WAGES the w»res
When I was a boy in New Eng
land my father, who was a minis
ter, thought that I ought tc learn
some trade by which I could sup
port myself if I failed to make
good as a professional man,
which was his ambition for me.
He could earn journeyman's
wages as a cabinet-maker, and
was an expert farmer.
It happened that the trade to
which I was apprenticed opened
the door to a profession. I became
a printer, and by that route a
journalist. I found myself sever
al times in my young manhood
very thankful that I had a trade
to fall back on at which I could
always earn a living.
It was a good trade, too, and
today is the best paid of all the
crafts. Printers on newspapers
and magazines earn the highest
average hourly rate in industry,
87.2 cents per hour, the National
Industrial Conference Board re
ports. Automobile workers come
next, With 79.3 cents an hour.
That is more than double what
union printers got in the big cities
when I worked at the case.
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PROGRESS workers
It was my father's idea that the
only honorable occupation was
one which helped to make the
world a better place to live in.
The wage-worker does that, when
by his labor he converts raw ma
terials into useful commodities
and so adds to the world's store
of usable wealth. The employer
of labor aids by providing the
machinery and tools—the "capi
tal goods"—to enable the work
ers to produce more wealth with
less labor. The merchant who dis
tributes wealth by bringing com
modities within everybody's reach
is also helping to make a better
world.
In my lifetime the world has
steadily been getting better.
Character counts for more in hu
man affairs than it ever did be
fore. Standards of conduct in hu
man relations are higher than
than they have even been. We
are making progress.
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CHILDREN ...... work
In a world which is far more
critical of social relations, more
widely intolerant of injustice
than was the world in which I
was born, there seems to me to be
a tendency to overemphasize evils
and to overlook some elementary
truths. The renewed agitation for
the ratification of the Child La
bor amendment to the Federal
Constitution is a case in point.
Certainly children should not
be permitted to work in factories
at low pay and under unhealthy
conditions. I used to see that in
New England cotton mills when I
was a boy. I am very doubtful,
however, that such practices are
now prevalent anywhere in Amer
ica. Yet the reformers talk as if
millions of children were still ex
ploited by cruel taskmasters.
The tendency seems to me to be
too much the other way. There is
far too much coddling of adoles
cent youth. Anyone who hasn't
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Elkin, N. C.
WASHINGTON . . . Miss Betty
OoodykoonU (abort). Assistant
- Commissioner of Education, la on*
of the women in government who
rates high In tfce ranks of those
now doing Important work in.gov
ernment departments.
acquired the habit of work in
childhood is not likely to grow up
into a useful member of society.
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FLYING risks
Flying is becoming safer every
year. Five*years ago commercial
aviation had a record of one
death for every 4,300,000 passen
ger miles flown. The 1938 record
is one fatality for 20 million pas
senger-miles. A traveler now can
expect to fly 1,000 miles a day for
sixty years without injury; five
years ago he could look forward
with confidence to only ten years
of flying. ;
When we consider how young
commercial air-travel is—it is all
a development of the past 15
years—this is remarkable progress.
It was nearly fifty years after the
first steam locomotives were built
before railroad travel became as
safe as airtravel is today; ocean
travel is still more hazardous than
flying.
The death-toll of automobiles is
far greater in proportion to mile
age than that of any other form
of transportation.
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ALASKA air minded
There is one part of the United
States in which aviation is the
principal means of transportation
and, through a good part of the
year, the only means. That is
Alaska. Many Alaskans who have
traveled for years by air have" nev
er seen a train or an automobile.
It is cheaper for the miners who
go inland in Summer to travel to
and from the railheads and sea
ports by air than by dog-team.
In northern Canada great new
goldfields have been made acces
sible by 'plane which would be al
most out of touch with the world
otherwise. The airplane has en
abled prospectors to develop gold
mines in the mountains of New
Oulnea where white men take
their lives in their hands trying
to penetrate the Jungle filled with
savage head-hunters.
The time will come when every
square mile of the earth's surface
will have been mapped and ex
plored by the aid of 'planes.
MAPLE SPRINGS
Due to the bad weather last
'Sunday, the attendance at Sun
day school was very small.
Mrs. Eliza Money, who has been
confined to her room for several
weeks by illness, remains seriously
ill, we are sorry to note.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Greene
and daughter, Joan, of High Point
spent the week-end with Mrs.
Green's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Sparks.
Miss Doris Harp of Winston-
Salem was the week-end guest of
Miss Fannie Sparks.
Mr. and Mrs. George Vanhoy
announce the birth of a son,
Joseph McClaln, Sunday, Febru
ary 24.
Several people from this com
munity attended the funeral of
Mrs. Rhetta Jolly at Shady Grove
Sunday.
Miss Doris Reeves of Winston-
Salem spent the week-end with
he: parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Reeves.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Sparks
and daughter, Betty, of Winston-
Salem spent the week-end with
friends and relatives here.
Friends of Luther Holbrook will
regret to know that he is con
fined to his home, suffering with
rheumatism.
Clifford Watt of Stoney Point
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Leet Poplin over the week-end.
Burbank, Calif., Feb. 21.
Amelia Ear hart, aviatrix, said to
day she will begin a 'round-the
world flight In her "flying labora
tory" not later than March 16.
"That is about the latest I can
hope for the best flying weather,"
she said on arrival here after a j
leisurely flight from Cleveland, O.
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