TABOR CITY, Ν. C.
Published Every Wednesday In Tabor City, North Carolina
By The Atlantic Publishing Co.
W. HORACE CARTER MARK C. GARNER
Editor Associate Editor
MRS. EVELYN LEONARD
Society Editor
Admitted to the post office at Tabor City, North Carolina, for trans
mission through the mail as second class matter under act of
Congress, March 3, 1897.
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ANOTHER FBUIT OF SOCIALISM
According to an AP dispatch from London, Britian is
recruiting jobless Italians to help relieve the manpower
shortage in her coal mines. Over a thousand of these im
ported workers are now in Britain, and many more are
wanted.
This is one more of the fruits of Britian's socialization
of coal. When the Labor government took over the mines,
the workers were sold on the idea that Utopia was just
around the corner. Disillusionment came swiftly. The min
ers found that they had traded a boss with whom they
could bargain for a dictatorial bureaucracy which worked
on a "take it or leave it" basis. The promised improvement
in working conditions and living standards never mater
ialized — if anything, they deteriorated. The result has
been a wave of job-quitting and absenteeism, and coal pro
duction has suffered alarmingly.
The American miners, by contrast, work for free en
terprises. There has been many a bitter battle between
labor and management but, regardless of that, the econ
omic condition of the miners is infinitely superior to their
equivalents in Britain or any other country. Our 400,000
soft coal miners average some $2.25 an hour. Their base
scale is about $16 a day. And, in addition, the American
miner is the beneficiary of liberal health and welfare
plans, a generous annuity system, and has paid vacations.
The record shows beyond argument that in socialist
and communist countries the worker always takes a beat
ing. Only in a free economy is labor strong and well paid.
DON'T BE AM EASY MARK
We are living in an age when the fine art of trying
to get something for nothing is being practiced by nations,
states, cities, and on down to the lowliest pic}c pocket and
professional writers of bad checks.
Fred Johnson, Vice President of the American Stores
of Philadelphia, has compiled information on the growth
of the bad check racket. It reads like a fast moving story.
For example, he points out that in the trading area of
the American Stores a certain group of banks formerly
turned back from three to five worthless checks a day.
Now they turn back eighty each day. The recent crime
investigations have caused certain lawless elements to
switch their activities into other types of swindling, parti
cularly the pushing of bad checks among merchants, with
shoplifting, and counterfeit money as side lines.
After listing scores of examples of the way individuals
are imposed on and bilked by the bad check artists, Mr.
Johnson gives some sound advice: "Checks should never
be cashed on the basis of casual acquaintance, sympathy,
hard luck tales, distress telegrams, vague answers, altered
credentials, haste, bluff and bluster, offended dignity,
personal resentment, threats to report to the main office,
or alleged friendship with an official of the company.
Phoned instructions to cash checks, regardless of the
source, should be disregarded."
There is one safe rule to follow. Don't cash a check
for anyone whom you don't know or who cannot furnish
you with absolutely satisfactory credentials.
Middle age is the time of life
when a man stops wondering if
he can escape temptation and be
gins to wonder if he's missing I
any.
Since World War Π, American
farmers have been producing
about two-fifths more food and
fiber than they did in the prewar
1935-39 period.
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SPENDING OR SAVING—
WHICH COMES FIRST ?
That question is reminiscent op the old saw about
THE CHICKEN AND THE EGG- SO INTERDEPENDENT HAVE SPENPING
AND SAVING BECOME IN OUR MODERN COMPLEX SOCIETY.
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The machines which make possible the vast array of
GOODS ON WHICH PEOPLE SPEND THEIR. MONEY ARE FINANCED
BY THE PEOPLE'S SAVINGS.
IN THE PRODUCTION OF ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU USE, FOR
EXAMPLE - WHETHER ITS CLOTHING OR CARS, TOASTERS OR
TRACTORS, PHONES OR PLANES- THE INVESTMENT OF
LIFE INSURANCE FUNDS HAS A PART.
Hog Slaughtering
Hints Are Offered
Hints on how to make the job of
hog slaughtering easier are offer
ed by Jim Butler, livestock spe
cialist for the State College Ex
tension Service:
Remove all feed and supply
plenty of drinking water for 24
hours prior to slaughter. Butch
ering will be easier if the intens
tines are empty, and a better
bleed will result.
Handle hogs quietly. If ani
mals are unduly excited it is
more difficult to get a good
bleed.
Stick with a sharp knife.
Keep hog's head below level of
body for a better bleed. Alse
avoid stunning the animal.
Bleed hogs on clean straw or
rack to prevent bloody hair and
skin, which may interfere with
scalding.
Heat scalding water to 145 de
grees Fahrenheit for best results
A higher temperature may set
the hair, making picking diffi
cult, and if the temperature i.c
much lower, the hair may no'
loosen.
After picking and scraping, r^
move internal organs as soon ar
possible.
Remember that chilling is or·
of the most important requirr
ments for proper curing of mrJ
Carcasses should be split dov
the back with a saw to aid chH'
ing.
Don't allow meat to freeze
Hang carcasses overnight at 3"
to 45 degrees Fahrenheit for
best results.
For each 100 pounds of meat
use eight pounds of salt, threr
pounds of sugar, three ounces of
saltpeter. Divide this mix and
use half the first day. Rug on
meat and keep meat in well
ventilated somkehouse. Be sure
to cover all cut surfaces with cur
ing mix.
U. S. Defense Bonds are good
for the citizen and good for the
nation.
SOCIAL SECURITY
CARDS NECESSARY
Self-employed persons in a
trade or business who came un
der Sociey Security for the first
time on January 1, 1951, should
make sure that they have a soci
al security card, according tc
N. A. Avera, manager of the
Wilmington Social Security of
fice. These persons will need a
social security number at the
time they file their first social
security return says Mrs. Avera.
This report will be filed in con
junction with income tax returns.
The first such report from self
employed persons will be made
in 1952 for the year 1951.
It is pointed out by Mr. Aavra
that under the terms of .the
amended Social Security Act,
Federal old age and survivors in
surance is extended to most non
farm and self-employed individu
als who have incomes from
trades or businesses which they
operate either as sole owners or
as partners.
Self-employed persons who have
never had a social security ac
count number card or who have
lost their card are urged to se
cure one now in order that they
may be able to file complete in
formation with their tax return
next year.
A representative will be in
Wilmington at the Post Office
from 1:30 to 3:30 p. m., on the
2nd and 4th Wednesday of each
month, and any self-employed
person having questions concern
ing social security is urged to
I contact him then.
MINUTE SERMON
It is a good tradition which
says that for New Year's dinner
we should humbly eat hog jowl,
cow peas, collard greens, and
corn bread. After the good food,
holidays, and celebrating at
Christmas we need to get down
to earth and down to work again.
It does take work to make this
old world go. We will not have
bountiful harvests next fall un
less we get the land ready and
put in the crops this spring. One
of the glories of our American
heritage is that our pioneer an
cestors believed in honest toil. A
Bible verse often quoted at Sir
Walter Raleigh's colony at Roa
noke Island was, "If any will not
work, neither should he eat" (Π
Thess. 3:10) The New Year is a
good time to get down to work
at our various jobs, for the way
to freedom and plenty is by self
support and honest toil.
Paul wrote to the Thessalon·
ians, "For we hear that there are
some which walk among- you dis
orderly ,working not at all, but
are busy bodies. Now them that
are such we command and exhort
by our Lord Jesus Christ, that
with quietness they work, and
eat their own bread." (n
3-11,12)
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