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Editor ? 1908-1938
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F riday. July l<>. 19 UK
Patriot ittti /fused (hi Profit*
American industry is capable of meeting the
demands of the country's defense program, but
dletterings over contracts in Washington dur
ing recent days would indicate that industry's
patriotism is based 011 profits, to a large extent
One manufacturer, realizing that he could
not place labor in bondage and pile up huge
profits at the expense of the working man,
wiggled out of his bragging and boasting by
declaring he would not make a single plane
if he was called upon to fill foreign orders.
Another manufacturer argued over, the _7
per cent profit figure he was to be allowed for
making planes He wanted to know more about
the profit schedule before taking steps to de
fend his own country
Possibly 111 this democracy of ours everyone
is entitled to know what he is supposed to do.
how much he will get for his work. But the
recent reports coming out of Washington would
indicate that we are about in the same position
France was in just before she was invaded In
dustry and wealth in that country maintained
the profit schedule and shifted the tax load to
the poorer classes Labor was demanded to give
more, and the common soldier was called upon
to givi his life forTtie fanc\ sum of only a few
cents a da v.
Labor in ilus country loctay is not receiving
a living wage. The farmer is being called upon
to produce food and feed and sell it at a price
below the cost of production But 111 those in
dustries where a few industrial magnates hold
the reins, the government is- told to guarantee
them profits or there'll be no contracts.
This country will be solidified when indus
try starts selling war goods and machines at a
price below "the cost of production, or when
the laborer gets a living wage and the farmer
receives 15 cents for cotton and 25 or 30 cents
for tobacco. Until all forces enjoy an economic
balance, this country will not be prepared and
leady to go 10 war. Everyone will either iiave
to base'his patriotism on profits, or everyone
will have to sacrifice his personal claims and
join all the others in the common task of de
fending ourselves and alt that we enjov.
\o f .ltiun I o i'rolectiun
Fifth columnists who would destroy this
country have no claim to protection under the
constitution. In this connection, the Oskaloosa
(Iowa) Herald interestingly comments, as fol
lows:
The howl from American Communistic and
Fascistic groups, following the nation-wide
drive against "fifth column" activities again
brought to the fore the questiun of. whether, or
not groups and individual,; seeking to over
throw the present form of government have
the right to seek protection under the constitu
tion they seek to destroy. With democracy 011
trial and in danger of extinction, United States
-citizens are at last protesting against the ac
tivities of un-American elements.
Under the Constitution, Communistic, Fas
cistic, and Nazi groups have openly organized,
held meetings, and distributed propaganda ex
tolling the totalitarian form of government, and
discrediting "the democratic philosophy. These"
activities are admittedly carried on at the suf
feranee nf a rlpmnrratic people -?+h
versive elements while taking full advat)Xage of
and press point to this sufferance as one of the
great weaknesses of our system.
When the founding fathers set up this gov
ernment under the Constitution, they attempted
to provide freedom for all. But they did not
specify that this freedom should extend to a
point where it could not defend itself from de
struction. On this point most Americans agree?
any group or individual that conspires to over
throw the Constitution and the freedom it guar
antees should not be protected by that Consti
tution.
. These is as much difference .between genuine
patience and sullen endurance, as between the
smile of love and the malicious gnashing of the
teeth.?Plumer.
Ignoring Them Both
Back in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt said:
"Conservation of natural resources is the
fundamental problem. Unless we solve that
problem, it will be of little avail to solve all
others. It is the chief material problem that
confronts us. second only?and second always
?to thr great fundamental questions of moral
it\ '
We continue to go break-neck speed"^EeaJ,
ignoring both of the fundamental problems in
part, if not in their entirety.
There is no harm in taking natural resources
and using them for the benefit of mankind, but
when we rob the earth of its basic wealth and
convert it into wild pleasure, we can well an
ticipate that the price of our folly will be ex
acted sooner or later, possibly by denying to
us the bare necessities of life.
War, depressions and balanced budgets may
be more immediately pressing, but these prob
lems will be history in a year or two. The ques
tion is, will we conserve our natural resources
thut the foundation of wealth might withstand
the blows that are to come, and will our mor
al stamina be sufficient to hold us together in
the troublous times that are to come?
Possibly those before us were equally as bad
as we are But aren't the chaotic conditions as
fftey exist today bad enough for us to see that
a change is needed'' Why wait and suffer more
misery when we can correct our faults, some
of them at least, now?
Survival Of Thr Tittrst
Marked for its severity and immedite in ac
tion, the theory of the survival of the fittest
will be put into practice on a staggering and
drastic scale when fall and winter come in the
conquered nations of Europe.
Tens of thousands are already facing starva
tion as the beast, Hitler, steals food and supplies
from the mouths of defenseless people and
stores it away in Germany for use among his
own barbarians.
There's something radically wrong when sur
pluses piled up in one part of the world throw
the economic order out of balance while mil
lions fate hunger and want in other parts.
Surely there must be some laws yet undis
covered by or advanced by man that will not
permit needless starvation among mankind.
But those laws ^.'ill not be recognized or given
a chance to function as long as we practice
selfishness and hold no feeling for otherss.
I'proar
Churluttr News.
Adolf Hitler has specifically said that he
means in take over Latin America once Europe
is his, and reduce the United States to a Nazi
satrapy. In Latin American his agents are busy
about the job. The Brazilian Government is
at this moment making up to Hitlerism. Uru
guay has just uncovered a gigantic plot to take
her over. Mexico is notoriously in danger, and
so is Guatemala.
And in the East Japan spurns American of
fers of closer relations, loudly turns to the Ax
is An iron ring is being drawn around the Unit
ed States.
If England falls we shall quickly face the
choice of quietly surrendering Latin America,
? md eventually niir^lo-t, tn Kn Nagifiod?or of
trying to fight off attack from two oceans. If
that attack, the British Navy will have to be
withdrawn to this side.
Yet, in the face of the plain fact, cow states
inen scream and storm on the floor of the Sen
ate that the President of the United States is
trying to get us into war and that he ought to
be forced to resign.
And why? Because the President faces the
facts and does his best to help England to win,
so that the peril will be averted from our own
door. Because the President appoints to his
Cabinet two Republicans of the highest intel
ligence, integrity and dignity.
The main part of the uproar of course is
simply due to the outrage of professional poli
ticians over the fact that the game is not be
ing played according to their rules. The Dem
ocratic politicoes are raving mad at seeing two
such splendid pieces of pork handed to Re
publicans when there were so many "deserv
ing Democrats" about. And the Republicans
have blood in their eyes because the two nom
inees have violated the good old rule that you
never have any truck with a President of the
other party but always plaster him. even though
it mearts the wreck of the country.
But-with men-like Gerald P. Nye it is not
this so much as a cross-grained, determination
? to Midi to a pusitiun unue taken:'no" mutter
how idiotic it has been revealed to be. Does
Gerald P. Nve believe1 Adolf Hitler when he
says that he has no designs on the Western
Hemisphere? He does not, for Nye is no sim
pleton. Yet he keeps on thundering about
"keeping us nut of war." It is a combination of
wish-thinking and stubborn wilfulness.
Gerald P Nye is no Fifth Columnist. But,
with his fellows in the Senate, he is a Sixth
Column, worth two million assorted Fifth Col
umnists to Adolf Hitler. For their deeds and
words perfectly bear out what Hitler has said
of democracies, that they are incapable of ris
ing above petty motives and fuddled thinking
at times of peril and coming to the rational
decision which is always'indicated by the facts.
Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be
copied.?Steele.
Our Prodigal
Fathers
B? REV. Z. T. PIEPHOPF
Pastor. Presbyterian Church
As has already been noticed, it is
possible for a father to drift away -
from his son, just as easily as it is
for a son to drift away from his fa
ther. A father becomes a prodigal
father when he shifts the responsi
bilities that are his as the head of
the house upon the shoulders of the
mother.
Another reason why this respon
sibility should not be shifted to mo
ther. is because a boy always
chooses a man for his hero. While i
in their teens both boys and girls
pass through a period of hero wor- ;
ship. While a girl may choose either
B man or a woman as her hero, a j
boy never does. He always chooses
a man. and that' man is usually his |
father In cases where a boy cannot
find in his father characteristics
worthy of a hero, he turns to the fa
ther of some other boy. In cases
where a boy does not choose his fa
ther as his hero, the reason isn't that
the boy is abnormal, but that the fa
ther has not been all that he should
have been to his son.
From the smallest to oldest boys
ktve to be with someone older than
they are. For example, in Boy Scout
Lamps and in summer camps, the
boys are divided into various groups
and each group has an older boy or
man as a leader or counsellor. It is
thf- duty of these leaders to take the j
boys on hikes and us he does h< tells
Lo them the various stars and con
stellations. When they arrive back
h camp they vow to each other that
heir counsellor is.the best one in
?amp and they always want that
^articular counsellor to be with j
vill learn the secrets of the great
>utdoors and of life. A boy needs
;omeone to go to with his problems,
ind may I suggest that his problems
is unimportant as you may think
hem to be. are just as important, if
lot more so to him. than ate the;
rroblems that we as fathers face j
laily ourselves, and if a boy cannot
[o to his father with his problems
tnd for needed information and
ruth, then he is going to the place j
vhere it can be obtained, which is I j
isually from some boy or man or
[roup which will relish the oppor
unity to misguide and misinform
'our boy. Fathers, your sons want
'ou and they need you.
What more proof do we need than
he experience of this Prodigal Son
vbo after he had wasted his sub
tance in riotous living, found him
elf, wasted not only in body but
cithin him a great spiritual famine
nd a need for compa n ions h i p, ad -
ice and sympathy, said. "I will
rise and go?" Where? To those
t'ho had helped him spend his in
ii Lai ice? Nxr To those for whom
ic was working? No. To others of
us acquaintance? No. To his mo
her? No. To whom then did he go?
?o his father, of course. This boy
new that even though he had sin
ied against his father and was no
nore worthy to be called his son,
et, deep down in his heart he knew
hat the person he needed and the
?erson that he wanted more than
ny other person in the world, was
lis father.
Yes, our sons need us?they want
is?they need and want our com
Kinionship, our love and affection,
>ur sympathy and our counsel and
id vice.
And the father who isn't needed
ind wanted by his son is a pmdi
>al father.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Ln the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of
North Carolina. Washington Di
vision.
In Bankruptcy No. 724.
dividually and formerly trading
as Sam's Economy Store. William
ston. N. C. Voluntary Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that Mon
day, August 19. 1940. has been fixed
by an order of the court entered at
ihe first meeting of creditors, as the
|6sl day on which objections to the
discharge of this bankrupt may be
filed
Such objections are required to
be specified, to be verified, to be in
duplicate, and to be filed with the
undersigned.
WHEELER MARTIN.
U. S. Referee in Bankruptcy.
Williamston, N. C.
July 16 .1940. jyl9-2t
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( HI RCH OF THE ADVEN1
Ninth Sunday after Trinity
Church school, 9:45 a. m
Morning prayer and sermon, 11 j
a m. by Mr Sidney Mason
The following music will be giv- j
en at the 11 o'clock service
Prelude. Battman;
Pr<sessional. Holy, Holy. Holy;
Venite, Exultemus Domino, Anon.: \
Gloria Patri. Danes;
Benedictus es Domme, Stults;
Jubilate Deo, Aldrich;
Offertory; Duet, My Task, Ash
ford;
Recessional. The Morning Light
Is Breaking:
Postlude, Frost
CHRISTIAN
Bible school. 9:45 a m.
Morning worship, 11 a. m. Sub
ject, "The Eternal Quest of the Spir
it."
Interdenominational Young Peo
ple meet at the Baptist Church at
3:30. All the young people of Wil
ligmstpn are urged 1q be present
Young People's meeting at the
church. 7:15 p. m. Subject, "Zeal
Pays Dividends."
Evening service, 8 p. m. Subject.
Read Your Commission." Pastor
will speak at both services *
Woman's Council meets Monday.
4 p. m. at the church.
Young Pitiple's choir rehearsal on j
Monday. 7 30 p m
Thursday. 8 p. m. Mid-week serv
ice. Subject, ' Adorning the Doc
trine."
Young People's choir wdl sing at
the morning service in the Christian -
Church. A warm welcome awaits
any not having a church home in
Williamston or visitors at the Wil
hamston Christian Church.
METHODIST
Regular services will be held at
the Methodist Church Sunday morn
ing and evening. The pastor will
preach Sunday morning on "The
Rise of a New Faith."
Sunday night at 8 o'clock Rev. B.
\i Slaughter, district superintend
ent, will preach and hold the third
quarterly conference at the close of
Lhe service.
Church school meets at 9:45 a m.
Epworth league, 7:15 p. m.
The young people's choir under
the direction of Mrs. James M Ward,
will sing at both services Sunday.
Prayer services Wednesday eve
ung at 8 p. mi .
The pastor will preach at Holly
Springs at 3:30 p. m. Sunday after
BAPTIST
Bible school, 9 45 a. m
Morning worship, 11 a m
B T U, 7 p m
Evening worship, 8 p. m
'The Oldest Missionary Society"
and "The Faith Once For All Deliv
ered," are the sermon topics for
Sunday
Incr
-The number of people worlung on
American farms increased by ap
proximately 140.000 persons from
January 1 to February 1, reports the
U. S Agricultural Marketing Ser
NOnCE
North Carolina, Martin County. In
The Superior Court.
County of Martin against Bertha Fur
vis and others.
The defendants. Rosa Purvis and
Essit Purvis, above named, will take
notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Martin County.
North Carolina .to foreclose the taxes
on land in Martin County in which
said defendants have an interest;
and the said defendants will further
take notice that they are required to
appear before L. B. Wynne, Clerk
of the Superior Court of Martin
County at his office in Williamatnr.
?North Carolina, within thirty C301
days after the completion of this
service of publication by notice and
to answer or demur to the complaint
of the plaintiff in this action, or the
[ plaintiff will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded in aaid com
I plaint.
, This the 11th day of July, 1M0.
L B WYNNE,
Clerk Superior Court of
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Turnage Theatre ? Washington, N. C.
Sunday Monday July 21-22
"South of I'ago Phro"
JON HALL and FRANCES FARMER
Thursday July 25
"Sailor's Lady"
JON HALL and NANCY KELLY
Tuesday-Wednesday July 23-24
"Iturk Itrnny linti'* Again"
JACK BENNY. ED "Rochester" ANDERSON
Friday-Saturday July 26-27
"The Dark C.ommand"
JOHN WAYNE and CLAIRE TREVOR
1940
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