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Aiding Tuhereulonis lirsrnrrh
Elkin Tribune.
Research and education have gone hand
in hand to conquer tuberculosis. Both have
been essential to the progress so far made,
and both will play important roles in what
ever progress is made in the iuture.
Through the one, our scientific knowledge
about the disease, its cause, treatment, and
prevention, has been increased. Through
the other, vast numbeis of people have been
reached with the fruits of research - with
practical information on the treatment and
prevention of tuberculosis.
Most of us are aware how education has
helped people understand that tuberculosis
is not inherited but is a contagious disease;
that tuberculosis is not necessarily fatal hut
that it can he cured; that tuberculosis is
easiest to cure in ;;n early stage.
Less familiar to us, perhaps, is the story
of the scientific study which preceded our
education on these points. For example,
the heredity theory of tuberculosis could not
be exploded urdil the real cause ot the dis
ease was determined until the tubercle ba
cillus was discovered in 1882 and proved to
he the cause of tuberculosis.
A great deal of important scientific in
formation about tuberculosis has been ac
cumulated since 1882, hut there is still much
to be learned before we can expect to con
quer it completely.
For example, we do not know how to at
tack the tuberculosis germ directly in the
human body. Wa do not full> understand
the process which leads to the iormation
of cavities in the lungs of tubercular pa
tients. We do not know how to prevent the
germs from becoming resistant to drugs
sometimes used in the tuberculosis treat
ment.
The answers to these and many other puz
zling questions are being sought by scientific
investigators who are among 22 currently
being aided by grants from the National
Tuberculosis Association and its 8,000 al'fili
ates, including the County Christmas Seal
Committee.
Funds for research grants are derived
from the proceeds from the sale of Christ
mas Seals. Thus, all who purchase Christ
mas Seals are actually sponsoring research
which may prove of inestimable value in the
conquest of a deadly disease.
At the same time our Christmas dol
lars are a „_..g scientific study, they are also
supporting the well-planned, year-round
program of education, case finding, and re
Sur*\\ County Christmas Seal C munitt.-e.
From the immediate and long range view
points, Christmas Seals are a sound invest
ment.
Europe: Marshallizr or Cartelize?
Christian Science Monitor
We shall assume—in the face of a number
of suggestions to the contrary—that the
State Department's left hand knows what
its right hand is doing in Europe. But in
that cast- Secretary Acheson should take oc
casion to clarify American policy in Europe
for the increasingly confused American lay
man. %
This layman sees and for the most part
approves of the effort to “Marshallize”
Europe. The European Recovery Program’s
emphasis on economic unification of the
continnent seems to most Americans cor
rectly placed. More open to question, how
ever, is the policy of depending so heavily on
German cooperation to bring that ideal to
fruition.
It is proper to ask what practical effect
the United States’ German policy is having
or the program for European unification—
tor the one is intended as insurance for the
ether. Reports from Europe, unfortunately,
have yet to give promkf/that American sup
port for present German leadership is serv
ing unification.
These reports indicate that European in
dustrialists are combining to exploit the
commercial possibilities of the situation
which American influence has done so much
to create.
This is a situation in which n number of
the most important' German steel, gasoline,
and other plants are apparently to escape
earlier plans for their dismantlement. It is
a situation in which some of Europe’s “in
ternationally minded” industrialists—if the
term is not too kind—are once more look
ing forward to building up international
trusts or cartels under which Europe’s mar
kets would be divided bv prearrangement,
prices could be kept high by throttling com
petition, and expansion of industrial capac
ity could be. limited by private agreement.
This is not just a German plan by any
means nor is it a Marshall Plan by any
means. What is being noted both in Europe
end the United States is the growing pos
sibility that the industry of the “new Ger
many” will play a big part in the revival of
an “old Europe.”
The raising of Europe’s living standards,
the creation of a Europe economically more
self-dependent—these are American aims.
But they are not likely to be achieved if
while European governments slowly pull
down trade barriers, the division of Europe
into areas dominated by great private var
tels is to proceed.
Somehow the United States must find a
way to *build the necessary political bul
warks against communism in western Eu
rope without promoting ultra-conservative
elements which can only conceive of Europe
as it was in the years between the wars.
Has United States leadership yet found a
way to do this? If it has, the news from
Europe does not reflect it -or the news from
Washington state it.
Who's To Maine?
Christian Science Monitor.
The dweller in canyons of brick and mor
tar sometimes recoils as sharply as does the
man who lives near the woods lrom a pic
ture of fiery destruction in the “forest pri
meval.’' Both ought to do some recoiling
from the picture' drawn by 15-148 statistics of
the American Forest Products Industries,
and to do also a little soul-searching as to
the part each may have played. *
During 1948 there were 67,775 fires in for
ests under some form of organized protec
tion. Of this number, 63,883 were man
caused- only 4,393 by "nature”. Worst still,
14,987 are charged up to smokers careless
ness on the face of it, completely avoidable,
as any woodsman knows. And this is shock
ing: 20,047 forest fires are listed as incen
diary set deliberately.
A queer and mysterious I'acF stands out
from this record of incendiarism. Of the
20,047 total, two-thirds of this firebug ac
tivity took place in but seven of the 41 states
reporting: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and
Texas. Is this a statistical freak? Is protec
tion in these states that far from adequate?
Are they plagued with lumbering wars? Or
is the urge to see woodlands go up in smoke
a local phenomenon?
At any rate, one cannot read these statis
tics without becoming increasingly convinc
ed that forest fires are rarely calamities of
nature, beyond the power of men to pre
vent.
Shonhl He Invest!gated
Sampson Independent.
Nothing should be left undone to find the
veal cause of the dauiugt said to*
baceo cured with anthracite coal stokers.
Many growers who used that type of curer
this year were penalized late in the market
tobacco. The tobacco, in many instances,
was not purchased b\ the manufacturers,
but was taken by the Stabilization Corpora
tion at much, lower [vices than it ordinarily
would have sold for.
It has been reported that not all tobacco
cured with this type of stoker showed dam
age. Some observers have said that damag
ed leaf results from stokers which are not
adjusted properly. If that be true, then the
trouble could be remedied.
Reports have it that the damaged tobacco
bought by the tobacco companies before it
was discovered and by the Stabilization Cor
poration has been packed separate from the
ether tobacco, and that hogsheads contain
ing the so-called damaged tobacco will be
opened later to determine whether the dam
age, which is said to cause disintegration of
the leaf, is continuing. The findings will
prove of general interest to tobacco grow
ers, warehousemen and the buying com
panies alike.
Surely, the matter should be investigate
by competent researchers before the arrival
of another tobacco-curing season, and theii
findings made known to the growers.
Nature gives everybody five senses—
touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing. Every
body needs two more—horse and common
BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET
So Wilson Held Up the War
For Fast Shorthand Lesson
»__By BILLY ROSE—-—- -----
During the e'to&tig days of World War I, I took the or
the United States out of play for 15 minutes. I did it with my little
shorthand pencil. , , ,
At the time, 1 was working for the War Industries Board in Wash
ington as a stenographer, and running out to get chocolate soda; for Mr.
Baruch, its chairman.
A few days before the Armistice, a Board executive handed me a lat
ter and told me to deliver it to the proper party. The proper party was
Woodrow Wilson.
The White House that day was a
jumble of senators, Cabinet mem
bers, ambassadors and important
brass. News of the Armistice was
expected any hour, and the tension
was like the last few seconds of
the Dempsey-Firpo f.ght.
I handed the letter to one of Mr.
Wilson's secretaries, and was asked
to wait in case of a reply. A few
minutes later the secretary re
turned, looking
puzzled. "The
President would
like to see you,” he
said.
I got trembly in
side. I was pushing
18 at the time
fresh out of the
East Side, and also
plain fresh. But my
dealings with Pres
idents had been limited to the ope
1 had seen on dollar bills,
Mr. Wilson smiled when he saw
me. "I understand you're quite a
shorthand writer,” was his greet
ing.
MY TREMBLES vanished 1 knew
the President was a shorthand
writer of sorts—the tachygraphy
magazines were always bragging
about it. “I hear you're pretty good
yourself, Mr. President,” 1 blurted
out.
Mr. Wilson blushed prettily.
"1 don't get much chance to
practice these days" he said, tike
a fisherman apologizing lor a
six-inch trout. "Mr. Baruch tells
me you can write 200 words a
minute. I wonder if you'd give
me a little demonstration."
He handed me a pad and a pen
cil, and ’-picked up a New York
newspaper on his desk. Then, in
his dipped, precise speech, he
read one 'of the editorials at about
150 words a minute. When he had
finished, the President said. "Now
let's hear you read it back.”
CHURCF
NEWS
MACEDONIA CHRISTIAN
Church service Saturday morn
ing at 11 by D. C. Gurkins.
Bible school at 10. J. S. Holli
day, Supt.
Church service at 11 by P P.
Cuyton, Pastor. Morning sermon:
"Where Are the Dead?”
Evening service at 7.
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WEST END BAPTIST
J. Thud Ashley, Pastor.
9:4b a. m„ Sunday school. Bur
roughs Taylor, Supt.
11:00, Morning worship service
0:30, Training Union.
The regular mid-week prayei
service will be held Wednesday
evening at 7:30.
The public is invited to worship
at all services.
Billy Ruse
CHRISTIAN
John L. Goff, Pastor.
Bible school, 9:45, Classes foi
all ages.
Morning worship and celebra
tion of the Lord's Supper, 11:00
Sermon subject: "Overcoming F.v
CYF and Chi Rho groups nice
at 0:30. Woman's Day program a
7:30, directed by Mrs. V. J. Spivey
Th^nav'^r sneaks at aw.mnrnin,
service J
Monday, 8:00, Woman's C-ounci
: meets at the church. Tuesday
I 7:30. choir rehearsal. Wednesday
17 30 mid-week prayei and stud;
:e.\ue ..gigJttfe. chajpte: of th
gospel of Mark will be studied.
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VERNON METHODIST
Rev. Hilary Worthington, Pas
tor.
Church school, 2:00.
Worship service, 3:00.
M. Y. F„ 6:00.
Well, as every stenographer
knows, it's the reading back that
counts. I shot the editorial back at
him a good deal faster than he had
dictated it. And then I started at
the bottom of the page and read the
editorial backwards.
Wilson chuckled. He asked me
questions about Gregg shorthand—
he was a Pitman writer. By this
time, I was patronizing him a lit
tle—the caddie who shoots a 61
isn't self-conscious when he dis
cusses mashie shots with a Rocke
feller.
. . .
I PICKED CP the New York pa
per and handed the pad and pencil
to Mr. Wilson. “I wonder if you’d
mind writing for me, Mr. Presi
dent,” I said.
Wilspn rubbed his glasses on his
sleeve. "Don’t go too fast,” he
warned.
I read the editorial at about
one hundred words a minute,
aud then asked him to read it
back. Vi'hen I told him he had
made no mistakes, the President
sighed like a kid who has just
finished playing ’The hived
M allz’ for Paderewski.
I picked up his notes. “If you
don't mind, sir,” I said. "I'd like
to keep them."
Woodrow Wilson reached for my
shorthand notes. “We'll exchange,”
he said.
I walked out of the While House
and floated back to my office via
the rooftops.
1 had no sooner gotten to my
desk than the phone rang. "Mr.
Baruch wants to see you,” said his
secretary. <
"Pretty good for Delancey
street” 1 isaid to myself as I walked
down the hall. “Weodrow Y/ilsoi
and Bernie Baruch iii on* hour.”
The gill in Mr. Baruch’s office
looked up as 1 boUfDed in.
“The boss wants you to get him
a chocolate soda,” she said.
HASSELL CHRISTIAN
Olin Fux. Pastor.
Sunday school at 10:00: C B
Burroughs, Supt.
i Christian Youth Fellowship a'
(i:4.r) p. m.
Preaching first and third Sun
days al 11 00 a. m. and 7:110 p. m.
The Woman’s Council Wednes
day evening after first Sunday a
7:110.
V isitors ai e w eleume.
OAK CITY CHRISTIAN
Olin Fox, Pastor.
Sunday school at 10:00. Ernes
Bunting, Supt.
Preaching 2nd Sunday, 11:00 a
m. and 7:30 p. ni.
I Woman's Council Wednesda;
afternoon after second Sunday a
i 3:30.
Visitors arc welcome.
PRESBYTERIAN
James 1. Lowry, Pastor.
Williamston: Sunday school a
9:45; morning service at 11:01
Sermon topic: "I Believe in Go
; the Father Almighty." Hour u
■ Power, Wednesday night, 7:30.
Roberson’s Chapel; Sunda
. I school, 12:30 Prayer meetin
. Tuesday night at 7:30. Youth Fe
. | lowship Thursday night at 7:30.
i Bear Grass: Sunday si i.oe
I | 10:00. Evening service at 7 0
l | Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:0
Youth Fellowship, Monday, 7:00
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EVERETTS CHRISTIAN
Olin Fox, Par, tor.
Sunday school at 10:00. Mrs.
Geo. Taylor, Supt.
Christian Youth Fellowship
! Monday evening at 7:30.
Preaching 4th Sunday at 11:00
a. m. end 7.30 p. m.
- * •.V'i.rr,—rr'.- ’Ov/unc:' Saturday «i~
ternoon before first Sunday at
3:30.
Visitors are welcome.
PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS
N. J. Ward, Pastor.
Sunday school at 9:4.3. Sam
.Whichard, Supt.
Morning worship at 11:00.
Youth service at 6:39.
Evangelistic service at 7:30.
Mid-week prayer service, Wed
1 nesday night at 7:30.
Church Of The Advent
(Episcopal)
The Rev. Thos. Hastings, Rector
Weekday Morning and Evening
Prayer 8 and 5.
Sunday, December 4:
7:30 a. m„ Holy Communion.
11:00 a. m., Holy Communion
and Sermon.
7:30 p. m.. Evening Prayer
and Sermon.
BAPTIST
9:45, Sunday school.
11:00, Worship.
6:30. Training Union.
7:30. Worship.
The nursery will be open for
I the Sunday morning service.
Monday: 3:30, Genoa! V/ M S.
I meeting at the church. 7:30, W.
i M. S. .study course on Japan,
taught by Mrs. Gordan Madry, at
the church.
Tuesday: 3:30, W. M. S day oi
| prayer for foreign missions. 7:30.
] Sunday school teachers and offic
ers meeting at the church.
; Wednesday: 3:30, Jr. G. A. Day
Suppose You Have
A WRECK
Sure, you always keep your
car under control. But you
never know what the other
fellow is going to do. When
“unavoidable accidents” hap
pen it's good to know that
you arc fully protected.
Why not stop in and check
your insurance needs, now!
Whrrlrr Manning
I ns, \«;eiH*v
of Prayer at the home of Mrs. Roy
McClees.
7:30, Midweek service.
R:30. Adult choir practice.
Thursday: 0:30, Youth choir
practice.
Friday: 7:30, Adult choir prac
tice.
CEDAR BRANCH BAPTIST
W B. Harrington, Pastor.
Regular services will be held at
Cedar Branch Baptist Church
Sunday at 11:00 o clock. All mem
bers arc urged to be present and
the public is invited.
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famesville Baptist
W E. Harrington. Pastor.
Regular services will be held at
Jamesville Baptist Church Sun
day night at 7:00 o'clock. All
members are urged to be present
and the public is invited.
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JAMESVILLE PRIMITIVE
BAPTIST
Services will be held in the
Jamesville Primitive Baptist
Church Sund#v mornirtg at 11
o’clock with Elder P. E. Getsinger
preaching.
METHODIST
E. R. Shuller, Minister.
9:45, Church school. Fletcher
Thomas, Supt.
11:00, Morning worship.
6:00, Youth Fellowships.
7:30. Evening worship.
8:00, Monday. Wesleyan Serv
ice Guild meets at the home of
Miss Mary Louise Taylor. -
7:30, Wednesday. Bible Study.
8:15, Wednesday. Choir re
hearsal and meeting of the Board
t.f Stewards.
HOLLY SPRINGS
Sunday school meets at 10:00 a.
i in. v/itn Mr. C. L. Daniel, oupt.
I Church service at 3:00 p. m.
Everyone is invited to attend.
AM AUNG!
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Capudine’s pain-rcliecini ingredients art alrtadr
■ plssoletd_all raady to start krinpiflp ralitf. Capu
1 pint contains four different ingredients which work
| together to rutekiy aata htadacht and ppuralgia.
! set Llguld Capudini. Usa ■ Piractap ■ label.
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5 Models
From $139.95 lo
$205.95
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Phone 2057
Attention Farmers
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AUCTION
Saturday, Dec. 10,1949
10:00 A. M.
Al “(ins" W. A. Fvrrotl Farm, l 1-2 Mih‘s North of
Rohersonvillc.
ict’ Muli's
*ets Mayo Oil Curers
Carts
Wagon
^ aikii’.g < iiltii iilnrs
Killing Plow
Foliacro Trucks w ith sides
Mowing Machine
Case Turning Plows
Middle Buster
Guano Sower
Two-Row Guano Sower
Beumis Transplanter
Stable Manure Driller
Avery Corn, Peanut, Bean Planter
Cotton Planter
Ayers Peanut Planter
Horse Turning Plow
Coltoi Plows
I Sexl«uary Section Harrow
1 Oliver Horse aiul Half Turning
~ Plow
I Peaweeder
1 How Marker.. ....
I Tobacco Sprayer
1 Stalk ('.utter
2 Discs
1 Hay Hake
1 C orn Sheller
1 Beau Harvester
1 Hog Vat
Several Forks and Hoes
1 Hog Feeder
2 Hole Diggers
1 Male Duroe Jersey Hog
11.000 or 12.000 Tobacco Sticks
Bush Axes, Plow Fasting and Manv
Other Small Tools
1). It. tverett, siv Executor ol the Estate ot
Willard Augustus Everett
Paul D. Roberson. Attorney,