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Thursday, August 14, 1941.
Let There
Be Light?’
A Thought For The
Thoughtful
“And the Lord spake all these
words: ‘I am the Lord thy God,
who brought thee out of the land
of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. . . Remember that thou
keep holy the Sabbath day. Six
days shalt thou labor, and shalt
do all thy work, but on the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the
Lord thy God: thou shalt do no
work on it, . . . For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth,
and the sea, and all things that
are in them, and rested on the
seventh day; therefore the Lord
blessed the seventh day, and sanc
tified it’..’—Exodus 20.
Maybe Japan Will
Shoot The Works
You don’t have to be an author
ity on international politics to
figure out why the Vichy govern
ment invited Japan to occupy and
“protect” French Indo-China. The
Machiavellian hand of Hitler can
be clearly seen in this potentially
explosive move. The Vichy gov
ernment is completely a pawn
of the Nazis. And Hitler, who is
now fighting the two-front war
which he always said he would
avoid, may profit materially from
trouble in the Pacific. It is alto
gether likely that what Hitler
would like to see is a full-dress
war between Japan and the Unit
ed States, in order to keep us
from giving maximum aid to
Britain.
This government’s reaction to
Japan’s move into Indo-China was
precisely what was expected. We
have long been criticized for per
mitting oil exports to the .Nip
ponese—and it is an ironical fact
that while we have been giving
our moral support and some ma
terial support to China, we have
also been supplying Japan with
most of the gasoline that has
made the war against China pos
sible.
From the military point of
view, Japan has quite a job on
her hands. The war in China
aeems as far from conclusion as
ever, and involves a tremendous
drain on Japanese resources—men
as well as materials. Britain is
no weakling in the Far East, and
the Churchill government is tak
ing as tough a line with Japan
now as we are. In the event of
actual hostilities, full naval col
laboration between England and
the United States will undoubted
ly be immediately effected. Soiqe
think that this country should
base ships at the great Singapore
base now. There is little doubt
that Britain would give enthusias
tic permission if the right to do
this were requested.
There is also talk to the effect
that Hitler may persuade Japan
to attack Asiatic Russia. That too
would be a tough assignment.
Russia is powerful in the East,
and the Japanese Army isn’t re
garded too highly by the mili
tary experts. However, those who
know the Japanese character think
it very possible that the Nippon
ese war lords may have finally
decided to shoot the works, even
if that eventually involved nation
al suicide, and the reduction of
Japan to the status of a third
class power.
Liberty or Doles
“Nothing is ever going to be
free in this conntry,” wrote Paul
F. Cadman, Economist of the
American Baftkers Association,
recently. “Somebody will have
to pay. To the extent to which
the' government dispenses bounty
of all kinds and for all purposes,
the burden on those who work
and save will increase. When the
rich, as a class, have been reduc
ed to bankruptcy, and when the
middle class have been driven to
dependency, further contribution
will be forced in the form of com
pulsory labor. The skilled will
be compelled to offer their best.
The unskilled will be driven to
offer the little which they have,
and the whip of the
ernment will be the incentive to
human effort.”
That is a dark picture, but his
tory fully justifies it. When any
nation divides the wealth, the re
sult is to multiply the poverty.
The price we pay for a super
state is the. ultimate complete
loss of all liberty. Germany and
Italy, with their slave economies,
are sufficient proof of this.
Today we have government in
credit, government in business,
government in farming, govern
ment in all lines of endeavor.
Let that trend continue and in
crease—as it will unless an awak
ened public stops it—and the
future envisioned by Dr. Cadman
will come true. In our search
for something for nothing, we
have lost sight of our traditions,
of our system of free enterprise,
of all that history teaches. We
are destroying the sources of
wealth—which means we are de
stroying the sources of employ
ment and progress. That is the
road to dictatorship with a ven
geance. Liberty or doles—the
Choice is yours.
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Comments
Not Yet
When the European war broke
out on September 1, 1939, the
consensus in certain circles was
that the United States would be
involved within a few months.
About nine months later, Nor
way, Holland and Belgium had
been trampled down by the Nazi
mechanized blitzers, and France,
with her 5,000,000 trained sold
iers and her Maginot line, had
fallen.
Now, said the administration
critics, Roosevelt will get into this
thing. GermdViy will invade Eng
land right away and then the
call for help will prove irresist
ible to the administration.
But Germany did not invade
England. And the United States
did not get into the war. It did
swap 50 destroyers to Britain
for new air bases in the West
ern Hemisphere.
The months passed. The Battle
of Britain was waged hot and
heavy in the skies above England
and the English Channel. English
shipping suffered heavier and
heavier losses.
The President urged more aid
for Britain, proposed the passage
of the lend-lease bill. This meas
ure, said the critics, is tantamount
to a declaration of war.
The bill passed months ago.
Yugoslavia and Greece fell to the
Nazis. Crete was taken.
We’re getting closer every day,
said the critics. We’ll be in up
to our necks by June.
June came around and was
about to pass into its final week
when suddenly Hitler attacked
Russia.
July waxed and waned. August
is now rapidly moving along.
Within three weeks the second
anniversary of the war shall have
arrived. And we have been get
ting into this war “within a few
months” for the past two years.
It is much too soon to say that
Mr. Roosevelt, who has demon
strated remarkable ingeunity in
keeping the country out of war
while skating around its thin
edges all along, will be able to
continue this indefinitely. It is
hard to play with fire without
getting one’s fingers scorched.
But the Roosevelt record does
indicate that our ship of state
is in able hands, and that if
America can be adequately de
fended without American initi
ative in precipitating a shooting
war, we may escape it. The
trouble now is, and has been all
along, that the issue does not lie
entirely in our hands.—Winston
Salem Journal.
Union Hill
Union Hill, Aug. 3.—Mrs. Jes
sie Childress attended her uncle,
Zelvin Darnell’s funeral, near
Roaring River last Friday.
Mrs. Horton Brooks is visit
ing her sister near State Road
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Clate Wagoner
spent last Saturday and Sunday
with Mrs. Ruth Norman, Mrs.
Wagoner’s sister.
Ronna Norman and son, Scott,
spent last week with Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Medley, of Barrett
Miss Ruby Lee Childress spent
last week with her aunt, near
Roaring River.
John Combs, of West Virginia,
visited his brother, E. D. Combs,
last Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Kint Combs have
moved to Richmond, Va.
Grady Norman has been.sell
ing a lot of nice peaches this last
week.
Miss Mallie Tilley, who has
been very sick for the last two
months, is improving.
There was a baptizing at Gines
Ford near Mt Park, Sunday.,,
E. D. Combs, who tends the
mill at Mt Park, spent a few
days at home last week. 1
Everybody is very busy around
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Soon after noon, across the
hills came the blood-curdling yell
of the Indian war cry. And in
a very short time the little fort
seemed to be surrounded by hun
dreds of Indians. Then the fight
ing began. All the rest of the
day could be heard the banging
of the muskets and the whizzing
of the arrows. But the settlers
were holding the Indians back.
How they prayed that they might
hold out until the soldiers came.
But early in the morning of
the second day, a man from one
of the towers came running to
the block house.
“More powder, quick,” he gasp
ed'. “Ours is all gone.” Several
rushed to the place where the
powder was stored. It was gone.
“Oh, someone has stolen our pow
der,” they cried. They looked
everywhere, but they could not
find it. What should they do? ]
If only they could get to Col-1
onel Zane’s house. There was i
plenty of powder there. But how |
should they get it? The bullets |
and arrows were flying thick and j
fast outside the fort. Should the
Indians see a man leave the
stockade they would surely kill
him. Because, there was not a
single man that could be spared.
Betty listened with fear in
her heart. She knew that if they
did not get that powder, the fort
would be taken by the Indians.
Someone must go, and why not 1
she? And although she was |
afraid, she said bravely, “I will
go after the powder.”
The men were horrified. Sure
ly you will be shot by the In
dians. You cannot go.”
But she begged them with tears
in her eyes. “Oh, let me go. If
you do not, the fort will be tak
en and all will be killed. Per
haps they will think that I am a
squaw and think I am not worth
harming. Do let me go.”
Finally they consented. It was
their only chance to save the
fort. Opening the great heavy
gates just a crack, they let Betty
through. And just as fast as her
little feet would carry her, she
ran to the cabin down the slope.
When the Indians saw her they
yelled and shouted, “Squaw!
Squaw!” But they did not harm
her.
Her brother saw her come
through the gate, and he had the
door open for her. When she
reached the cabin he quickly pull
ed her inside.
“What is the matter?" he cried.
“Powder!” gasped Betty.
“Quick, quick! Ours has been
stolen!”
In an instant they had a keg
of powder opened, and were pour
ing it into a table cover. Then
Betty slung this over her shoul
der, and out through the door
she darted.
When the Indians saw her they
guessed what she was carrying,
and their shouts turned into angry
yells. The arrows fell thick and
fast around her. One grazed her
cheek, another cut off a lock of
her hair. Would she ever reach
the fort? She was not thinking
of herself. She was thinking of
her people. She must save them.
She was running so fast, and
was so excited, she almost missed
the gate. But eager hands reach
ed out and pulled her inside. She
was safe and the powder was
safe. And the battle went on.
Betty did not rest long from
her hard run, but was soon back
at her place filling the muskets
and helping to make bullets.
The Indians were kept back
for several hours, when in the
distance shouts were heard. The
soldiers were coming and the
Indians began to run away into
the woods.
The fort was saved, but it
would have been burned, and all
the people massacred, if it had
not been for the heroic deed of
Betty Zane.
Laurel Springs
Laurel Springs, August 11.—
Talmadge Anderson had his ton
sils removed last Friday and is
reported to be getting along nice
ly.
Mrs. Leara Ritchie and chil
dren, Janice and Robert, of Pores
Knob, and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan
Adams and children, Rebecca and
Morgan, Jr., of Louisville, Ky.,
spent Wednesday afternoon with
their sister, Mrs. Ada Brinegar.
Claude Brinegar, second cook
at the training camp at Fort
Jackson, S. C., is spending the
week-end with his mother, Mrs.
Caroline Brinegar.
Several from here spent the
week-end with friends and rela
tives at McGrady and Springfield,
N. C.
Mrs. May Petty and daughters,
Grace and Lola, visited Mrs. Ray
mond Petty at McGrady Satur
day.
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two on the accelerator.
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Pattern For Living
To grow a little wiser day by day,
To school my mind and body to obey,
To keep my inner life both clean and strong,
To free my life from guile, my hand* from wrong,
To shut the door on hate and scorn and pride,
To open them to love, the windows wide,
To meet with cheerful words what comes to me,
To turn life’s discords into harmony,
To share some weary worker’s heavy load,
To point some straying comrade to the road,
To know that what I have is not my own,
To feel that I am never quite alone;
This would I pray from day to day,
For then I know my life would flow
In peace until it be God’s will I go.
Paying the Bill!
Thoughtful citizens are worried
these days about getting sufficient
arms tor defense—and also about
the size of the bill!
The nation was shown recently by
the W.C.T.U. what It could buy if It
would translate wasted money into
guns and bread. Instead of using it
to buy hangovers.
Placing the nation’s daily liquor
bill at $9,000,000, Mrs. Ida B. Wise
Smith, president
of National W.C.
T.U., said: “In
return neither the
nation nor the
drinker gets any
thing of value.
Let’s see what
the nation could
do with that mon
ey if it could be
applied to refu
gee relief or to
“Wasted Money?" paying now — In
stead of in the fu
ture—for defense.”
Each day’s drink bill is equiva
lent to the cost of doing one of the
following, Mrs. Smith estimated:
Feed one million Chinese refugee
children for nine months; or feed
600,000 English children for six
months.
Feed most of Europe’s famine
threatened peoples.
Pay for 22 heavy bombers at $400,
000 each.
Almost pay for 2 destroyers.
Pay for 3 submarines.
Build one-third of a new encamp
ment equal to
Camp Blanding,
Fla.
Modernize 1.125
of our 75 mm.
guns at $8,000
each.
Train complete
ly some 600 mili
tary pilots at $15.
000 each.
; Manufacture
jou.uuu uarana ri
fle* at $50 each. “Or, Refutes*’
Almost pay for Mea!»T"
11,781 half-ton military trucks.
Figuring it another way, Mr*.
Smith found liquor’* cost each nine
days equivalent to the cost of build
ing a battleship like the newly com
missioned North Carolina.
Also computed was the estimated
total that grain used by American
manufacturers of distilled and fer
mented liquors would provide more
than 10,000,000 loaves of bread a
day for underfed populations at
home or in the shattered countries
of Europe.
Federal government appropri
ations for non-military purposes
for the fiscal year 1942 are more
than twice as large as those for
1932, ten years ago.
Nile
Nile, August 11.—Mrs. A. A.
Woodruff returned home last
Monday from a week’s visit with
her daughter, Mrs. C. L. Hash, of
Piney Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Edwards
and Mr. and Mrs. Coy Wolfe, of
Sparta, were visitors in Mrs. Eth
el Maines’ home Sunday, Au
gust 3.
Miss Dora E. Miller, of Wins
ton-Salem, was guest of Mrs. A.
A. Woodruff and family for sev
eral days last week.
Those visiting “Uncle” Sol and
“Aunt” Eadle Willey Sunday
were Mr. and Mrs. Emery Ed
wards and son, Ernest, of Sparta;
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Maines, Mrs.
Sara McGrady, Misses Agnes
Wolfe, Ruby Woodruff and Jean
ette Poe. “Uncle” Sol and
“Aunt” Eadie sat on the porch
with their guests, taking part in
the conversation. They were in a
reminiscent mood. “Aunt” Eadie
celebrated her ninety-third birth
day Monday, August 4, and some
time this month they will have
been married seventy-three years.
| There is no record of their mar
riage, but “Uncle” Sol, who will
be ninety-three in January, 1942,
recalls the fact that he was mar
ried before he was twenty be
cause he didn’t have any poll tax
to pay until he had been married
for a year or more. “Aunt” Eadie
became “hard of hearing” some
time in May, and suddenly on the
morning of her ninety-third birth
day her hearing became normal
again — a birthday present for
which she is very thankful. We
wish many more wedding anniver
saries for this remarkable couple.
Mr. and Mrs. Brison McClure
had as their guests last Monday
Mrs. T. L. Counts, Mrs. John In
gram, George Counts and Mr.
Minnick, all of Glade Springs, Va.
Lewis J. Hash, of Piney Creek,
visited his cousin, Alex McCann
Woodruff, Sunday.
Chester and Silver Maines, of
Vox, spent Sunday with their
grandfather, J. W. Maines.
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Nineteen Years Ago
From among those old copies
)f The Alleghany Star Mr. Bob
Warden brought in to the office
receptly we choose one from
November of 1922. That was in
Volume 35 of The Star, and
front page news was that “Bob
Doughton wins by over 7,000
majority.” The story says he
was elected by the greatest ma
jority he had ever received. He
carried every county in the dis
trict, and a table shows that
Alleghany county gave him 479,
Alexander county, 25, Caldwell
626, Stanly 60 and Watauga
50. Iredell county gave him
3,018.
Another story says the election
in Alleghany county was one of
the hardest fought political bat
tles in the history of the county.
There were 2,741 votes polled as
against 2,613 in 1920. The total
count listed 1,609 Democratic
votes and 1,17(^Republican. The
winners were Doughton for Con
gress, S. P. Graves for Solicitor,
Allen Jones for the Senate and
R. A. Doughton for Representa
tive, A. F. Reeves for Clerk, E.
L. McMillan for Sheriff, Hugh
Halsey for Register of Deeds,
H. D. Estep for Coroner, and
C. G. Fender for Surveyor. Com
missioners were D. C. Duncan,
C M. Reynolds, J. E. Douglass
and O. O. Smith.
A grand birthday dinner had
just been spread for James Dick
son at his home near Scottville
to celebrate his 75th birthday.
Elder W. R. Wilborn was an
nouncing his preaching appoint
ments. Elder Ed Davis was do
ing likewise.
Prof. J. M. Cheek was announc
ing a program for a teachers
meeting to be held in Sparta.
Singing was to be led by Miss
Shields, and a brief address on
the meaning of Nov. 11 by Bruce
Hash of Piney Creek. Then
Miss Mabel Lefler of Piney Creek
would discuss The Teacher and
The Community, and L. C. Joines
of Rich Hill would tell How I
Reach a Disinterested Pupil. Miss
Joanna Pinnix then gave a model
lesson in reading. After recess
came a Sparta High School Quar
tet, some remarks by Supt. J. M.
Cheek, a vocal solo by Miss
Johnson, of Piney Creek, and a
report on the Dental clinic by
Dr. C. A. Reeves.
The election in New York state
had carried Smith in 500,000.
And The Star editor exults that,
“There was a noticeable absence
of election liquor in Sparta on
last Tuesday.”
Madder’s were advertising Star
Brand shoes, and Ford Cars were
to be reduced from $443. to
$393. “with starter and demount
able rims.” Plain, without those
ultra refinements, the new price
was $298. Leonard C. Shores
was announcing his Undertaking
Parlors in the Masonic Building
in the rear of the Bank of
Sparta. W. G. Reeves, of Strat
ford, advertised his Building
Materials.
Miss Myrtle Moxley, of Peden,
reported a sweet potato weighing
five pounds, and measuring 17
inches in length and 14 inches in
diameter.
Leonard Roup has lost his N.
C. license plate and tail light
from his car. Please leave at
Star office.
Misses Pearl and Clyde Fields
entertained a number of their
friends at a delightful house party
last week. Those present were
Ethel McNairy, Johnsie Newlin,
Sarah Rutledge, Leona Lane, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Somers, and Dick
Ramsey, of Statesville, and Hort
Doughton, John Burton, J. I.
Cocky and Floyd Crouse.
Elder S. G. Caudill, of States
ville, accompanied by his son-in
“Time Will Tell”
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| Rules of the Road
Translating the lairs
| into common language
Turning at Intersections
Sec. 116, Motor Vehicle Laws
of N. C.—“Except as otherwise
provided in this section, the driv
er of a vehicle intending to turn
to the right at an intersection
shall approach such intersection
in the lane for traffic nearest
to the right-hand side of the high
way, and in turning shall keep as
closely as practicable to the right
hand curb or edge of the high
way, and when intending to turn
to the left shall approach such
intersection in the lane for the
traffic to the right of and near
est to the center of the highway
and in turning shall pass beyond
the center of the intersection
passing as closely as practicable
to the right thereof before turn
ing such vehicle to the left.”
In other words, when you want
to make a right turn, get in the
extreme right-hand lane of traf
fic; when you want to make a
left turn, get in the traffic lane
immediately to the right of the
center of the street. And don’t
cut too short on a left turn.
In connection with the section
of the motor vehicle laws, local
authorities in their respective
jurisdiction may modify the
method of turning at intersections
by clearly indicating by buttons,
markers or other direction signs
within an intersection the course
to be followed by vehicles turning
there.
Mt. Zion
Mt. Zion, August 11.—Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Pugh and Mrs. J. H.
Parsons spent Monday night with
Mr. and Mrs. *R. M. Pugh. Mrs.
R. M. Pugh continues seriously
ill.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Edwards,
of Topia, visited relatives in this
community Sunday.
Mrs. Laura Pugh spent last
Thursday with her daughter, Mrs.
J. Roy Cox.
Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Douglas
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. Smith.
Mrs. Zetta Pugh spent a few
days last week with her son,
George Pugh.
Rev. R. N. Childress, his daugh
ter, Dorothy Mae, and her friend,
Norma Johnson, of Raleigh, spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
S. E. Smith. They were accompa
nied home by Bill Children, who
has been spending some time with
his cousin, Thomas Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Pugh and
family spent Sunday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Pugh.
law, R. E. Lowrance and wife
and daughter, Miss Eura, were in
Alleghnay this week.
A. S. Carson returned to
Raleigh Wednesday.
Rev. E. L. Myers, wife and
child arrived Wednesday and are
at home in the Methodist par
sonage.
And that was nineteen years
ago.
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