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Monday, Feb. 2, 1948
Democracy's Enemies
Cry For Civil Liberties
There is a real fifth column in this coun
try working with great zeal to destroy
constitutional government! Our enemies
within are closely associated in principle
with Stalin's Russia, if not directly con
nected.
These enemies of ours are more danger
ous than foreign enemies, because they
seek by subtle means to tear down every
safeguard of liberty which the citizen has.
Their road travels toward a super state
and don't let anybody be fooled—the kind
of government they seek would destro^
every vestige of individual liberty. We
have already traveled that road much too
far.
When a congressional committee calls
our enemies within on the carpet, they
begin to yell that their civil liberties are
being trampled and abused. When as a
matter of fact, they seek by indirect
means to destroy civil liberties and our
constitution which guarantees them.
We get sick and tired* of hearing this
cry from communists about^ civil liberties
being abused, and we would favor a na
tional appropriation to deport and send
from this coilntry those who would de
stroy our basic principles of freedom and |
liberty. Our advice would be for "those
who don't like this country to get out of
it. They are not Americans at heart.
And every time we rely upon govern
ment to furnish us benefits from a silver
platter, we are giving away just that
much more individual liberty and ex- |
change just that much more of our birth
right for a mess of pattage.
If we are too zealous in giving our in
side enemies civil liberties, we may wake
up someday to find that they have de
stroyed civil liberties.
Let the un-Americans howl, and let's
hope that the congressional committees
will continue to bring to light those who
are active, directly or indirectly, in trying
to undermine' and destroy the American
Way which makes every person the boss
of his or her own life.
It was interesting to note that during
the Hollywood investigation the witnesses
shed crocodile tears about abuse of their
civil liberties, but they got no sympathy
from real Americans. Instead, they were
scathingly denounced from many quar
ters. Those who refused to testify brand
ed themselves as being what the congres
sional committee was afraid they were—
communists engaged in un-American ac
tivities.
The enemies within our own country
prey upon the minds of those less educated
and less informed, by painting to them
glowing pictures of what the government
could "give" them under communist rule.
The American Way of doing things is so
far ahead of the rest of the world, and
particularly Russia, that, there is no com
parison. Instead of trying to make* this
country over, we favor sending the com
munists to Russia where they will have
conditions as they propose them to be
in this country.
Am I My Brother's Keeper
The following editorial is reprinted
from the Pacific Rural Press and Cali
fornia Farmer:
"It may be a world's record.
"Ed Abel of the Farm Bureau, who de
to irrigation prob
"Abel is referring to the Bureau of
Reclamation's campaign to regulate the
size of farms—the mis-cailed 160-acre is
sue—and establish perpetual control over
the water rights of irrigation districts.
He opines this may be the first time so
many people have been mobilized in favor
of compulsory rules over the living plans
of others.
"He points out that the army of Bureau
of Reclamation regimenteers—over 2,
000 of them in California alone—have
stirred up support for their scheme of con
trol of farmers with the CIO, AFL, some
church groups, and many social service
people.
"It is not likely that the Bureau boys
will want to move onto the land and live
under the rules they propose for farms.
They just want to regulate the other fel
low, many of them being farmers who
hewed out their farms long before the
Bureau was around to help or hinder.
"The nosiness of this plan would be
dramatized if farmers would demand that
government establish control over the size
of homes in the city, and over the future
management of those homes. The farmers
could consistently say that homes should
be shared with all the homeless, especial
ly the veterans.
"If the farmers would do this—put the
shoe on the other foot—can't you imagine
the sobnsisters crying 'unfair.' Well it is
unfair, whether applied to farmers or to
city folks, and it is of an un-American
pattern."
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It shouldn't be necessary, however, to
explain that request filed with the
State Utilities Commission for an increase
in gas rates is not part of any campaign
for hiked legislative pay.—Greensboro
Daily News.
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• LIFE'S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR ,
Hifh P»int, N. C., Route 4
A WASTED LIFE j
Not long ago I visited a man in the hos
pital who killed his wife ^nd then at
tempted suicide. It was a pitiful, awful,
tragic affair. He had spent many years of
his life drinking and doping. You can al
most always be sure that liquor figures
in nearly every crime that is committed.
Such a crime as this, and such a wasted
life, ought to turn tens of thousands of
people against liquor, dope and the devil.
Just how anyone can vote for liquor,
manufacture, sell and drink it, knowing
its cursed, damnable history, is indeed
hard to understand.
This wretched man told me that his
life was a failure, and. of course greatly
regretted the crime he had committed,
saying that his wife was a good woman.
To look upon a man like that, and to rea
lize just what liquor, dope, sin and the
devil had done for him, is enough to make
every citizen of our country hate liquor,
sin and the devil, then turn unto God,
live soberly and righteously, and st^nd
against all wickedness. We should realize,
once and forever, that because multitudes
of people vote wet, live wickedly, and fol
low the wicked crowd, certainly doesn't
exalt our nation. Not in the least. It de
grades and demoralizes, therefore brings
upon, millions of people heartache, suf
fering, wretchedness and damnation. How
we need a mighty turning back to God,
prohibition, sobriety and common sense J
When a nation goes off on a wild spree
in drunkenness we may be certain that
there will be an awful penalty to pay.
Those who live for the cursed evils of the
world are morally insane. They certainly
need God.
Not only do we realize that multitudes
of people, both men and women, are wast
ing their lives in drunkenness, or half
drunkenness, but millions of others are so
given over to the devil and sin until they
never accomplish anything worth while
in life. They eke out an existence, and
soon shall die and be forgotten, although
the evil influence they wielded shall live
after, them to curse the world. It is indeed
startling to think of wasting one's life
in sin, then goviifto the presence of a just
and holy God unprepared to meet Him.
A wasted life—that is more than wasted
gold; yes, more than a wasted fortune in
dollars and cents. It is a life spent for the
devil, which is a curse, that ought to have
been spent1 for God, which could and
would have been a blessing. A wasted
life fa a life lost, and usually a soul lost.
abnormal
By
DWIGHT
NICHOLS
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NEW IDEA IN
CHAIN LETTERS—
The chain letter idea originat
ed In the United States, but way
orer on tlie other aide of the
earth in Australia they have a
chain letter plan to end chain
letters. The following clipping
.from a Melbourne, Australia,
newspaper explains the entire
proposition:
4 Latest idea in chain-letters is
one for discontented husbands.
Part of it reads: "Unlike ordi
nary chain-letters, this will cost
you nothing. Send one copy each
fo five men friends, then send
your wife to the gentleman whoso
name appears first on attached
list. Put your name on the bot
tom of the list. When your name
reaches the top of the list you
will receive 16,179 women."
All husbands, we suppose, are dis
contented, more or loss,
So this should be the very scheme
for breeding happiness. ■
Unless, of course, your missus
just refuses to be sent, .
A %ort of paper parcel, to some:
unselected gent.
Or say she's quite agreeable! The
Chain yoes on Its way,
Until you find you head the list
some unexpected day.
Then sixteen thousand woman,
and some sundry dozens more,
Are lobbed, one lovely morning,
like the papers, at your door.!
But what with housing shortage
and the cost of togs and food,
How would you keep those wom
en as a nabob really should?
And how would you control them
all, an army oorps of dames?
And how would you remember all
their chickabiddy names?
And oi^e moTe possibility emerg
es from this scheme,
A thought to staggerise you
like a pie-and-pickle dream;
Supposing some chain-letter plan,
designed, we'll say, like this .s,
To-morrow were adopted by each
discontented missus!
(jv) C5ii*CB ]\r|(ryiTjjjs1
There are some new faces a
*ound the Oolfee Club table with
the weather perfect for drinking
the hot fluid. Some of the new
additions are L. R. Bogan and
lHarry Hettlger, of the Wilkes
Mountain Poultry Products com
pnay, Incorporated (any firm
with a name that iong will never
get into headlines). Frosty jones
was a charter member (Incident'
ally, he wen't pay ub 40 cents for
our hens, even after we put his
picture on the front page). Some
times the weather drives C. C.
Faw, Jr., in for a cup. We all air
our income tax problems gratis
before B. R. Underwood, ac
countant and tax expert who has
been with us a long time. Frosty
avows he won't play professional
baseball here because the fence
will be only 850 feet away and
his home runs would become
monotonous. So long
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Shows Big Drop
Washington, Jan. 27.—Meat
production dropped sharply last
week, the Agriculture Depart
ment today as some officials pri
vately expressed fear that the
gap between supply and demand
this year would be even worse
than predicted.
The output of federally-fln
epected meat was down 17 per
cent from the preceding weeks,
marking the beginning of the
regular seasonal decline. It was
11 per cent below the correspond
ing week of last year.
Grain now in storage on farms
in this oountry has been tound
heavily Infested with Insect pests
which eat the grain, the TJSDA
has announced.
wheat during
noon of
December 1
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The Wilkes County Board of Educa
tion will receive sealed bids in the Board
of Education office in Wilkesboro, N. C.,
until 11 o'clock A. M., Monday, March
1, 1948, for the following school proper
ties:
1—School building and grounds known
os Somers School in Somers Town
ship.
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2—School lot known os the Dennyyille
School in New Costle Township.
Description of land may be had on re
quest iiS the Board of Education office in
Wilkesboro.
C. O. McNIEL, Chairman,
Wilkes County Board of Education^ < I
January 29, 1948. •