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SHE ALREADY KNOWS
lMrs. Theo. Davis
Zebu Ion Record)
Nearly every newspaper i pick
up has joined the magazines in
predicting what women will be
wearing this year It needs no look
into the future to tell what the
Ifc writfi, thl~' "ntf
A look into my closet will suf
fice; for what I m going to De
dressed in is just what is already
hanging‘up there
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OLD FAVORITE
(Smoky Mountain Times)
A lady walked over to the pre
scription counter at Bennett's
lllff fOi LIFE!
,Drug Store this week presented
a prescription and handed Dr. P.
!R. Bennett a small medicine bot
tle that looked vaguely familiar.
Looking at the old label on it
| he knew why.
It had been filled the first time
I by Dr P. R. Bonnet 11 years ago
NEVER PEACE
(Pinehurst Outlook)
One fact about Janus is fre
quently forgotten. His temple in
Rome was a baromet i of peace
and war. When there was peace
in every section of the empire the
fe>! ..dtobli
war. the doors stood open In the
whole existence of Rome as a re-1
public and an empire, a span of
almost twelve centuries, the per
iod of closed doors could be count
ed on the fingers.
CIVIC UNE-l'P
(Sanford Herald)
In a talk before the Rotary
Club Tuesday, Hugh Hines, city
manager, quoted a bon mot he j
had heard:
‘Kiwanians huild a town. Ro
tarians own it, and Lions enjoy j
it.”
WE RE NOT ALONE
(Montgomery Herald)
No doubt any new agitation
about school attendance comes
from the recent hullaballoo about
the number of men who were re- j
jeeted in the draft. People in
North Carolina who ought to have
had better sense began talking i
about this being a result of lack ;
of school attendance. They rose I
on their hind legs and shouted
about the disgrace to North Caro- ]
lina and the weakness of the pub
lic schools. This column knew,
that the whole thing was phoney
and it proved so when it was!
i
t
jlound that practically the sam<
situation existed in other States
notably New Jersey, where th<
ratio of reject ments were as higl
or hichoi than in this State. I'
was proven to be the peculia)
ideas of the army, just a* we con
tended at first.
"QUARE” WORLD
(Goldsboro News-Argus)
An Indian Springs farmer ol
about (>5 watched from his filling
station scat as the school bn
wCnt by one of the warm days
recently.
jlt s a srTan
‘Nowadays we have to buy ;i
$3,000 bus to keep the kids from
walking to school. •
"Then we have Ui build a $50.
000 gymnasium so tliey can get
some exercise after (they get to
school."
* <•*>♦#■ «
(Camden Chrunield),,
A medical writer comments
that there are many skin diseases
for which medical science has
found no cure but has found pal
liatives And this reminds us of
the doctor who had taken up as
his specialty the treatment of skin
diseases and who was. asked by a
friend how he happened to select
that branch of medicine. "There
were three perfectly good reas
ons." the physician replied, "my
patients never get me out of bed
at night; they never.die, and-they
never get well." i
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GOODBYE, RUSTICITY!
(Pageland Journal)
Attention is called to a new
policy among the dry goods and
lime stores. These stores agreed
la.-t week to close at 12:01) o'clock
noon on Wednesdays in order to
give clerks a much needed half
nolidny. Since then it was decid
'd to close these places of business
it 8:30 each Saturday night,
hereby giving time to cheek up
ind get home and take a hath be
ore midnight. Thus Pageland is
■rowing out of the country town
•lass and getting up to city ways.
SIMPLE PLEASURES
(Lee County Messenger)
A certain person who took a
/cry active part in the Town of
Sishopville election, hut who did
not offer fin office, was told that
'Some people wrote in your name
in the ballot so that they would
lave the pleasure of scratching
it,"
NO POLICE IN SIGHT
(Richmond County Journal)
Met a nice yyung fellow the
other day. His last address was
"Somewhere in Korea" and he
was visiting home on an emerg
ency leave. We fell to talking
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• about the police action in Korea
This lad told me that to date
he hasn't seen any policemen in
the police action, but that he had
seen plenty of Chinese- Reds barg
ing up hills tooting little horns.
He emphasized the importance
of letters from relatives and
friends at home—he said he
would rather get patrol duty than
not to receive a letter at mail
time
UNCLE SAM KEEPS IT
< Rock Hill Herald)
j Back in 1944 a man, Fills Lewis.
.n f-i trp4r.> vt *3^64
$22,000 Hi dutifully reported
the fact to the Internal Revenue
Bureau and pair! the required in
come tax.
Later, however. ;t developed
that Lewis had been overpaid and
he was forced to refund $11,000
to his employer. So Lewis went
to the tax collector and asked
that the tax he had paid on the
$11,000 be returned to him. The
Internal Revenue Bureau refused.
The case has just been decided
in the United States Supreme
Court and the decision was
against Lewis. He won't get his
money hack.
His request was a fair and rea
sonable one, it seems to us. But
the Supreme Court and Uncle
Sam’s tax collector thought other
wise.
SEGREGATION
(Mrs Thee Daves,
Zcbulon Record j.
We so continually emphasize
age groups and the urgent neces
sity for each child to lie with his
own that it would be surprising
if some attention were not given
to what we say. In school we are
told that it will do strange and
tragic things to a pupil's person
ality to be with those older or
younger; he must stay with his
age-group. In Sunday School the
same principle holds; there must
be classes for every year, too, and,
if this seems impossible, we are
ashamed of the lack of provision
made Even married couples must
he sectioned off into groups ac
cording to their years on earth.
No more do we see whole fami
lies sitting in a row at church,
the father at one end and the
mother at the other, with “stair
steps" of children between. The
little ones have their own service,
suited to their age.
All this may make for effici
ency, but it widens the gulf that
is always between those of dif
ferent generations. Small wonder
that youngsters feel their recre
ation must be found, not at home,
hut where there are more like
themselves; that it does not occur
to many of them that parents are
people who might sometimes say
i something interesting, or that -fun
j may actually be found at home.
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MAKES NO DIFFERENCE
(Smithfield Herald)
Mrs. Fleming follows the cus
tom of remembering the birthdays
of her hoarders with a small cake
and lighted candles.
Hubert Woodall, who was the
I object of this gesture on April 30,
I remarked after the ceremonies!
I were over, and after he had been
i asked his age. that he was remind
ed of the colored prisoner who
replied very sullenly to the
»w.iwlWT i —fc *, ic when he
was bo, i,, Wot do you care? You
ain't gonner give me nothin'!"
ROY GETS A GRUDGE
I (Roy Thompson, Winston-Salem
Journal)
I'm starting a club called The
1 Benevolent and Protective Order
of All Men With a Grudge
Against Ava Gardner,
j She is a movie star.
Every few months she comes
here to visit a sister. Everybody
is crazy about her. I was era: y
about her until I wrote a story
! about her.
, She was not delighted with the
[story, and she said so with a
i reference to a “small-town jerk."
I resent that. Winston-Salem is
not such a small town.
THAT’S POOR
(Mt. Olive Tribune)
Willie Hood gives Jonas Dail of
Duplin County, credit for the fol
lowing graphic description:
"Land so poor you can't even
raise h—1 on it with a quart of
whiskey and a fast woman"
SUBSTITUTE
(Howard White, Burlington
Times-News)
A little girl had been particu
larly naughty all day and her ex
asperated mother finally sent her
out in the back yard to get a
switch off the peach tree.
Considerable time elapsed and
the child didn’t return. The moth
er called out the door for the
child to come into the house and
"bring that switch with you!"
The youngster, her lips pucker
ed and quivering, meekly appear
ed with her hands behind her
hack.
"Well?” the mother asked.
“1 couldn’t weaeh the peach
tree,” the child said And then.!
holding out her hand, she added:
“But here’s a work that you can
flow at me.”
STET
(Sanford Herald)
The big discussion of whether
Hawkins Avenue should be wid
ened or a by-pass constructed and
I the resulting decision to let the
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Railot* — — WilliaiHKiou, N. C.
matter rest for the time being
reminds us of an occurrence in
ja church down in Hoke County.
This particular church had long
high windows on either side of
the pulpit and members of the
congregation decided something
ought to be done with these two
windows. Half the congregation
favored covering them with
drapes and the other half wanted
to take them out completely and
board up the space.
A meeting of the member.-: of
the church was held with the
tf. y in n
ran hot and heavy foi a long time.
The two factions were practically
equal in number and it looked as
though no progress was being
made at all. Finally an old gen
tleman rose in the back of the
church and said. "Reverend, I
move we leave them windows
just like theydamn are.”
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GUEST TOWELS
(Waynesville Mountaineer)
One of the most useless things
man (or a woman) ever made
was guest towels. Every one
knows they are hung on the towel
ruck for looks and not for use.
Now some farsighted soul has
gone all the way and designed
paper guest towels that can be
used. Bless "his" heart, we al
most know it must have been a
man.
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AND NOT SOONER
(Atlantic Coast Line News)
Mistress: ‘Mandv, I’m delighted
to learn you’re engaged to be mar
ried. When are your nuptials com
ing off?”
Mandv: ”On rtydi weddin’ night,
Miz Jones, an’ not a minit befo’!”
PROUD CHILDREN
(Sanford Herald)
Two Methodist preachers were
invited one Sunday by a farmer
to go home with him for dinner.
The farmer’s wife cooked what she
thought was enough chicken, but
I he preaeners ate so much the
family hardly had any.
Alter dinner the farmer was
j showing the preachers around the
j farm when a rooster strutted
proudly by.
I “Say, that rooster seems to be
| mighty proud about something,”
one of the preachers remarked,
j “Well, he should he.” the far
| mer responded. ‘He's got two sons
' in the ministry.’
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REPAYMENT
(Dillon Herald)
I Over a long period of years we
! have spent millions -
: hill ion s-^-sending food, medicones
I and supplies to impoverished Chi
na. They have repaid us with
bullets and lethal weapons that i
have killed or wounded 60.000 of i
the flower of our young man- j
hood.
THEY CAN BE WRONG
(Stat Port Pilot)
Politicians once thought it
would take 2.000 years to settle
the United States, but the. feat
was achieved in a century. Poli
ticians could be wrong in other
things. There’s still hope.
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