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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
Today
AND
TOMORROW

By
Frank Parker StOckridge
neighbOrs

rxrr neighbOrS
3 was born seventy years ago III
a small town parsonage. Until l
was ten we lived in country VII
lagos where my father preacneo
and taught. Then we moved 10
washington. where I got most OF
INV schooling and my first exper-
fence of city life. In fifty years
of Journalism 1 have lived and
worked in New York, Chicago
St. Louis, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Jacksonville and smaller cities. l
made acquaintance and rev
friends in most of them, but IN
all the cities I missed something
had known in my childhood.
People lived together in crowds
but they were not neighbors.
Neighbors, mean, in the sense OF
feeling a mutual interest in each
others welfare and common in
terest in the affairs of the COM
munity.
I have managed, somehow, to
keep up connection with the
places where people are really
neighbors. For more than twenty
years my wife and I, wherever
my work might take me, called
''home" the little farm near wsere
she was born and close to the viii
1age my own people settled in
$50 years ago.
RELIGION liberation
One of the things I like about
our village life is that nobody
cares, or even asks, what church
anyone else belongs to. We have
three churches, Congregational,
Episcopalian and Catholic. Last
winter, when the Congregational
minister's little boy was stricken
with meningitis and had to spend
weeks in a hospital at the coun-
ty seat, it was a Catholic lady
who suggested that the village
people ought to raise a fund to
pay the expense, since a country
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
Silas Creek News

Rev. ]. E. Startling filled his
regular appointments both at
Baldwin and Green's Chapel
Sunday.
Miss Kay Rita, little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Parker M. Dick
son, is indisposed with severe
cold at present.
A decoration was held at the
Jackson FISHERMAN graveyard
Sunday afternoon.
Visitors in the community this
weekend were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Pearne Dickson, of Winston
Salem; Mrs. Albert Martin, of
Boonville; Miss Selma Dickson,
of Jefferson. and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wesley Huneycutt and little
daughter, Madgie Karol, of Kern
ersville.
Mrs. Parker M. Dickson will
begin teaching at the local school
Thursday.
On the head waters of Old
Field Creek at the Dickson graye-
yard there will be a decoration
Sunday afternoon, Sept. IS, at
200 o'clock. All friends, relatives
and neighbors of the deceased are
requested to meet there Saturday,
Sept. IA, to clean off the graves,
and it is hoped that all will bring
flowers Sunday.
w. E. Dickson, of Rugby, Vir-
ginia, was in the village on Satur-
day on business.
Both the WPA forces and state
1 forces are putting forth great eff
fort to make the roads in the
community passable again. They
seem to be we'll organized anc
both efficient and speedy work il
/ being done.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

unities are offered to young men
who are in a position to take adj
vantage of them. The prospects
are that the Navy will be almost
doubled, in ships and men, in the
next two years. This expanded
Naval organization will be a per-
manent, continuing project for as
long as can be foreseen, in the
light of present day world condi-
tions. In order to meet the needs
of this expanded Navy, trained
men will be required, these will
be obtained from men already in
the Navy and those who enlist
now and in the near future.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
JESS REEVES TAKES
OVER SINCLAIR STA.

The modern and comparative
ly new Sinclair Service Station
here was opened Monday under
the management of J. A. Reeves,
owner of the West Jefferson Pre-
duce Company, City Hotel and
Cafe.
Arthur Hurley and Kemp Rich
ardson, local men, will operate
the station which will feature
the sale of gasoline and oil, wash
ing, greasing and polishing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

ways. At my age I am convinced
that the only real values in life
are more surely attained, though
not always appreciated, in little
towns like mine.
An old friend, Henry Beetle
Hough, has just written a book
called Country Editor" Ask
your town librarian to put in a
copy of it. It's not only beauti-
fully written and amusingly en-
tertaining, but it is the best ex-
preston of the satisfactions CT
small-town life in America that
I have seen put on paper. Also,
it may open your eyes to the
amazing number of things your
editor knows about you.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
MANY OPENINGS IN
NAVY DURING SEPT.

The Navy Recruiters for this
district, whose headquarters are
in Salisbury, announce that they
have a large number of openings
IN the Naval Service, to be filled
with the Salisbury recruiting sta.
during the month Of September.
Ambitious young men desiring to
take advantage of this opport-
unity are advised to communi-
cate with the Salisbury Recruit
ing Office at once.
Due to the increased expansion
OF the Navy, unparalleled opport-
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HeltOn News

Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine are the
proud parents of a baby boy.
Mrs. E. G. Francis has returned
from the hospital very much i'm
proved.
Mrs. Bertha Woodie, of Hick-
DRY, has been spending sometime
with her mother, Mrs. Will Nc
Clure.
Miss Gertrude Perkins is spend
ing sometime with her sister at
Marion, Va. She is taking treat
ment for sinus trouble.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12
Classified Ads

FOR SALE-One purebred Here
ford yearling bull, 2 electric light
plants, l Mongul 8-horse power
engine, 6-horse power steam en-
CINE, l grist mill. See r. E. L.
Plummer, Crumpler. 9-12-4tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

FOR SALE-Extra good pair T.
year-old mules with harness. See
or write Mrs. D. A. Faw, Idle
wild, N. G.. 8-12-1t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-09-12

FOR SALE Gone young jersey
cow, milking. Will freshen in
March. See R. c. Pierce, Grassy
Creek, 9-12-2tn
The weekly echo., 1940-07-05
B L A c K GU T
IVY ~ j..
BY Johnnie w. Hamlet

Inside the there little
droway of Zoy stepped the
the with his left hand looked with
dartisg furtive glances.
1t late afternoon The downtown buildings Of the
pointing
ward rush and the streets filled with the
with one another for first position and quickest getaway
quarreling jungle beasts Hard driven raise.
complaining the echoes rolling back and forth through tao
long swes Of sound all
high pitched shrek of pocemans WHISTLE sharp
hawkd
Extra! Read all about it! Extra! Extra about
The self closing device
with Kissing sound drew gently shut He his
them breath saving and of his
hot hrobbn Of pounding blood his face dm'
his hearing for the of the Not detail of the shfta
:eene escaped his notice each loiterer each parked
remained there lean bronze mmoble statue; then qick
&c ward to be swallowed in the crowd
NADINOLA BLEACHING CREAM offers outcoaa
what happens to Zo Why is he afraid? Bleach your
Nadnola, advertised below
Negro unknown writer by NADINOl:
CREAM.
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away when you aren't even prepared
10 work. l am inclined to think that
you will get job here locally and
you can save your money and go away
next year.
OPP We We're married in 1888 and
nave one child He hasn't ever done
anything 70 rher yet. viii he ever?
[ am hoping that he will be among the
first to be drafted if we go in war
an dhope that he has to go to the
front as he has no obligations and only
dcdges his responsibilities.
Ans Your husband doesn't realize
the expense attached to bringing ND
ii child-he hasn't ever been made
to realize his responsibility and now
he won't. Give him up, try to become
interested in some other good man
who will make a father to your child.
Another woman has him hooked.
them there it upset her so much that
worrying about the war won't help any
Try to forget that your husband is so
H. B. c. There was some lice brought
into my house and l can't to know If
the one I suspect is the person who
brought them here?
Ans: No Sir. She didn't have an,
thing to do with it-when she found
she did try to get rid of them. Il Is
ny impression that YOU know more
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about this matter than anyone else.
Be more careful in the future.
R. j. 1t seems just because of one
mistake that all the rest of my life
will have to be spent in atonement
and repentance. Tell me please if ]
have any right to future happiness?
Ans: Everyone has a light to future
happiness. You certainly have paid
dearly for the wrong that you com
mitted, although there is no doubt but
what it will be a stumbling block for
quite some time Don't allow this
mistake to prey on your mind-be big
enough to forget it and show your
friends that you can live a clean deceat
life.
T A Mr.. Wallace lam just like
new born babe. Don't know what 20
do. l have two friends When l stay
with one for awhile 1 want the other.
Then I 60 to him and I start wanting
the first one. Tell me what is the right
thing to do?
Ans: The first thing you must do is
to stop going from one to the other
his is common. One of these fellows
is married, give him up The other
cares for you, but if you don't return
his love don't stay with him either.
You should get married and stop this
foolishneM.
The weekly echo., 1940-07-05
SUCCUMBS

MIR. Willie Sanders of jackson, Miss,
died May 18th. Brother Sanders was =,
member of Lynch Street c. M. e.
Church. The funeral grafton was de-
livered by Revs. E. L. Percoates and
E. B. Blackman. Borthers Sanders
leaves wife, father, Rev. T. Sanders
Sr, brother, Rev. T. Sanders, Jr..
and host of relatives and friends. The
Weekly Echo extends to the bereaved
family our sympathy in the passing Of
Brother Willie Sanders.
The weekly echo., 1940-07-05
BFTHND THE APRON
BY Herman Z, -. Carter

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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER .
Aw ly gotten a he
Seres win, find him talking phone
- GO ON THE STORY
Maybe If could have permission
at the afe would understand to why
thought she was different from other women.
Just why should understands" reply.
Because think different"
"Ummh That's strange. am a woman wear dresses and have
female voice." = = -
Eyes Oh don't try be hard
that DESTROYS of being pursued yet they
pursued they be hardboid Don't
enough to get acquainted with when there
struggle to know ?"
DO really like dot"
"Why do ask maket
"People don't they don't like you
like haa determine by cautious
"Meaning?"
"The make up MSfsquremen you have
standard rests solely with like and want break
with
want come Sunday nght?"
that froze his nayves
want som4 tmfcm fmwy shrd fwy
eyes rsay7 1890"
"My God! I'll he to
phone they concluded contrsation THE End
The weekly echo., 1940-07-05

sjS.4n The pastor was paid $500 and
SIPS light bill. Total amount raised
$2S.e5
Rev. and Mrs. Leonard were present
for Sunday School and the school was
Fl aced TO have these lovely folk 10 ous
school.
The weekly echo., 1940-07-05
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
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ference Drive. Mrs Abbe Merritt, Miss
Lillian LarlSin and Mr.. Horace Hardy
were the captains They were success
full in raising enough to pay the District
Superintendent, Rev. F. P. Leonard
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M. S. j. Can you sue a person for
SANDER? This IS my case. l was made
to marry a girl some years ago and the
child came and it isn't mine. l divorced
her. Now she has another child and
she CLAIMS It is NINE and l haven't even
spoken to her in three years. Could
sue her? :.
Ans: Itwouldn't do you any good
only make matters more embarrassing
everyone who knows you are aware
of the fact that the child isn't yours
don't let it worry you anymore. This
girl is only doing this to irritate yo,,:
If you blow up and cause her trouble.
1t would do her world of good Calm
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yourself and forget it.
w. D. j. This man l got been drunk
some time now. His mother came and
brought six eggs Monday an dI want
to know what to do with these eggs?
Ans: Cook them for your man. There
isn't anything wrong with the eggs,
but if you prefer not to eat them, then
it is quite alright. You had better get
this man of yours sobered up. for he
can't possibly go on much longer in
the condition he is in right now.
B. M. W. l am very anxious to 60 to
New York or Chicago late this sum-
mer and would like your advice?
Ans: Stay right at home and get a
job You are too young to go so far
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
WELCOME, REDMEN

Wilmington welcomes the North Carolina
Council of Redmen, now in convention.
The delegates come a little late for the
azaleas and a little too early for the best fish.
ing, but there are many other attractions here
in season throughout the year for the pleas.
ure of the visitors.
Notably, there is Wilmintgon's hospitality
and friendliness, which is always in full
bloom. For the three days of their convention
the states Redmen will have opportunity to
enjoy these attributes in which we take espe.
cial pride and comfort.
May you find Wilmington so much to you1
liking that the city will become a fixed place
in your program, with annual conventions
here a matter of routine, not Of debate.
Nor will you be welcome only at the annua
period of your conventions. The hand O.
friendship is always out to you whether 20,
come for official gatherings or as private citi
zens in search of recreation or on business
Come often.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
BACK THE PRESIDENT

IN joining the mounting number OF sta'eS
L endorsing a third term for President
ROOSEVELT, North Carolina democrats let tne
nation know where they stand on tnls COLI
troversial issue.
This is a proper step for the states party
organization to take, that the leadership may
know we'll in advance what to expect Irom Inc
delegation at the national convention. 1t
would have been as wise a thing to do had the
party in North Carolina opposed a third term.
A pre-convention counting Of noses has adj
vantages.
But, with the world situation so compli-
Gated. and matters of vast Importance to be
considered, it would seem the wisest course
to let the President determine for himself
whether he will impose the burdens OF another
four years in office upon himself or not.
There is no question in any mind, even in
the minds of opposing candidates, that Mr..
ROOSEVELT can remain in the White House if
he wishes to do so. The one point to be de-
termined is whether he feels it would be wise
for him to continue in the presidency or re-
linuuish the exacting tasks of that high Of
flee to another.
With war spreading abroad, it would seem
the better part Of wisdom to have the man
who has gone through the years leading up
to so battling a situation remain at the head
of the government through the crisis. 1t is
always well to keep on a job the mar who
knows it's complexities and is trained in deal
ing with them. But the decision should be left
to him. For the present, the highest aims of
the nation can best be served by uniting be-
hind the President in his campaign for ade-
quate national defense.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
MORE PLANES NEEDED

Germany's use of planes to transport sol
diers to new battle areas, so effective in Nor
way, promises equal success in the low coun-
tries. Thousands of Nazi troops are being
poured into Holland and Belgium by this
means, and while the Dutch and the Belgians
are capturing or killing many the stream is
too heavy for them to cope with fully. Nazi
parachute soldiers are reaching detectives far
from the frontiers in such numbers that the
native troops and the Allied forces coming in
will find their task much more complicated
and difficult than if HITLER were seeking to
drive ahead by land only.
The whole maneuver emphasizes the i'm.
portant role the airplane is to play in this
lowland war which the Nazis admit is their
major stroke. With this method of transport.
ing an army Joined to their employment in
battle and in raids, airplanes must be turn
e. out in tremendous numbers if their po-
tency for the Allies is to equal that of the
Germans. 1t is unfortunate that the Allied
powers did not recognize this sooner and start
production on a mass basis when it was first
made known that HITLER was building up his
great air force. Had the situation been fully
realized then, France and England would not
now be so %pitifully under-equipped.
From the best information at hand, Ger
many has fully 10000 war planes of all
types. The Allied total is under 10000, prob
ably not more than 5000, at the start of the
lowlands campaign. Since the invasion started
no less than 500 planes have been lost by both
sides. If this keeps up, or, as is more likely,
increases as the hattie oroWo hnttor If 10 oh.
vious that Germany is in the best position to
weather heavy inroads on her %airforce.
The Allied need for requirements, granting
that losses in the air will be about equally di-
vided, will double that of the Germans. This
indicates that production, to bring the Allied
%airforce up to that of the Nazis and to replace
losses, must be four times as great as it has
been up to now.
Britain and France cannot turn planes out
that fast. 1t is even doubtful that American
plants, wholly given over to production for the
Allies and working at capacity, could bring
the output up to that total, for it is to be re-
membered that Nazi factories continue to build
new planes as fast as a thoroughly efficient
industry can function. And it is apparent that
the United States, with it's own defense needs
to be met, and it's %airforce admittedly below
par, cannot consent to full-time production for
Europe, even in this emergency.
But America could help the Allies with
planes, if the purchasing mission now in this
country should make up it's mind that the
present dribble of planes going abroad from
American factories will not be sufficient to
meet Allied requirements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
GIVE r

Since the Norwegian campaign we have heard
little of the Allied blockage. Actual military &C.
tivity has been too great for newsmen abroad to
consume limited cable line in discussion of
it's capability to starve Germany out. But it
would show little understanding of the block
AIDES usefulness to believe that it is not func.
tioning with growing effectiveness.
An illustration of it's potency recently came
to light here. A family with friends in Ger
many has been receiving letters from them
monthly. Conditions were fine, everything 20.
Ing splendidly, the people happy and contented.
With censors to peruse their words, the friends
could expect to get nothing else into the mails.
But the last letter made a strange reference
to German stamps. 1--WE presume you are saw
ing them" And there followed a description
OF various series.
AS the recipient had no interest in stamns
and the fact was known by the friends in
Germany, there seemed to be a hidden mean.
ing in the reference to them. The stamn was
steamed from the envelop, and on its back
was written: I'VE are starving"
Because of the thought put into th;s ,n.
of sending a prohibited message, its sincerity
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
u. S. To Haze 10000
Men Under Arms During
War Games In August

WASHINGTON, May 13-R-The
War department estimated today
that approximately $40, 900 officers
and men of the regular army, ma
tional guard and reserve corps
would be under arms during the
August maneuvers.
The figure, officials said, is ar
all-time high for peace-time train
ing activities. The maneuver plans
were announced in anticipation oil
congressional appropriation of the
necessary funds, estimated at &c..
900, 600.
Secretary Woodring explained
that heretofore it had been Gus.
tcmary to hold maneuvers in only
one army area each year, but that
I'm the present state of the world
it was considered advisable to hold
exercises in all four areas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
TOP o. THE

Our national expenditures OF the year 1886,
as compared Nth the year 1886, sho11ed the
following increases:
For jeuelry 52%; for theatres I4%; TOR
cigarettes 1870 for automobiles 209%, tor
whiskey 220%; for radios 1920 for beer
517%. All this Was for the lamps OF self and
pleasure. What about the oil for the lamps Of
Gods
We decreased 5000 in gifts to the churches
29% in general bemevozences; 1870 in colleges
for our youth. Thus we squondered the Oil Of
God. The world aDW neUer be lighted IT this
is the use We make OF the fuel Of property
and prosperity.
Louis H. EVANS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
CHURCHILL FOR CHAMBERLAIN
Christian Science Monitor

There was some bad work that will be scrap
ped. Where there was slack work, that will be
energized, and where there was no work, it will
be Initiated"
Again the British people want to hear words
IN the Prime Ministership of Great Britain.
When Mr.. Lloyd George, who made this state
ment, came to that office in 1916 Britain's ma
tional morale was much less favorable to Allied
victory than it is today. AS an observer Of re-
pute in those days put it "The nation at the
end of 1916 was suffering the spiritual analogue
Of physical fatigue. . j.. The country simply
wanted rousing."
Most neutral observers today have agreed
that it has been not so much the British nation
as the British government that has wanted
rousing." Some onlookers now are asking
whether the new leader will be able to concen-
trate British power and time its striking more
effectively than his predecessor. The question
arises from the fact that Mr.. ChurchhiHs in
fluence as a director of the war effort was in.
adequate to prevent the Norwegian defeat.
against the query must be set another as to
what part of the responsibility for the Nor
wegian campaign was really Mr.. Churchi1rs
AS Prime Minister he should be able to slim.
ulate and coordinate those multi-sided efforts
that are necessary in waging large-scale war.
It has been recognized in Britain that the gov
eminent could well use some new blood" But
the difficulties of infusing it into a Conserva-
ti~ve-dominated Cabinet is not widely understood
outside of Britain. The question for Labor, for
example, has been how to cooperate in such a
Cabinet without risking loss of its own identity.
Laborites therefore demanded as Prime Min
lister in any Cabinet in which they were to take
part a man less closely identified with the Con.
sentative Party machine that is Mr.. Chamber
lain. A way has been found to make possible
their cooperation. Mr.. Chamberlain stays in a
now include Laborites and Liberals.
A still smaller war cabinet seems likely, as
was necessary in 1916 when Mr.. Lloyd George
succeeded Mr.. Asquith after many attempts
to persuade him of the ACCESSIBILITY of working
with a war triumvirate. 1t is interesting that
some British papers are demanding the return
of Mr.. Lloyd George as one of a small group
intrusted with the prosecution of the war. Ok.
viously the British nation is looking for such
a change of government as that which acted
like a brass band upon tired troops in 1916.
Mr.. Churchill represents what Mr.. Chamber
lain never quite could-the opposition of the
British public to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, an op-
plan crisis and the Hoare-Laval agreement. For
this reason he should command the public con-
fldence necessary to his position, a confidence
which should benefit the entire Cabinet and
Britain's prosecution of the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-14
L IS STUPID, TOO

Clever to the point of genius in many
things, ADOLF HITLER is as obtuse as a half
wit in others.
Take, for example, his objection to the
Pope's attitude on the invasion of Belgium
and Holland. Why order prayers for them, he
asks, and not for Iceland, taken over by the
British? Why, indeed!
If we may be pardoned for guessing, we
suspect the Pope will consider it time to pray
for the Icelanders when the British there re.
sort to the same tactics HITLER is EMPLOYING
in the low countries.