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r RICES G£T A CLEAN SWEEP OUR LOW PRICES MAKE HUDGETS EASY TO BALANCE MARION PROGRESS, MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, MAR. 14, 1940 MARION PROGSIESS PUBUSHED EVERY BY THE THin?i SMILES -ml McDOWELL PUBLISHIN*. MARION. N C. It TELEPHONE o- S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and f Entered at the Postoffice at Ma> N. C., as second class mattP' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year Bix Months Strictly in Advance. si-.'in 75 North Carolina PRESS ASSOCIATION happens in forever. costs nothing, but creates much; a flash, and the memory of it lasts t uiiot be bought, begged, borrowed, nor stolen; ut it is something that is no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. So, if in your hurry and rush you meet someone Who is too weary to give you a smile, leave one of- yours. For no one needs a smile quite as much as the one who has none left to give. —Plant Life. WEEKLY MEDITATION MARION, N. C., MARCH 14, 1940 DESERVING OF SUPPORT APPRECIATES UNITED STATES j WILL TO RISE AGAIN The other day a newspaper organi-j LIVES IN POLISH HEARTS ization inquired of certain Americans j regarding their attitude to proposed! Washington.—“Poland will live The successful accomplishment of questions contained in the census! again!” acts of public service and the build-: schedule. | Inspired by that stirring Phrase uhgy 'can'expect "to ’ hear something Some of the cttizens quoted were;from their national anthem, Poles By Rev. Paul A. Boriack, B. D., Paator St. Matthew’s Luth eran Church, Marion, N. C. During the next week all truei Christians will in spirit go to Calva-| ry to see Jesus die. “As always with a dying man, we carry His last words in remembering hearts. The cross has been raised into the air, the Son of God suspended from it. Suddenly, like lightning, His first word strikes directly into the heart of all the sin and sorrow of man. His face is lifted! under the crown of thorns, and a dy- j ing world sees a dying man point toi the reason for death: “Father, for-! give them; for they know not what! jthey do.” (The Shadow of the Cross, j j 1940). This was not the first mistake | I Roman justice had made.. Other in-1 jnocent men had been crucified and| j had protested their innocence; !through lips swollen with agony but' I here was something new on a Roman j cross. No cry of protest or of pain. I Only a prayer that those who were j doing this thing to Him might be f or- ! given. When men crucify their God ing of community spirit are the es-i Some of the cttizens quoted were | from their national anthem sential aims of any civic organiza- very much against giving private in-! who escaped the German-Russian in tion. Members of any club are bound formation to the Government but • vasion of their homeland are plan- together when they strive collective- Marlene Dietrich, film actress, seem-1 ning the rebirth of the Polish Repub- ]y to better a community and to have an idea when she declared, lie—^after the war—from their exile Count j j Nor had a voice like this been I heard at Athens or Rome or Delphi. ! Other men had reached up into the I Unknown; now God Himself was reaching into the Known. Commerce with all the laws in this most reason-! Jerzy Potocki, the Polish ambassa-i^ word is His l^^t prayer. !dor here,, is singing in the hearts of ‘■"J'.'’!"''* forgotten 35,000,000 Poles living under their!"” men. Hardened with sin.. All the loneliness and hate and terror of the| icenturies before and after. A man’s! make it a better place in which to ^ “j’m so proud of my new American | capital, Angiers, France, live. For this reason, if for no other,' gj^j^enship that I am glad to comply] That same phrase, says the Marion Chamber of deserves the support of every mem- ^ble of all nations.” ber of this town in carrying its trade, Many Americans have festival program through successful- this simple truth. The same idea was i conqueror’ ly- . excellently illustrated in a recent car-! The Allies plan to reconstitute Po-| We Americans idolize an individu- |jy Herblock pictured some well land as a nation if they win, but! . . i ^ ’ 'sin is after all limited by the time I a] or an organization that is trying ^nd opultent gentlemen paying j have made no announcement as to to get in the “do something” class, their income tax with one remarking, i the geographical boundaries or com- Such an organization is the Marion' “Boy, compared to what they have | position of the country. Chamber of Commerce, an institu- other countries, this is a pleasure.’' The Germans have annexed about tion organized to serve this commu- Another said “we get democracy for! one-fourth of Poland to the Reich, •nity, to make this a more desirable jggg ^han other people pay for dicta-1 and indicate that, if they win, the place in which to live, and to better torship.” j Poland of the future will be a pup- relations between all people here; have a habit of taking every-1 pet state composed roughly of one- and between residents of this town thing for granted in . the United | fourth of its former area and a pop- and visitors who are coming here in states and assuming the government ulation of 12,000,000. Russia has ever increasing numbers. The Cham- -g ^ great nation. If we would get the [seized slightly more than one-half ber of Commerce, however, cannot truth of the matter straight in our j and is incorporating it into the So- accomplish these aims without pub- ^^g^t to visit some otheriviet Union. lie support. The trade festival program is de signed to arouse interest in the pos sibilities of Marion as a trading cen ter and to emphasize the advantages of trading at home. It will offer' lo-1 cal merchants an opportunity that i they have never before enjoyed and i every citizen of this community will lands where income taxes and other levies are man-sized and where gov ernment does much less for its peo ple. AN OLD FRIEND WAVING GOOD-BY The little red schoolhouses of The proposed “puppet state,” now called the “General Government,” is ruled by Dr. Hans Frank as Gover nor-General. Establisliment of public order in the German-occupied areas provided i a bloody chapter in Poland’s history. Polish sources claim that 18,000 derive some benefit from it; for the welfare of eacli of us depends upon the condition of people with whom we do business. Consequently, the festival program deserves not only the support of the merchants but of , , every resident of Marion. And the America, the one-room schools of;Poles were executed. and space allotted to him. He is com-; pletely sin, but he has only seventy i years and a few square miles to! work out his sinfulness. By the cross, | however, all sin is swept up and | placed on a hill beyond Jerusalem, j Here totals meet. All sin, total sin;! and all forgiveness, total forgiveness I The sum of man’s years and man’s! shame and the greater sum of God’s | forgiveness and God’s love. i In 1940 this is our faith. A relig-1 ! ion without forgiveness is only the I ghost of religion which haunts the; grave of dead faith and lost hope, i No wisdom, no culture, no philosophy \ can give answer to the first need of | man, the need of a hand so strong; ithat it can break down the wall of; separation between the two worlds i in which he must live and the need • iof a heart so great that it can take j any or no color, are going, but not! _The “Sicherheitspolizei,” uniform- yet gone. In Pennsylvania, the rate of 300 a i room for forgiveness. Surely one day j I this year—Good Friday—these two j |ed police drawn from the German they vanish at [secret police (Gestapo) who were year, eliminated | assigned to “mop up” in the wake of, consolidation, legislation, !the German army, admit executions,; remembered. With the breathless yet 5,000 re-j without specifying the number, on Chamber of Commerce, whicji is In New York, some of the con- i charges of Polish sniping and the matters, sin and forgiveness—should j be remembered. With the ness of approaching death sponsoring this program as an act of public service depends for its suc cess upon the people of Marion. Support it. tested figures in the budget now be- murder of 5,000 German residents of, crosses we have raised for too long unheard cries in the shadow j fore the Legislatnure involve speed- j the areas before the German army ing up the school consolidation pro-j *”arched in. I gram. Other states, from coast to j Large scale transport of Poles and j coast, are seeing changes for the'Jews from the areas annexed by Ger- WUAT-C AX CTA1T17 iM PI iPOPF 7 slowly but surely, in their j many into the “General Govern- WHATS AT STAKE IN EUROPE. school plant. jment” area still is in progress. The war in Europe, despite propa-j regret the passing of the | German reports are that approxi- ganda and debate, represents a strug-j primitive “deestrict” schools built byimately 1,000,000 Poles and 500,000 gle between two contending ideals of! the pioneers and generations of their'Jews are to be transported to their government, with Great Britain and! successors. Better teaching staffs, j “birthplaces” in areas outside the France representing the idea of Dem- ^gtter grading, and better equipment; German Reich, ocratic self-government and Germa-jg,gjjgj.g^jjy eome with better buildings.; Polish sources contend that more ny representing autocratic dictator-, yet many a boy or girl of forty or ! than 4,000,000 are to be deported ?=hip. i fifty years ago recalls tenderly some from their homes and huddled into There is more to the fight than a; teacher in a one-teacher school, and | the “Polish area.” battle for possessions, although the | cherishes mellow memories of the I Contrary to usual German practice ourselves and others: “Father, for-j give them; for they know not whatj they do.” | NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Allies have much to lose if they areioij single-room schoolhouse onquered and Germany considerable j with its birch rod, box stove, booty to gain if triumphant. Under and by virtue of provision of the law the Board of County Com missioners of McDowell County as a Board of Equalization and Review for said county, will meet in the Commissioners’ Room in the Court house in Marion, N. C., on Monday, | March 18, 1940, at 9:30 o’clock A. I IM., for the purpose of reviewing. itself, the administration of the new area j ' ’ ,7*. , I"'®’ ; I equalizing and adjusting tax values,; water was hurried and not well organized •, , , , - . . . . , ' J i 1 i. XI. 1. ; as provided by law, for the tax vear ‘ bucket and tin dipper, and the jack- and neutral reports assert there has ! ^ ‘ [ The world today includes a group j knife carvings on the desks and hard i been considerable friction between j work sVinll i of nations, of which Germany is the j benches. ... On such foundations the j the army, police and civilian admin-j leader, ready to use force to gain j American Way was built.—Christian. istrative units. j any desired end. Japan belongs to Science Monitor. 1 The territory of the “General] j Government” is treated as foreigrn i I territory as far as customs, commu the group and is as dangerous in the Far East as Germany is in Europe. Russia shows the same fangs and no body yet knows whether Mussolini "has recanted his worship of military force and his contempt for demo cratic processes. Nobody knows how or where the engagement may spread but there is the possibility that other nations will \>e involved before the firing ceases. It may please the United States as a nation to pretend that she is not con cerned with the outcome of the bat tle but the facts are against the pre tense.. THIRTY-SEVEN BICYCLE RIDERS KILLED LAST YEAR | finance and currency ques- Itions are concerned. Ronald Hocutt,, Director of the i I until such work shall be completed. Of this notice take due heed. This the 4th day of March, 1940. j I. L. CAPLAN, Chairman Board of County Commissioners. 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ADVERTISE IN THE PROGRESS Best Advertising Medium NO USE TO ARGUE The arguments that will result from the political campaigns this year will be as varied as the imagin ations) of men. You can find a group in one place quite sure that something will hap pen and, after moving a little space, you will find another group just as certain that it won’t. There is no way to settle the issue ■by senseless reiteration of your opin ion. When the voters go to the polls and the ballots are counted the re sult will be certain and beyond ar- ^ment. In the meantime it might be a good idea for the average American citi zen to attend to his own business and make some progress in his own be half. the North Carolina Highway Safety | CONSERVATION Division, reported recently that 37} One important conservation bicyclists were killed and 215 were tivity in the Great Plains area has I injured in this state last year. ;been the Prairie States Forestry “The bicyclists were at fault in a'project, otherwise known as the majority of these accidents,” Hocutt Shelter Belt in which farmers in co said. “A person riding a bicycle is operation with the Forest Service too often inclined to feel that he has have planted shelter strips of trees the right-of-way over all other traffic and shrubs. Since 1935, 125 million and that drivers of motor vehicles; trees have been planted in strips 100 are supposed to look out for him. I feet wide and totaling 11,000 miles “This division urges upon bicyclists'in length. Some ;of the poplars are the importance of giving the proper already 35 feet high. hand signals, riding on the right side' of the street, keeping near the curb! Cash income from farm marketing or shoulder, and especially refrain-1 and government payments in Janu- ing from cutting across the street or ;ary totaled $733,000,000, a rise of highway unexpectedly. We, also,:nearly $100,000,000 over the income urge motorists to watch out for bi-jand payments of the same month a cyclists and be prepared for any un- j year earlier, expected move that they may make.”! The average old age assistance payment in North Carolina in Janu ary was $10.04. Use our Lay-Away Plan Choose your Easter Suit today Rabb-Hitchcock POLITICAL ANIMOUMCCMeiMTS FDR REGISTER OF DEEDS I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Hegister of Deeds of McDowell County, sub ject to the Democratic Primary May 25th. Your support will be highly ‘appreciated. i JOHN M. STEPP. AMERICA’S LOWEST PRICED FULL-SIZE CAR GETS OVER 30 MILES PER GALLON*—HAS MOJOIMIU GUAUNTEEI «*Why drive « gas eater when you can bay a wonderful, brand-new car for practically pocket money? What’s more, this amaiing new aatomobile is backed by the greatest guarantee ever offered by a motor car manufacturer. **I’m so sure die new 1940 Willys is the most dependable car you can buy that we are now giving a three full year or 100,000 mile guarantee on each and every car we make. This goes for our 1940 commercial cars, too. ^‘Almost anyone can now afford a new Willys, because this fine car is $100 to $170 lower, in many states, than the same models of other popular cars and operates for as little as a cent a mile. See your dealer for the full facts—and a Willys demonstration. Your present car will probably cOver the down payment.” •In die Gilmore-Yosemite Economy Run. die 1940 Willys sversged 30.C5 miles pci galioo. Jo0«phW.Fr«s«r. President. Will3r»»v«riaad MoUn.lDc: SEE THIS AMAZING NEW CAR AT BROADWAY MOTOR CO. East Court Street Phone 119-M
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