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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
Hall Is Elected
AsCOmnander
OF N. C.. Legion
Preparedness Is Stressed Al
Convention. Ashe County
Well Represented.

The keynote of the North Car
DINA Department of the Ameri-
can Legion convention, held in
High Point this week, stressed ma
tional preparedness.
Gov. Clyde Hoey, Commander
June Rose, Hon. j. M. Broughton
and other speakers emphasized
this feature that is so vital to the
nation and the world today.
Dave Hall, of Belmont, was Sc
lected department commander
and J. 0. Thomas. Leaksville;
Harry Keller, Badin and r. c.
Goodwin, New Bern, were chosen
vice commanders, one of whom
will succeed P. G. Wright, of
West jefferson.
Mrs. Walter Craven, Of Char
lotte, will head the state Legion
auxiliary.
The Sparta post again won the
class D membership trophy.
Included in those attending
from Ashe were: P. G.. Wright,
Ed Barr, w. B. Austin, Con Ire
son, B. w. Jones, Gather Bald
win, Art Frazier and Guy Bad
ger, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. A. B.
Hurt and Mrs. Badger.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
Save AS Well AS Spend

The present Federal debt limit Of $45,
OOOOOO,OOO will be raised to around $50,000
100000 in order to make it possible to pro-
vide new capital for the national defense
program, as the current peace debt is vir-
tually at the legal limit.
The cost of an adequate defense struc-
ture will reach incredible totals. In addi
ton to raising the debt limit and taxes, it
is certainly the duty of public officials of
both parties to reduce government expen-
ditures for other, less essential purposes
even at the expense of pet political pro-
jects that have swallowed billions of the
nations wealth.
There isxan inseparable relationship be-
tween snational defense and national fiscal
solvency. Each increase in taxes or debt
must Inevitably result in steady lower
ing of a nations resources. It is as impor-
tant to learn to save as it is to spend when
national emergencies demand it.
The defense program must be pushed
with all speed. Similar speed should be
shown in pairing every nickel possible from
the ordinary Federal budget in order to re-
lease every availale dollar of regular gov
eminent income for legitimate defense
needs. Every conceivable economy should
at once be effected so that increases in tax
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
Open Forum
COLUMN
FOR THE VOICE OF THE
PEOPLE

Dear Editor:
Health is the first line of de-
Tense in any country and the
most important part of the school
is the health of it's children. One
of the best ways to improve the
health of the children is a daily
hot lunch. Last school year we
had a hot lunch program at Trout
school. Here are some CT the ways
it improved our school.
The children had either come
to school without lunch or
brought a cold one. Now they
were fed a hot nourishing meal
every day and they soon showed
the benefits they were gaining
by increased weight. We wish
you could have seen how the
children improved physically,
mentally and morally. Words are
inadequate to express our graft
tude to the WPA and the SGT
for making it possible for every
child in our school to have a dali
ly hot lunch-not possible other
wise.
Better health resulted in better
dispositions. Problem children
ceased to be problems. There was
a greater capacity for learning
The children are proud of their
lunch room and consider it spe-
cial privilege to work in it.
Attendance improved and we
were able to keep our school open
throughout the entire school
year.
The whole community became
interested and cooperated in ev-
cry way possible. With improved
health the children attended
school regularly, studied with
more energy and interest. The
results: A better school and bet
ter citizenship in the future.
MARGARET DAVIS
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
McMillans Open
New Auto Store
In n. WilkesbOrO
|l04A4O

Dean and Gale Mcmillan, own
ers and managers of the w. J.
Parts Company, and Jack SWof-
ford, formerly the Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Company representa-
tive in this territory, opened
new tire and accessory store in
North Wilkesboro last week end.
The new firm is called the
Wilkes Tire Store and is located
on 10th. street, next door to the
Wilkes Hatchery. Mr.. Swofford
is manager of the store.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

ular Army ration rate for the
camp. Regular Army uniforms
and equipment will be used. All
training and administration will
be conducted by Regular Army
and Reserve personnel, who will
organize the camp and train the
300 trainees. No obligation rests
upon these trainees for military
service in the army, and no COM
missions will be granted on COM
pletion of camp. A special course
will be given trainees applicable
to men of more advanced age
and experience.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank everyone for
the kindness and sympathy
shown during the sickness and
death of our beloved husband and
father, John F. johnson.
MRS. JOHN F. JOHNSON and
LEVERN JOHNSON and
FAMILY
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
N IS
AND
| Kernel:
BY
TROY /.
JONES


The Republicans should have
smooth sailing at the Nationa
| Convention as Mr.. President took
the Knox out of the party.
If the Republicans are going tt
win the election like they say
looks like they would appreciate
the president training couple
of cabinet members.
It looked a while like this coun.
try was going democratic. 1t does
not look that way now. It has
done and gone.
In that joint meeting of II Duce
and Herr Hitler, II Duce brought
pig nuckles and Hitler brought
sauer kraut. They would have
invited JOSEPH Stain but he was
out of caterpillars tonsils or
toast.
Hitler and Mussolini have fall
len out. Hitler wanted to mea-
sure the land of conquest in
terms of his standard of living
by using the number of links in
sassridge and II Duce wanted to
use the number of miles in spa
ghetti.
Tony expected Fritz to hand
him some bolona with the
"Wurst'' to come.
Hell amt such big place. l
saw one man raising it last Sat-
urday night.
We have just one Built in
France. A bomb fell within six
feet of him and did not kill him.
The reason was the bomb did
not explode.
In the terms of peace handed
the French by the huns and that
garlic smuggling wop, are "O''
with the rim rubbed off.
One of the first necessary pre-
parations to warfare is to get the
cooty garages ready.
I am behind the military move
ment of our government and am
going to stay as far behind as /
can. ''
Every man should 60 to war
and get married and see which
he likes the better.
They say everything is fair in
war and love- / don't know for
have never been in war. But it
looks like 1 would have an op-
portunity to test the proverb.
y
Since war is Waged from the
air, trees are no longer helpful
to officers.
People used to hide behind a
petty coat in time of war. But
petty coats of the magnitude now
days are no longer a good fortifi-
cation.
When the light of your life goes
out, you had better strike an
other match.
Mr.. Ed Anderson heard Thomas
Dewey speak in Winston-Salem.
Wonder if he has sneaked off to
Philadelphia for the Republican
convention?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
THEIR DREAM OF UTOPIA.
BECOMES NIGHTMARE

How hopeful settlers visioned an
islands as a promised land with
little work, no worries and easy
wealth only to become complete
ly disillusioned. A feature story
in the July 7th issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
814 Grant St.
POttSVille, Pa.

Dear Mr.. Anderson,
Please find enclosed money or
der for $3.50 which will entitle
me to continue to receive the
Post for an additional period
Each issue is anxiously looked
for and read as a letter from
home.
Feeling sure you will continue
your policy of boosting Ashe
county, I am
Yours sincerely,
D. GRAPHICAL
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

es and debt may be held to the absolute
minimum.
A sound policy is one of the most vital
factors in a national defense program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

DON'T MISS THIS THRILLING
NEW SERIAL NOVEL
wings of the dragon" thrilling
new story of adventure, by a pop
ular author, starts on July 7th in
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
the big magazine distributed with
the
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
An Sale at All NeWsstands
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

A new market for dewberries
has been opened in Autryville,
new outlet for their berry crop,
giving Sampson County growers
says J. P. Stovall, assistant farm
agent.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

A hog cholera epidemic, caused
by animals brought in from out
of-state markets, has gained con-
siderable Roadway in Avery
County, reports Farm Agent c.
B. Baird.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

Home gardens in Graham
County are the best they have
been in many years, due large
ly to the small AAA payment
provided for growing home vege-
tables, reports Assistant Farm
Agent F. E. Correll, Jr.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

New York City received about
one carload of fruits and vege-
tables a minute for the daylight
time of every working day of the
year, or about 100000 carloads
yearly.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

A decline of $27,OOO,OOO in ex-
ports during April, with the
heaviest decrease in Scandinavia
an and Dutch trade, is shown in
a late U. S. Commerce Depart
ment report.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

Read the ads in The Post each
week, and then BUY. You will
really save money. -.s
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
On Sale at All NeWsstands
NOTICE

This is to notify everyone that
I will not be responsible for any,
indebtedness incurred by my
wife, Mrs. Bonnie Grier Brown.
This is the 9th day of June.
w. B. BROWN
6-27-1tp Fleetwood
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

Johnston County farmers now
have at work between 35 and40
combines harvesting the small
grain crop, reports R. M. Holder,
assistant farm agent of the N. c.
State College Extension Service.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-06-27

care you positive that the de-
PENDANT was drunk" asked the
judge.
"No doubt" growled the Off
Ger.
"Why are you so certain?"
WELL" replied the officer,
II saw him put a penny in the
patrol box on Fourth Street, then
look up at the clock on the
Presbyterian Church and shout:
Gosh, I've lost fourteen pounds'!"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
OXFORD OR CAMBRIDGE?
ROOSEVELT OR WlLLKIE?'

Said the dictator-controlled newspa-
per Resto del Carlino of Bologne, Italy,
the other day:
I'VE are nearing the end of the United
States presidential election campaign.
Europe devotes its thoughts to other
things. Europe watches the immense re-
construction being done by Mussolim
and Hitler, and we are willing to bet
that out of 100 European newspaper
readers at least 80 do not know the name
of either of the candidates.
1.-The Forthcoming presidential cleo
ton (the paper continued) is merely a
prize fight in which at the end the
knocked-out candidate arises, shakes
hands with the winner and shares the
crowds booes or Kisses. The elections
are a competition bringing to mind the
Oxford Cambridge boat race on the
Thames"
Never have we seen such masterful
statement of the misunderstanding
which causes the dictators to underestl-
mate democracy.
The Roman newspaper evidently did
not take into consideration one thing IN
drawing its comparison. 1t is the fact
that the spirit which motivates the Ok
ford Cambridge boat race, is the same
spirit which has held in check the fury
of Hitler, which has defied the terrible
power of the entire European continent
which even now is bringing terror to
Italian hearts in the southern Mediter-
ranean.
Yes, the same spirit does move the
presidential election in the United
States 1t is spirit of fair play, of
sportsmanship, of the matching of abili-
ty against ability. 1t is an effort to find
out who is the best man, so that the best
man may win.
And, when he contest is over, the de
feated man will arise and shake the
hand of the victor-and pledge his sup
port to him, and give that support. For
that is the American way. 1t is the way
of national unity, the way of democracy,
the way of free men. Thank God that it
is.
SO it is that we take as a compliment
the TRADE that was meant as jibe. And,
taking it thus, we find in our hearts
nothing but pity for the man who criti-
cizes craftsmanship and laughs at demo-
cratic processes For it is he who needs
sympathy, not u.s. And in his ignorance
he may be needing it great deal more
as time goes on.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
by Paul Harrison :.
Hollywood S fads, Fancies and Feibles

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5.-Tricks OF
the trade: In Movietown there are
hundreds of fine craftsmen ca
pable of building anything from a
locomotive to a sewing machine, Or
a castle to a cabinet-all practi-
cal and substantial. Some of them
though must specialize in trick
stuff-miniature buildings which
will fall to pieces during artificial
earthquakes; "breakaway" BLyni-
ture which will collapse under some
portly comic; automobiles which
will sigh and disintegrate into a
mess of scrap iron. 49,.
And there are craftsmen doomed
forever to the creation of shabbi-
ness: They'll grind holes into the
soles of actors shoes sandpaper
their clothing threadbare and then
put shine on the seats and ell
bows of their serge suits. They'll
make cracks in plastering, loosen
wallpaper, and with blOwguns and
liquid rubber will spin cobwebs
in the corners.
THE vARNIsHING
AMERICAN
On the Warner lot, I watched a
brand-new shanty which they were
making old-and I learned some
thing about Ralph Holman, who
has one of the most discouraging
jobs of all.
Holman is foremen of a paint
gang and is fond of recalling that
Carlisle Jones once dubbed him
1.-The vanishing American But
Writer Jones also called him the
man who carries time in a bucket.
And since it happens that Holman
has q special talent for making
things look old, he does far more
aging than vanishing. He and his
crew are the ones who wear down
the door sills of mountain cabins
and warp the shingles and clap.
board sides of shacks such as those
1 saw in Santa Fe Trail"
All such men are earnest arti-
sans, but it must be q wrench tC
their pride that sometimes they
must mix the very poorest paints
possible. For example, Holman has
worked out a brew derisively callec
''POp-o-Lac" which is guaranteed
to spoil the appearance of anything
it touches.
He'll cover a building with it
and within an hour the paint be.
gins to discolor and crack anc
scale. When new wood begins tt
show through the seams, they rut
in a little ochre so that it look!
truly weatherbeaten and neglect
ed Holman also has some dope
that will make brand-new shingle.
curl and crack.
Much of his paint, which is ex.
pected to last only a few days, i.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
COACH ARMSTRONG

Few men in this community influenced
the future of Imperial Valley young peo-
pie more than one we mourn today
Coach Robert Armstrong. His was the
job of coaching athletic teams in high
school and junior college, but it was
more of job than that The list of vic
tories his teams won and lost is not the
record of the man as it is written in the
Great Book.
His record there is an imperishable one
"a record of sportsmanship instilled in
to young hearts and minds, record of
healthy bodies sent out into the world
to meet any crisis, a record of devotion
to the future of America. His memory
will stay long after the memory of his
teams fades, for it is a memory compiled
of understanding, sympathy, tact and
an undying love for the life work he had
chosen-the work of helping young Am
orleans be better Americans.
Coach Robert Armstrong is dead, but
the work he did will live for another
generation and more.
We mourn him, but more than that,
we honor him too.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
ARISTOCRACY OF
TOMORROW
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
And now. the World of Tomorrow"
belongs to the world of yesterday. But
there's so much more to it than that.
Forty-five million-odd Americans-and
so MANY can't be so odd-have visited
the New York fair SO the estlmators
tell us. Forty-five million folk whose
sons and daughters, cousins and neph-
ews, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, faith
ers, mothers, grandparents, can say,
"Oh, yes, one of my relatives saw the
World of Tomorrow" And this is to
say nothing of the 100000 or more
who visited Treasure Island on the other
side of the United States.
With all these millions of fair-goers,
there is practically nobody in the Unit
ed States who has not been to the fair
or who doesn't know somebody who has
been.
Perhaps going to the fair isn't what
it was in '93 But it still puts one in the
fortunate minority-a kind of democratic
ariStocracy. 1t doesn't matter any more
that your grandmother wasn't one of
those distinguished Americans who were
set apart by their visit to Chicago. If
you are one of the fifty-one million, you
can take satisfaction in the reply of
newly created peer who was taunted by
ar old-line noble on having no ancestry
to speak of. YOU" replied the new
peer, ARE only descendant, | am an
ancestor
Can it be the Italian press is right
when it talks of the -plutocracies'
Britain is suspected by Axis commen-
tators of being populated with 47,000,000
Churchils, and the United States has
become a nation of 81 100000 notable
ancestors
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
by Willis Thornton
The War Spreads

Like an ugly ink blot, the Euro
pean war has spread in a little more
than wear across the whole map
of continent.
It is hard to realize now that all
this started over a border dispute
over Danzig and the Polish cor
ridor. Just as the World WWar
started in a dispute over response
bility for the murder OF an arch
duke
The dispute over Oanzig might
have been settled across the table,
given the slightest good will, the
slightest desire to settle it. But al
ready whatever good will was left
had been dissipated by the futile
Munich effort at appeasement, the
mounting evidence that Nazi Ger
many was not to be satisfied by
mere amicable adjustments OF bor-
derS.
And because there was not enough
craftsmanship, enough good will in
all Europe to compromise a matter
of access to the Baltic Sea, the
conflagration started which now
spreads across all Europe.
More even than in 1914, the
world is interdependent. And even
then a dispute between Austria and
Serbia eventually dragged a world
to war To-day
Within two days after the Dan
zig failure, Britain and France en-
tered the War. Within two weeks
Russia was plunging into Poland fol
its share of the swag, and within
two months it was invading Fin
land Within seven months Den
mark and Norway were gratuitously
moved down, protesting their neu-
trality as they fell. Within nine
months Belgium, the Netherland;
and Luxembourg followed. Before
a year was out, Italy plunged in
The tenth month saw Russia par
titioning Rumania. and Egypt was
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05

made of kerosene and lampblack,
or kesosene and cheap water-color
pigments, and costs 8 cents a gallon.
But his real pride is the smooth.
professional work which will be
noticed least such as modern in
teriors of offices and the elegant
gilt trimmings of homes and the
aters in THE Lady With Red
Hair t.
You just can't get out of the
habit of wanting to do nice job"
he says.
ENAMEL FOR
PEARLY TEETH
Speaking of painting, there's no
field more tricky than mapeup.
Most mapeup artists and hair
dressers in Hollywood are men be-
cause men do their jobs inper-
sonally; feminine makeup artists
are inclined to apply their own
ideas to actresses and may make
them look all wrong on the screen.
Charley Grapewin and Walter
Brennan are the only actors who
openly and admittedly wear false
teeth. Lots of romantic gents wear
them and don't tell j.. More stars
than you'd imagine have makeup
men paint their teeth with white
enamel to give that pearly effect.
Wigs and toupees are something
else again; about a dozen screen
heroes are known to wear patches
on their foreheads . Almost no.
body has to shave his head these
days for bald-headed character
role. Rubber scull caps are drawn
tightly over the hair and don't
show .. Wigs are made for
actors and actresses who may have
luxuriant hair but of the wrong
style A wig usually contains about
/ 100000 knots and costs about $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-05
PRIORITY
LOOKING AHEAD
(Wall Street JournaD

If priority comes, can ratlonlng be Tar
behind? Manufacturers generally must
have such a thought in mind, following
the Presidents order establishing pri-
critics board and the office of admins
traitor of priorities.
1t is to be noted that the present or
der only directs persons with whom
Naval and Army contracts and orders
have been or are placed to grant priority
for deliveries pursuant thereto over all
deliveries for private account or for eX-
port. In the legal persons" includes
corporations, so that all suppliers to
the defense program are covered and the
writ doubtless runs to all sub-contrac-
tors hereunder. This priority order is
a wise and timely advance provision
against possible conflicts of interest here
after 1t goes without saying that the
national defense must have broad right
of way.
Nothing has yet been done to apply
the priority principle to conflicting
claims among private consumers to a
limited supply of a given material, if
such conflict should develop. Suppos-
ing, for example, that the output of steel
should prove insufficient to satisfy all
corners, after government needs have
been met. Which among manufacturers
of private passenger automobiles, max
ers of farm implements and builders of
commercial or residence structures in
private ownership (to name only few
users) would have first call on the re-
manning flow of steel?
In that event, a system of rationing
would have to be devised, necessarily
resting on governmental authority Ap-
parently that degree of control over any
major industry is not imminent. But
anything like a scramble to get materials
or merchandise in hand ahead of it and
a resulting flight of prices would precip-
itate the thing itself.