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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
HERBERT GARLAND STUR-
GILL
VS.
MARY EDITH STURGILL
NOTICE OF SUMMONS

The defendant, Mary Edith
Sturgill, will take notice that ar
action entitled as above has beer
commenced in the Superior Court
of Ashe County, North Carolina
for divorce a vinculo, and the
said defendant will further take
notice that she is required to ap-
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of said county
in the Courthouse in Jefferson, N.
c., within 80 days after the 9th
day of December, 1941, and an
swer or demur to the complaint in
said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This the 26th day of Nov, 1871.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
12-4-4t Clerk Superior Court
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18
TRUSTEES SALE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

ASHE COUNTY
BY virtue of the power con-
ferred in the undersigned, George
Cheek, Trustee, in a certain deed
of trust, executed by Mack Max
we'll, securing the payment of a
certain note, in the amount of
$54.50, which deed of trust is
dated May 9, 1899, and recorded
in Book IS, page 327, Ashe Coun-
ty Registry, default having been
made in the payment of said debt,
I will on SATURDAY, Dec. 20.
1941, at o'clock P. M, at the
Court House door in Jefferson,
county and state aforesaid, Of
fer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described
tract of land:
Adjoining the lands of Dock
Mcmillan, Troy Mcmillan and
others, containing seven acres, and
1913 poles, more or less, and being
that certain tract of land con-
veyed by Lille Hamilton, widow
to Mack Maxwell, Oct. l, 1887, re-
corded in Book VIZ, page 2O7, in
the office of Register of Deeds
for Ashe County, N. c., to which
deed and record thereof reference
is made for more specific des-
cription.
This November IL, 1941.
GEO. CHEEK,
11-27-4t Trustee
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18
Bethlehem, N. H., Is Like
Tiny Village of Nativity

BETHLEHEM, N. H.-This peace
full little Christmas town" nestled
in the New Hampshire hills bears
a striking resemblance to the Holy
Village for which it was named It's
location is similar to that of Bethle-
hem in Judea, and, strangely
enough it is a village of inns and
Jewish people, just like the real
Bethlehem in the beautiful story of
the Christ Child. This similarity ex-
lists, however, only in summer when
50 magnificent hotels, taverns and
inns, nine of which observe the Jew
ish dietary laws, are hosts to those
who tome, year after year. to enjoy
the beauty of green fields and purple
mountains. At Christmastide the
population is less than a thousand
souls and most of them are natives
whose hardy ancestors built their
log cabins along Bethlehem streets
where the palatial hotels now stand.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18
KING GEORGE WAS
46 LAST SUNDAY

London.-King George vi cele-
brated his 10th birthday Sunday
with Queen Elizabeth and Prin-
cesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Rose at a country home some
where in England amid messages
of congratulations from all parts
of the empire.
Messages came from President
Roosevelt, Queen Mother Mary,
and other members of the royal
family from Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill and the governors
general of the dominions.
The king and queen attended
morning church services and en-
tertained soldiers at a rehearsal of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

Grave Threat
To Yule Caiety

Nothing can spoil the festive gal
ETY. of a Christmas celebration more
completely than a fire or accident
in the home. There are several eS'
sential precautions which will help
to assure truly Merry Christmas.
q Don't risk using frayed cords and
broken plugs.
q Don't handle electrical appli-
ances with wet hands.
q Don't yank at cords or run them
under rugs.
q Don't forget to have insulated
staples on hand for stringing cords
around.
q Don't overload your house cir
cult. Usually 1000 watts is as much
as any one circuit will stand.
q Don't neglect providing plenty Of
extra lamp bulbs of the various
sizes and colors you're using for
Christmas cheer, so you can replace
burned-out ones.
q Don't put pennies in blown-out
fuse. A blown fuse is warningl
q Don't have high wattage lamp
bulbs near fancy inf1ammable orna-
ments, synthetic materials, paper
or cotton. Watch out about using
candles too near draperies. wall pa
per or woodwork.
d Don't plan to have row Of can
dies too close to a mirror or the
heat may crack it.
And above all, don't burn rea.
candles on your Christmas tree un-
less it has first been thoroughly
freproofed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF N. E. LANE, DE-
CEASED
Having qualified as Executor of
the last Will and Testament of
N. E. Lane, deceased, late of Ashe
County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having
claims against said estate to pre-
sent them to the undersigned for
payment on or before November
IS, 1912, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es-
tate will please make immediate
payment to the undersigned.
This November IS, 1941.
J. T. WAGG, Executor of
N. E. LANE,
1l-2O-6tp Deceased.
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for our nation.

There is no question here but
that the war will call for greater
and greater sacrifice on the part
of every American citizen - but
there is also no question that ev-
cry American is now eager to do
everything within his power, no
matter what the sacrifice, to see
that the democracies win this
war in the shortest possible time.
Buy Defense Bonds
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

WANTED Several small furn
lshed apartments or furnished
houses for several months, also
boarding places for workmen, in
or near West Jefferson. Write E.,
clio Skyland Post, giving location
and rates. 12-11-2tn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

Bargains t nns'ns Saw r miit :,
Wood Working and Road Build
ing Machinery, Well Drilling Ma
chimes, Gasoline Engines, etc.-R
P. JOHNSON, WytheviIle, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

A complete course in Beauty Gull
ture of one thousand hours for
$50 only. State approved school.
Classes now forming. Mrs. Jake
Church, Macs School of Beau
ty Culture, North WiKesboro, N.
=. Silk
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

a pantomine, "Cinderella," in
which the princesses and their
friends from a nearby town are
taking part.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

FOR SALE Il have load of
nice Guernsey and Jersey COWS
and heifers. Some fresh, some to
freshen soon. Earl GRAPHICAL, West
Jefferson. 1l-2O-4tn
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

.LOST-One small fantailed walk
er hound, color strawberry roam
with brown nose. Liberal reward
Tor return. Joe Cear1ey, Crump-
Ter. 12-11-4tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

FOR SALE-A good typewriter
and adding machine. Apply The
Skyland Post 9-7-h
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

WANTED-Route man. Good op-
enlng. Sell, deliver Rawleigh pro-
ducts year around, steady work,
large profits. Write Rawleigh's,
Dept. NCL-249-137, Richmond,
va. 12-18-1tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

FORS WANTED-All kinds, high
est market prices paid. See us be-
fore you sell. Vannoy Produce
Co., West Jefferson, N. c. 12-4-tk
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

FOR SALE OR TRADE-1 GMC
dual-wheel truck, Suitable for
hauling extract or laurel burls.
Mont Jones, ]. & j. Store.
12-18-1tp.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

WANTED - Good clean white
rags. Will pay II cents per pound.
Parkway Chevrolet Co., West JEFF
1erSon. 11-20-4t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-12-18

When you want your curtains
washed and stretched, see Mrs.
Mary Neal Watts, Smethport.
11-27-5tp
Evening star., 1941-10-06
'Sturve .or Submit

AS occupied Europe continues to
seethe with rebellion. both under
ground and in the open. Nazi meas
ures of repression grow in ruthless
ness. From Paris to Prague firing
squads are working overtime, in
Serbia dive bombers and tanks are
being used and now from Norway
comes the latest news of German
efforts to crush resistance to Nazi
tyranny. With grimly deliberate
irony, Josef Terboven, German COM
missioner for Norway. chose harvest
Thanksgiving occasion in Oslo to de-
liver a bluntly worded starve-or-
submit ultimatum to the conquered
but still nationalistic Norwegian
people. History seldom has recorded
a more cold-blooded threat than that
delivered by Terboven when he de-
clared: "It is a matter of indifference
to Germany if some thousands or
perhaps tens of thousands of Nor
wegian men, women and children
starve and freeze to death during
this war. If Germany had taken
advantage of her right of making
the occupied countries provide for
her troops, the hunger in Norway
would be more terrible than it would
be possible to imagine"
Herr Terboven said that Germany
Evening star., 1941-10-06
Labor Abuses

Another fragrant example of union
dictatorship is barred by the report
just filed in Federal District Court,
New York, by special master after
a four-year study of boycott charges
preferred by eleven large electrical
manufacturers against Local 8 Of the
international Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, a building trades
unit of the American Federation of
Labor.
The manufacturers were boycotted,
the master found, for failure to en-
ploy members of the New York local.
Some hired men from other locals
of the Electrical Workers. Others
had contracts with unions of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations,
negotiated after Labor Board elec-
tions. So no question of non-union
labor was involved. Despite that, the
products OF these concerns either
were excluded from jobs in the
metropolitan area or permitted to
come in on terms which made their
use uneconomic, the union requiring
that fixtures be diSmantled at the
factory and assembled on the job site
by its own members if they were to be
installed. Further, contractors were
forced to file all bids-whether the
work was private or public-with a
code committee, and to keep prices at
a specified level. --
The viciopsness of this system
needs no elaboration. 1t strikes at
employers and the bill-paying pub
lie, as well as at those unions which
are kept out OF work. 1t is a re-
straint of commerce that is in
trinsically the same as though it
were engineered by a conspiracy of
businessmen There is this impor-
tant distinction however. The Gov
ernment could use the Sherman Act
to punish the heads of an industry.
1t is doubtful if there is any redress
against unions, the Supreme Court,
in deciding the Hutcheson case at
the last term, having interpreted the
Clayton and Norris-La Guardia Acts
so broadly as to give organized labor
virtually unlimited powers in seek
ing to control employment. AS a
clincher, three later cases in which
the Government also charged un-
lawful restraints by building trades
unions were dismissed by the court
on the basis Of the Hutcheson de-
cision.
For months, Thurman Arnold, head
Of the Antitrust Division of the
Justice Department, has warred on
lawless labor activities, only to see
efforts at reform nullified by judicial
lawmaking, as Justice Roberts and
Chief Justice Hughes characterized
the majority opinion in the Hutche-
son case. There is legislation pend
ing in Congress that would remedy
this, and the New York case empha-
sizes anew the necessity for its
passage.
Evening star., 1941-10-06
Safety Education

Last week The Star called atten-
tion to the fact that in the history
of the city's campaign to make its
streets safer no comprehensive plan
which embraced all phases of the
problem ever had been evolved
Yesterday, in its factual summary of
traffic deaths for the first three
quarters of 1941, graphic evidence
was given of the penalty for falling
to carry out a thorough educational
campaign.
OF the sixty-hve deaths in nine
months fifty were pedestrians. And
thirty-four of these were failing to
abide by fundamental safety rules,
even though other factors and faults
of others may have contributed to
the resulting accidents.
These figures are but part of the
argument for a continuous program
of safety education which cannot be
carried out by official pronounce
ment, but must be entered into CO.
operatlvely by all interested citizens.
Last year, while seventy-one were
killed in traffic. 337 Washingtonians
met accidental death on or off the
streets. These included 100 who lost
their lives in their homes. This
means that, according to the normal
ratio, approximately $4,000 were in
jured here in the year. With ac-
cidents ranking fifth in all causes of
death nationally, it should be noted
that most of them are in the
preventable category.
A comprehensive educational pro-
gram would include the following
elements: Thorough tests for all
applicants for drivers permits, re-
examination Of renewal permit ap-
Evening star., 1941-10-06
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdce1Uell.

Jenny Wren, the most determined Of
the two, sees to it.
II she cannot drive the other nesting
wrens away by any other means, she
will go to their nest and peck the eggs
to pieces, or even toss them out Of the
nest.
When the wrens saw the canary in its
cage, they decided at once that the arbor
was too crowded.
Too crowded, In bird land, in the
spring, means an entirely different
thing than it does the rest Of the year
Ordinarily the bulk of the songsters
are quite tolerant Of each other.
With the exception Of the mockingbird,
which in some cases acts in a dog-in-
the-manger way, the songbirds which
live in this section get along very well
together.
What fighting there is will be con-
fined mostly to the same species-that
is, wrens fight wrens, robins fight robins,
and cardinals do battle with cardinals.
There will be some exceptions, especially
in nesting time. Then 1t Is no uncom-
mon sight to see female cardinal
chasing out of the garden half dozen
jays which are trying to get some SUM-
flower seed at a feeding box.
The wrens trying to build q nest in
the arbor had no way of knowing about
a Gagged canary.
They saw it was another bird, and
they might even have mistaken the cage
for different sort OF nest.
Each bird to its own taste" Jenny
Wren no doubt said, loftily, as she eyed
the strange contraption.
1t was not to her taste, and so she few
away
Since canaries belong to the finch fam
lily, they probably would not drive away
song sparrow, or any of the other
members of the sparrow clan, including
that most numerous one, the English
sparrow.
1t would be good idea, then, for the
family with a canary to look over the
garden before taking Dicky outdoors
AS matter of fact, canaries are put
to some risk when they are taken out
doors. Gagged for scores of years, they
have become used to the dryer air Of
indoors.
Like hothouse plants, Gagged canaries
do best indoors.
Almost any difference in the aspect Of
nesting place will tend to drive birds
away, especially if the nest is not COM
pleted.
A little cottage cheese, placed in busy
bird feeding station, Immediately scared
away the several score birds which had
been frequenting it.
Frightened away by a few spoonfuls
Of cottage cheese, the birds stayed away
all day. but returned within a few min
utes after the offending substance had
been removed.
1t is common observation that paint
ing feeding station will have the result
of frightening the birds away for time.
We have heard of one case in which the
birds never came back after a feeder
had been painted bright orange.
Evening star., 1941-10-06
The Impossible

Various terse epigrams have been
made on the impossible. One of
the most famous was by the late
Bill Nye, humorist of the '80s, who
said that the acme of the impossible
was leading a double life on ten
dollars week-yet that feat would
be easy in some places, such as the
interior Of China or Africa. Until
yesterday, however, the world had an
instructive feeling that some things
really are impossible no longer.
Yesterday was the day that a team
won a World Series game, and with
it possibly the series itself-by the
incredible process Of having 4 batter
strike out in the last inning, with
his team a run behind, the bases
empty, and two fatal outs already
on the scoreboard.
The only explanation possible to 4
daZed world is that this could hap
pen only in Brooklyn; and probably
not even there without the help
Of the amazing Yanks. Even then
it was a billion-to-o shot. So
much for the mechanics of the
strikeout as a rally starter.
What really does seem impossible
is for any writer adequately to ex-
press the tragedy of this game, more
particularly for Mickey Owen. The
best that can be done in a few
words is to state that in all prob
ability not even the Yankees, what
ever they may say for publica-
ton, feel in their own hearts that
they deserved to win the fourth
eAms e ~ leN WogA 0agaAA
Evening star., 1941-10-06

plicants who have bad traffic records,
and an immediate re-examination
of those whose records indicate lack
of driving ability or ignorance OF
regulations, or an inability to ap-
preciate the needs of public safety
and convenience: regular safety
education periods in all schools under
trained and interested leaders, and
accident prevention courses and
seminars under the auspices Of civic
bodies, service clubs, parent-teacher
associations and similar units, with
the assistance of such organizations
as the American Red Cross and the
National Safety Council, which are
prepared to provide literature or in
struction for all who are interested.
Such a program must be tied in
with enforcement and engineering If
the city is to be made safer for all
who use the streets.
Evening star., 1941-10-06
DUNN LOR1NG, Va.

Dear Sir:
"As you know, the wrens were late
last spring and some did not return
at all.
"One OF ours came back and was
singing about the arbor where the gourd
was hanging, as they had q nest in It
last summer
After several such brief but lonely
visits, about the middle Of July, they
both came back and started building in
hurry, the male singing from early
morning until sundoWn.
After they were really settled, took
the canary out and hung him in the
arbor, too. 1t was hot Sunday after
noon.
Later noticed ii was very quiet out
side, where there had been so much &C
tivity before
DO you think they were frightened or
offended at the intrusion? Because
they departed promptly and we haven't
seen or heard of them since.
Sincerely yours, c. F. N"
1lClC Cdll NC llO uOuUt llldJ lllC
resented the presence Of the canary.
They had no way of knowing that its
presence was to be temporary.
Finding another bird, and especially OF
another species, so close to them, they
naturally decided to move on.
Their fear was not so much for them
selves as for their young
The 5id6o,,lt, ,,o,,xr l.;rl-
with other birds around must be some
thing terrific in the feathered world.
Most young birds, whether seed eaters
or not, are fed on minute insects and the
smallest possible worms
A given territory holds only enough
food for certain number of fledglings
This takes us to the so-called terri
torial theory.
This theory-and remember it is only
that-holds that the spring songs Of the
birds are warning cries, as we'll as love
songs.
While not discarding the love song
idea, the holders of this theory believe
that the birds, in effect stake out terri
tories for themselves by their voices.
Other birds both Of the same and
different species. hearing these songs,
decide to nest farther away.
In this manner the birds do not nest
In huddle, as it were, but spread them
selves out over given territory.
Every one who is interested in bird
life knows that in any given yard there
will only be, at one time, a few nesting
birds.
One garden will have family of
thrushes. and maybe nest of robins.
Another yard will have a cardinal.
Not too close will be a nest of catbirds
In this way the different families are
spread out, none interfering too much
with any other.
The separation applies most forcibly,
evidently, to birds of the same species.
When wrens nest, they make sure that
no other wrens are in the immediate
vicinity. There may be exceptions to
this, but they are exceptions.
Evening star., 1941-10-06

after the defeat of the Russian Army
Russian men and women will deny per-
sonal responsibility and stand in queues,
but Russia will be nearer to Christianity,
for the Russian dogma is more amenaole
than the German and is even now under
going change. And unless these dogmas
change there will be no peace in the
world whatever may happen to armies
and navies.
Hitler has said that he will not survive
a defeat. Stain does not need to- say 1t.
Dictators must not lose. Napoleon won
20 battles and lost !. Then he came
back from Elba and lost another. One
real defeat will do 1t. 1t is now quite
certain that one Of these dictators will
suffer defeat, but his philosophy will
live after him. Even II both Kilkenny
cats are thrown on the ash heap there
will remain these two great popular
forces both avowedly opposed to Chris
tianity.
II Christianity stands for the unity and
the freedom of men, Hitler is destroying
the unity and Stain the freedom. The
analysis Is too crude but still it Is useful.
Christianity is being attacked and its
achievements are being destroyed. The
fight against 1t Is real and bitter and
seems to be having great success. So
far as the unity and freedom Of men are
destroyed just so far is Christianity,
however you may define it, defeated.
May I predict that both unity and
freedom will be restored more quickly
and with less hloodshsd IN Russia than
Evening star., 1941-10-06
Declares Constitutions
To Be Real Must Be Enforced.

To the Editor of The Star:
Behind every constitution is the in
tent and purpose to prescribe a form
OF government, to define and limit the
powers of those deriving their just pow
ers from it, and, If possible, to restrain
such persons from the abuse of power.
The language, in any event, does pro-
vide an ideal norm from which the
conduct Of such persons may be meas
ured by history.
However, a guaranty" in any consti-
tuition or other written instrument is
no more effective, at given time, than
the power to enforce 1t against any who,
being in a position to avoid, evade, dis
tort or otherwise destroy or diminish its
efncacy, would do SO.
Copies Of the constitution Of the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics "a
term which the promoters Of that sys-
tenn did not intend should be restricted
to RussiO were freely obtainable dn
any language desireO at the Russian"
building at the New York Worlds Fair in
1899. 1t not only guaranteed" freedom
of religion, but the right Of secession.
Where Martin Dies and F. D. Roosevelt
appear to differ is that the latter quotes
text and the former suggests that per-
formance differs from it. One need not
turn to the U. S. s. r. to find justifica-
ton for Mr.. Dies Viewpoint.
,H+1Rle0N xu0UkAA.