MARION PRiOGRESS, MARION, K. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1940
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The "Forgotten Man'
MJELI WEPE sure of RNDIMO
JOHN M. HOYLE, CROOKED
CREEK CITIZEN, PASSES
C/.Skji
agriculture
John M. Hoyle, 82, prominent
fanner of the Crooked Creek section
of McDowell county, died at his
home Wednesday, October 8, after
being in failing health for some
time.
The funeral services were conduc
ted at the Bethlehem Methodist
church Thursday afternoon at 2:00
o’clock and burial was made in the
church cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Miss Ada Allen; four children,
Mrs. W. A. Davis and Walter Hoyle
of Asheville, Charles Hoyle of Mi
ami, Fla., and Mrs. Sam Clontz of
Old Fort; and 11 grandchildren.
9. What is an equinox?
10. What is a “flaming onion”?
(See aa«wers o« page 7)
bridges REBUILT
j North Wilkeiboro, Oct. II.—The
state highway and public works com
mission has rebuilt 246 bridges in
i The first successful night baseball!the division rtnce the August Hoods,
was played at Lynn, Mass., to| n,.rch«»t..
CHEESE WEIGHING TON
MADE IN ASHE COUNTY
MARION, N. C., OCT. 17, 1940 BLOCKADE MAY DECIDE WAR
SOME STARVATION LIKELY
While Continental Europe, as a
whole, does not face famine this win
ter, the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture reports that the situation in
certain areas is definitely precarious,
because of (1) the low average crops
of 1940, (2) Inability to import bread
grains, feedstuffs, oils and fats, and
(3) Inequality in the distribution of
food supplies.
Stringent shortages are expected
in Belgium, France and Poland and
lack of bread grains is being felt in
The Netherland and the Scandinavi
an countries. Germany, Austria and
it brought the Kaiser to a collapse
some twenty-two years ago.
It is impossible to estimate Ger
man supplies of oil, alloys, rubber,
lead, copper and other necessary
war materials. Whatever the situa
tion may be, it is intensified by the
tight blockade which stops imports
of these supplies. There is every in-
Czechoslovakia will be able to con- dication that an effort will be made
tinue existing rationing for a large j persuade the people of this coun
portion of Germany's population.' send food to the peoples of
Italy will get through the winter | Europe this winter. While there may
with a margin of safety. No substan- i be a scarcity of food in certain areas
tial contribution of food and feed | British officials assert that there will
supplies is anticipated from Russia. plenty of food to go around if it
PLAYING GOD
The unrelenting blockade of Ger- j Playing God is as old as history,
many and occupied territories is not i-Caesar tried it and ended up on thej
spectacular but the steady pressure j Ides of March with twenty-odd dag-
of British naval supremacy is having i in his body,
some effect on Germany. Alexander the Great had a fair
British strategists continue tobe-j^'^^ the same role but the blade of
lieve that eventually the blockade i sword snuffed out his life in
will bring Hitler to his knees just as | early thirties.
The danger of starvation for some
of the people of Europe, it seems, is
due to poor crops and to war-time
measures, the British blockade which
shuts off imports and the unwilling
ness of the German Reich to dis
tribute available food supplies
is equally distributed and not carted
offto germany.
FOREST FIRES COSTLY
The attention of landowners is di
rected to the 212,671 forest fires in
Napoleon made a brilliant start in
the part. A barren rock ultimately
served as his throne.
The Kaiser had some desires along
the same line. He is now fairly profi
cient at chopping wood.
Hitler and Mussolini are charging
about in royal robes, playing God.
^ They will get the same results as
those who went before them. They
will not profit from history, ,fpr they
are egotists.
No other type of men feel supreme
of themselves.
No man can play God and succeed.
This is the great lesson of history,
enabling us all to keep our minds and
hearts clear, bright and shining with
the faith that however sorely we are
tried, there can be only one result.
Hitler will fail. No man is big
enough to play God. Only small men
try it.-—Grit.
among the nations upon the basis of; United States last year. This
need. Because it asserts and exer-j”^®^^® every two and a half min-
cises military or economic control I nearly $30,000,000
oyer most of the European contin-l^as caused by the burning of 30,-
ent, the prime responsibility rests'^00,000 acres of forest land,
upon Germany. ^
The German Reich, seizing terri-i*s seen by a statement of the U. S.!
tory to acquire economic assets, can-1 Department of Agriculture which as-
not appropriate them without ac-jserts that an average timber pro-
cepting responsibility for existing > duction of two hundred board feet
liabilities. If Germany, for political acre annually on the total burned
or economic reasons insists upon ab-! ov®** area, would represent enough
solute control of Europe and a third of a million
force of arms makes her control | six-room frame houses. This ought
complete, there is no reason to ex- j niean something to the individual
pect the nations fighting Germany I owns forest land,
to weaken their defense by contrib- ^he Forest Service points out that
uting to the solution of the prob-i°f 565,422,000 acres of forest land
lems that the invader inherits. j needing it, there are 162,167,000
I acres without organized fire protec-
SCHOOL DAYS ition. Seventeen per cent of the un-
History used to be something that' Protected area was burned over ir
391 PERSONS RECEIVE
BENEFITS IN THIS AREA
was written long ago. Geography 11939, but less than one per cent of
-stayed put”. When you learned protected area suffered fire dam-
thing, it was so. But just go back to:
school now, as countless children These figures demonstrate that j
have just done
United States.
^1 1- ^1- £ Three hundred and nmety-one
Exactly what these figures mean ^ ,
^ ^ ® I persons are receivmg monthly pay
ments of old-age or survivors in
surance in the area served by the
Asheville office of the Social Securi-1
ty Board, according to Graham Mar
tin, manager of the Asheville office
of the board which serves McDowell
and 17 other Western North Carolina
counties. j
Of the 391 recipients, Mr. Martin
said, 180 are insured workers who
have reached the age of 65 and who
have retired from regular employ
ment in business or industry.
Some 45 of the annuitants have
wives who are 65 years of age or
older, and they, too, are receiving
monthly payments of old-age insur
ance.
There are 38 children of annui
tants (retired workers) who are re-
West Jefferson, Oct. 11.—^A 2000
pound piece of cheese has been made j
at the Kraft cheese plant here forj
display purposes in various sections!
of the country. More than 2,000 gal-1
Ions of milk were used to make thej
mammoth cheese, which together!
with a hundred 300-pound cheeses j
was shipped to Atlanta this week.'
The cheesy plant here is reported to,
be one of the largest in the south. |
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WHO KNOWS?
1. Who are meant by “Defenders
of the Faithful”?
2. To what extent is Japan depen
dent upon the United States for
scrap iron and steel?
3. When was George V crowned in
London? •
4. How many members has the
American Legfion?
5. What American city made the
fastest growth, 1930-1940?
6. How large are American in
vestments in Japan?
7. Has ^Great Britain guaranteed
Greece against attack?
8. What is copra?
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Mimosa Insurance Agency
“Save the Mutual Way”
MORGANTON, N. C.
THOS. E. GARRISON Phone 586
throughout the i forest fire protection is
1
•We all ask touchstones, the littlest
of us most urgently of all. In a world
where boundaries are here today
and there tomorrow, where human
concepts of freedom and justice
ni^y be expanded or just stretched,
where might may not be right but
still can look terribly persuasive,
where all the good and true things
we have a right to know as real are
seemingly belied by human experi
ence—^who will be satisfied with re
membering dates and names, like 54
B.C. or Napoleon?
Of course there’s still mathemat-
jca. Two and two are still all right.
And there are qualities of character
to be discovered and developed thart
are still as dependable as the multi-
pli^tion table. There are fixed boun
daries for human prerogatives. So
many things that men cannot change
with whatever violence they may
command. And when all is said, in
cluding the commencement address
by some personage, what have we
learned from dates and names, from
places and equations? Chiefly that
economically sound and that land
owners should insist upon proper
safeguards to protect forest lands
from fire.
jceiving monthly payments. Eighty-
eight children of insured workei-s
who died this year also receive
monthly benefits. Widows who re
ceive survivors’ monthly benefits
total 37.
All these payments, Mr. Martin
said, now total more than $5,744.44
each month.
Mr. Martin pointed out that the
above summary represented only
claims that had actually been proved
and certified to the U. S. treasury
for payment. In addition there are
68 claims that have been filed and
ganism. \ are now awaiting final approval.
The Japs, now threatening Amer-iWhen these 68 claims are certified
ica with war unless we “behave,” I to the treasury, more than $2,000
are pagans of the. worst sort, know- j each month will be added to the am-
ing nothing of and casing less forjount now being paid to claimants in
Christianity. Germany's leaders the Asheville area.
CHRISTIANITY ITSELF
THREATENED
One thing to remember in the
world conflict with pressure now be
ing attempted against the United
States, is that the countries of the
Axis are now mostly rank pagans.
We are not merely arming ourselves
against force but also against pa-
have turned their backs upon Chris
tianity, sending pastors to prison
camps. If Mussolini, the Italian
jackal, has any religion whatever,
nobody has ever heard of it or seen
any evidence of it.
It seems unthinkable that nations
which have been purified by the
Christian religion throughout the
these have their meanings, after all, | long, slow centuries, by a religion
Mr. Martin said that payments of
old-age and survivors’ insurance are
made without regard to the needs
of the recipient. Monthly benefits
come to the worker or to his family
as a matter of right because of the
earnings- in covered employment.
Pajwnents of old-age and Survive-
ors’ insurance in the Western Cara-
lina area range all the way from
in the truths they help us discover j which in its essence is abnegation of j $10 a month to $92.40 a month. No
about ourselves — touchstones as j self and which glorifies the ideal of
changeless as the boundaries of sum- j helping the helpless, should bow be-
mer, as inevitable as the schoolhouse j fore the pagan. Paganism is self-in-
bell. ! terest carried to the last degree, the
I exaltation of greed, lust and hatred
With census figures being announ-jof everybody else. It is unthinkable
ced, city boosters have to be careful’that Christianity should fall before
about their estimates of population.. paganism.
By next year, however, they will be} The world has immeasurably
gding strong and you will be sur
prised at the rapid growth of many
cities.
No community in the world ever
changed during the past decade but
surely it has not reached the point
where cleanliness must give way to
filth, «where idealism must prostrate
itself before the ideals of dirt, where
annuitant ever
$10 a month.
receives less than
wade progress when it was domina- the principles of /Christianity mustj
ted by a “tightwad” mentality. j be in the dust and be contemptuous-
{ly trod upon by base men relying i
If we need a better place to live solely upon the basest instincts thel
in, let’s get busy with Marion! j world has yet seen.—Shelby Star. \
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