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People who have learned self-mastery need no
law. They are indeed the free people of the world.
The move into Iceland is designed to keep "the
ramparts we watch" further from our shores.
Senator Bert Wheeler, Smart Boy Lindberg, and
others get hot everytime anybody mentions Iceland.
Looks as though Mr. Hitler has discovered that
the "Bear that walks like a man" really walks like a
man, and not like a crawfish.
Join the defense effort. Help relieve the aluminum
shortage. Help build a covey of airplanes. Take
your old aluminum to the designated place in your
locality next week.
The voice emanating from Berlin is the oice of
the white knight doing battle in defense of Christian
civilization; but the hands are still stained with the
blood of the innocent.
One of the greatest dangers to which democracy
and capitalism have been exposed in that many legitimate
businesses have assumed distinctive characteristics
of rackets, and labor unions are not the
only organizations afflicted with "the rackets."
Any person who puts his own political welfare,
the welfare of his political party, the good of any organization
of which he may be a member, his financial
welfare, or his personal comfort ahead of his
country, in the days of this dire emergency, is unworthy
of the high privilege of American citizenship.
This applies to industrialists, laborers and labor ormnninnfi/wio
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Society note: Many young Americans, in uniform,
are vacationing in Newfoundland, Greenland,
and Iceland; much to the discomfiture of Herr Hitler,
the "bloodthirsty guttersnipe."
Personal note to Hitler, quoting Bobby Burns,
(although Hitler does not cotton to Scotsmen): "The
best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee"
The President of Dartmouth, himself a World
War veteran and a patriotic gentleman, says that the
youth of the colleges should not be blamed for the
i pacifist manifestations of a few months ago. He sorrowfully
assumes the blame upon himself and the
other men and women who are responsible for what
has been taught in the name of liberalism during
the past twenty years.
' FOUB YEARS OF THE RISING SUN
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Japan talks grandly of the "new order in Asia".
She sets herself up as the sponsor of that new order,
which is to be tied in with the "new order irfEurope",
of Hitter's making. The inspired Japanese press
hurls epithets at the United States, and intimates
that Japan will brook no interference with the "new
order" which is Japan as the master of the rest of
the Orient. The Japanese government breathlessly
awaits the news from the Eastern Front, where Germany
and Russia are engaged in a titanic struggle,
initiated without provocation by Germany. If the tide
of battle turns sufficiently toward German arms to
justify such action, Japan will strike either southward
toward the Dutch East Indies, (a prize for
which her greedy mouth has been watering ever since
Germany attacked and overthrew Holland in a most
cowardly and burglarious manner) or into Siberia,
which would place the Nipponese within thirty miles
. of Alaska. 1
But, four years ago, the Japanese attacked
China with intent to murder, rape, and then annex
that country under the banner of the Rising Sun.
An undeclared war has been raging ever since. Japan
expected a speedy victory. She thought it would be
as easy as robbing a toothless, senile, old woman of
her wealth. Horror, atrocity, after the manner of
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der of the day. Chinese cities were ruthlessly bombed.
Chines countryside was laid waste. Chinese peasants
were machine-gunned from the air as they toiled
in their fields or struggled as refugees along the
sincient roadways. Puppet governments, after the
German patern in conquered countries, were set up
in certain provinces, with renegade Chinese at their |
heads. China and Chinese \pere subjected to the great
est misfortunes and indiginities that Sould be con-1
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ceived by either the German or the Japanese mind.
Hie whale began to fit into a pattern, or a deliberate
conspiracy between Germany, Japan and Italy to
overrun and rule the world, after civilization and
everything that makes life really worth while were
thrown into the discard.
Now, Japan, thinking she is mystifying the world
is herself within the maze of a mystery. China has
stuck. Japan has lost many hundreds of thousands
of men in her war with China. She has poured untold
millions in money into it, until her finances are
stretched to the breaking point. And still China
sticks. China is today, after four years of battling
against superior equipment, stronger than she was
when the would-be conquerors assailed her. She has
many more men in the field. They are better equipped,
better trained and' better clad. Her industry,
moved to the vastness of China's interior, is humming.
Her people, then divided, are united against
the common foe. Her morale is superb. In fact, China
is winning the war. She grows stronger each day,
While Japan grows weaker.
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Japan will never be tne master 01 a new
a new order of her forging by force of arms. If there
is to be a new order in Asia, it will emerge from ancient
China, where youth and faith in the dignity of
man have been renewed in a baptism of blood.
The new order Japan proposes is a threat to
America and everything America stands for, because
it is inspired by and linked up with Hitlerized and
Prussianized Germany.
The new order that is to be in Asia, sprung from
the blood of China's martyrs and nourished by
China's heroic suffering, will never be a menace to
America. That is the kind of a new order with which
the land of freedom can fellowship, can trust, and
can join hands across the Pacific.
FACING BANKRUPTCY
Any thinking person must be impressed with the ^
seriousness of the situation that confronts theworld. of
the likelihood that the war now raging will be long,
that every day adds to the total of the indebtedness
of the countries of the world, and consequently of the .
people, that such a burden will be piled up that, when ;
the fighting ceases, the world will be financially \
bankrupt, and much of the physical wealth will be (
destroyed. In other words, the world is facing bank- J
ruptcy.
Taken by and large, that kind of bankruptcy .
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through periods like that before. Great physical
hardships were worked upon the peoples for gener- ]
ations, but the race came through them and builded j
a civilization. The greatest values in this universe are i
not financial or physical, anyway. They are spiritual, 1
since this is a spiritual universe. The one task to
-which we must apply ourselves is to ward off spirit- 1
ual bankruptcy during the war and the period that j
shall follow it. It will take strong men and women
to weather those storms. Most people can face*a bat- j
tie, or engage in a titanic physical conflict without 1
showing the white feather; but it takes real men and j
women to stand up under the daily grind of physical
hardship, and emerge with their souls unscarred, i
their principles intact, and their morale unbroken, i
There, in the last analysis is where the real bat- 1
tie will be fought, day after day, in the workshops, on
the farms, in the school rooms, on the campuses, in j
the homes of the peoples of this world 'who believe .
in Democracy and Christianity. The present task, i
of course, is to turn back the tide of Totalitarian ?
frightfulness that seeks to overthrow every principle
in which we have believed, upon which we have build- (
ed our lives and our nation. That frightfulness would {
enslave men body and soul, or destroy them. i
Our Democracy, our Freedom, our Christianity, i
are things of the spirit, and are therefore, the most [
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we must hold on to them through the darkness with a
faith that will not be denied. We must transmit them
and that faith to the youth of the English-speaking
nations, for therein lies the hope that the world will
not again sink into dark ages of poverty-stricken,
hopeless, helpless, serfdom. We must build such a
spiritual bulwark that all the powers of Hell and
Hitlerism cannot break it down.
Our government is making physical preparations
to withstand the shock. The spiritual defenses
are in the hand of the Church, the schools, the newspapers,
and the homes of our people. All the physical
defenses that can be devised or built will not suffice
to save us, if our spiritual defenses fail us.
That was what Kipling was talking about when
he said: a
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All valiant dust that builds on dust,
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Thv mercv on thv people. Lord." u
" Hold "the spiritual lines in American and the u
British Empire, and the civilization we know will be ti
saved. "The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it". c
It i^ in our everyday dedication to the things of the ?
spirit, our everyday humility and faith that we shall ti
find salvation for our civilization in the dark days ti
that lie ahead. We must not allow moral and spiritual u
bankruptcy to overtake us. p
"If any man would come after me, let him deny ?
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me". That1 p
is the road to personal and race salvation. I n
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Resident Hunter Advises
Foung Men Of Today
Cullowhee, (Special)? In an- j
>wer to the question of whether
1 young man should during the
present crisis go to work, to
:amp, or back to college, H. T.
tfunter, president of Western
Carolina Teachers College today
;aid to a group of teachers in
the Guidance Workshop, "To
work, to camp, or to college?
which? is anything but an academic
question now to tens of
thousands of voung men. They
face this question as sharply as
if fate had set these alternatives
and left no other.
"No," said Mr. Hunter, "the
alternative is not between going
to college and staying at
home; between a job and no
job; between being a soldier
and a lounge lizard. No young
man worth his salt wants at a
Lime like this to be idle or to
be engaged in useless activities.
He wants to be a part of the
throbbing activities which stir
the world and to do his bit toward
national defense.
"What shall I do? asks the
young man who is not intellectually
and emotionally dead.
Shall I go to work?work on the
farm, in the factory, on a construction
job, in the printshop
?any place where useful work
is available? Fortunately," he
continued, "the defense program
means work opportunities
to hundreds of thousands of
nen. Reports from employment
offices indicate that multitudes
ire securing jobs and that the
ists of the unemployed are on
ihe way toward the vanishing
Doint. And still the call comes
from every point of the com3ass:
"Men Wanted?men for
technical jobs, skilled artisans,
aborers!" Especially insistent is
ihe demand for men trained
tnd experienced in fields calling
or skill. But so heavy is the denand
even for common laborers
hat few young men with two
jood hands need remain idle
or want of something to do.
tod I desire to say emphatically
hat any honest work or work
lecessary to our national de
ense is honoraoie. Let no man
ie ashamed today to engage in
my useful manual labor.
"But the training camps are
ailing," declared Mr. Hunter,
and a gradually increasing
rmy of selectees from the draft
ists is responding. Others volnteer
for training in chosen
nes, like civil pilot training,
tie army air corps, the navy*
oast guard service. One cannot
uestion the essential character
f any of these lines of activies.
In fact, dire necessity gives '
lem special significance. Miliary
training, thought of in
eace times as affording an ?portunity
for a select type of
iucation, for possible honors,
romotion, security in old age,
ow has taken on the character
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Chief organizer and first * c(
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policyholders in u.s.
of all companies now
number more than
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of something on which hangs d
individual and national well- h
being. We must be prepared to *
meet force?trained and -coordinated
and disclipined force? t]
with force or risk enslavement. P
This army of young men going h
away to be trained for military A
services deserves our enthusias- b
tic endorsement and backing. I 0
lift my hat in reverent admir- _g.
ation to the young man who, jn
whether as a volunteer or as a si
draftee, goes forth to the train- ;
ing camp. \ fi
"But there is another army?" !
Mr. Hunter went on to say, "the ;
youths who neither enter some
immediately essential work nor ! b
yet go to camp. Most of them j ^
are still in their teens?too ja
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young to enter military train- j
ing. I think particularly of those S(
who have just graduated from n
high school or who are now in s
college. What shall they do? To s'
many of them, the temptation p
will come to drop out of school A
or to remain out of school.' It '11
will appear to some that the j
processes of education are too js
slow to be of immediate value 's
to our imperilled democracy, iC1
Many will become restive and c'
may be set adrift without a goal. I
But let us consider the facts, |e<
be realistic as we are in the hab- , n
it of saying. We are fighting j1C
for democracy. Democracy is
based upon the assumption that
each individual is valuable, and
that each has a contribution to rr
make. All are agreed that edu- I tl
cation?universal education? is > h<
essential t0 democratic govern- j H
ment. As the late Governor j a{
Reducing the average "turn-around"
each railroad freight car one day, ?y ft
unloading, adds to the nation's h
freight car. supply the ^
equivalent of 99.600 cars.
(r^ONEKfc MIUUOAD BUILDRS IN THE^.'EST
WERE ATTACKED FREQUENTLY IY INDIANS.
AS LATE AS I8C3 THIRTEEN RAILROAD SURVEYDI
WERE MASSACRED BY AFACNE INDIANS.
L
rcock used to say,. "You can>
>t build a great civilization ^
e backs of an ignorant citi.
nship."
"This threat of an impending
)locaust, this world turbuW
ust fend some day. Then a
rained and weakened civiliza3n
will have to be rebuilt. %
lall need trained citizens ^
iver before. Education win, ^
y judgement, have a new and
lhancea value in the world.
iucators, socially-trained
irts, professional men and *0.
en, persons of vision, are th*
ies upon whom the reconruction
of society will fall.
"And?let us not forget[r.
Hunter concluded. "school*
iust go on, war or no war. Ey.
y teacher who leaves th*
mooiroom in this time of em- M
gency?whether to enter an- I
ther occupation or to enlist for I
military training?leaves a va
incy which someone must fill
^ell prepared teachers will fe I
1 demand tomorrow as never I
efore in this country. This aplies,
of course, to women
?achers as well as to men."
Irey Explains IIow To I
I a n d 1 e Milk Supply
The handling in the home of I
lilk produced by the family
ow has long been a trouble3me
problem, says John A.
.rey, Extension dairy specialist I
t Stat^ College.
"You find almost as many difsrent
flavors of milk and butsr
as there are farm homes,"
he specialist said. "As a matter
f fact, cows do not produce all
hese many flavored products,
'he different tastes found in |
airy products in different
omes are due to the different I
rays the milk is handled."
A simple method of handling
he milk will solve almost any I
roblem that arises from the
ome production of dairy food. I
rey added. He said that the
est container for milk from one H
r twe cows is the standard
lass milk bottle. Just after H
lilking. the milk should be H
:rained through a good filter
,rpe strainer after which the H
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ltCI UiUtil dllUUlU L/c uiotaiutu.
Three to four folds of cheese
loth can be used when a filter- H
/pe strainer is not available H
ut it is necessary to sterilize H
le cloth with boiling water
fter each use. Unless the cloth
i sterilized, it will act as a
)urce of bacterial infection to
rilk each time the liquid is I
trained through it. After
training, the milk should be
oured into quart glass bottles. I
small tin funnel is good for
se to prevent spilling. The bot- H
es then should be capped with H
t a n d a r d milk bottle caps.. H
everal months' supply of caps
an be bought for less than 50
ent3.
The milk next should be cooli
in cold water before it is reloved
to the refrigerator or
:e box.
SHOW I
Gaston County 4-H Club
tembers are getting ready for
le Junior Dairy Show to be
eld in Statesville this fall, says
r. Z. Smith, assistant farm
jent of the N. C. State College
; A 7hE 600 BILLION GALLONS OF I
\ WATER USED BY THE AMERICAN
j) \ RAiLROADS EACH YEAR. WOVLD
>) 1 FILL A CHANNEL 600 FEET WlCf
I AND 9 FEET DEEP. REACHING
j ' I tr.OM NEW YORJt K) SAN
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