davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-12-07

duction, tomake a flag of 100 per cent nylon for
presentation to the late President Roosevelt
Ordinarily, Presidential flag is one of the
hardest banners in the world to make A
worker spends 35 eight-hour days completing
this silken beauty. The spread eagle, shield
and trimmings must be embroidered with 81
different shades of silk.
What made this particular assignment even
more difficult was the fact that the nylon
furnished Amin was resistant to bright color
dyes. Beard and Chandler had almost given up
when they heard of a stocking manufacturer
who had made interesting experiments in
green, pink and crimson hose He was pre-
vailed upon to lend-lease Annin's the secret
of running nylon through the chemical spec
trum. And few months later a majestic
presidential flag of nylon was fluttering
aboard FDR's yacht.
A Quaxtex-Million Patterns
WHILE the bulk of Annins business is in
American flags they're also prepared to make
up flags for any of l67 countries (they made
the first flags flown by Panama and Portugal),
for all of the 48 states, for any university,
yachting club or golf course, and for the Elks,
Masons, Lions, Kiwanis and the American
Legion. In their huge files, Annin's have
25O,OOO patterns of flags.
One of their oldest requests came from
members of Frank Sinatra fan club, who had
pirated shirt once worn by their idol They
wanted Annin's to fashion the fabric INTO
pennant bearing the crooner's silhouette.
Chandler turned them down. was afraid he
Continued on page 24
Evening star., 1947-12-07

There's always big demand for
U. S. flags. This company makes
25,OOO,0 year, supplied the
banner that went up on Two Jima
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

to cause a war. The champions
of free press saw clearly enough
that this was after all by no
means the point at issue. They
had no desire for freedom to stir
up rebellion, to SANDER and de-
fame and lead astray. There
were a thousand and one things
all wrong in the existing order,
and all they asked was freedom
to discuss the faults and follies,
the corruptions and defeats, and
bring about, if possible, ideas
which could be made the founda-
ton of a better social and polit-
ical order, SO the change that the
ideas being advocated by those
who demanded freedom of the
press and speech were abomin-
able and menacing error could
only lead to anarchy. The reply
was error of opinion may be toll
Grated where reason is left free
to combat it.
In England freedom of the
press, soon after printing was in
troduced, was regulated by the
kings proclamation, prohibiting
charter of license, and finally by
the court of star chamber. The
press did not really become free
in England until after the expira-
ton of the statutes restricting it
in 1893, after which it was found
impossible to pass new laws in
restraint of it. 1t has remained
free ever since the last restric-
ton being done away with the
abolition of the newspaper stamp
duty in 1856. Such legal checks
as remain are merely intended to
prevent outrages on religion or
decency, to protect the individ-
uals from defamation, and to con-
serve the copyright of authors.
The founders of our republic
knew from experience that lib
erty could not endure without
freedom of speech and press.
Since they were determined to
have a free government, they in
sisted upon adding to our Con-
stitution guarantee of freedom
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

of speech and press. 1t should
be remembered that every linn
itation that is placed upon free
dom of speech and press takes
us one step nearer to dictator
ship.
With the adoption in 1871 of
article one amending the United
States Constitution by which it
is commanded that Congress
shall make no law abridging the
freedom of speech or of the
press the principle of free
press and free speech was writ
ten into the fundamental law of
an important nation for the first
time.
Liberty of the press is a great
bulwark of the liberty of the peo-
pie. 1t is, therefore, the incum-
bent duty of those who are con-
stituted the guardians of the peo-
pies rights to defend and main
tain it. AS is true for many other
rights this freedom does not pre-
vent the citizens being amend
able to justice for abusing this
freedom. In the United States
a free press, freedom of speech,
and many other rights are often
taken for granted.
"The best things when pervert-
ed become the very worst: so
printing, which in itself is no
small advantage to mankind,
when it is abused may be of most
fatal consequence"
1t is only py observing the sit
uation in other countries, when
such privileges have been de-
MED, that we in America become
aware of the fact that freedom
of the press is truly something
to be thankful for. During the
wars many people in Germany,
Italy, Japan, and many other
countries lost their lives because
they printed that which others
did not approve of. In Germany
one hardly knew who was trust
worthy when it came to the mat
ter of expressing his thoughts. In
Continued on Page ~
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

some Of the young folks of the
Helton Methodist Charge at Trim
ity Methodist church, Saturday
night at 8 p. m. on the subject,
"The World Service of the Meth
odist Church."
This program was under the
supervision of the "Christian Ed
ucation and the World Today"
management. The winner in this
contest will next speak at a dis
trict meeting to be held later.
Mr.. Lonnie BottOmley left Sun
day for Galax, Va, where he will
work for awhile. We do not
know the exact kind of work he
will do, but he takes up his old
job, which was a very RESPONSE
bic position.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. D. Smithers, of
Galax, Va, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lowell Smithey, of Jefferson,
spent Sunday with Mr.. w. w.
Dickson.
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16
Nathan's Creek Girl Cites Value OF Press
Al Students At Lansing Make
HOnOrROlls For Fourth Month

Viola Mcneil, Donna Badger,
Pauline Jones, Janice Lewis, Lo-
rene Mullis, Irene Weaver, Chris
tine Wiles.
Those who made the scholastic
honor roll for the fourth month
are:
Ninth Grade-Laura Nan Eller,
Marlene Jones, Sue LittleWood.
Tenth grade-Kermit Roberts,
Georgia Greer.
Eleventh grade-DaWes Gray
beal, Jewel Elliott, Carol Dean
Goss, Mary Ham, Virginia Par
sons, Lorene Powers, Martha
Roe.
Twelfth grade-Donna Badger,
Marian Farmer, Viola McNeill,
Bryan Spencer.
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16
Sturdivants Now
Have Insurance
Co. In Operation
independence Mutual Life
Insurance Company Is
Name OF New Firm

Announcement has been made
in Raleigh that the Indepen-
dence Mutual Life Insurance
company of North Wilkesboro,
Charlotte, and Monroe, has re-
ceived its license to do general
life insurance business in the
State Of North Carolina.
It has been announced by w.
K. Sturdivant, Executive Vice
President, that the Board Of Di-
rectors as recently elected is
composed of Johnson Sanders,
Shoun Kerbaugh, w. K. Sturdi-
want, and A. A. Sturdivant, of
North Wilkesboro, R. E. Kelley
of Boone, j. V. Caudill of West
Jefferson, D. F. Sturdivant, of
Sparta, L. M. McEwen, Sr., Louis
j. Carter, Herbert L. McEwen,
L. M. McEwen, Jr., of Charlotte,
George w. Davis and W. T. Wall
of Monroe.
AS North Cardinals new Life
Insurance Company launches
forth into business, its paid in
guaranty capital exceeds seventy
five thousand dollars, with ad-
vance premiums adding ten
thousand dollars to this figure.
AT the present time the new COM
pany has approximately $780,
10000 insurance in force.
The company writes policies
from $4,000 upward, and will
write policies of all types. Off
ces will be maintained in the
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16
Still Is Raided
Near Parkway

Officers from the alcohol tax
unit, aided by Patrolman c. M.
Jones and Sheriff Watson, of Wa
tauga county, captured a liquor
still on Phoenix highway near
the Cascades, on the Blue Ridge
Parkway, in Ashe county Satur-
day afternoon, January 4.
The $50 gallon capacity still
had a IS gallon upright boiler
and had just been mashed in. Pa
trolman Jones stated that 12
100 ID. sugar bags were found at
the scene.
The operators of the still were
not apprehended, the officers
stated.
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

A total of Al students made the
scholastic and citizenship honor
rolls at the Lansing high school
for the fourth month. The list
of students is as follows:
Ninth grade-Daphne Baldwin.
Tenth grade-Paul Anderson,
Ralph Graham, Georgia Greer,
Robert Miller, Kermit Roberts,
Richard Roe, Earl Sexton, Pau
line Weaver.
Eleventh grade-Joel Carter,
Dawes Graybeal, Helen Gillie,
Carol Dean Goss, Mary Ham,
Charlotte Johnson, Virginia Par
sons, Lorene Powers.
Twelfth grade-Bessie Adams,
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16
History Of Free
Press Is Traced
In Winning Essay
Miss Ruth Ann Miller's ESSAY
Has Now Been Entered
In State Contest

The dependence of democracy
on a free press is cited by Miss
Ruth Ann Miller, Nathan's Creek
nigh school girl, in her essay,
which won first place in the re-
cent newspaper contest. Miss
Miller also traces the history of
a free press and its effect on the
people of the earth.
The winning essay in each
county has been entered in the
State contest. Miss Miller's is
among these. The winners of this
contest will be announced later
this month at the mid-winter in
stitute Of the North Carolina
Press Association.
Miss Miller's essay is as fol-
lows:
. A FREE PRESS: VOICE OF
DOM, GUARDIAN OF
LIBERTY.
Freedom of the press is one of
the fundamentals in our Amer
lean democracy. Liberty of the
press means not only freedom to
publish ones thoughts in printed
form, but freedom of speech as
well, there being no essential
difference between the written
and spoken word. Liberty to
publish by speech or print ones
own opinions, subject to certain
limitations which can hardly be
said to limit the fundamental
principle, is regarded as one of
the natural absolute rights of
man.
It is however, only since mems
views of the just limits of gov
eminent have become clearer that
freedom of the press has been
recognized as a right, and to Eng
land and the United States the
world is particularly indebted for
the establishment of this princi-
pie. The existence of censor
ship of the press was for cen
turtles, however, deemed essential
to the safety of all European
governments.
The struggle for a free press
began almost Immediately after
the introduction of printing. 1t
was not until Luther's time in the
fourteenth century. however, that
the printing press revealed itself
as a powerful agency in the wide
and rapid distribution of ideas
cresting new public opinions and
stirring men to united action.
Within short time Luther's
thesis was found in every corner
of Germany. The rulers of the
state and church became alarmed
at the range of the printed word,
and came to the conclusion that
if the community was not to be
undermined by dangerous and
demoraliZing opinion, measures
must be taken to maintain super
vision and control over the pro-
duction Of books. The Church
increasingly made it a practice to
issue edicts against books.
From the outset the problem
was not whether person ought
or ought not to be free to publish
whatever idea he believed to be
true and good, but whether that
was for the public good and safe
ty. They knew they could not
allow people to distribute liter
ature which would be sufficient
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

various Reins- s-Sturdivant Funeral
Homes in Northwestern North
Carolina, with the central office
for this region being located in
the Reins-Sturdivant Building at
North WilkeSbOro.
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16
Silas Greek News

Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Kirk and
son, Lannie, visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Martin recently.
There was a contest between
The Skyland post., 1947-01-16

The Stdvon Associates who have successfully operated your
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

Agriculture and all erosion con-
troll activities of the depart
ment were consolidated in it.
Only a month after that -
April 81, 1885 - Congress ap-
proved the Soil Conservation
Act public 49, which estab-
liShed the Soil Conservation
Service as a permanent bureau
in the Department of Agri-
culture.
Work of the Soil Conserva-
ton Service continued to cent
er in the demonstration pro-
jects and in providing tech
nical services to CCC camps
working in farm and ranch
areas until 1887, when the first
of the State Soil Conservation
District Laws were passed.
Every state in the union now
has enacted soil conservation
districts laws, and under their
authority the farmers and
ranchers have organized more
than 1900 soil conservation
districts. The work of the Soil
Conservation Service now is
primarily that of giving tech
nical aid to soil conservation
districts.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

for the variety and abundance
of its birdlife. Its animal life
is a rare exhibit. It is the only
habitat of the American croco-
diles in the United States; the
manatee, or Sea-cow, an aquat-
ic mammal, is found in the
waterways leading in from the
West Coast of the peninsula.
The great rookeries of birds
herons, cranes, ibis, and eg-
rets,-h caused astonish-
ment to those who have invad-
ed this wilderness. It is the
last stand in the United States
of the roseate spoonbill.
The National Park service
will soon establish a land &C
QUESTION office in Miami to
study and appraise the lands to
be acquired and to negotiate
with owners for their acquisi-
ton.
One of the earliest tasks of
the National Park service will
be that of planning for such
developments in the park as
will be necessary in order that
the public may see and enjoy
it. Within the present park
area are only a few miles of
roads, and the extension OF
these will be held to a mini
mum. Much travel within the
park will always be by water,
with the many waterways, es-
pecially in the western portion,
offering travel of extraordin-
ary interest
As in most other national
parks, it will probably be nec-
essary to enlist private capital
to provide Accommodations of
various kinds for the visiting
public, since Congress does not
ordinarily appropriate funds
for such construction. One of
the early problems of planning
the park will be that of de-
termining where such develop
ments are likely to be required
and the kind and extent
that will be needed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17
Krug Signs Order
Making Everglades
26th Ndtiondl Park

Secretary of the Interior j.
A. Krug recently signed an
order, as authorized by Con-
gress, which brought into the
National Park System the 2Sth
national park-Everglades, con-
tanning 454,4 400 acres, in south
ern Florida. His action follow
ed his acceptance from Flori-
da'S Governor M. F. Caldwell
of a check for So, 1000, 900, ap-
propriated by the state, for
park land acquisition.
This fund will be used for
the purchase of non-federal
lands within the area designat-
ed by the secretary's order as
well as certain additionaHlands
within boundaries described in
the 1914 deed from the State
by which more than 800, 900
acres of state lands were trans
ferred to the Federal Govern
ment for temporary admins
tration as a wildlife refuge.
At the same time, Secretary
Krug received from the state
the release, authorized by the
1947 Florida legislature of its
rights to oil and other miner
| ais beneath the lands within
the new park which had pre-
viously been transferred to the
federal government. The state
has, however, retained the right
to royalties in the event the
United States should ever auth
orize the production of oil, gas,
or other minerals in the lands
so transferred.
The first Federal legislation
looking to the establishment of
the park dates back to March
/, 1929, when President Hoover
signed an act which author
lied the Secretary of the In
terror to investigate and report
on the advisability and pract-
liability of establishing a ma
tional park in the Everglades
region. On May 80, 1884, Presi-
dent Roosevelt signed an act
authorizing the establishment
of a park within an area of ap-
proximately 1000 square miles
in Dade, Monroe and Collier
counties and within boundaries
to be determined by the Secre-
tary of the Interior. The act
contained a specific provision
that the park area shall be
permanently preserved as a
Wilderness" and on develop
ments are to be undertaken
(which will interfere with the
preservation intact of the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17
Conservation Got
Stdrt Through
Low Passed in '29

The present soil and water
conservation movement had its
start in 1929, when Congress
authorized the establishment of
10 soil erosion experiment sta
lions. It developed into the first
program for developing COM
plete conservation plans based
on the needs of each piece of
land.
This was the first recogni-
ton by Congress that erosion
and water wastage are nation
al problems. It followed a long
campaign to awaken the nation
to the dangers of erosion,
launched soon after the turn
of the century by DR.. H. H
Bennett, now chief of the Soil
Conservation Service.
Findings at the experiment
stations pointed the way to the
organization of the farmers
and ranchers to undertake the
conservation job and establish
ment of the Soil Conservation
Service to supply the necessary
technical services in planning
and applying conservation to
the land.
President Coolidge signed the
measure establishing the ex-
pertinent stations in February,
1929. The stations were set up
at strategic points, one each in
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,
Iowa. North Carolina. WaShinp-
ton, Wisconsin and Ohio, and
two in Texas.
June, 1888, saw the start of
the attempt to save the land
and water resources on a ma
tion-wide scale. This was when
the Soil Erosion Service was SET
up by executive order in the
Department of the Interior.
The action was taken under
authority of the National In
dustrial Recovery Act. The new
Services purpose was to DEM
onstrate conservation measures
on a project scale.
Two Of the projects were in
Montana. One was in Roosevelt
county, near Froid. The other
was between Power and Dut-
ton in eastern Teton county.
Eighteen months later, the
Soil Erosion Service was trans
J ferred to the Department OF
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

Permanent concrete irrigation
structures are among the many
improvements which have beer
made on the $50 acre ranch
owned by Clyde RAIDER and w
J. Franklin, and located II
miles north of Hardin on the
Custer highway.
RAIDER explained in a recent
interview that he considered
the eight concrete turnoutS ano
the two concrete SpillWay drops
into drain bitches an excellent
investment, since the wooden
structures used so much in this
section, rot and wash away, re-
curing constant repairs and
replacement.
The building of the concrete
structures would not have been
practical, according to RAIDER,
without the permanent eS-
Establishment of fields and
bitches for most efficient ir-
rigation. This work was sur
veyed and planned by Soil
Conservation engineers.
The ranch has undergone a
complete face-lifting under the
farm plan made with the help
of the Soil Conservation service,
says RAIDER.
A total of a half mile OF
deep drain bitches have been
dug, draining about go acres OF
land. Of this amount, 40 acres
were not under cultivation, and
were completely reclaimed. This
area will be under cultivation
next year. The yield on the re-
naming 20 acres has been in
creased from almost nil to IA
tons of beetS per acre.
Pasturage for about 80 head
of cattle will be provided by
the six acres of irrigated
pasture already seeded and the
IS additional acres which will
be planted before next spring
Approximately IS acres Of
land have been leveled, using
heavy equipment whose U.s.
was obtained through the Sol
Conservation service. This veal
IS acres of Hubam clover were
seeded on the newly leveled
ground and old crop land, and
this will be plowed under this
fall to increase the nitrate
content of the soil and other
wise enrich it.
An addition to the appear
ance of the ranch was the
leveling of two miles of drain
ditch spoils bank, which will be
seeded to crested wheatgrass.
This is also expected to be val
liable as a weed-control meas
ure.
A permanent management
plan was developed with the
assistance of Conservation tech
nicianS. Included are livestock
feeding and the use of manure
as fertilizer and a nine-year
rotation of alfalfa, grain and
beets. Alfalfa will be grown for
three years, followed by six
years Of beets and grain alter
mating, with alfalfa seeded with
the grain in the final year of
the rotation. Under this plan,
it will only be necessary to
plow three times in nine years,
it was pointed out.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17
OLD MAIDS HELPED

In Colonial times, the
strength of the British Navy
depended upon the old maids
of England.
The old maids kept cats, the
cats ate mice, there were few
er mice to disturb bumblebees'
nests, more bumblebees caused
better pollination of red clover,
more red clover seed made bet
ter pastures, and better pas
lures produced better beef to
feed the sailors of His Majesty's
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17

! RAIDER concluded his inter-
view with this statement:
Through the assistance of the
Soil Conservation service tech
nicians, we have increased our
cultivated acreage by IS acres
and have vastly improved and
made more productive much of
the land previously under cult
walton. I estimate the value of
the farm has been increased by
$4,000"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-07-17
HIGH PRICE OF WIVES
MPEDES son

The high price of wives is
impeding South Africa's soil
conservation program, DR.. A.
R. Saunders recently told a
convention of British Empire
scientists.
The custom whereby young
natives have to pay several
head of cattle for their brides
has led, he said, to overstock-
Ing and overgrazing, with ser
ious damage to native lands as
a result.
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Navy.
This quaint illustration ex-
emplifies the kind of thinking
without which we cannot use
our land most wisely, for our
relationship to the land is
complex. The disturbance of a
single element in the lands
complex relationships may be
disastrous if We do not know
what we are doing. - Edward
H. Graham.
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Systematic crop rotation.
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Shelterbelts and windbreaks.
Arizona sun., 1947-01-31
BIL.BO

One of the unfortunate things about the fight in the
Senate prevent Senator Bbo from being seated the
nsisten attempt made by several senator's to make the
issue sectional That it is not real sectional issue is
shown by the votes of Senators Fubrght of Arkansas
and Pepper of Florida against Bilbo However, several
of the defenders of Bbo doing all they to make
a sectional matter out of it.
That there is political partisanship in it s of course,
true This is shown by the soity of the Republicans
against him. But parsanshp not the only factor nor
is the opposition Republican matter alone. Many Demo-
cratic senators opposed to him.
That there is a race element in it is also perfectly
evident Negroes not hiding the fact that they are
using every legitimate they to unseat Sena
tor Blbo Nowhere in American political life is there a
whom Negroes feel to be hostile to everything the
aspres Blbo So those who the Negroes
from outside of Mississippi of dipping into that states
affairs eminently right Negroes all the
try bringing every possible influence to bear to get
him out of the Senate.
But the sectional argument is pure humbug Negroes
would fight from any section of the country and
belonging to any party who would say and do the things
Bilbo has said and done. Moreover, the accusations
against him of using his high office for personal gain
rary to theaw have nothing to do with where he
from to which party he belongs. Republicans did the
thing to northern Republican Senator-eect Ware,
and Democrats voted with them they voting with
them against Bilbo.