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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09

Luther T. Rogers, a member o.
the board of aldermen of Wrights'
vile Beach, last night called or
beach cottage owners whose cot
tages are vacant to install fues in
their property to make it suitable
for renting to army officers and
other people focking to Whining
ton and vicinity because of Camp
Davis.
At least $50 families are now
living on Wrightsville Beach, he
said, and there are hundreds Of
other cottages there which could
be made suitable for year-around
residences if the owners would
simply install hues and heating
facilities.
A modern grocery store has been
opened on Harbor Island, he point
ed out, and a request has been
made for the opening of the ABC
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
MRS. F. R. BACKS
POLL TAX BILL
Congress Group Drafts Meas
ure To Outlaw South
ern Levy
By e GRANT

WASHINGTON, Feb. s. (R -
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt became
the central figure this week IN a
developing controversy over the
south's poll tax.
There were these significant de-
velopments:
l. Mrs. Roosevelt told a Rich
mond meeting last Saturday night
hat 1--WE can not be a democracy
and deny the vote to any lnolVl-
dual" She addressed a southern
Electoral Reform league which had
organized to consider means OF
abolishing the poll levy as a pre-
requisite to voting.
2, Three days later, a group IN
terested in outlawing the levy by
federal enactment gathered at the
White House to talk it over with
the First Lady. Among others, the
callers included Senator Pepper d.
Fla) and Representative Geyer
D-Calif.)
5. Pepper, slduliSi hN"
and a White House favorite, dis
closed he was having an antl-poll
tax bill prepared and would intro
duce it soon. Representative Geyer
D-Calif) made an unsuccessful fight
against the tax last year and re-
introduced his bill at the beginning
of this session.
Pepper admits he will find but
few supporters among southern
legislators. Many predict. a fill
buster in the senate if and when
the bill reaches that stage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Michigan s Last Homesteader
Gets Farm Title And Ends Epoch

but he hewed from the northern
Michigan woods a farm his descend
ants may call home as long as they
live.
In 1885 Wigren got a homestead
certificate for his 80 acr and
! started building a house for his
wife and two children.
When the house vas finished, he
built a barn, dug a well and fenced
off 80 acres. He cultivated seven
acres, planting alfalfa, beans, pota.
toes and an orchard. These &C
coaaplishments he reported to the
Conservation department to get his
title after five years of work.
1t took a lot of axe swinging. He
reported loss of part of a hand
but told the Conservation depart
ment his title to the land was
worth both pain and effort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
SENIORS

Seniors voted on the selections
for superlatives and the dedica-
ton of the annual Thursday and
Friday, but results were not avail
able at the end of school, Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
KLICK KLUB

The Kick Klub is sponsoring a
picture contest, the rules for which
are as follows: You may enter as
many pictures as you like. The
picture must be no smaller than
2 IA x 3 IA. The pictures are to
be of school subjects, not group
pictures. All data as to date, lens
speed, shutter speed, and m e
must be written on the back of
each print. Box cameras are no
exception in this contest. All en-
tries must be turned in to Mrs.
R. H. Williams, room 3l4, or Ned
Wootten, or Jack Nall by 9th pc.
riod, February 10. All entries be.
come the property of the Kick
Klub and prizes will be announced
later. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
By WILLIAM

LANSING, Mich, Feb. S.-Mich-
igan's last frontier vanished today,
and the last of a historic line of
backwoods pioneers became a land
owner.
The State Conservation depart
ment closed it's books on home
stealing and on an epoch as well
when it issued Theodore Wigren's
title to 80 acres near Hardwood
in Dickinson county. For with the
issuance of the title the early Amer
lean custom of acquiring the land
you live on by staying there long
enough passed from the Michigan
scene.
Wigren, as the states last home.
steader, lost a thumb and two fin
gers in the long, tedious process
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
HOLD-UP VICTIM

WINDSOR, Feb. S.-R-Victim
of a hold-up man, who invaded the
establishment of the Rascoe COM
pany here about ten days ago., Ed
ward w. Gray, IS, died yesterday in
Windsor hospital. His alleged assail-
ant, identified as George Peele, 21,
negro, is being detained at an I'M
specified point pending arraisnment
in BERTHE county superior court next
week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
Auto-Train Collision
Claims Second Victim

ABERDEEN, Feb. S-CP-Edward
F. Geyer, rs, of Pittsburgh, Pa, died
in the Moore county hospital today
from injuries suffered when his
automobile and the Seaboard Orange
Blossom special collided at a cross
ing here last Wednesday,.
Mrs. Irene Danmart, of Pittsburgh,
was instantly killed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09

Isinglass is derived from parts of
fish, and hence is of the animal
kingdom insurance security is
derived from placing your property
liability policy with a dependable
company and through a reliable
agency. Substantial savings may be
made when you insure through us.
current dividends are 25 pei cent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
NEW STUDENTS

NEW STUDENTS
Nina Battle, Andrew Lewis High.
of Salem, Virginia and Margaret
Brewer, Robert J. Reynolds High
of Winston-Salem were new stu
dents entering school Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
STUDENTS

T. T. Hamilton, Jr., principal,
is in receipt of a letter from M.
E. Sentelle. dean, Davidson Col
iege, with reference to the stand
ing Of Eustis Wayne Spencer, grad
uate of the senior class of 1910.
Said Sentelle, "We have had some
splendid men from your city. We
are always glad to get students
from your school and we expect
always a high grade of work from
them. Your school ranks very
high in our estimation. Eustis
Wayne Spencer has IN excellent
record in all studies and there is
no chance of his failing in any OF
his work"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
CLUBS

Club presidents are reminded
that club pictures for the annual
will be taken the week of Febru
airy II. No pictures will be taken
unless money is paid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09

Norway has two-thirds as much
coastline as Africa, yet is only
one-ninetieth the size Of that con-
tinent,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-09
N. HI. III. S..
Today
BY w BLOMME

The High Point college quartet
will give a program in chapel Mon
day morning before. the 9th, 9th
and 10th grades and the Occupa-
ton Department.
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terrifying.
But there are symbols proving
that man looks after man. One of
the best known is the double-bar-
red cross, spot-lighted by the
beam of the lighthouse pictured
on this years Christmas seal.
Americans have confidence in
the double-barred cross, the in
signal of the National Tubercu-
losis Association and its nearly
LOO affiliated associations. This
confidence is deeply rooted in the
victories over tuberculosis that
have been gained in the United
States since 1904, when the Ma
tional Association was founded.
Time and experience have prov
ed that the menace of tuberculosis
can be abolished even though
science has not yet found the
specific drug for cure, or for i'm
munization. The death rate from
the disease has been cut three
fourths in the past thirty-odd
years. Utter despair has been
taken away from the doctors YER
dict-tuberculosis. It is known
now that the disease can be cured
if found in its early stages and if
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04
COOPERATIVE PROMISES
PLENTY OF POWER HERE

Continued from Page One)
18th of each month.
"Bills for urban areas will be
mailed and dated the 30th of each
month and the discounts are for
feited if the bills are not paid by
the tenth of each month";" he said
Service will be discontinued on
all past due bills that are not
paid within 80 days.
Other activities of the co-ops
were discussed by Max c. Wilson,
project attorney and R. M. Nc
Grit, project identification spe-
cialist who, among other things
will advise and assist members in
making purchase of various ap-
planes.
A number of coop employees
were introduced, including Lee
Hatley, local manager, c. c.
Sumpter and Conrad Presnell, To-
cal linemen, and Boyd Brown
project head lineman.
Brief remarks were made by
two directors, j. c. Goodman and
Carl GRAPHICAL. Others making
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04
Brentwood News

Mr.. Quinton Day, of the Iron
Mt. Lutheran School, Kornorock,
Va, recently visited his parents
and grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Clyde Day ard Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
mev Miller.
Everyone in the Brownwood
community was greatly grieved
in losing good doctor and
friend, DR.. B. w. Tugman.
Mrs. George Day is improving
after six weeks of serious sick
ness, her many friends are glad
to learn.
Mrs. A. C. Greer is still improv-
ing since returning from the Ashe
county hospital, her many friends
will be glad to learn.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Howell and
children were dinner guests Sun
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Howell.
Rev. and Mrs. Willie Gilley are
the proud parents of a nine-pound
girl, Joyce Evelyn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04

in an average lifetime of six or
eight weeks, so all living cells,
during variable periods of life,
sacrifice themselves for others.
And so with that highest order of
cells, the thinking cells of the
brain. If thin section of the
brain of a person killed in an ac-
cident early in the morning be
placed under the microscope, one
may see little particles scattered
throughout the body of the cell
that must have been made out of
the very substance of the cell
during it's resting hours of sleep.
If, on the other hand, a thin Sec
ton of the brain of a person
killed in an accident at the end
of a days work be placed under
the microscope, the little parti-
cles visible in the rested brain
have disappeared from the tired
brain - have been consumed,
burned up in service. This is the
meaning of that inspired saying:
eff one will lose his life for my
sake, he shall find it." And so we
see these great and permanent
virtues as the progency of suffer-
ing. From suffering sympathy,
from sympathy love, from love
service, from service sacrifice, and
from sacrifice salvation, so far as
this world knows it.
This hospital is a place where
pain will be eased; where death
will be stayed; where broken and
damaged bodies will be repaired
and restored; where a new lease
on life will be granted; where
there will be a rebirth of oppor-
tunity. But it is more than that:
it is place where the spiritual
quality of life of this community
will exercise its supremacy and
healing influence over the weak
nesses and misfortunes Of the
flesh.
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short talks were c. ]. Rich, Gwyn

short talks were c. ]. Rich, Gwyn
Price and Ed Anderson.
The importance of nutrition as
vital part of the national de-
Tense program was discussed by
Messrs. Rich and Price and by
Mrs. Gorda G. Boney, county
home demonstration agent, who
together with members of the
newly organized All club at Heal
ing Springs, gave a cooking dem
onstration and served refresh
ments at the conclusion of the
program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04

proper treatment is given.
Many Ashe county victims as
well as those throughout the ma
ton have been assisted by funds
received from the sale of tuber-
cular Christmas seals.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04

Do not grieve upon your own
troubles: you would not have
them if you did not need them. Do
not grieve over the troubles of
"others"; there are no others.
BOLTON HALL
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04
Christmas Seal
Inspires Trust

This would be a desolate and
fearful world if one could no long
er believe in man and in certain
institutions that men have esta-
blished. If there were no longer
lighthouses along dangerous
coasts, no longer other symbols
showing that man still protects
man, times like these would be
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04

There is a homely old adage
which runs: 'Speak softly and
carry a big stick; you will go far
If the American nation will speak
softly and yet build and keep at a
pitch of the highest training a
thoroughly efficient navy, the
Monroe Doctrine will 90 far.
II. ROOSEVELT
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-04
NEED OF HOSPITAL
TOLD BY RANKIN

medicine that was taught them
and the kind of medicine to which
they have become accustomed in
their postgraduate training A To-
cal hospital, and only a local hos
pital, will bring in the younger
and better trained physicians tc
take the place of the older men
who, after long years of unassist-
ed, ardous and faithful service
pass on to their rewards.
The Finer Meaning Of Your
Local Hospital
But fhis' hospital means more
than all this. means more thar
greatly improved and modernized
medical care for all the people Of
AShe county. both those treated
within its walls and that larger
number treated within the sha-
dow of its healing influence II
means an expression and res
ponse of characterize the cG'lec-
tive character of your people -
that should provide inspiration
and sustenance for the attainment
of the ultimate maturity and full
mess Of purpose of this institution.
The hospital is a material and
collective community response to
human suffering, and character
itself, in some of its larger and
more beautiful aspects, is like
wise response to suffering. Cha
racter, as we know and appreciate
IT could not be developed with
out large infusion of suffering
without pain, pain of body. pain
of mind, pain actual, and pain po-
1ential, that is, danger. Suffering
rs the furnace that melts down
the flinty heart, that purifies and
likes resolution, even as the fire
Fempers steel.
Out of suffering, that great ele-
inert of character, sympathy, is
born No suffering in life, no
place for sympathy in character,
for there is no condition to origi-
Erate lit and no condition to exer-
Else and develop it. Sympathy is
the element in character that
g1ves it size. AS one life feels
uifh another, Identifies itself with
another, that life itself in inter-
est and service; and if one life
can feel with many lives, that
fife to the extent of its interest
IN others, its Identification with
others, multiplies itself many
fold. The dimensions of human
character are in terms of sympa-
thy
Out of sympathy is born that
supreme emotional element, love.
Love Is ones reflected interest,
ones interest mirrored in another
soul, and it is only through the
identifying effect of sympathy
that one enters into and becomes
a part of another life.
Love is the generator of service.
We can only serve through ted
7ous routine and grinding fatigue
day IN and day out the thing we
love.
Now service is sacrifice, not in
a symbolic, but in literal sense.
No living cell serves, works, with
out self-consumption, without
.self-Sacrifice. AS the red blood
cell wears itself out carrying oxy-
gen TO the other cells of the body
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14

More than 800 church organiz ations of the United States, con- ferences, synods, assemblies, etc, including representative Protest ant, Catholic and Jewish bodies, have adopted resolutions Or pre- sented petitions urging that the American people be permitted to pass through the British block ade with food for the small demo crac;es of Europe now reported starving; especially Belgium, Hol land. Norway, Finland and cen tral Poland These countries have l3,000,000 Protestants, 20.000,000 Catholics, and 3.50O,000 Jews. Al most half the population are children.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14

our troubles. We have actually come 10 the point now of say i0g that man is ignoble and un American who plaintively insists that he is entitled to the money he earns and all he can earn le- getimately.
 So if we win, with the invol- untary ass stance of the Russians and nevertheless lose those free domS and our human individual ity, that will be just the fault of ourselves and fate. But if Hitler wins we will do as Hitler says, because he will have a world on which to draw for soldiers and the tools and ships of war, all directed by this amazingly and frightfully efficient and ruthless genius.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY

Write to your friends and rela- tives on the Outside using Sour dough Stationery. They'll get 8 big kick out of it.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
FAIR ENOUGH
By Westbrook Pegler

by "CSbOl tJh 1tSlti
 NEW YORK - Mark Sullivan of the Herald Tribune outfit, my colleague in punditry, has been worrying about the American party line, so to speak. now that Hitler has chased Joe Stalin into the war on our side, but I think I can straighten him out and many others who seem to take toward Russia the same rela- ton that we have to Britain, and who have inquired How can we say we are going to help Stalin and, at the same time, go on with our prosecution of Stall ins agents in the United StateS?"
 I say that's easy.
 Frst of all. we all know we are not going to take toward Rus Sia the same relation that we have toward Britain, for, to Am ericans, the Russians are just an- other breed of faceless people like the Germans, lacking vol;- ton in this war and all other situations. We know, too, that they entered the war for no prin ciple, but only because they were jumped on suddenly by double crossed no better nor any worse, except that he is more efficient than their own dictator. They didn't come in to preserve any of the freedoms which we have heard so much about or to pre- serve the western civilization and Christianity from Hitler and the German race. They suddenly found themselves at war to save their own lives, without, as far as anyone knows, so much as a word of barley or even the pre- tense of a grievance.
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As To Prosecutions And now what about this busi-

ness of prosecuting .Stalin's agents while we are, in manner of speaking, his ally in the war on the common enemy?
 Well, if Britain had agents among us trying to set up king dom we would prosecute those agents too. But the British have had the intelligence to realize that we don't want a king and would resent any attempt to es- tablish a monarchy here & have let us alone ever since we finally us alone ever since we finally convinced them that we meant business.
 Stalin, on the other hand, with the seditious help of few native Americans and import jobs, has been trying to establish commun ism here, and that has made it necessary for us to get rather tough in a refined way.
 Now, however, he has called them off and after the war, if we win, there will be no Stalin to direct them, because his own mob will get him and somebody else will then resume the priv ilege of directing Russian affairs.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
Japanese Fairy Tale
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)

once upon llrne lneTe were certain trustful souls who said, Don't antagonize our friends the Japanese by cutting off their oil supplies from the United States. To do so will drive them into Netherlands Indies and spread the war in the Orient"
 Many Americans believed this Japanese fairy tale spread by friends of Tokyo and tourists who had had tea with the Pre- mier or some other nabob of the Mikado's. And the oil continued to flow so Japan could crush Americas friends. China.
 This was to bad, they reasoned, but it was one evil and not two. The Indies were st:ll unmolested. Then came the war in Europe, and the Indies were cast adrift, remaining loyal to the Nether- lands government in exile and be coming an ally of Britain.
 In the meantime Japan had stored away a years suppy of petroleum for her fleet and her air force The oil continued to come from opulent, but stupid America Japan moved into French Indo-China and forced it to became virtually colony of Tokyo. Malaya filled with troops so the base at Singapore was by passed by Japanese trade mis- sion which established itself a Batavia and opened negotiations with the colonial Dutch.
 Give us all the oil, rubber. qui nine that Japan wants, said the mission, broadly intimating that the Mikado's fleet was unOccupi- ed for the moment and would relish a cruise to the South China Sea. Just a little more of these materials, responded the Dutch, provided Tokyo give as surances that none of them will reach Germany. This the Japan csc refused and so the negotia- I,o,,o 1JCn,,
 The next step is obvious. In creased military as well as dip lomatic pressure will be exert ed on the colony. Japan intends to get the Indies as she obtained Indo-China. Force will be used if necessary. Only in the case of The Indies the colonial govern ment will fight.
 What, in this drama, has be- come of that good fairy, that angel of Oriental peace, the Am erican policy of appeaSing Japan W 4liI Oll Ci4lO OlllOl w dl lIldlCI ials? It has not only failed, like all appeasement gestures, it has enabled Japan to continue the war in China and to build up the Cnt2ns with which 10 attack the Indies and other European posses sionS.
 This may spell disaster to the United States. From the Orient this nation obtains not only the bulk of its tin and rubber, but a score of small yet important pro ducts, without which the indus trial might of America soon would collapse. It is not too late to retrieve this error. When it comes to stamina in dealing with the aggreSsors of Asia, Washing ton can learn much from Bat avia.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14

THE NOME NUGGET
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
Japanese Said To Be Spying
 On Coast

WASHINGTON. July = The Dies Committee is hard at work and discloses plans for hearings in the near future at Philadel- ph,a and Washington on possible Japanese espionage.
 The Committee states that 1000 Japanese fishing boats are under the direction of the Nip ponese navy now stationed in and around various Pacific Coast ports.
 Their assignment, said Dies Committee member, is 10 spy on the Pacific fleet in case of even- tual hostilities between the Unit ed States and Japan.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
Have To Fight

They have to fight on our side and inasmuch as they must fight the common enemy t would be foolish of us not to give them cheer which is practially all we can give them anyway, and refrain from hampering them.
 And victory for our side cer- tainly doesn't mean that we auto matically fall victim to Stalin- ism under Russian domination. because, as we very well know, the Russians have been absurd ly dumb and clumsy in their eff forts to spread communism in other lands, and have lost the de c!s.on wherever they made the break, producing, instead, the re action, Hitlerism, which is just communism under native man. agement. We don't have to fear their conquering us after the war ly would have to fear enslave- ment by Hitler should he win, because that man is not only as vile as Stalin but a tremendous fighter who hates our very tripes.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14

Department of Agriculture of Agriculture officials report no shortage of spinach is expected this year. They evidently are counting on Congress remaining in more or less constant session.
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14

Suggeste1 slogan. for the col lection of old aluminium: Let's show the Nazis We have some scrap"
The Nome nugget., 1941-07-14
WHAT THE WANT ADS
 MEAN TO NOME

To Sell that gun, furniture baby carriage, coat, trunk at a profit.
 To Buy that ice box or rug, piano or suit, car or accordian at low cost.
 To Rent that room, garage, apartment or that house to de- sirabIe tenants.