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INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilfcesboro, North Carolina
IULIUS C. HUBBARD—MBS. D. J. CABTEP
Publishers
lfSJ—DANIEL J. CARTER—IMS
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Monday, Feb. 23, 1948
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Efficient Work
In Low Enforcement
The rapidity and efficiency in which
the investigation of the safe robbery cases
was carried out last. week is worthy of
special mention.
Within a matter of hours after the safe
at Midway Pontiac company was robbed
and attempt was made to rob a safe at
the bus terminal here an arrest had been
made in Alexander county.
Sgt. A. H. Clark, of the Highway Pa
trol, and members of the State Bureau of
Investigation lost no time in getting to
work on the case. The clues which they
found and followed to successful termina
tion were, of course, not disclosed, but
they got results by diligent and prompt
action.
The prompt and efficient action in jail
ing a prisoner on charge of bursting the
safe will have a deterrent effect on others
who may wish to try for easy money
through crime.
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Improvement Of Roads
. Highly Essential
The State Highway and Public Works
commission no doubt acted wisely in set
ting aside this year's highway surplus for
improvement of county roads not includ
ed in the system of state highways.
Experience this winter with dirt roads,
closed schools, marooned farmers, and oth- 1
. er difficulties shows once again that the
people living off the main highways de
serve better treatment from those who
spend highway tax money.
Crushed stone surfacing of roads will
kelp greatly, but we hope that the state
will continue the policy of the past year
Tiy placing more permanent type surface
on the roads traveled most. The main ar
teries of travel in the secondary system
should be hardsurfaced, so that the job of
getting the road passable will not have
to be done over and over.
Last year the Parsonville road, Cling
man road and some sections in the eastern
part of the county were improved. Let us
hope that the state will continue this
type of work, as well as keeping the more
remote sections of county roads passable.
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Where Else Would You
Wont to Live?
Should anyone feel ashamed at boast
ing about this country? William Henry
Chamberlin, one of our most distinguish
ed historians and foreign correspondents,
doesn't think so. •
In a recent newspaper column, Mr.
Chamberlin wrote: "It is easy to sneer at
the slogan, 'against every ism except
Americanism' is unsophisticated, uncouth,
lacking in proper cosmopolitan spirit and
whatnot. But, when due allowance has
been made for wisecracks . . . the fact re
mains that Americanism is something
pretty distinctive, and is a pretty good ism
to live by . . .
"Perhaps the most decisive proof that
Americanism, with all its faults, is a pret
ty good ism, lies in the question: Where
else would anyone familiar with American
and world conditions wish to live, or see
his children live? Thirty-five years ago,
even fifteen years ago. many European
countries might have offered attractive
alternatives. That this is not the case to
day is in considerable part the result of
the new to which Europeans have
surrendered part, or all, of their free
dom."
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•The new isms of which Mr. Chamberlin
speaks are not milestones in the march of
Mankind. They mark a desperate and
tragic^ turning back of the clock, and the!
hands are moving steadily toward another
dark age. For two thousand years, peoples
fought for freedom, and millions of lives
were sacrificed to the ideal. Now freedom
is being thrown away as if it were a cheap
and useless thing.
Where else but here would you want
to live; or want your children to live ? That
question bears repeating, and every
'American should answer it.
Burrowed CoBiffleit
WHISKEY COSTS PLENTY
(Elkin Tribune)
Those who occasionally—or frequent
ly—indulge in alcoholic beverages, will
be the first to tell you how expensive
whiskey is to purchase, but it is doubtful
that they stop to think that the purchase
price is one of the least items in a total
cost that runs into billions of dollars year
ly, and which every citizen, whether he
be wet or dry, is called upon to pay.
, It's not the initial cost, it's the upkeep,
in a manner of speaking. A perusal of
statistics will show that a huge percent
age of crimes can be traced directly to
whiskey. Law enforcement costs are
skyrocketed because of whiskey. Count
less accidents, in which death or injury
figures, are caused purely and simply by
whiskey. Thousands of broken homes
and broken lives are ruined by whiskey.
It is not for this corner to tell anyone
whether they should or should not drink.
But we think that everyone, whether they
be total abstainers or hopeless alcoholics,
will agree that it "is not the original cost
of the whiskey that counts, but the trail
of misery that the use of alcohol leaves in
its wake.
And to date, alcohol is a beverage with
which mankind has not learned to cope.
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Anyway, with elimination of sugar, ra
tibning soft drinks are not as hard to get
as they used to be.—Greensboro Daily
News.
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Baruch says that we are worrying too
much about the market slump. Wdll,*-tf
we worry any more about the market's
going down than we did about its going
up, we ought to establish some sort of a
worrying record. — Greensboro Daily
News.
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Says the Winston-Salem Journal:
"Charles Dickens' novels wer6 never
meant to be read for sheer entertainment,
although no one will deny that better en
tertainment cannot be found elsewhere
in literature." Better look out there. Some
body is liable to deny it and prove he's
right too.—Greensboro Daily News.
• LIFE'S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Route 4
WHERE GOD IS SEEN
In the sunshine and the flowers, .
In the clouds and in the rain,
In the woodland and the bowers,
And the fields of golden grain;
In the hills and in the mountains,
In the autumn and the spring,
In the streamlets and the fountains
God is seen in ev'ry thing.
x Chorus
God is seen in smiling faces
Of the saints of ev'ry land,
As they nobly fill their places
And like heroes take their stand;
And He's seen in schools of learning
Where they teach His blessed truth,
And where Christian hearts are yearning
For the welfare of our youth.
In the mellow light of morning,'
As the day breaks o'er the hills,
And all nature wears adorning,
Till one's heart with rapture thrills,
We can see God's hand so wondrous
As He paints the earth and sky,.
Though there be no voice that's thund'rous
Telling us that He is nigh.
In the homes of peace and pleasure,
Where they love and sing and pray,
And the Bible is a treasure
That they cherish, day by day,
God is seen as their director,
As their leader and their guide,
As their shield and true protector,
Ever present to provide.
ABNORMAL
•BSORWTtES
By
DW1GHT
NICHOLS
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SNOW, SNOW, SNOW—
Practically all children, and
many adults, are happy daring a
snowfall. There is something a
bout snow that boosts spirits to
higher levels.
And this applies not only to
children who hare few, if any,
cares, but for adults to whom
heavy snowfalls bring heavy
hardships.
Snow in substantial quantities
present a traffic hazard. The
father knows that he cannot ope
rate his car as he wants to. Often
the Bnow blocks the Toads, but
yet he is never in (bad humor
when it snows.
The man of the house also
knows that snow is a costly hap
pening. It calls for chains if the
car is to be used, cost of having
chains put on, greater use of
gasoline, etc. He also knows
that snow calls for more fuel In
the home, and that numerous in
conveniences can result. But de
spite all these hardships, he is
happy when the feathery flakes
are falling earthward.
The business man knows that
people are not coming to buy
his goods in profitable quantities
during heavy snowfall. He knows
that the weather will paralyze
business, but despite the financial
loss he takes the weather in
cheerful stride.
But rain and sleet are differ
ent, and it is difficult to find
people feeling good in that kind
of weather.
Maybe it is the memories of
childhood that bouy our spirits
during snowfall. Maybe it brings
to mind our youth when a snow
fall meant snow cream in the
days (before ice crepm could be
purchased at every corner and
roadside store. Maybe it brings
to mind the cheerful shouts of
children playing, throwing snow
balls, making snow men, riding
down the hill on a sled improvis
ed from a (broad piece of plank,
or engaged in other pleasant ac
tivities.
Anyway, it b Burnetii tug.
TH<Wfr NA&8 IN TkAft1
TEL.EPHOTTO POIJB—
On a busy street corner in
Franklin, N. C.. In front of a drug
store and where the busses stop,
there stands a telephone pole
which attracted my interest. I
have, never seen a pole before
with half as many nails in it as
this one. Beginning about 3 feet
from the ground and then ex
tending upwards about 2 feet it
is literally covered with , nail
heads. When I first noticed it I
thought they were tacks, but on
examination I found them to be
8 or 10 penny nails driven so
their heads would nearly touch
one another. Before the nails
were driven in, strips of narrow
tin had been wound about the
pole. It failed of the desired pur
pose, hence the nails. Naturally I
wondered why the tin and then
the nails. I soon found the an
swer. They were put there to
keep whittlers from whittling the
pole away and causing it to fall.
The tin strips were easily torn
away and the wood exposed to
the whittler's knife. The nails
are too hard to remove so by
their presence is the pole-saved.
Now if that pole could talk it
might say that driving those
nails in it hurt. Yet, without the
nails it would soon Ibe whittled
away. How true with men and
women! Many timee those things
that hurt us are the very things
that become a blessing to us.
Too often we faijt to look up un
til we walk in the valley.
Yes, the nails may "hurt" but
they are best for the pole!—Ex
change.
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Prices of hogs probably will
continue high during 1948, with
about the uBual seasonal increase,
probable in the late winter and,
early spring. |
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Men's Birth stones , were $18.50, now 1Z50
Men's Ruby Rings, were $42.50, now 29.50
Ladies' Birthstones, were $12.50, now 8.50
Costume Jewelry now reduced to One-Half Price
Billfolds now reduced to — One-Half Price
Men's Tie Sets now reduced to . One-Half Price
Identification Bracelets now reduced to _ One-Third Off
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Lockets and Bracelet Sets now One-Third Off