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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POST OFFICE AT TRYON, N. C., UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 <% fflrgon Jiatlg (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) Vol. 11. Est. 1-31-28 Fight Only To Defend America, Gen. Butler Advises “If it is necessary for your boy 9J3 be shot let it be on American -’soil,” Smedley D. Butler, retired major general of U. S. Marines, told the North Carolina depart ment, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at its annual encampment in Ashe •ville last night. “Tell Europe and Asia, ‘You fel lows have all the wars you want, but God help you if you put your foot on American soil.’ ” General Butler said. The fiery, outspoken marine officer, was the principal speaker at the department’s banquet at the George Vanderbilt hotel. He was introduced by Otis N. Brown, of Greensboro, junior vice-com mander in chief of the national V. F. W. organization. Walter H. Blair, of Wilmington commander of the North Carolina department presided. “Unless the soldier exercises a MJand in peace time,” General -Butler told the cheering crowd of jmore than 100, “it won’t be many years before they will have you • n another racket of some sort.” Our system of government will break down in the next war, he said, because a democracy is not designed for war. It will be years aftfer the end of the war, he added, before the war measures placing the country under dictatorial rule can be repealed. “All this talk about the New Deal in Washington destroying our liberty is a lot of damned non sense, and I’m not a new dealer,” Continued on Back Page TRYON, N C., TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938 It may interest all those good people who donate their used magazines to know that some peo ple are so hungry for them that they can’t wait until Mlajor Sharp collects them and they come to the Bulletin office asking for one. . . . . Misses Jessie Byers, Leila Wilson and Mildred Giles are en joying a two weeks vacation motor ing over the Eastern part of the U. S. A. to Canada, Maine .... A railroad car passed through Tryon reveral days ago ringing a bell as it went. Investigation revealed that it was a rail detector which had delicate instruments that de tected defective rails as the car weht over them. The moment the defect is discovered the machine squirts a dash of paint on the bad rail so that workmen can take the rail out and put in a new one. In this way many bad wrecks due to defective rails are avoided. In many ways science is making the world safer and better .... 17,000 people in North Carolina have lost their drivers’ licenses for driving while drunk. So watch your step before drinking if you intend driving. Might be your next to last ride. . ... A visit to the Girl Scout Camp Cateechee near Brevard on Standay. Met an old friend, Miss Lucy Wade, one of the officials from Demorest, Ga., whom I hadn’t seen in 12 years. Girl Scouts are Continued on Back Page
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