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MARION mOGRESS, MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, AUa 1, 1940 MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE McDOWELL PUBLISHING CO., MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 8. E. WHITTEN. Editor and Prop. Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION One Year Six Months Strictly in Advance. $1.50 .75 MARION, N. C., AUGUST 1, 1940 NOTES AND COMMENTS Two much opinion and too little fact produces error. Even the “average he is above average. man” thinks Good manners can be exhibited by a person driving an automobile. ♦ * ♦ What you buy on credit, you pay for several times. * * ♦ What the American people need is more attention to the “pursuit of happiness.” The voice of the people is ap- “THE TOY-STREWN HOUSE” “Give me the house where the toys are strewn. Where the dolls are asleep in the chairs, Where the building blocks and the toy balloon And the soldiers guard the stairs; Let me sleep in the house where the tiny cart With its horses rules the floors. And rest comes into my heart, For I’m at home once more. Give me the house with the toys about. With the battered old train of cars, The box of paints and the books left out And the ship with her broken spars; Let me step in a house at the close of day That is littered with children’s toys, And dwell once more in the haunts of play With the echoes of bygone noise. Give me the house where the toys are seen, The house where the children romp, And I’ll be happier than man has been ’Neath the gilded dome of pomp. Let me see the litter of bright-eyed play Strewn over the parlor floor, And the joys I knew in a far-off day Will gladden my heart once more. Whoever has lived in a toy-strewn house Though feeble he be and gray, Will yearn, no matter how far he roam, For the glorious dlsaray Of the little house with its littered floor That was his in the bygone days And his heart will throb as it throbbed before When he rests where a baby plays.” —Author unknown. RSCORD ATTENDANCE AT N. C. SCHOOLS IN FALL IS forecast! Washington, July 29.— When the ! fall school term opens, North Caroli-1 na will find itself with the greatest number of students entering the por-1 ;tals of the state’s schools in history. ' ! A total of. 916,354 students are j scheduled to begin the fall term,jam- i ming the corridors ant^ classrooms jof the 5,258 schools in North Caroli-1 I na, buying up school supplies and | filling the elementary and secondary | schools and colleges to capacity. | And this is no liberal estimate, ac- j cording to a survey released today; through the department of com-| merce. | State’s Greatest Industry It was revealed that the patience j I of 28,034 teachers in the state would ■ I be tried and tempered. Thus the ; j study in numbers reveals that stu-j ; dents and teachers taken collectively indicate that education is today the I Tar Heel state’s greatest industry, i The survey shows that the percent- ! age of students NO FRENCH RESERVES 1 The defeat of the French army is! easily the outstanding war surprise! so far, and there is,' as yet, no gener- j ally accepted explanation of the sud-j proved by many citizens when it ut-j^en debacle of the Ninth army, three i ters their views. | jays after the general German at-1 * * * ■ tack. If you know a better place in, jg however, that after the which to live, why not move out of'„i„th army collapsed, leaving a Marion and settle down in peace? | breach fifty miles wide in the French * * * iline, there was only one chance for So far as we can judge, it looks as continue resistance. if Herr Hitler will have to fight be-|That involved prompt closing of the fore he can conquer Great Britain. | breach which cut off one-third of the army and one-half of the armor ed material. Because there were There are many individuals who; can never be satisfied; they are ap population In ! North Carolina is now one of the 1 highest in the country. For the year ;1940 is to find the extremely high ; ratio of 27 per cent of the entire I North Carolina population attending) ; some form of an educational institu-1 i tion. This, furthermore, does not in- ^ elude trade or industrial schools. j A brief comparison with the school J going population of other states re-1 veals that the students in North Car-| olina outnumber, proportionally, j most of them in any part of the 1 country. In New York, for example,! 22 per cent of the population is made up of students; in Ohio 24 per cent are students; 24 per cent in Florida and 21 per cent in California. 1 A summary of the 1940 education al statistics in North Carolina shows the following: Forty-eight colleges will be in ses sion, employing 2,731 teachers and taking in 26,285 students; five nor- no. • i-. schools account for 304 teachers McDojell Superior Court conven-1 ^ ^ ed Monday with Judge Cook presid-1^ mg. Two murder cases are to be: „„„„„ - - - ka/i a u j i no ^ • J ^ T 1. account for 6,500 teachers and 173,- tried—State vs. Kaney Ingram, who shot and instantly killed Robert Mc Gee in North Cove township two 34- Years Ago In Marion And McDowell (Items from McDowell Democrat dated July 26, 1906) weeks ago, and State vs. Norman , Because mere were no reserves Tjir^pnt a tippto vnnth who 5hnt evreLlte^"""" *° 1 available the breach was never closed | and kilM ThonS Scott iere about iand German forces poured through, j t^ree weeks ago. . reaching the English Channel. The | Another case of considerable im- 556 students; 4,190 grade schools account for 18,000 teachers and 708,450 students; and 75 Catholic schools account for 500 teachers and 3,500 students. / 33,000,000 in Schools Nationally, more than 33,000,000 The activity of Russia can be »"-;i3„MefAllied'soTd;ers’Tn ' BeWum!p„;;:;;r^^^ - ‘he United States are at- derstood by ren,en.ber.ng that the ^ anlagl^„,t thj ni« Italian- who afHn''^^"® time to get what you want IS while ; German I jSTs a ^ of 26.2 percent the getting is good. ^ 1 ^ of approximate total population. TOWARD FARM OWNERSHIP The Farm Security Administra tion will this year assist 9,000 ten German | jail No. 6 on the South and Western con struction work some months ago. THE TREND IS DRY Good new^ comes out of Chicago, j attendance at Superior Cpurt - from reports prepared for the annualL^i^ ants, sharecroppers and farm labor-1 convention of the W.C.T.U. I equal to a parade. The merch- ers to buy farms of their own. Al-1 month. ^Despite the fact that, ^ splendid trade and patent ready some 13,000 farm families: ™«ney is being spent forintox- men and others with pat- have been helped in this way in the,hquor is much more I were in evidence and with their last few years. ^*«"'ifree exhibitions succeeded There are 266,072 such schools in the nation, 1,425 of them colleges;' and 1,156,508 instructors to man, them. , I OPINIONAL DIGEST GIVEN BY ATTORNEY GENERAL We have no accurate information, gains have been registered considerable attention, at this time, as to how these families I temperance. The are solving their difficulties or wheth-iachievement is the record er most of them are making good use i sizeable region voting to change of the opportunity offered them un der the government’s program. It may take some years to determine the real value of the plan adopted in the effort to reduce farm tenancy and increase farm ownership. There are some Americans who strenuously object to the govern ment doing any thing along this line, saying that the individual should be permitted to work out his own sal vation, along the sink-or-swim basis. Strange to say, these same critics raise no objection when the govern ment bails out a railroad, a bank or an insurance company. HOW HITLER CAUSED WAR Herr Hitler made a speech last week in Berlin and through the magic of radio the people of all the world could hear his voice as he ut tered the harsh gutterals that fea ture the German language. Mr. Hitler’s statement might .be important if anybody could place any dependence whatever upon what he says. The tragedy of the past few years in Europe could not have oc curred if Hitler’s word had been worth its weight in sand. Time and a^in he outlined his views of what was necessary to secure peace in Eu rope and time and again he broke bis pledges. The writer has kept up with hap penings in Europe for the past dec ade or more with the hope of under standing the issues involved. The iirst time that we became convinced i that war was inevitable was when we became convinced that Hitler’s pled ged word was worthless and not to be trusted. Here was the head of a resurgent state, armed to the teeth and pos sessing great military from dry to wet in 1939, while—as in every year since repeal, the anti liquor forces won more than half of all local option elections, gaining in twenty-nine states. Obviously the general lack of en forcement of regulatory liquor laws, especially those pertaining to youth, plus the continued bad recoM of the drinking automobile driver. Raleigh, July 28.—If a prospect-i in attract- jyg mother goes to a physician for! j prenatal care and refuses to submit i 'to a Wassermann test, the physician i Froni all over the county comes i ghould report the refusal to his coun-! complaint about the pubhc roads. In^ty health officer or to the state board i many sections of the county the {health, Attorney General Harry i roads ^e almost impassable—a dis-1 McMullan said today, grace to the county. It is a mystery j The 1939 legislature passed a law! how the farmers come to town as of- requiring prospective mothers to ten as they do, even though they re-i submit to such blood tests. Aim of ! side only a few miles away. From all,the law is to stamp out venereal dis-' accounts the public highways are in leases. about the worst condition for this| Other opinions in a digest released' w.. ^^fasonofthe year that they have | by the attorney general included: | • VT 1 • ’• * many years. We are toldl ^n alderman who is an insurance i resulting in public revulsion againstu aiaerman wno is an insurance, the liquor traffic wherever the issue | overseers in many, ^ re"prepar“^aU f Tb' The mayor of a town may notbid! must arm itself morally as well asl " f ’ as many the sale to the town of coal, oil' physically. itor. -Christian Science Mon-1 j sections of the roads have not been worked during the year. MiTCE-iiM ! ^da _T ~ , Little went to Asheville Tuesday to The United States is the only ma- Lp^^^ ^ jor agricultural country without a national agricultural museum, and tvti. w t there is agitation that such an insti- controlled by the husband. tution be established. or other items to be purchased. County commissioners are justi fied in refusing to issue a beer li cense to the wife of a man who has been convicted of violating the pro hibition law, if the commissioners are satisfied the wife is subservient son, Clinton, of Waynesville, were guests of relatives and friends he're during the v?eek. Nebo High School will open Wed- * IT HAS BEEN SAID OF * -. . * I nesday, August 8. The attendance * Live with wolves and you wUI 'ip^o^ues to be large. Besides local * learn to howl—Spanish Proverb. * patronage, Professor D. F. Giles is * None preaches better than the number of * ant, and she says nothing. * ^ * —Franklin. * . , _. ^ , * Adv.—If you need a good buggy, see what we iave in our warehouse I before you buy. Gaston & Troutman. We reform others unconscious ly when we walk uprightly. —Madf Swetchine. * Not the cry, but the flight, of * * the wild duck leads the flock to * * fly and follow.—Chinese Proverb * * One watch, set right, will do * to set many by; one that goes * wrong may be the means of mis- * leading a whole neighborhood, strength. | * And the same may be said of Around Germany were neighbors, j uncertain and slowly becoming: alarmed at the growing menace of j example.—Dilwin, INCREASE On land where he is turning un der rye as a green manure crop, Wesley Melton, Jackson county demonstration farmer, says his com yield has been increased five-fold in the past five years. J Communications to The Progress are always welcomed. We do not guarantee the publication of every Men trust rather to their eyes *! letters. Some are uninteresting and German might. As Hitler advanced | * than to their ears. The effect of * j consequently we cannot spare the his program he repeatedly broke, *precept is therefore slow and te-*! space. Others, interesting, are too past promises and when this became! *dious, while that of example is * | long and ditto. Make ’em short, apparent it was only a question of i *summary and effectual.—Seneca. * ; make ’em intelligent and we’ll try to time before war would begin. print them. Court costs on account of acts of i state highway patrolmen must be paid to the general fund of the county in which the costs are taxed j and should not be paid to the patrol-1 man. j Charging of interest in excess of! six per cent is prohibited under I North Carolina law, and the borrow er is entitled to twice the amount of interest paid to the usurer. If the in terest has not been paid, the lender would forfeit the entire interest. Our Own Advice to farmers is that they live at home if they can and then they will not need as much cash income. THE ASHEVILLE TIMES “GETS THERE FIRST” Both AP and UP News Service Delivered to Your Door J. G. PRICE, Representative Phone 268-Y Evening hours are reading hours FARMERS ANNUE PICNIC AT OLD FORT, Wednesday, Augnst 7th. An interesting program has been ar ranged for the day. Singing, Con tests, Band Music and other features. FREE Watermelon and Lemonade The Farmers Federation truck will leave store in Marion at 9 o’clock. Free transportation will be provided all who wish to attend. Come and bring your friends. Farmers Federation G. D. WALKER, Local Mgr. Planning a Picnic? Your Sandwiches Will Be Better if You Use Tasty BECKER’S BREAD To get the utmost in taste and satisfaction from your picnic sandwiches, be sure to make them of Becker’s Sandwich Bread. Becker’s has a flavor and a texture that’ll make everything taste better. Include Becker’s Bread on your next grocery or der .. . it’s really delicious! Try Becker’s Old Fashioned Bread. It’s ideal for Toast. Baked Exclusively by Becker’s Bakery Serving The South For More Than Fifty Years. Gordon Morris, Local Representative FIDST NATIONAL PANK^ ^ MARION. N. JOHN YANCEY. President W. R. CHAMBERS. Vice-PreMdent J. N. MORRIS, Cacki'er W. F. GRANT. Assistant Casbier N.C Land Deeds, Mortgage Deeds, Chattel Mortga* ges, State Warrants, Trespass Notices, Et^ fow; sale at THE MARION PROGRESS office.
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