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id Mondays and Thursdays at Wiikesboro, North Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATBB: One Year |2.00 (is Wilkes and Adjoining Coontiee) One Year $8.00 One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at fee poetoffice at North Thursday, March 18, 1948 > Cdroiinfc asjocutioT^ Nayal Air Power -■ In some quarters, there seems to have been a feeling that Naval air power is a matter of relatively small importance and that, should war come again, the Air Force, with its land-based planes, can handle the jobs of both defense and at > tack. That point of view was opposed in an address before an American Legion con ference by John Nicholas Brown, the As sistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. A carrier task force, he pointed out, is an enormous, mobile air base, well pro tected against any form of attack, with its own fuel storage, repair shops, quar ters for personnel—and, most important, its own flying fields, which are the carrier decks. Seven-tenths of the world is cover ed by water, and these floating bases can go anywhere they may be needed. In the last war, carrier-based and am phibious naval planes carried much of the burden of air war in the Pacific be fore we were able to seize arid develop land bases. And, even as the war moved toward its end, Naval air power remained a decisive factor. In Mr. Brown's words, the defense of the country against enemy attack is the first duty of the Air Force, and that is a duty that couldn't be performed by any, other service. For There is no competi tion between the Air Force and the air power of the Navy. They are complement ary, and the functions of each do not duplicate those of the other. Together, under unified command, they provide an assortment of tools which is essential." Each of our military forces must have the weapons necessary to the accomplish ment of its natural missions. Any other policy could lead to disaster. O-i Low-Cost Houses For Whom? President Truman suggests that ten million new dwellings be constructed in the next ten years and that Congress pro vide funds to permit the building of 100, 000 low-rent public housing units each year for the next ime years. Stressing the importance of housing for the nation's lowest-income grfoups, the President urged legislation authorising sufficient Federal funds to permit local housing authorities to construct a mini mum of 100,000 units a year. , As the editor of a newspaper published in a comparatively small municipality, we wonder how many of the 100,000 units a year will be constructed in reach of the low-in-come groups in this neighborhood. Frankly, we suspect that practically all of the units will be erected in metropoli tan areas, where local officials are organ ized and able to set up housing authori ties to take advantage of the legislation, if and when it is passed. When it comes to the "lowest income groups," to which the President referred, the Government should not overlook the segment of our rural population that should be included in the term. In fact, farmers and their workers have a much lower income than the average for the nation and if the Federal Government is to assist in the construction of homes for families needing improved dwellings, and the enterprise is to be launched on the basis of need, most of the money and most of the houses would be constructed in the rural sections of the rtatjon. o ■ The human race owes much of its prog ress to the lives of obscure men and wom en. '\ v..y More Money, Loss Buying Power Here are a few facts about the income of farmers: Ip 1947, they received about $30,000, 000,000 from marketings and $340,000, 000 from government benefit payments. This was their highest income in history for our farmers, exceedings by 19.8 per cent the previous high record set in 1946. The Alexander Hamilton Institute points out that the increase in'firm in come from marketings was prifnarily the reteult of a sharp increase in the prices of agricultural products, but that there was also an increase in the quantity. Prices reached the highest levels on record, be ing 19.3 per cent above the 1946 level. There is one other point to be mention-, ed in connection with these figures. De spite the rise in farm income, farmers were not as well off as during the year before. While their income went up, it did not go up as fast or as much as the increase in the prices of the goods which they bought. Consequently, their purchas ing power in 1947 was nearly one per cent below the 1946 level. Moreover, the recent sharp break in the prices of farm products indicates that there will be a further decline in the purchasing power of American farmers in 1948. o > If you listen to the baseball fans, the problems of the world will soon fade out and everybody will be engrossed in the pennant races. J , -THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR * By Rev. Herbert Sp&ugh, D. D. This column will probably interest only church people, and possibly not some of these. Statesmen, ch\irch leaders, busi ness leaders and psychiatrists are shout ing at us that we desperately need in this country a spiritual revival, that the world needs the same; that we are doing far too little to bring it about. In fact, we are permitting things to happen which will definitely impede such a spiritual awak ening. - ^ The time in which we are living is one of confusion and uncertainty.' All of us have our troubles. Unfortunately, too many seem to have the idea that release from these troubles can be had in recre ation only. Others are taking the alcohol route. These are only salves on the sore. Their help is only transitory. They don't get at the root of the trouble at all, yet more and more seem to be turning to these false outlets for their troubles. Recently a prominent physician wrote a book on healthful living. One of his recommendations was that.we spend our Sabbath or Sunday as the Almighty in tended, for physical rest and spiritual restoration. Are we doing that? Most of us aren't, sad to say. Sunday, as a day of physical rest and spiritual restoration, is gradually being whittled down to a few hours. Saturday night dances, which used to terminate at midnight, now run well over into Sunday morning. The result is that the exhausted participants get little benefit from church attendance, if they are able to get there at all. Sunday afternoon is being increas nigly taken over by secular and commer cial amusement interests. Now the same thing is happening to Sunday evening and Sunday night. Thus far they have left about an hour and a half open on Sunday evening as a gesture toward the churches, then they take over again.. We have had Sunday picture shows for some time on Sunday afternoon and Sunday night after chureh hours. Now come Sunday night public dancing. Have you ever heard of a man or wom an being converted from hi^or her evil ways, led to a better spiritual life, by any of these things! These commercial interests have six days in which to operate. Now they are reaching out and gradually taking over the seventh. The same old picture was presented in the Book of Genesis, when Adam and Eve were given the whole Garden to live in, only two trees being reserve^ as God's. They reached out to' take these and so precipitated their down fall. If we are going to heed our leaders, save bur civilization by spiritual revival, we-are going to have to wake up to our responsibility to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's*" : ABNORMAL j By DWIGHT NICHOLS et al jpgjbj y| w£h£»: r-.Jp* *s I ..'1 SUBJECTS AT RANDOM— Stop lights are japing up so fast we can't remember where «• to stop . . . The safecracker sat down, pulled off his shoe and started turning the dial with his toe. He said he wanted to drive the fingerprint men nute . . . Are you the kind of man who always hits the nail right on the thumb? ... . Daughter told mo ther that nice girls sometimes had to hoid men's hands .... A Cape is in the hospital suffering cape is in the hospital suffering from head injuries and shock caused by coming in contact with a liye wife." . . . Experience should be the best teacher. Look at what It costs! An editor sur mtsM that it is no wonder new boriT babies cry so much. They enter the world bald, without teeth, they can't talk back, and they owe the government $3,500 as their part of the national debt . . . Civil service has been dtefined as something you get In restaurantg between wars . . . Tfce Greensboro Inquirer wants to know did Lash Larue see his date in his return here. Our in formation is he did. ... In one town the police arrested a man for laughing when there was nothing, funny. How about raid ing- radio audiences? PLENTY OP IT— It was Spring out in the coun try.- "Hovr's sentiment out here?" asked a politician. "Still going strong," answer ed a farmer. "There were six cars parked in my lane last night." ' I UP AGAINST MANY— Willie Johnson, a sawed-off, beaten-down little man was ar raigned in a Texas; district court on a felony charge. The clerk Intoned. "The State of Texas versus Willie John son! x Before he could read further, Willie almost broke up the meet ing by solemnly declaring: "Gee, what a majority!" , TwTlA8T ONB— A minister was to conduct the funeral of the town wastrel whose life had been such that not a great deal of good could be gaid of him. Even his widow understood that. Nevertheless the pastor wanted to say something on the complimentary side if he could, and it occurred to him to scan the floral wreaths with their cards of sympathy. The man had been a volun teer fire fighter and the hook and-ladder boys had sent a. beau tiful floral piece. "This ought to haye something i f anything does," the preacher thought.. He was sadly disillusioned. Worked neatly into the design of red roses was this statement: "Gone to his last fire." Sam P. Mitchell Civil Engineer crrr and farm survey? 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