr ards, some are liars, some are adulterers, some are gamblers, some are rogues, some are haters of God and the right, some are loafers and loungers, some are money- grabbers, etc. They are found in practical ly all classes of society and among all peo ple, except the real people of God. Human derelicts drift, drift, DRIFT. They have no port to which they are sailing; no goal for which they are striving to attain. Some of them have great privileges and wonder ful opportunities, but they let them die on their hands, or by their side. They could be powerful men aiid women of God, whereas, they drift with the evil, sinful wicked tide that the devil brings to bear against all mankind, and of course never reach any blessed port in this manner of living, and likewise endanger the lives of their fellowmen all about them. It is pa thetic. O how fearful to be a human dere lict drifting along life’s journey and over the sea of time, and yet facing God, the judgment and eternity! Man, woman, boy, girl, don’t be a derelict! As such you’ll go down in eternal defeat, and in the meantime help to defeat others. Help FisMimii Bold BoHira ITS OTN WBAOTIIW-- f . It yon had to let « column but on a day -when the mercury 1* crowding 100 and the humidity Is worse than awful, you’d do Ju8t what we’re doing, clip some jokes; PRESENGE OP A steward on an ocean liner was asked how he liked his work and replied: Steward— Fine, the tips are generous, hut I nearly lost my Job on the last crossing. There were several days of rough go ing and In taking a hot bowl of soup to a stateroom, I unfortu nately lost my balance, tripped and poured the contents of the bowl into the lap of an old gentle man asleep in a deck chair. Friend—And Just what did you do? Steward—tapped the old fel low on the shoulder and eald: “I do hope you feel better now, sir.” THE OITPHIST— His boss was dead an’ his mule went lame He lost six cows In a poker game A hurricane came on a summer’s day. And carried the house where he lived away; The earthquake came when that was gone And swallowed the land the house was on! And the tax collector he came ’round And charged him up for the hole In the ground! And the city marshal—^he came In view And said he wanted his street tax, too. Did he moan and sigh?-Did he sit and cry? And cuss the hurricane sweepln’ by? Did he grieve that his old friends mYs, mmm .‘•‘it.; WbwoT Htrohltb lost Bion «tl- rersl^u dfers Isii week t&aa In any eoas^ pufuble period of the Paottlc to- laud War, American comimml- qnes disclosed today . . Tanka killed 80,882 Japanm troops bn Okinawa jmd In the PhUlpplnes. Another., 7,706 sur rendered—an astounding fignre In view of the traditional Nip ponese willingness to fight to the death. .The fate of ahont 20,000 more was sealed by a paratrooper land ing near the northern , tip of the Philippines. Those ^elements of the" Eleventh Air-Borne Division Joined guerlHas near Apparri and began to squeexe Japanese id Cagayan Valley against Thirty- seventh Infantry and guerilla forces to the south. Tokyo talked of an attempted Australian amphibious landing at Balikapapan on southeastern Borneo, across the Island from the valuable Serla oi) fields cap tured by Ninth Division Aussies. Chinese forces moving up the East China Coast were reported to have reached a point 175 miles south of Shanghai. Others were said to be fighting Ibslde Llu- chow, one-time Southeast China air baae. American bomberp and fight ers patrolling the China coast sank 15 small ships and 40 Junks. The junks were wrecked by Mit chell bombers from the Philip pines which pounced on 1,600 junks and fishing craft In the Hong Kong-Canton area. Yomsfainr Hi* . % w II Bfebv Pislet* An'll-mon£h»4>ld Poland-Obl> nw loir hrii»|lB( to T. .N. Oobfe' erham. of Tiinmond, gave blrtt to II pigs fiii intdv llUUfr. Ooriwrham to f^ In his 1m|M that^^pndl m««t problems have now ablved provided the OPA and the ratiiwlng hoard doesn’t aibve in on hte. So nuuiF pIfii did the BOW bring into life that it to neeesiary to botrie^eed four of them, the mother being egnlpped with only 11 eplfots, whtbb, it to nnder- stMd, Is standard equipment. •V. A pony used tor delivering milk In Wavendon, England, now'rat tles the door handles with his teeth. . • MOTOR eo.e ■ fwliw ’ ita KMD ttM' alBL T cKKio oPm, fitfdam ANDBUOfOBfr^ Eatjr ftriiit e ObmImr e Bo(|r wm Bjtr Oarii for tote Model WkeAed Om m ' ’Phone 334-J i BUY MORE WAR BONDS failed to call When the earthquake came and swallowed all? Never a word of blame he said With all them troubles on top o’ his head Not him—he clum on the top o’ the h,lll— Where standing room was left him still. And baring his head, here’s what he said: 'T reckon Us time to get up an’ get \But, heck, I ain’t had the measles yet." —Author Unknown THE STORIES FARMERS TELL US! They bring joy to our hearts, those stories fanners tcii us about the service their Fatrbanks-Morse Farm Equipment gives. Keeping customers well satisfied is the only way a neighborhood firm like ours can stay in business. We’ll gladly repeat those stories to you. They are stories of long, dependable, trouble-free service. You can easily check their accuracy. They’ll lead you, we believe, to this decision— that your next choice should be made ^rom the Fairbanks- Morse line. It’s the line with the 115-ycai background ... the line for which repair parts will always be available. Telephone No. 389 • Opposite Postoffice I • LOWE'S • (Nirth Wilkesboro Hardware Co.) WMJDQUJRTgftS FOR Fairbanks-Morse. Water Syitcmi • SampPiunp* • Engine* • Light Plant* Shellera • Hammer Mill* * XTamhrr^ OF WHAT’S TO COMF1 THE FIRST MINUTE THEVRE AVAILABLE OUR STORE WILL CARRY THE COMPLETE LINE OF WESTINOHOUSE ELEOTRIC APPLIANCES TAe a good look at the masterpieces above...the last many other appliances that will give such a Lift to models Westinghouse made before the war. TheyTl give living Electrically, come postwar. And we’ve taken you a slight—but onfy sligfa—idea of wfaat’a to come. The exciting ranges, refrigerators, washing machines... the new home fireeaers, steam iron, Metric clothes dryer • . • and the 30 MILLION PRE-WAR 'Wfestiii^ouse ELtCntiC HOMl APHIANCIS VOUa MOMM os flU ima OMI TO COM steps to make sure you can have them. AH the applianoee bearing this proud quality-wise name will be here for you to see and chooae. Let’s hope h will be soon. Co. PliitnHng and, Electric Supplies Tel^dione 328 ; NcHrtfa WilkerixMTo, : •-■■‘I-
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