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Hi Memoriam
PAUL DICKSON
1889 - 1935
Nattenel Advertisiiic Representetleo
WOODTARD ASSOCIATES
New York. Ctty
Entered as second-class mail matter
at the post office at Raeford. N.
under act of March 3. 1878.
HOKE COOPERATION.
It is the sincere wish of the News-
Journal that Hoke Coimty will con
tinue to lead in the defense program-
Our two Military Companies with
their fine young men ready to go and
do just what the President wants
done is already history.
The response to the Aluminum
drive and U. S. O. was wonderful
and the least that is, expected is that
both drivers and service stations will
cooperate to the fvdlest in observing
the Gasoline Curfew. .
SLAiVtT AGAIN
Slavery has been re-established on
a huge scale. It took centuries to
abolish it and it has come back within
the space of a tew years. Germany
has about 4,000,000 captive soldiers
\^orking in field and factory and an
uncoimted number of civilians in the
occupied countries drudging their
lives away for the preservation of
Hitlerism.
When the ancient Roman emperors
brought back their slaves chained to
the chariot wheel they were doing to
more than Nazi Germany does now.
People shudder at the story of the
galley slaves but it is being re-enact
ed with modem topis. The Nazi holds
half of ^formerly civilized Europe
in slavery and would put prolid,
freeborn Americans there if he had
half a chance.
That seems ridiculous, doesn’t it?
It may not be as impossible as (me
thinks. Hitler coimts as his slaves
some of thp proudest, once wealthy
people in Ehirope. Conquest by that
beast means more than the loss of
political freedom; it means actual
serfdom. —Charlotte Observer,
THURSDAY, AUGUSTjHnllftt
WORK NOW AND
LOAF LATER.
In an effort to stop the American
people from purchasing articles which
(Mmpete with national defense the
Govemmeht through the Federal Re
serve Bank is putting the brakes on
that great American habit, install
ment buying.
Down payments will be greater
and the period of the payments wiU
not be extended beyond eighteen
months. ,
This will result in fewer purchases
of many of the (xjmmodities which
have made the American standard
of living the highest in the world,
thereby resulting in a lowering of
the American standard of living in
the interest of national defense.
In our opinion this is an indirect
and fautly method of accomplishing
what should be done directly by
suspending the forty-hour week for
the duration of the emergency apd
substituting a 48-hour week for it.
Work means production. A 48-
hour week as contrasted to a 40-hour
week would miean a 20 per cent
increase in America’s production.
It would mean that the people
of this country could have their guns
and their butter too, could have
their electric refrigerators and their
anti-tank guns.
But they would have to work 20
per cent harder.
Is it worth it?
One thing is certain: If 'we loaf
along and lose this war and Little
Adolf Hitler supplants Friendly Frank
every man and woman (and plenty of
the children) in this country will
have to work so hard that a 48-hour
week would seem like Saturday
afternoon off.
—^Fayetteville Observer.
THE N^W TAX BH^L.
The new tax bill, which was passed
by the House and is now in the Se
nate, has many merits. But it likewise
has defects which should be remedied
before final enactment;
The House is to be complimented
on removing the clauses which would
have forced husbands and wives with
separate incomes to lump their earn
ings in a single return, and so pay
a far higher total tax than would
otherwise have been levied. This
provision was manifestly unjust and,
in effect, amounted to placing a de
finite economic penalty upon the ins
titution of marriage.
Prime weakness of the House Bill,
in the view of most economists, lies
in the failure to place an equitable
tax upon those in the lower income
brackets who will receive the bulk of
the wages resulting from defense
spending. President Roosevelt re
quested that exemptions be reduced,
but his advice was rejected. So it
is up to the Senate to correct this
defect. The gigantic cost of defense
can only be met if all income strata
contribute their fair share.,Further
more, if we are to prevent runaway
price inflation, a curb must be placed
on consumer purchasing power, and
the only way to do that is to directly
tax those groups which are reaping
the richest harvest from the “war
boom.”
As the President also pointed out,
the sections of the bill dealing with
excess profits and corporation taxes,
need revision. At present, certain
classes of business are heavily pena
lized, while other classes, by compari
son, are unduly favored. Many fear
that the bill places almost runious
tax burdens on some industries whose
survival and progress is vital to the
national welfare.
The Senate has a big job on its
(lands. The future security and
prosperity of this country will depend
to a large extent on how well that
job is accomplished.
Grand
Fw Angmt Term
To His Honor: Hunt Parker, Judge
Presiding: ,
We have examined fourtem bills
of indictment and foimd thirteen
true bills and not one true bill.
We have inspeded the county
offices, (»urt house and jail and have
found them in good condition.
We have received and examined
reports from the magistrates of the
county, also report from the Mayor
of the Town of Raeford,
At our April meeting we furnished
the Court a list of Administrators
and Guardians 'who have failed to
make a. report to the Clerk of Court
in twelve months or longer, some
of the reports being several months
and years past due. We find that
big majority of these still have made
no report. We called the Clerk of
the Court before us and he explained
why some of the reports had not been
made. We recommend that he take
immediate action to dose all these
cases and report to us at the Nov
ember Term of Court.
We recommend that the members
of the Grand Jury be notified a few
days in advance of each Court.
We have enjoyed our work with
the F’residing Judge and Solicitor
and we trust that we have done our
duty as Grand Jurors to their satis
faction.
J. B. Thomas, Foreman
M. G. Ray, Clerk.
OUR DEMOCRACY-
3sss:
is:
WOMENS FASHIONS
ANd DEMOCRACY
2Iince the early colonial
TIMES WHEN SUMPTUARY
LAWS LIMITING GOOD
CLOTHES TO THE VERY
WEALTHY WERE LAUGHED
OUT OF EXISTENCE,
THE as. HAS SCORNED
CLASS LABELS,
RULES OF IflE
ROAD
Hoke County Fair
Not To Be Held
This Year
During .a recent meeting of the
Fair Committee, it was decided that a
fair would be held provided proper
arrangements could be made, but it
later developed that arrangements
would be impossible this year. It was
decided that proper arrangements
could not be made since the mane
uvers are to be held during October
and November, reports A. S. Knowles,
county agent.
Mr. Knowles suggests that any
farmers having any agricultural
products or other exhibits available
should make arrangements to exhibit
at the State Fair this fall.
IT’S UP TO YOU.
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Every community, whether it be
a tiny village or a teeming metro
polis, should fit this time make fire
preventiofl a headlined civic activity.
Fire prevention is vitally important
at any time. In this period, when we
are attempting to turn all possible
national resources to defense pur
poses, its imp'orteuice is magnified
many times. Anyone can understand
the menace of fire to defense factories
—one conflagration could delay vital
production for months. And it should
also be understood that the prevention
of fire everywhere is a definite con
tribution to defense. Matreials and
labor which are needed to rebuild
a home or a bam or a place of busi
ness, cannot be used for defense work,
Tbe more fires we prevent, the fewer
material shortages we will have—
and the faster the defense effort will
go through to successful consumma
tion.
Many organziations, of which the
National Board of Fire Underwriters,
New York City, is the leader, are
doing everything conceivable to
fj^t and prevent fire. The National
Board, for instance, has given its
full services, without charge, to the
War and Navy departments, in order
•to prevent fires in army camps, naval
bases, etc. It is carrying on 24-hour-
a-day work against arson and sabo
tage. It is intensifying its inspection
of communities and industries. These
activities are bearing fine fruit. But
they cannot achieve maximum suc
cess without unlimited public and
civic aid and cooperation.
Keep in mind the fact that fire
prevention is in the direct interest
at ydur safety, your security, your
eurvival. And io your part.
WBOVEBtENT
iprovement in agrictd-
_ rtfected in
Bst'vrXUHUiMP. ' land
Mrs. Guy Taylor, and daughter,
of Kinston were joined by Mr. Guy
Taylor for the week end and they
returned home together.
Major and Mrs. G. S. Brooks and
little Brookle of Fountain Inn, S. C.
are now making their residence witli
Mrs B. R, Gatlin,
Mrs. N. B. Blue entertained her
bridge club at her home last 'Wed
nesday evening. High score prize
was won by Mrs. Arab G Stuart.
Refreshments were served.
Forestry Demonstration
Train to Visit Aberdeen
And Laurinburg
The Seaboard Forestry Train which
has been on exhibition at several
places throughout the state, will be
at Laurinburg on Saturday, Sept6
at the Freight Station from 9:00 a. m!
to 5:00 p m., and at Aberdeen on Fri
day, Sept r, at the Passenger Station,
from 10:00 a, m. to 5:00 p. m., says
A S Knowles, county agent Hoke
County farmer* interested in a good
demonstration on forestry should
make special efforts to see this de
monstration at either Laurinburg or
Aberdeen.
JMONG OTHER THINGS, AND WITHOUT THINKING
ABOUT IT, WE RECOGNISE THE RIGHT OF EVERY
WOMAN AND GIRL TO LOOK HER BEST,
UN CENTRAL EUROPE
ONLY THE PR/V/LEGEO
FEW DRESS WELL.
ON GOING TOO SLOW
—— '
Sec. 102, Motor Vehicle Laws of
North Carolina:—^“(h) No person
shall drive a motor vehicle at such'
a slow speed as to impede or block
the normal and reasonable move
ment of traffic except when reduced
speed is necessary for safe operation
or in compliance with law. Police
officers are hereby authorized to en
force this provision by directions to
drivers, and in the event of apparent
willful disobedience to this provision
and refusal to comply with direction
of any officer in accordance here'Wlth.
the continued slow operation by a
driver shall be a misdemeanor.”
In other words, don’t poke along
on the highway and hold up traffic,
getting on the nerves of other drivers
and provoking them to acts of reck
lessness. Drive slowly when safety
demands or the law requires that you:
do so. Otherwise, drive at a normal
and reasonable speed.
COASTING
Sec. 127, Motor Vehicle Laws of _
North Carolina:—“The driver of
motor vehicle when traveling upon
a down grade upon any highway
shall not coast with the gears of such
vehicle in neutral.” '
This is selfrexplanatory. Motor
vehicles are forbidden to coast on
the highway.
ON DECREASING SPEED
ISlL over. AMERICA GOOD^ STVUSH CLOTHES,
SMART APPEARANCE AND GOOD GROOMING
ARE SYMBOLS OF OUR DEMOCRACY,
Straight
INB At
SkanUer
IT
mmmi
affairs to be bothered with getting
right with God.
As we see the newspapers full of
reports of death, and see the woeful
evidence of death all around as our
friends and loved ones are slipping
into eternity one by one,' certainly
our hearts should be stirred to make
definite preparations for this inevi-
tible event.
Death will absolutely prove the
inability of the things of this life
to satisfy the demands of the soul.
Many things seem pretty precious
to us while we live, but death utterly
confounds our sense of values and
upsets the easy-going way we treat
eternal realities.
When confronted with tte issue
of accepting Christ as their jpsrsonal
Saviour, many people shake Zheir
heads as they cherish some treasure
too much or are too busy with other
PENALTY
The U. S. Department of Agricul
ture has announced that the penalty
rate on 1941 cotton marketed in
excess of the farm marketing quota
will be seven cents a poimd.
USE NEWS-JOURNAL WANT ADS
Sec. 102, Motor Vehicle Laws of
North Carolina:—“(c) The fact that
the speed of the vehicle is lower than
the. . .prima facie limits shall not
relieve the driver from the duty to
decrease speed when apporaching and
crossing an intersection, when ap
proaching and going around a curve,
when approaching a hill crest, when;
traveling upon any narrow or wind
ing rpadway, or when special hazard',
exists with respect to pedestrians or-
other traffic or reason of weather or-
highway conditions, pnd speed shall
be decreased as may be necessary to
avoid colliding with any person, veh--
icle or other conveyance on or enter
ing the highway in compliance with
legal requirements and the duty of all’
persons to use due care.”
In other words, adjust your speed
to existing conditions. Regardless of
what the stated speed limit may be?
at any particular point drivers arei'
required to decrease their speed whem
conditions of traffic visibility -weather
or the roadway are such that it is;
not safe to drive at the mayjmiitT>
legal speed.
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Prices
f ;
running into four figwies'
have been wmmon at beef cattle sdes
this year, as the industry has en
joyed tlie most successful purebred
season in 20 years.
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Mrs. George Bethune, a bride of
the early summer has returned to
her home in Concord. While here she
was the recipient of many lovely
social courtesies. Her cousins, Mrs.
Lawrei^ce McNeill, Mrs. N. A. Me
Donald, Jr., and Miss Patsy Blue-
entertained especially for her as did
also Miss Peggy Bethune, Mrs. Paul
Dezerne and Mrs. Charles Sutton.
WANT ADS
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PIANO — RATHER THAN HAVE
piano returned to factory will sell
a small spinet ptiano like new at a
very favorable price. Terms to rC'
liable party if desired. Write for
location and full particulars to T. P.
Maos, cfo Lester Piano Mannfac-
tnring Co., Inc., Pbiladelphia.
ADVERTISE TOUR ROOMS, UN-
fnmlshed and famished, with and
wltlurat meals, also apartments in
the want ads of the News-JonmaL
That is the best way to seonre
lodgers. These want a& are cheap
and payable when ad is placed.
GOOD RAWLEIGH ROUTE AVAIL-
able in Hoke County. Dealers In
Moore County making Sales o 375
and more per week. Business very
good: Fine time to start and get
established in profitable business.
Don’t delay Write today for parti
culars, Rawleigh’s, DepL NCH-
175224. Richmond, Va.
LOST—ONE PAIR MEN’S KtOWN
and white sport riioes. Lost at
Raeford creek August lOXtberal
reward. Return to News-Journal
office or D. B. McFayden, Sr. 2 tp.
STEADY WORK—GOOD PAT RE-
Uable person wanted to call on
fan^rs in Hoke County. No expert-
enee or eapltal required. Some
maUag Ilf3.88 Jn a week. Write
“ y 'riudinT Bu^.. suiu-
Seventeen Found To
Be Average Age Man
Starts To Drinking
Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 12.—“The
real key to the problem of whiskey
addiction lies in the field of educa
tion,” stated C. D. Cunningham, Di
rector of the Alcoholic Research De
partment of the Keley Institute here
today. ’
“This organization has just comp
leted a study of the history of more
than 400,000 Keeley patients who
have takeo- treatment for whiskey
addiction during the past 50 years.
Among the startling facts revealed
by this study is that the average
man needing treament started his
drinking at the tender age of seven
teen,” Mr. Cunningham continued.
“A thorough training in the eects
of alcohol upon the mind and body,
given in the grammai* schools of the
nation, would be the greatest single
step toward a logical solution of
the problem that has yet been made.
We who have worked for a half-
century with the treatment of men
addicted to whiskey will be the first
to subscribe to this long-range pro
gram ofcontrol,” was Mr. Cunning
ham’s closing comments.
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all and more, too, in my new Kingsdown Mattress.
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The Mattress Scoring Clhart
is as simple as A-B-C .. .
and it gives you all the facts
you need to rate any mat
tress in our store. Come in
and use it, even if you’re
not in the market for a new
mattress right now!
HERE ME 3 OF THE FEATURES THAT SOLD ME ON KlNGSDOWN
Presb3rteriaii Church
Reverent W. I. Howell, pastor of
the Presbyterian church in Hamlet,
and now on Ipave as co-ordinator of
soldier- work and stationed at Fort
Bragg, will preach from the Presby
terian pulpit at the regular Sunday
morning serice next Sun(|'ay. He
is a guest during the absence of Mr./
Holland, who is on his vacation.
Tobacco Grading
DemonBtrations
Mr, J. O. Armistead, Marketing
Specialist, is spending today in Hoke
Coimty holding tobacco grading de
monstrations at W. L. Thornburg’s
farm In the morning and at the Allen
dale Community House in the after-
non, reports A, S, Knowles, County
Agent.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish in this way to express
the many acts of knidness shown us
during qur recent bereavement, ainn
torirthe many.bqaiitiful j~