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INDEPENDENT IN POUTICS
Publlali«d Mimdays and Thunday* at
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D. J. CARTER tad JUUtlS C. HUBBARD,
PvUiahers. "
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
H'OO Year in the SUte; 11.60 Out of ^ State.
Intared at the post offwc at North Wilkeaboro,
‘ N. C., as second class matter under Act of March
4. J87».
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1933
Back Up The President
We can think of no better advice to 3ive
to everybody at this time than to say: Keep
cool and back up the President. It makes
no difference whether one is a Republican
or a Democrat. The fate of our nation is
in the hands cf the man in the White House,
and he is entitled to the sincere suppori of
We think every good Republican
In Agreement 1
The country is in agreement with Con-|
gressnii^ Robert L. Doughton, chairm^ of
the Ways and Means commWee, who, has
announced his intentim to fight**for,repeal
rf;,the bank check tax and the substitution of
the two^nt stamp for the three^nt stamp.'
The country is hoping that “Farmer Bob”
wins. , " ■ =*■'
Statistics show that' the government has,
lost moneys rather than gained through the
use of the three-cent stamp. The people
simply curtail the amount of mail. That be
ing true, Congress should not be long in
bringing postage rates do^ to their fonner
level.-
The bank check tax is an incentive to
hoard. If a man has, say one hundred dol
lars to spend during a month and knows
that ihe will need a little along during the
month, he decides that it is better to keep
it at home than to put it in the bank and
spend forty or fifty cents for a bank check
tax. If he should write one-dollar checks
he w'ould have to put up $2.00 to pay the tax
for the privilege of getting his money out.
Under tie supervision of.^.Mr.
A. R. OsUtle, a numlwr of white
pine and native -dogwood tre^
hayp been planted • on' the street
that leads up the long htll«hoth
ways toward Uie Saint 'Paul's
Episcopal church, which stands
at the top of the hill. In a few
years, when the , (White pines
have “grown up” and the dogi
woods have coine into bloom
think of the beauty there will be
on that street.
I do not know whether that
Street is named or not, but«a
very fitting names would be
“'Saint Paul’s Avenue” in honor
of the hlstorio did church ^stand
ing at the top of the hill. That
church Is very nearly if not
quite one hundred years old, and
it has bfefore It anothefr hundred
or so of years of usefulness.
The members of that church
love their church. It Is a small
church with a not over large
membership, but the members
take a great interest in It, or so
it seems to an outsider. They
certainly have improved' the
Tomorrow
on
grounds about it since it was
On the other hand, if the money is put in the partly blown away by a^severe
storm some years ago '
everybody
will follow the example of the former Presi- hank a reasonable amount of Mr. Laboring
Man’s $100 may stay there during the larger
dent, Mr. Hoovei’, who has publicly expressed
his approval of Mr. Roosevelt’s actions thus
far and has called upon the people of the
country to place their confidence in him.
Nobody knows better than Mr. Hoover
what a serious condition confronted the
United States on the day when he turned
over the keys of the White House to his
successor. Mr. Hoover’s hands were tied.
As the outgoing President he could not ini
tiate actions whidi he could not hope to cai-
ry out. It would have been unfair to tie his
successor’s hands. P>ut he could, and did
lay the situation so clearly before Mr. Roose
velt that the new President did not have to
waste time after his inauguration before go
ing into action.
Of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies, as disclosed by
his actions thus far, we think most will agree
that thev have met the approval of the peo
ple as a whole in a remarkable degr^. The
country wao fucins a situation uhich colW
for dritriemodies, and Mr, Roosevelt did
not hestitate to apply those remedies. \\e
do not think it is fair to criticise what ^me
regard as his dictatorial attitude. Notody
can seriously believe that Mr. Roosevelt in
tended to set himself up as an American
Mussolini, even if it were posible for him to
do so. But in an emergency only single
headed leadership can be relied upon lor
prompt action. When the ship is sinking
the captain cannot wait to take the advice of
his officers and crew; he must take the re
sponsibility upon his own shoulders.
That is what Mr. Roosevelt has done, and
until we are past the crisis the patriotic
thing for every American to do is to back
up the President, by voice and action, to the
limit of every man’s individual ability.
part of the month and thus add to the
bank’s funds.
There is every reason to urge that these
evils be remedied. Congressman Doughton
will be rendering a seiwice if he is success
ful.
Allow Mergers
A hill ,has been passed by the State Sen
ate to allow counties the privilege to merge
provided the merger is ratified by popular
vote. Probably with the hope of making the
idea more attractive, it was provided that
representation in the Legislature remain the
same until the next reapportionment.
Thei'e is much to commend consolidation
of counties. Operating expenses could un
doubtedly be reduced a neat sum if the con
solidations were effected where they are
practical.
On one hand is economy; on the other is
local pride and tradition. The latter will tri
umph for years to come. We give up re
luctantly those things to which we are ac
customed. If W’ilkes were small enough to
be consolidated with another county, it is
doubtful if any of us would vote to move the
seat of our government to Boone, Taylors
ville, Yadkinville or Jefferson. We would
want the other county to come to us. So we
find ourselves getting nowhere fast when it
comes to consolidation of counties.
Ratification of the Senate’s bill will pre
cede by several years any consolidation.
A Lesson In Humility
How petty and futile all human affairs ap
pear in the face of such a catacl.vsm as the
earthquake which shook the California coast,
bringing death and dostniction in its wake
Against such a convulsion of nature man has
so far evolved no defense.
In countless other directions humanity
has conquered the powers ot the eaith the
sea ami the air. The whole history of civili
zation is the history of mankind’s conquest
of its enviionment. The fundamental quality
which distinguishes man from the beasts is
the ability of
the handicaps which nature imposed upon it.
The record of the ancient days. d!.sclosed by
the geologist and tlie archaelogist, prove
that countless varieties of animals unknown
today lived in successive eras on every part
of the earth’s .surface. They are extinct .to
day because they did not h-ive the facultv of
altering their environment when conditions
changed.
Man alone has continued to increase and
multiply, to glow in physical and mental
stature, to become the conqueror of the very
powers of the earth and air. The sea offers
no obstacle to man. No bird of the air can
equal the speed with which man today can
travel through upper space. Arctic cold and
trop'c heat do not drive him from his domi
cile; he has learned to protect himself
against the elements. To no other fonri of
life is it given to be able to build securely
against the storm, to protect his body against
BRUCE BARTON WRITES
MASTER OF SITU.ATIONS
In all the three years nf his public work there
was not one moment when Je.sus failed to be com
plete ma.ster of the .situation. He was accesible to
anybody—in the market-place, in the timple and
on the main .stro'ts—fair game for the keen and
clever. It became quiti’ a recognized .sport to
match wits with him. Pharise .s tried it; Scribes
tried it; “a certain lawyer” tried it. Always thev
came off s.cond best. At length the very chiefs
of the priests came one afternoon. Le.ss.r an-
ihe human race to overcome tagoni.sts had gone down; now the leaders them-'
.selves would take the matter in hand. They would
d moli.sh the presumptuous upstart: by the splen
dor of their presence and their offices, they would
awe him into line.
■‘By what authoi -y’ do you do taese things?”
they demanded bruskly, “and who gave you this
authority?”
If they e.xpect d him to yield an inch they re
ceived the surpri.se of their lives. His retort was
instantaneous.
• I’ll ask you a question,” he exclaim;d, “and )f
you answer it, then I'll tell you by what authority
I work- Answer me now, what about John; was
his work in baptizing inspired by heaven or by
men?”
They caught their breath. Their heads came to
gether; excited and disturbing whispers were ex
changed. "What should they say? If we answer
that John had coma from heaven, he will say,
“Well, why didn’t you be'ieve him?” If we say that
he came from men, this crowd of fools will tear
us to pieces, because eveiTc last one of them ba
ll ves that John was a prophet. What shall we do?
» - • - Better tell him we don’t know; better get out of
the cold, to make fire his tool and the light-j here as quickly as wa can.
ning his servant. , .
Man has a right to be proud of his supen-
That it
was left starfding there at all,
proves that *,t has yet its place
in the “Scheme of Life” to fill.
Mr. and Mrs. Hackett, Mrs. C.
F. Morrison, Mrs. W. W. Barber
Sr., and her family, and the
Cowles family have done much
to beautify the grounds. Of
course there are many other
members that have done their
share in building It up too; but
these are just a few that I know
of.
Now, since we paint the pic
ture by which we are judged by
Ihe outside public, and also by
the home-folks, meaning of
course, the people ot our town,
why not make the picture love
ly? I have in my mind’s eye
something that would he very
beautiful and could be carried
out with very little expense, and
a medium output of work, and
it would enhance everything in
that part of our town, and cer
tainly, would it benefit the prop
erty owners.
If the owner of that barn-lot
on the corner approaching the
hill from the Baptist church
would begin and plant on that
fence, Dorothy Perkins roses,
1 hardy climbing tea roses,
bloom all the summer)
American Beauty roses, White
Kaiserin Victoria, Paul’s scarlet
climber, and some of the
son rambler roses, there
be bloom from 'May or June un
til frost. In between these roses
set not too close together
Maderia roots, clematis
lata. Chinese wistaria,
roots, and mountain bride roots
These vines bloom at
times all through the
the Chinese wisteria being
first to bloom in the early spring.
The vines would not in any way
hurt the cows or the ehickens,
and as the cows do not eat the.se
things, they would not harm
the vines. Imagine the picture it
would make!
Now, if the property owners ot
vacant lot in front of
FLAGS . ....... in Omnany
The Germaft. flag has bnen
changed- again,- Instead of the
red, white: and gold stripes of
the Republic, the new Naiti gov
ernment has gone back to the
old flag of,the empire, red, white
and black, with the swastika, or
hooked cross, imposedl^ipon it.
Since the Great War there la
hardly a national flag which has
not been changed. The SGars and
Stripes stands out toda;^ as one
of the oldrat flags in the world.
Only the banners of Denmark
and Switzerland, are older than
Old Glory. , j
We still think of the"' United
States as a (young 'nation. -As a
matter of fact; our country • is
about the only one in the world
which has -not undergone revolu
tionary changes in its form* of
government in the past 150
years. It seems .to me that Amer- i
leans ought to shake off the idea j
that other nations are older and |
therefore wiser than we, and as- j
sert our right to tell the rest of i
the world where to get off, since |
we are not only the richest but |
the oldest member of the family I
of nations. !
XRGRO . faithful public servant,
Eddie Savoy has retired. Eddie.'
Is the colored man who has been
d,>or-keeper in the State Depart
ment in Washington for sixty-
four years. He was a little boy
of thirteen when he first went to;
work under Secretary of State |
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Price
CASH
PRICE
CHRYSLER ROADSTER
CHRYSLER COBl«
DODGE TRUCK, HaK Ton. v (SOLD).
THUDGE TRUCK, Two Ton .
DODGE PICKUP
CHEVROLET TRUCK
CHRYSLER SEDAN
MODEL A FORD SEDAN
CHEVROLET COACH
GOOD MODEL T TRUCK
DODGE COUPE
CHEVROLET COUPE
MODEL T SEDAN
$295.00
^OOM
175.00
275.00
285.00
125.60
175.00
295.00
195.00
75.00
150.00
75.00
40.00
$ 59.00
139.00,
125JB0
185.00-
49.00
75.00
195.00-
95.00
35.00
95.00
35.00
19.00
BATTERIES
$3.95
Wiley Brooks and Jeter Crysel
The Motor Service Co.
North WUkesboro, N. C.
Bill; Passed Resolution at
Saturday Meeting
(these
climbing
77 years old now. He has served
faithfully under 21 different
Cabinet officers 'but his legs are
getting rheumatic, so he told
Secretary Hull the other day that j The extension class of I.,enQir-
he thought he would retire on I Rhyne College in its meeting at
his civil service pension. | WUkesboro Saturday approved
Every foreign diplomat who j Governor Ehringhaus’ stand on
has been in Washington since;the appropriation bill as against
General Grant was President; the Bowie-Cherry bill. The vote
knows Eddie Savoy, and he got was unanimous and a copy of the
Extension Class Hayes Is Elected
With Ehringhaus | Benham Principal
Opposed To Bowie-Cherry School Committee Met Sat-
to know them all. His unfailing, resolution was forwarded to state
courtesy and natural dignity nev-! senators and representatives,
er failed to impress all who came | The class is composed of stu-
in contact with him. 'dents from Wilkes, Yadkin. Alle-
"A faithful public servant,” ;ghany and Iredell counties. There
said Secretary Stimson. as hejare about 70 members. Dr. D. R.
.said goodbye to Eddie Savoy.: Haworth is teacher oC the class.
crlm-
would
plant
panicu-
ctnnamon
ditferent
summer.
That cannot be said of every j
white man who has held office in !
Washington. I
STROTHER ... his death a loss!
No finer gentleman, no abler!
journalist, n o more faithful
friend, ever lived than P^ench | socialists.
Strother, whose sudden death gparchers found nothing.
Washington at the age of 49
rumors that arms
an end to a career ot high I ^gj.g stored in the house and this
promise. jjgj action.
A native
Einstein Home Raided
Berlin, March 20.—The coun
try home of Prof. Albert Ein
stein at Caputh, near Berlin, was
searched for arms and ammuni-
i tion today by police and a de-
urday; Sunday School Is
Reorganized
BENH.AM, -March 22. — The
public school committee in Ben-'
ham district met Saturday after
noon and unanimously elected
Rev. A. B. Hayes as principal for
the next term of public school.
Gardening has commenced in
this community and most of the
crop lands have been plowed.
The small grain crop has a good
stand. Several public schools
will close next Friday.
Rev. A. B. Hayes, pastor, fill
ed his rejgular appointments at i
Shoaly Branch church, Saturday
and Sunday, preaching very able
sermons.
The Sunday school was re-or-
ganized Sunday morning with
the election of Dallas Carter as
superintendent, L. C. Carter, as- _
sistant superintendent and Miss
Annie Lee Gilliam, secretary.
of Missouri, a news
paper man in California, for
many years an editor of World's
Work, author of half a dozen
books, French Strother attract-
thfiled the attention of Herbert Hoo
ver by writing some articles
about the work of the Depart
ment of Commerce. One of Mr.
Hoover's first appointments ns
President was that of
Strother as his Administrative I
Assistant. It was Strother's task.]
MAGISTRATE BRIBED
postmasters have lo reject more
deposits than they receive. Also,
only comparatively few post-of
fices are authorized to accept
savings accounts.
It seems to me that the new
Administration at Wa.shington
Basrah.-—The people of this
ancient city are agitating a
movement to seize and hang a
local magistrate who let an In
dian murderer go free, after he
had paid a |75 fine.
The Indian wa.s in love with a
cabaret girl. A British soldier
the
and
could perform a greatly-needed
i public service by making every! came along and the girl immedi-
, pggj,gf(jgg a savings depository, lately transferred her affection,
and by permitting individuals to The Hindu fired al the Bnglish-
carry as large balances as the man. He missed his aim and kill-
hidden away in an ahscure | gg^^g^gjai savings banks allow.’ed one of the cabaret habitues.
Nobody has ever lost a cent in t The Basrah judge decided that
to
below' the
three foot strip from
property begins at the hani-lot
fence and on down past the turn
in the street, for a kind of com
munity garden, and if it were
plowed up good and planted this
spring with a row ot dahlia
bulbs about three feet apart,
then in front of that a double
row of zinnias, and then for
street edge or border, plant a ‘9 a
double row ot iris of various
kinds and colors, there would be
bloom from the earliest iris
blooming about Easter, until the
heavy frost in autumn takes oft
the dahlias.
That would not only beautify
the street; but it would make the
property more valuable, and
therefore more saleable if the
owner desired to sell at any time.
I know that there is not one per-
that would refuse to give
the White
gather the
church would give a , ...
where his I dent needed to
son
House basement. i
data the Presi-
prepare his mes
sages and public addresses, then
to polish their language after
Mr. Hoover had roii,ghed them
out.
Like everybody else who knew
him, Mr. Hoover formed a warm
personal attachment for his able
assistant. French Strother was,
my friend of years; his passing,
real loss to the world of ,
journalism. |
r.AX.AD.A good hanking!
There are a good many things 1
we could learn from Canada,
and one of them is banking.
Canada has been going through
just as difficult an ^ economic
crisis as the' United States, hut
there has not been a bank failure
there in ten years. Only two
Canadian bgnks have closed their
doors since 1910.
The reason for this is that
Uncle Sam’s postal savings
banks, and every depositor gets
his 2 per cent interest regularly.
the Indian's offense was one
ne.cligence—he did not take
true aim.
All Royster Fertilizer
IS SUPERIOR QUALITY
T
and
the loveliness
ority to all the other anhnals of land and
sea and air. But in the very height of his
pride nature shrugs her shoulders and man’s
proud edifices topple into dust. It is almost
as if the Guiding Power which rules over
us al! had said: “Thus far shalt thou go and
no farther.”
Out of the horror and the pity of such
catastrophes as the earthquake perhaps we
may learn a lesson of humility. Perhaps we
have been too vainglorious in our pride of
achievement. And perhaps—we feel that,
this is certain—out of such experiences as
that through, which Long Beach and its sur-
xpundjng communities have passed, man
tnay learn in time to oonflUer even that
dahlia bulbs, iris roots or rose there are only ten banks In Can-
other vine roots. Think ot .ada. All of them have headquart-
it would make. It'ters either in Montreal or Toron-
would not be s.o hard a job, thatjto. They have about 4,000 bran^
is if we would all get together banks, however, so that the
and each one do our bit in get- smallest community entitled
ting the ground ready to plant, | ban Hng facilities has thein,
and giving what we could spare has behind Its local branch
(and perhaps some that we feel , the resourres of the powerful
we just could not spare) ' ‘
own yards, it would-
HERE
grades of Royster ferti-
are no varying
to 1
and
all
our
from parent institution,
cost) I have never been able to see
for plants, and any sound reason why the United
We don’t know,” they said.
“All right,” said Jesus serenely. “You don’t
answer my question. Neither wi’l I answer yours ”
It was a perfect triumph. Amid the jeers of
th'^ delighted crowd they gathered up their firfe
robes and went away.
You would think as you read the narratives that
the wise ones w'ould have been wise enough to let
him al6ne. Even a child having burned its fingers
once, knows enough to avoid the fire. But their
jealousy and anger drove them back again and
again; and every time he was too much for them-
In the very last week the “Pharisees and Herodians”
gathered together a picked delegation of sharp
wits and sent them with what looked like an abso
lutely fool-proof bomb. They started in with flat
tery; after all he wasi a simple fdlow from the
provinces—a few kind words and his head would be
mightiest force of nature, the eadrthquake. Then they^ would caW: him Ws gnar^
the zinnia
would not cost
this time of empty
could manage a
^ larkspur seed i States should not permit branch
much. Even Injhanklng on the Canadian plan.
purses we ..Certainly the experience of the
few cents each, [past three or four years, with
I could or rather I would, and,small banks failing by hundreds,
no ones Jurse can be mor, emp-'ought to be proof that the pres-
ty than is mine, but I could give ent system is a poor one.
and would give quite a bit to- SAITINGS ..... in Postal banks
ward getting that community | More than three quarters of a
garden planted, and not spend miltion Americans have nearly
more than five or ten cents. [seven hundred million dollars on
Now, of course it Is not our deposit with the United States In
individual proper^, but what , the form of Postal Savings. That
matters that? It is our town is , is one operation of the Qovern-
It not? And whatever affects jment in a Held also occupied by
our town affects us all since it private business, which has
takes all of us to make up the proved a huge success
town. It is our town. So let us
all try to do our very'best to
make it heautlfal, whether it Is
our individual property or. not. ,
Owing to the law which pro-
hiMta any person from.^ ha'ring
more tbsD $2,600 on depo^ in
the .Postal Savingg.at one ttine,
This trsde-mark on
a bag of fertilizer
certifies it’s top
quality.
Lzer to confu.se you. Every
bag of Royster’s is top quaU-
ty. For nearly 50 years this
high quality of Royster’s has
been the standard for com
parison.
It is this unvarying high qual
ity that has everywhere won
successful tobacco growers to
Royster’s. It is the reason. l
why there is more Royster to-
bacco fertilizer sold in North
Carolina and Virginia than
any other brand.
When it’s so easy to get this
last word in plant food, why
should you experiment with
something else? '
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C A. Lowe & Sons* ^
North WUkesboro^ N. C. ^