The D avie Record DAVIE COUNTY’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER-THE PAPER THE PEOPDE READ mHERE SHALL THE PEv-SS. THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS MAINTAIN: UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.” I VOLUMN XLVIII. MOCKSVILLE. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, IULY 2 . 194 7 . NUM BER 5 0 NEW SOF LONG AGO. Let Us Do Good John Public Is Fair OPA Fades Out Congress Represents Seen Along Main Street Rev. Walter E. Isenhour. Hiddenite. N. C. Worried a bit by all the charges The much “cussed and discuss, The People By The Street Rambler. V bat Va* Happening In Dayie It should be the sincere desire of being bruited about anentthe “ex­ ed” Office of Price Aoministration 000000 Recently tbe governors of most Before The New Deal Used Up all mankind to do good. This is orbitant” profits of retailers et a I in finally passed out of the picture on One-horse covered wagon slow­ of tbe Far Western States met and God’s will tor us, and when we do this hevday of high prices a Ten Saturday, May 31, So -ended quiet­ ly wending its wav across the The Alphabet, Drowned The jointly denounced the ac ion of the His will He alwavs blesses ns in a nessee grocer has hit upon a novel ly a government bureau which has square—Seven young ladies and House in heavily reducing appro Hogs and Plowed Up The wonderful way, Ottr blessed Lord, scheme. cansed more controversy than anv one young man sitting in parked priations for the Reclamation Bu Cotton and Corn. when he was on earth in bodily He marks every item item in his other in the modern history of auto eating ice cream—Young so­ reau which would have largely form, "went about doing good,” stock at actual cost to pay for bis Washington. da jerker stopping big auto and (Davie Record, July 3, 1912.) been used for the construction of thus leaving an example that we goods. Then he leaves it up to Grnrabling tolerated during the picking up pretty high school lass C o tto n is 12% cents. should follow. tbe customers to decide how much war, criticism of the bureaucracy tax-exempt government electric —Geo. Hendricks walking across Martin C. Hendricks, of High generating plants and related faci­ No one ever regrets doing all the profit he should have on each item and Its unscientific and often stub Main street with gun on his shoul­ Point, was in town last week. lities The governors annouced good he can as he journeys throu At the end of the first week un. born positions became increasingly der—Mrs. J. C. Collette waiting Mrs. Swift Hootier spent Tues­ that they wonld make a concerted life, bnt we believe every one, soo­ der his new plan the grocer dis­ Iounder until at the close of the for traffic to move so she could day with friends near Salisbury. demand on Congress to restore the ner or later, regrets dotng harm. covered that his business bad dou campaign in 1946 the scarcity of get car away from curb—Pretty John H. Clement has opened a funds to their original figure, on It is quite natural that men come bled. Possibly to his surprise, meat and other commonly nsed girl trying to locate deputy sheriff law office over the drug store. to the place in life where they Te moreover, he found that his profit household articles iu e to OPA the grounds tbat the future wel —Miss Claire Wall looking over T. A. Stone, of Atlanta, is visit­ gret living in sin and wickedness, ran a little above average on the1 price control hecame the dominant fare and industrial development of selection of greeting cards—Misses ing his mother, Mrs. F. M. Johnson destroying good in their own lives, goods sold. political issue So violent was the the West is at stake. Josephine Hartman and Mary Ann Miss Nora Armstrong, of Bar­ and likewise destroying good in Both tbe merchant and bis cus- litical reaction to the OPA because Here is a perfect example of Johnson crossing the square— ber, visited friends in this city last the lives of others O the remorse tomerf aoperr to have learned some­ of the scarcity of meat .hat Presi­ why economv in government has Three voung ladies standing on week. that men suffer for doing I arm! thing from the experiment. Tbe dent President Truman decontrol! become so difficult a goal to achieve. street comer looking for way to Church street is being straigh­ They can look back across the mercbunt discovered that the aver­ ed meat a few days before the elec­ The plain an ominous fact is tbat go home—Love-sick swain walk­ tened, graded and the shade trees years of their lives and see where age man oi woman is fair-minded. tion In Novenber and December, we have come to look on tbe Fed­ ing down Main street humming taken out. they have wasted their time and His customers learned that the gro­ before tbe Republicen Congress eral Treasury as a bottomless pit “Have I told you lately that I love Mrs. J. B. Armfield and litde talent, and perhaps destroyed their cer wasn’t “ mopping up” with could have a whack at control, which may be raided at will for you.”—Hubert Eaton standing on daughter, of Statesville, visited health and squandered their means high profits when they saw his in­ President Trumaa practically com­ any region’s pet projects. AU of side of court housa watching the Mrs. Z. N. Anderson last week. us are strongly in favor of a re- and neglected their souls, and in voices which be displayed, and pleted the job. Near the end, the world go by—Mr. and Mrs. Al­ Henry Graves and B. G. Rat- ducsd budget—so Ioog as budget the meantime have done much they were quick to realize that he only friends of tbe GPA were the bert McAllister and babe shop­ ledge made a business trip to the reductions don’t affect us. Gov­ harm to others, therefore they suf­ could not maintain his business CIO PAC and the lunatic left-wing ping around town—Miss Ruth Twin-City Saturday. ernors, senators, representatives, fer regret that is oftentimes deep without a reasonable margin of fringe. Booe talking to friend on street Miss Rose Owen returned Sat­ mayors and a host of minor officials and pungent. profit A few customers bought During its final days all the OPA comer—Clarence Elam looking urday from a delightful visit to shriek to high heaven when ever a However, when we live for God goods at cost, but their conscience had left was control of sugar and over mail in postoffice lobbv on friends at Tyro. nickel is slicked from an appropria­ across the years ot life, pray much, wouldn’t allow them to do it many rents. The duties of controlling cool morning. Miss Elizabeth Hunt, of High tion for their states and towns. read and stndy His holy Word, times. these have been tnrned over to the Point, visited in this city the past Another plain and ominous fact and live by it, and then go about The vast majority of human be­ other departments In ihe fall week, guest of Miss Mary Hunt. is tbat we have lost local indepen­ “Unless We Work” doing goad to others, we have much ings are willing to give the other control over sugar will be lifted un Jacob Stewart has moved his dence and local self reliance. We to rejo;ce over. This makes life fellow a fair break. One of the less the Department of Agricnltnr.. Bernard M. Baruch, one of the law office into the second floor of happy. Our. consciences are clear most successful of all American tute decide to do it sooner. want the Federal Government atO great Elder Statesmen of America, the Baity building. spend billious for purposes which and our faces shine through the businessmen made a fortune au the Thestorv of tbe OPA is the his­ recently gave his countrymen some Hall W oodruff and Floyd Gaith­ are clearly within the provinces of love and grace of God Hallelu­ slogan, “Let the other fellow make tory of a bureau which throught wise advice. er, who travel for Reynolds To­ local government or of private busi. jah! My great, outstanding desire some money, too ” The average itself bigger than the laws of na The world, he said “can get go­ bacco Co., are visiting home folks. ness enteepr se. Aed thus, we are ing ohly if men work,” and “if we is to do all the good I can, there­ man is not opposed to fair'business ture and economy, and then learn­ Miss M attie Stroud, of States­ sureiy and swiftly building a super accept the challenge to preserve fore I have preached the blessed profits He is aware of the iarge ed to its sorrow ibat it wasn’t ville, is spending some time here government with all the threats to Gospel tor more than 34 years and losses which merchants suffer thru quite that laroe. civilization, it means greater effort with her brother, the editor. freedom and independance that su have written enough to make more spoilage, carry overs and other fac­ But at any rate tbe OPA has than that exerted during the war.” C. G. Woodruff is having his pergovernment inevitably inplies. He pointed to the pressing need than sixty volumes, which have tors, and of the high rents that are passed out of tbe picture, taking new residence on Wilkesboro St, It is senseless to blame Congress for maximum production, with been published in many publics- charged in main business districts.