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THE MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE Mcdowell publishing co. | MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year $2.00 Strictly in Advance RED CROSS NEEDS YOUR HELP The month of Marcn, 1949, has been desig nated by President Truman as "Red Cross Month," and the organization seeks to raise, by voluntary contributions, in a nation-wide campaign, a fund with which to carry on its work while the foundations of peace are being established, and, in its humanitarian service, to express the spirit of universal good will which recognizes no barrier in human welfare. The Red Cross, one of three national organi zations chartered by Congress, undertook and successfully accomplished a tremendous task during the active participation of this nation in the first and second World Wars. It still has many duties to perform if proper attention is to be paid to our veterans overseas. In addition, it has a long record of relief work in the peaceful years of our national existence, bringing aid, treatment and rehabilitation to victims of disaster. It also makes its contribu tions to the war against sickness, accident, suf fering and death. We call attention to these things so that the people of McDowell county will be advised of the appeal and be prepared to make a financial contribution which will enable the Red Cross to contribute its work. During the war years, there was general desire to take part in the work of the Red Cross by a financial contribu tion if not through personal service. A continu ation of this spirit will assure the success of the campaign because our people are just as anxi ous to help suffering humanity in times of peace as in times of warfare. IS YOUR HOME DANGEROUS? We have called attention many times to the danger that lurks in the average American home, pointing out that statistics show that a bout half of all the accidental deaths in the na tion are due to mishaps within the home. One survey of a large city reveals that more than half of such deaths are caused by falls. Analysis reveals that nearly half of the falls oc curred on the same level, more than one-third of them on stairs and about one-sixth from one level to a lower level. The safety experts suggest that the number of accidents caused by tripping over objects and rugs on floors is of such size as to suggest cau tion in every home. Moreover, the need for well lighted stairways is important and everyone should exercise care and patience in using stairs. We call these facts to the attention of the res idents of McDowell county in the hope that we may help prevent accidents in the home. It will take only a few minutes to look over your home and eliminate some of the accident haz ards. Parents who do this may save their chil dren from suffering and themselves from un necessary medical expenses. In addition, ttiey may save their own lives. EXPECTS HIGHER TAXES Spaker Sam Rayburn, of the House of Re presentatives, said that Congress "in all prob ability," will have to increase taxes to prevent deficit financing. The veteran legislator says that it will be a reflection on all of us if the nation has a deficit when national income is at such a high level. He insists that there must be "enough money to run the Government and to reduce this $252,000,000,000 national debt every year, es pecally when we are prosperous." There is no intelligent argument against the Speaker's position. Nevertheless, with constant ly increasing demands growing in Congress for benefits to this group and that, it is question able whether the Government of the>,United States can do everything proposed and still have any money left over, despite the nation's prosperity, to reduce the national debt. Along this line, Representative Robert L. Doughton, of North Carolina, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, suggest that newspapers tell the people that if they do not want more taxes, they must do something to hold down appropriations. Making plans for the future is often a way to escape work in the present. HEART DISEASE A KILLER Heart disease is rapidly becoming the chief cause of death in the United States, being far Inhead of cancer, the second on the list of dis i eases which kill the greatest number of people jin the United States every year. | Incidentally, of the ten leading causes of |death in the country, only one—tuberculosis— jhas shown a steady decline during the past few ] years. Whether this is to be attributed to the steady campaign which is waged against the white plague, or not, we have no way of know ing, but we suspect that there is some close connection. Concerning heart disease, a recognized au-i ithority reports that coronary sclerosis is some times called the "disease of the intelligensia" because of the susceptibility of physicians, bankers, lawyers and clergymen. The charac teristics of the disease including the hardening i of the nerves, ligaments and blood vessels a-1 round the heart and its incidence is highest a-! jmong those who do mental work and lowest a-j jmong those who do manual labor. j The Marion Progress naturally hesitates to j attempt any conclusion from these observations but, apparently, the disease attacks individuals1 who are prone to forget the importance of phy-| , sical exercise while consuming their energies in! ianxiety of mental worries. It would therefore] ! appear that, somewhere along the line of pop ular education in this country, the physical na-| ;ture of man has been neglected. If this is true, and we believe it is, we might, save the lives of future professional men in this 1 community by stressing athletic interests dur-1 ling childhood, with the hope that, when these individuals reach maturity, they will have sense enough to continue what has been wisely be-; gun. j GREEN FINGERS There are robins in the lower part of the 'Shenandoah Valley, and once you cross nar row Tennessee and reach norther Mississippi! you find daffodils beginning to bloom. Spring creeps north, already well established down along the Gulf. As you go on south, after see ing the first daffodils, the mocking birds be come more numerous and more sassy, and by the time you reach Mobile they are practically, mad with song. By then you are in azalea, country, with blossoms everywhere. To the Northerner, it is enough to find blos soms and to smell the young, new season. But to those who have watched those blossoms, open bud, the rains of this season have been an annoyance. Repeatedly, one hears the wish, "Oh, if it would only fair up!" And one won-; ;ders how much "fairing" it takes to make^ a! spring, once the flowers have come. The streams are bank-full and red with mud. Country roads are quagmires. But oats and clover are green, and maples are turning crim son with their own buds opening. And on a few hilltops farmers are turning the soil. ] There's plowing to be done, between the rains,! if a crop is to be made next summer. A man; can't sit all spring and wait. i1 It's an early spring to the outlander, a wet spring to the native. But it is spring, new and young and full of strengthening growth. You have to go south to find it, but it meets you half-,: way. Turn your back on it for a few days and it,1 touches another full to the north with its green; fingers, warms up another valley, outdistances!] your eye. That's spring for you.—New York , Times. i INSURANCE OR WELFARE Several risky possibilities appear in the pro posal to require the states to pay unemployment: insurance of up to $45 a week to the jobless worker with three or more dependent children.! The Federal Security Agency is strongly consid ering recommending this amount to Congress, j Unemployment compensation under the So-1 cial Security Act has given protection to count-] less workers out of a job through no fault of their own. But as Sir William Beveridge, the | great British authority on social insurance,! warns, unemployment payments cannot be al lowed to equal or exceed income during work, i A very large numebr of workers do not have average earnings of $45 a week. Of the workers with three dependent children in Massachusetts,! for instance, 23 per cent earned $45 or less the last quarter of last year. Only four states and the District of Columbia grant dependency al lowances for children. It is also questionable whether unemployment I compensation should be broadened to take on the (extra cost of payments for children of j the jobless. To do so would, in effect, shift the ! whole program from an insurance to a "wel jfare" basis.—Christian Science Monitor. Religion, in general, includes three classes of people: (1) those who practice it, (2) those who profess it and (3) those who promote it. The 'motor vehicles death rate indicates that a man does not have to join the army to run the risk of being killed. Advertising works for intelligent users, re gardless of the state of business. i OUR DEMOCRACY- byM-t U1"' .%—l"llul "w ii,i-1 ,■» TP W*. THtFOfaY-NINERSuawJwt When gold was discovered in californi a , THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS LEFT THEIR. FAMILIES AND HOMES.TO STAKE EVERYTHING -EVEN THEiR LIVES — ON THE CHANCE OF FINDING GOLD. , THEY WE/ZE WILLING TO SACRIFICE /. WHAT ECONOMIC SECU/Z'TY THEY | ENJOYED /N THE HOPE OF !/ * S TlZIKING /T /Z !CH." //.- ■■ / /: The spirit op adventure -of taking a chance- remains STRONG IN AMERICA. SINCE 184^ , HOWEVER, OUR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES HAVE BROADENED GREATLY. The modern "forty-niner," in seeking new fields of ENDEAVOR., PLACES LESS RELIANCE ON CHANCE AND MORE ON THE MEASURED RISK ~ GREATER. RELIANCE ON THE FACTORS OF HARD WORK, INGENUITY AND THRIFT. MARCH 14, 1918 "J. E. Wilson, of Ashford, was i visitor here Saturday. "R. H. Cowan, of Dysartsville, ,vas a visitor here Tuesday. "Miss Blanche McNeely of Burns /ille spent the week-end with rela-, ;ives here. j "Mrs. Sue Bobbitt spent Sunday ind Monday with relatives in Ashe /ille. "W. N. Blanton, of Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., is home on a visit )f a few days. "J. F. Conniffe has returned to Canada after spending a few days lere on business. "Lieut. J. E. Kanipe, of Camp lackson, S. C., visited homefolks lere during the week. "Presiding Elder Parker Holmes vill preach at the Methodist church n Marion next Sunday evening. "Forester Ruth left last Tuesday; 'or Danville, Va., to accept a posi ion with the Ellis Hosiery MT11. "W. A. Sweeney, son of Mr. and >lrs. W. M. Sweeney of this place,, ias been appointed a railway pos- i al clerk. "Mrs. E. H. Mforris and three j ions, of Portland, Ore., are visiting j ■elatives. Mrs. Morris is a daughter1 )f Wm. McCall of North Cove. "Members of the Home Guard are ! •equested to call on J. H. Tate, D. j r. Harris or Jno. M. Tate and have : iieir measures taken for new uni- i "orms. "J. F. Wilkerson has purchased he grocery business of N. H. Weeks & Son and will continue the busi-! less at the present location in the : Kirby building. All those who saw Charles Ray n the "Clodhopper" will want to see Ray again. The Grand Theatre mnounce that they have secured )ne of Mr. Ray's best pictures, 'Sudden Jim," for next Wednes lay. Prices 10 and 15c." i MARCH 21, 1918 "So great is the demand for pigs n McDowell that the county com missioners at their last meeting in S^HARGy J «OSK>« i k structed County Agent J. L. Thur man to purchase two carloads and to sell them at cost to the citizens of the county who apply for them. The first car will be on hand Fri day, March 22, and the second car will follow in a few days. Fat back is selling at the stores in Marion, it is said, at thirty-five cents per pound. This has encouraged the farmers to raise more meat." APRIL 11, 1918 Dysartsville "Dysartsville, April 8—Misses Mamie and Gracie Cowan of Mar ion visited home folks here Easter. "Miss Willie Jarrett was shopping in Marion Saturday. "Jas. C. Goforth and Miss Mamie Goforth made a business trip to Ma rion Saturday. "Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Satterwhite attended the Quarterly meeting at Pisgah last Saturday. "Misses Gora Miller and Dora Gibbs visited in Marion last week. "W. A. Laughridge attended the Democratic County convention in Marion Saturday. "There was a killing frost here the morning of the 6th. "Ethel Spratt has been quite ill for several days. "James Taylor made a business Faces of Disaster There were 45 floods last year, bringing with them misery and suffering. Again this year, thou sands will need housing, medical care, food, and long-term rehabil itation. And, as always, your Red Cross will be there. Last year, through your Red Cross, you gave relief in 303 disasters ... as sisted over 312,400 persons. You, too, can help through Your RED CROSS (jw/j/gv/ trip to Nebo last Saturday. "There was a public speaking at the school house Wednesday eve ning. j "The farmers are beginning to !plant corn. APRIL 11, 1918 "Mrs. S. L. Sheep is visiting rel atives in Charlotte. i "Frank Morphew was here from j Camp Jackson during the week on ! a visit. "Mrs. E. H. House and Miss Jes sie Ratcliffe spent Friday in Ashe ville. "C. B. Eaves, editor of the Visi tor, Hendersonville, spent Monday with relatives here. "Esq. W. A. Laughridge, of Dy sartsville, spent the week-end with relatives in Marion. "Mr. and Mrs. Geph Blanton and daughter, of Shelby, spent Sunday with relatives here. "J. Q. Gilkey attended a director* meeting of the North Carolina Rail road in Raleigh last week. "Miss Faye Gilkey attended a di rectors meeting of the North Caro lina Railroad in Raleigh last week. "Miss Faye McGimsey, of Bridge water, was the guest of Mrs. A. H. Giles during the week. "Liut. K. A. Kirby, of Camp Mc i Arthur, Waco, Texas, spent the past jweek with his parents here. | "Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Neal left j Monday for Petersburg, Va., to visit I the latter's brother, who is in camp ' there. | "Capt. and Mrs. D. A. Kanipe j spent the week-end in Norfolk, Va., i with their son Ray,' who is in the ! navy.. "The Grand Theatre will present j on next Monday Miss Margareta j Fisher in Miss Jackie of the Navy. | This is the star who was as well liked in the picture given for the Red Cross benefit. Prices 10 and 15 ' cents. j Judge Frank Carter, of Asheville, j spent Sunday in Marion with his mother and sister, Mrs. Carter and D. E. Hudgins. "Mrs A. B. Lewis and Mrs. A. A. Colvert, of Statesville, and Mrs. C. Ties* of Winston-Salem, are vis iting Mrs. R. H. Bennett. "Mrs. J. G. Beaman will leave for Burnsville Sunday to conduct a Red Cross class in surgical dressing. The j class consists of twelve members of j the Burnsville Auxiliary and will be completed in two weeks. "J. Webb Walker, of Dysarts ville, was a visitor here last Friday. Mr. Walker exhibited some samples of mica and other minerals taken from his place and he says he has deposits that if mined he is confi dent would prove profitable. "The West Marion Literary and Debating Society will give a public debate Friday night April 15, at 2 o'clock, at the Stroudtown school house. Query: 'Resolved, that capitol punishment should be abolished." Speakers on the affirmative are W. T. Noblitt and W. A. Earley; on the negative, C. M. Pool and K. N._ Snipes." APRIL 18, 1918 "The Western Union Telegraph company will open their new office in the Poteat building this week with Mr. Elbert Carr in charge. Mr.- Carr has recently been in the employment of the company at Washington, N. C. The opening of an up-town office will fill a longfelt want, assuring improved and more convenient ser vice. "Considerable damage to the fruit crop is reported in this section from the unusually cool spell last week." WHEN WITS ARE NEEDED Hobbs—"I've half a mind to get married.' Dobbs—'Watch out! Reno's full of people who used only half their minds in getting married." Make Progress Now There's no time like the present to plan a real future for your self. Especially in a career that offers you a chance for more ed ucation. That's why you owe it to your future to take full advant age of opportunities now being offered in the new U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force. Yes, and the man who acts now is the man who will find himself in a posi tion to make progress, profes sionally and personally. You will learn from experts who are in terested in giving you their best efforts. For your own progress, investigate these excellent op portunities now. Yes, you can make progress in the new Army or Air Force. Discuss this today with your U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force Recruiter. He's at the Marion Postoffice, Marion, N. C. Use the Want Ads lor pront.
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