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The Alleghany News AND STAR-TIMES The NEWS established February 16, 1940— The TIMES, 1925 and The STAR, 1889. PUBLISHED EVER! THURSDAY At Sparta, N. C. THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1947 ED ML ANDERSON -__--PubHsher MRS. ED ML ANDERSON-Associate NANCY KENNICKELL-News Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County, $2.00-Outside County, $2.50 The News is glad to publish letters, not too lone, on matters of funeral interest. But such communications must be accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to ber ptiblished under a nom de plume. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Sparta, North Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1879. “If the choice were left to me whether to have a free press or a free government, 1 would choose a free press.”—Thomas Jef ferson. tCls.U <’ / •: Conservation, Of Forest Soon after ffie white man first set foot On the North American continent, expert calculators got busy estimating how long this or thatj.Rartjara^ resource would last. The gloomiestjpredicitions have been made concerning timber. More than a hundred years ago a i*&rtclT botanist, after a swing around a portion of the country, reported that, “There ip. fn alarming destruction of trees for building. The complaints of the scarcity of timber are every year, becom ing more serious in America . . .” Warn ings have been issued with' clocklike re gularity ever since. In regard to our present timber re sources, a spokesman for the timber in dustry makes the observation that, “When we consider Overall growth in every size of product from Christmas trees up, plus losses from fire, disease and insects, we find that currently the national drain is being replaced by growth. This has been accomplished in spite of the fact that we still do not protect 30 per cent of our forest land from the hazard of fire ...” ~ It is an historical fact that most of the estimates of the natural resources of the United States have been woefully inac curate. They indicated an inability to grasp the vastness of the nation and its recuperative powers. The proof of their inaccuracy is evident on every side, in the continued development of the natural resource industries, such as lumber, which according to 'the estimates, should have been out of busings a; half century ago. Actually such .industries have no inten tion of going out of business. The timber industry, fer^^aAple, Is pursuing prac-, tical conservation pregrams that should insure sustaiiper prddud&ba from this re source for all time, while simultaneously meeting public demand for forest products. Its policy is .typical of the resourcefulness of private ente^jiflrtSe and in reality is the secret of this station’s greatness. It advo cates maximum? use as . well as conserva tion of America^# .natural wealth. tj, ..r ■uw Oui* Language How welFdo you speak and write Eng lish? There are many school children who not only dislike'English, but see no point in trying to master it. It is true an indi vidual can “get by,” without knowing the fine points of ‘the correct usage of the English Language; but did you ever stop to think how much better off he is if he writes and speaks correctly? Well spoken language, like good rhaiiners reflects on background and education, as well as ability. < The time to learn* the proper use of the English language is during the forma tive years of school. Teachers can be of great help to children by grading them properly and pointing out incorrect usages so that the students may improve their habits. Correct spelling is also a vital factor of correct usage of language. This * i can be (biped in school. The coopera also H Youth And Socialism The avowed purpose of socialism is to equitably distribute a nation’s wealth. What it actually does is to spread the poverty. And, in the process, it does an extremely effective job of destroying in centive, opportunity, and ambition, as well as wealth. An illuminating example of that is found in >a, recent editorial in the Portle^ Oregonian. Some time ago the Oregonian s circulation manager carried on a corre spondence with a printer in Dorset, Eng land, and sent him a number of the paper’s big Sunday 'issues. Now, the printer writes, ' he and his family have decided to emigrate j to Oregon. They plan to come in January, even though he has no assurance of find ing a job and will be confronted by a severe housing shortage when he reaches his new home. His reason for making, so long and difficult a move is stated in this paragraph: “England today is no place for young people such as mine, who are ambitious. The days of private enterprise over here are numbered. Frustration and inertia have come in with a rush, and everyone emulates Mr. Micawber, just ‘waiting for something to turn up.’ It is a sorry picture, and not all due to the war. We shall be glad to pull out.” The simple declaration goes straight to the heart of Britain’s decay, and cuts deeper than reams of statistics and volumes of economic theory. Socialism means the triumph of the bureaucrat. It means that all the energies and resources of the na tion become the property of the politicians in power. It means that the poor, no less than the rich, are getting poorer. Worst of all, it means that the individual spirit and drive which created an empire on which the sun never set is rapidly being throttled to death. So the printer from Dorset is bringing his family to a nation where free enter prise still exists, and opportunity is open to all. Other English men and women are emigrating by the thousands to Canada and elsewhere. They love the soil of Eng land still, but they cannot bear to watch the disintegration of the qualities that made her great. The duty of the American people is to maintain a nation and a political system which will not tolerate the political forces that are destroying England. Building Increases In the first 9 months of 1947, construc tion in place totaled more than $9 billion, as compared with less than $7 billion for the same period of 1946. The U. S. Commerce Department pre dicts that the industry will produce an even greater volume of work than the $12 billion total now estimated for 1947. The mounting strength of the demand for construction in the face of the current price level has amazed those who had pre dicted a recession in building. Leaders of the industry say that present prices will hold for some time, being based upon wage rates and material costs which are relatively inflexible. Apparently any improvement must come from greater efficiency and technical advances in the art, both of which are long-term developments. --oqo-* Arts Of Peace Not all of the scientific energies of the time are being devoted to the production of atomic bombs, guided missiles and other instruments of world destruction. There are still laboratories which are concerned with the arts of peace, and with develop ing products which will contribute to the well-being and living standards of all the pfeopla. Present experiments in producing oil frdm coil presage something of an in dustrial miracle. The enormous and vir tually limitless demand for oil products of hundreds of kinds has caused an ac celeration of this work. As long ago as 1910 a German scientist worked on a pro cess of hydro-genation of coal into oil. Im portant progress in this direction was made by German a^d. British scientists between World Wars Ifcrtd IL However, in all of the methods devioped, the cost 6t the pro duct was several times greater than the Directory Of Church he SPARTA BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. F. U. Walker, Pastor N. D. Fox, Supt. Sunday School each Sunday, lti -nuren service each Sunday, 1:00. Young Peoples’ Meeting 7:15 each Sunuay Lveiung evening Worship Service 8 p. m. MISSION*** BAPTIST ^ CHURCH Rev. Fred Blevins, Pastor 10:00 a. m. Churcn Services: Mt. Carmel, First Sunday, 11:0( a. m. Dell view, Second Sunday. 11:00 a. m. Liberty. Third Sunday, 11:0* . m. NEW HOPE Rev. F. G. Walker, pastor Sunday School, 1:30 p. m. Mrs. Paul Swanson, Sunday school superintendent. Preaching service, 1st. and 3rd. Sundays at 2:30 p. m. SPARTA METHODIST CHURCH Rev. W. H. Yokely, Pastor Schedule of Services for the Methodist Church of Sparta, and the Sparta Circuit: Sparta Methodist church: Rev. W. H. Yokeley, Minister, Mr. C. R. Roe, S. S. Supt., Sunday School each Sunday at 10:00 A. M.; Church Services each 1st and 3rd Sundays at 11:00 A. M. each 2nd and 4th’Sundays at 7:30 P. M. Sparta Circuit: Antioch—1st Sunday at 3:00 P. M. Cox Chapel—4th Sunday at 11:30 A. M.; 1st Sunday at 7:30 P. M. Piney Creek—2nd Sunday at 11:30 A. M.; 4th Sunday at 3:00 P. M. Potato Creek—4th Sunday at 10:00 A. M.; 2nd Sunday et 3:00 P. M. Shiloah—2nd Sunday at 10:00 A. M.; 3rd Sunday at 7:30 P. M. Walnut Branch—3rd Sunday at 3:00 P. M. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Eld. C. B. Kilby - Eld A. L. Presnell, Pastors Church service 3rd Sat at 2 p. m. and Sun. at 11 a. m. in each month. WOODRUFF PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Elder Charlie Hall Church services each second Sat urday and Sunday, 11:00 a. m. REG. BAPTIST CHURCHES Little River Asa’n Big Springs, 2nd. Sat. and Sun. Double Spring, 1st Sat. and Sun. landmark, 4th Sat. & Sun. Laurel Glen, 1st Sat. and Sun. Mountain View, 3rd Sat. and Sun Mt. Arat, 4th Sat and Sun. Mt. Carmel, 3rd Sat. and Sun. Mt. Olivet, 1st, Sat. and Sun. New Bethel, 3rd Sat. and Sun. New Salem. 2nd Sat. and Sun. Pleasant Home. 3rd Sat. and Sun. Prather’s Creek, 2na Sat. & Sun. Roaring Gap, 1st Sat. and Sun. Saddle Mountain, 4th Sat. & Sun. South Fork, 4th Sat. & Sun. ' UNION BAPTIST CHURCHES Cherry Lane, 4th Sat and Sun. Glade Creek, 1st Sat. and Sun. Liberty. 2nd Sat and Sun. Mount Union, 1st Sat. and Sun. Pleasant Grove, 3rd Sat.- and Sun Saddle Mt., 3rd Sat. and Sun. Whitehead, 2nd Sat and Sun. Welcome Home 4th Sat. and Sun. Pleasant Home, 2nd Sat. and Sun Meadow Creek, 1st Sat. and Sun laurel springs BAPTIST CHURCH Rev Kenneth Snyder, Pastor Van Miller, Supt. Sunday School each Sunday, at 10:00 a. m. Church service 1st and 3rd Saturday 8-00 p. m. 1st and 3rd Sunday morning at 11:00 a. m. OSBORNE MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH Turkey Knob Rev. E. B. Barton, Minister Cfiurch service 1st. Sat. nigh 8:00 p. m. and Sunday, 11:00 s VIM Classified Ads i_ FOR SALE—One seven-year old, pony jwell broken. See Dr. N. D. Fox, Sparta, N. C. 11-6-ltc FOR SALE—One David-Bradly corn cob crusher in good condi tion. See D, J. Jones, Stratford, N. C. _ll-6-2tp "FOR SALE—400 bushels of assorted com at $2.00 a bushel. Robert Delp, Route 3, Sparta, N. C. Farm adjoining H. M. Delp. ll-6-2tp Dairy farmers with an abun dant supply of good quality hay and other roughage can cooper ate in the Nation's food conser vation, campaign and at the same time cut down feed bills by feed ing considerably less grain to grew tag dairy heifers. • Prices for fall and winter ap ple varieties this year are ev pected to average about the same “Question for Armistice Day99 Is THERE--NO WAY to' stop this ' 1 _U NDECL AR ED.1 | WAR ? It is the concensus of opinion of one hundred economists pol led by the F. W. Dodge orgao zation that there will be a mild business recession beginning next spring. The group polled includes ec onomists connected with business corporations, financial institu institutions, universities end ec onomic research organizations. Forty-one of the economists expecting a recession indicated they believed it would be mild, nineteen described their expecta tion as “moderately serious,” and : eleven as “serious.” In the opinion of most of the economists the index of whole sale commodity prices as estab lished by the U. S. bureau of labor statistics will continue to rise, but will be down by August of next year and down further by the end of 1948. The median commodity index prediction fig ure in the opinion of the econ omists was 158 for December, 150 for next August, and 140 for December, 1948. Tne majority believe that in dustrial production .will remain stable or decline ffom the 1947 level during next year, 64 antici pating overall decline in produc tion with the median decline shown as tep pec cent. The ma jority forsee an- upward trend in industrial production in the first quarter and a decline in the last three quarters of next year as compared with this year. Majority opinion indicates an expectation of approximately sta ble to lower employment in 1948 as compared with this year. t)f the 78 economists expressing an opinion on tie employment out look only three expect a steady uptrend while 30 expect a steady downtrend, and 43 believe that employment will be aproximate ! ly stable next year. Despite the mild business re cession expected, there is strong support for the view that the dol lar column of construction con tracts will be greater next year than this year. Seventy-six economists ex pressed an opinion on the con struction outlook. Thirty-seven anticipate a steady uptrend, 28 believe HHWUng wilPbe approxi mately stable, and eleven expect a steady downtrend. Fifty-eigM believe there will be an over-all increase in construction contract volume, the median figure on the increase expectation being ten per cent. Washington is not taking ser ious the maney sub-committee hearings. When hearings are be ing held by a committee of one or two congressmen, the public as well as official Washington lust cannot become interested. There are a few exceptions but they are of minor characters. Most Cong?$»n)«m returning from Europe' have express 3d themselves as having changed their opinion in many regards. They do not agree, however. Re turning visitors as well as con gressmen did not see with the same eyes. Some report Europe starving, others report that they saw no' lack of food, medical supplies or other necessities. The majority, however, believe that Europe must receive aid and re ceive it soon. _ I The Everyday Counselor i. Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. Do you like to stop and watch the trains go by? Many people do, and I am one of them. Some times I simply admire them, at other times I am provoked to thought. Recently I heard the story of another minister, who liked to watch the trains go by. Shortly after entering into a new charge, his parishioners discovered that: at a certain hour every day he could never be located. His wife would give out ;ho Information. The curiosity of the congrega tion was aroused to such an; ex tent that the Chairman of the Board of Stewards asked .for an explanation. ’ -m , ^ The minister refused to give out any information, saying that it was a personal matter. This only poured oil on the ’fire until It became an issue in the con gregation. The district superin tendent then asked the minister for an explanation, which was again refused. -A ttta and the congregation carried it to the bishop, who paid an offi cial visit to the church and asked the minister for* an explanation. The minister thereupon asked the bishop to come with him and he would show him where he went and what he did each day. They walked through the village gnd out to a high bluff overlook fag the railroad track. There they sat down and waited. Soon a streamline passenger train flash ed by. The minister turned to the bishop and said, “Now we oan go home.” j “You mean to say that you come out here every day to see that train?” queried the bishop. “And why do. you do that?” “It always gives me new en thusiasm, and helps me throw off' discouragement. It reminds me that there Is at least' one thing I don't have to .push.” , Ever since I heard'Jhat gtfgy, when I see a train flash by I am reminded that there thing that I don’t have Library Notes ' By CARRIE R. JONES Do you know that Michigan was the first state to abolish the death penalty? —-that in Russia only political prisoners can be ex ecuted? -that historically the name Capital is applied to the Capito line Hill - the smallest iand most famous of the seven hills in which Rome was built. -that plan for the Capitol of United States was designed in 1791 by a Frenchman, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant? —*— — ’that Tn December 1800‘ Conerecs held it’s first session in the new Capitol? --- that the first President to be inaugurated in Washing ton was Thomas Jefferson in 1801? -. — that Booth Tarkington, famous American author, began to talk when only seven months old? -- that the first library for Children in America was stated Nov. 9, 1835 in Arlington, Mass? thoughts in my mind. There are passenger trains which carry people from one des tination to another-to a wedding, to the bedside of an ill one, to a funeral, to a new position, to visit dear ones, to an important business transaction. There are freight trains which go by loaded with articles and products for the sustenance and comfort of man. During the War they carried objects for his des truction also. Then I have seen, especially in the coal fields, a long train of empty cars rattling back to the mines. These trains always make the most noise. It’s because they are empty, I suppose. They al ways remind me of some people who rattle through life without carrying anything which mav benefit others, and even without any apparent destination. Occasionally I see a single lo comotive attached to a caboose. 1 They are carrying some train crew back home. They have pos sibly delivered a train some where. But they remind me of those who have reached the end of their journey in the Father’s House empty-handed. They have either waited until the last mo ments of their lives to accept Christ, or else they have never shared their faith with others. Think about this column the next time you watch a train go by. It might help your philosophy of life. BROUGHTON ENTERS U. S. SENATOR RACE (Continued from Page 1) adjourned several weeks ago. Broughton said in his announce ment that with the primary still more than six months off, “I do not contemplate beginning at this time any ifit
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