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^ . - • THE jocafAi-PA'^of; Kdiw^ wn^jmom, k a leJournaNPatriot ?jan>Bfsia>EiiT Df ptHtmoB ''■iln Pat&lMi MowUy* and ,Monday* at Nttrth WIlkMbdro. N. C. ^ CABTBH Ud JUUBS C. HUBBARD. ^CairtlON RATES: in tUt'jSSTlUpS ^ Btnte: FITT-v^ •/■ .t the post offieo at North WAkesfeSTTl^ - cl»M matter under Act of Mai^ ! jthat^ put\Of 4, 1879. srrr^'3:Tr- ._■ fer Xi^'BAf, kAif 2d, 1623 "].^€ Wataujfa Democrat, oii W 6f aerobe; Is fiew in id^ and keenly alive to the apirit &i progi‘ess which now prevails. T^ursday*s issue came out all dressed up with a new type face that is said to be the latest in type faces. It is very legible and easy on the eyes. j . The re-election of J. B. Hash as superin tendent of the school system in Ashe county meets with the wholehearted approval of those who know him personally and who have had occasion to see him in action during his two-year tenure of office, Ashe county is fortunate. ^ Gardner Tirc8 of Office /- !Tv. Former Gdveriior 0. Max Gai’dner evident ly meant what he said relative to his retire ment from public office for despite rumois that he could have any one of several im portant posts in the Roosevelt administra tion, he is still out of office. Mr. Gardners four years as governor were trying ones. He had to battle with a budget that would not balance and many other forces that were al most beyond control. On top of that, Mr. Gardner’s personal for tune dwindled along with millions of others and he now expresses an interest in recoup ing some of his lost finances. Mr. Gardner made an able governor and would be a valuable man if his services were available- But he seems to have had a suf ficiency of public worries. A' Safe Inveitiiieiit^ ♦'there ia one invet^ident, ^whlch, three and a half years of the moatt' violent economic depreaeion in our country’s hi»: tory, is still generally worth 100 cents on the dollar. That iswal^ent is life insur ance.” .The quotation is from aat article in Har per’s Magazine by Paul 'Teinlinson. Inci dentally,^^n eminent* econoniilt is quoted as saying that ^nly about two j>er cent of the people' are qualified ■ by tei^eraroent ;;iid experience to invest^ mtnie.y. As evis^ hun dred, men reachii?5~®Li/l^‘“-°f ^ are still working for a livinf;'A*_^^ dependent incomes and sixty-sevei* * dependents. _J - That Is a tragic sidelight on our busi ness judgment. The perfect protection against poor judgment in handling mon ey is life insurance. And life insurance will, without any effort on our part, pro tect one against becoming a dependent in old age if we take out a reasonable amount. The growth of the insurance business is indicative of confidence that is reposed in this kind of protection. THfi Will IDEbi The Repeal Whatever view one takes of the movement to repeal the eighteenth amendment, it is evi dent that prohibitionists—by that we mean those who favor its retention in the constitu tion— have a real fight on their hands and must exert themselves to the utmost if they are to be successful. New evidence to this effect is found in the New York case- Liist week that state voted ten to one for repeal Everybody knew New York inclined strongly tow'ard the wet side, but such an ovenvhelming victory for the repealers could hardly have been forecast. The battle, it seems obvious enough, lies in the South and West where the drys are stronger than they are in the east. North Carolina and several other states have voted to submit the question to the voters this year and quite a bit of interest, rcminescent of pre-prohibition days, is doubtless in store. Memorial Day ‘ On May 30th it is the custom throughout most of the United States to observe the day as a memorial to the heroes of our nation who gave their lives for its defense. In many states this or some nearby date is ob served as a memorial to the soldiers of the army of the Confederacy, who, no less than those others, made the supreme sacrifice for the cause in which they believed. It is mete and proper that these gallant dead, w'hether they wore khaki or blue or gray, should be held forever in fond remem brance. For they were brave men who-did not hesitate to risk their lives that their be loved homeland might live. Many wull be the prayers offered on Me morial Day at the graves of those who died honorably on the field of battle. Let it be the fervent prayer of every tme American on that day that the honor w^hich finds ex pression in unselfish self-sacrifice for coun try and for principle may not perish those who are to take our places. Up from BRUCE BARTON WRITES Swimming “Young Envin Smith Drowns in ‘Bob Hole’ on John’s River Sunday.” That is the headline over a story of the tragic ending to a happy picnic party- Many similar head lines will be written during the summer months. ■Swimming is a healthful exercise and en tails no more physical danger than other sports w'hen the ordinary rules of safety are observed and a little common sense is used. With proper precaution there is no necessity for loss of life in this manner. If an ordinary automobile driver should attempt to drive a racer in one of the speed way classics, the foolishness shown would be obvious. It is equally foolish for an amateur swimmer to go out into deep water w'here there are no life guards to help in case of trouble. Making long trips in deep water is responsible for many a death. It is easy to become exhausted^ while swimming and this is another risk that should not be taken. And foolish as it is, some even take the risk of going swimming while under the in fluence of intoxicants. Fortunately, we have supervised swim ming pools that minimize the risk for those who take long chances. But boys who go out to the 'ole swimmin' hole should be care ful to observe the ordinary rules of safety. Let’s enjoy the swimming season to the full est extent, but endeavor above all things to THE MODERN MARKET PLACE “You mean that -we ought to do street preaching?” a preacher once asked me. But street preaching is not at all analogous to what Jesus did. The cities in which He worked w-ere both small and leisurely: the market was a gathering place where everybody came at .some time—the transfer place for all merchandise and for ideas. Where will you find such a marketplace in modern days? A corner of Fifth avenue? A block on Broadway? Only a tiny fraction of the city's people pass any given point in the down town di.strict on any given day. A man might stand and preach for years at Fifth avenue and Thirtieth street, and only one in a hundred thousand would ever know that he lived. No; the present day market-place is the news paper and magazine. Printed columns are the modern thoroughfares; published advertisements are the cross-roads where the sellers and the buy ers meet. Any issue of a national magazine is a world's fair, a bazaar filled with the products of the world’s work. Clothes and clocks and candle sticks; soup and soap and cigarettes; lingeries and limousines—the best of all of them are there, pro claimed by their makers in persuasive tones. That every other voice should be raised in such great marketplaces, and the voice of Jesus of Nazareth be still—this is a vital omission which He would find a way to correct. He would be a na tional advertiser today, I am sure, as He was the great advertiser of His own day. To the minds of those who hurry through the bristling pages. He too, would send this call; What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the,^ whale word and lose his own soul; or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? This would be His challenge in every newspaper and magazine; and with it would be coupled an in vitation to share in the joyous enterprise of Hisj work. A very successful publisher has a rule that no photograph ^hall ever be printed in his nawspapers unless it contains human beings. You and I are interested most of all in ourselves; next to that we are interested in other people. 'What do they look like? How old are they? What have they done and said? With unerring instinct Jesus recognized and used this trait in human nature. One of the most revealing of all verses to those who would understand the secret of His power is this; “All these things spake Jesus' imto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake He not unto them.” A parable is a story. He told them stories, stories about people, and let the stories carry his messagre. He might have adopted very different methods—many teachers and would-be leaders do. He might have dealt in generalities. Tied SCRAPS or old paper The oth& day I ran across a bit paper, aqd from that scrap of imiier 1 got quite a bit of information. As I have not al ways^ been a citizen 'of Wilkes county, it waa a very interesting bit of informetion to me. In 1866 a dsbicJmeht of Federal soldiers marched ipPs Wilkes coun ty, leaving desti^j^on from wlbere they came, and dei^o^i^ every thing before',them as ti^y gam* These twenty-five thousa^ pol- dkrs were (hvidedjnto twe ggf- tions, one under the command if Stoneman, the other ^ under ^e command of Palma^ T^ey were on ellber flWe of the Yadkin River. omy bad to pitch tents B€$r the W. W. Barber on tn^ ^ ^ property, as waa vw high to ford. They' there for several daytf, auringi which time they kept up their ,vork of plundering and burnmg. One morning one of the SOldieif had entered the old Hall store house, which was Just north oi Wildes county courthouse, and was preparing to bum the tithes which the Confederates had collected there. A quiet man, not a soldier be cause of some physical defect, stepped into the store right at this moment, and after much tactful persuasion, succeeded in getting the soldier to abandon his idea of burning the store. This good citi zen claimed that the food should be divided among The poor women and children of the army in Wilkes county. This man was not a soldier? Well, at the p?ril of his life he went to Stoneman’s camp to see him about not destroying the provisions^ PHfb sWU* ful argument he net only saved the provisions! but prevented them from burning the stores, the county courthouse, and the jail as well- From Stoneman’s camp he went across the Yadkin river to Pal ma’s camp and persuaded Palma to abandon his plan to bum the factory at Elkin. In a short time these soldiers left Wilkes county to carry on their work of destruc tion in other fields. There is no need to name this “Great soldier of Wilkes.” Every one that belongs to Wilkes county either knew him, or knew about him. Sometimes it is not the ones that march to the “firing line” that are the greatest soldiers. The men that 'had to stay at home, and did their “bit” were just as great soldiers as those that fell at the battle front. This quiet, un assuming man, it seems to me, did a great deed for Wilkes county. Tuesday, May 30, is Memorial Day. Would it not be a fitting | Rose-breasted tribute for some of the county’s citizens to journey to that grave any place thereon some token of esteem ? Grim sea west, pid slay^maeteff| granite head- looms," Siq yoimg 'vrife and har lie at rest yon wild I0S9 sb'^s p{nk and pearly blooms. And ivy ipanyy aae ereeplng on the stones;, Beside one shat^red am a fox- idove warns. White aww ft j6«id waste,aid ,^ And tiiickets of fbe red , an^' yellow plumi' And nearer, on The ptirpte thMles there, Goldfinches, in brilliant doster come. .. - , ‘ . . x:r, Here tombstones hanging sideways ,, to the earth By winds aiul rains are dappled into gray; ' frown lidhens have* erased the dates of birth AW yaars in which the sleepers pipped away. still facing, to the 'Almost effaced, foa read a young girl’s name! Just sixteen when she dice! Here passed away first-bom son, who like a triumph came; In whose dead hands cmmbled into clay. Hope 2—The Burial pro- yonder lane a strange cegsion comes, And sounds sf weird, sweet singing e^ka^ a®’’® Then a shrill fife, and tften, the beat of drums, BY THE WAYSIDE—GAL 2 A chant that seems the ghost pf bygone years. Ah, many lives have passed since neighbors came, Bringing a sleeper to this house to bide; But this sray negro, last of all the name, « * j—. Has sought again his old time master’s side. What childlike faith, that sings of princely palms. Of fountains gushing through the fields of green. What Child-Tike faith, that sings of blessful calm. And splendors that no sage has ever seen. Strange, a poor negro in this far- off place, Tmsting a Friend, sinks in his coffin low. Believes that Friend, forgetting not his face. Will find him where these weeds and brambles grow. On the other scrap of old paper I found Walter Malone’s poem, “The Burial of an Old Slave.” grosebeak. lighting on yon limb, ' And singing as no bird has simg before. Is it a note of triumph trilled for him. The dead slave, free and happy evermore ? This poem calls to mind the digni- House Democrats Criticize ty, romance, quality, charm and dearn'-ss of the “Old South,” the “South” which will live only in memory. The music which accom- p-.nied the aged negro to his last r sting place beside the “Old Master” whom he had loved and served so long ... in the long, long ago . . . that music was a dirge not only for a vanished indi vidual: but also for a vanished age and era, Mr. Malone, I think, lived at Memphis, Tonn. Plan As Affects Veterans BURIAL OF AN OLD SLAVE 1—^The Graveyard Around me, brambles tangle on the graves. Washington, May 25—In secret caucus, house Democrats tonight assailed the administration of the national economy act as it affects veterans and authorized the steex- ! ing committee to name a group to wait on President Roosevelt to de mand a relaxing of the regulations. Responding to an appeal by Speaker Rainey that no resolutions be adopted criticizing the adminis tration for its treatment of the veterans, the caucus allowed Rep resentative Rankin, Democrat, of Missi.ssippi, to withdraw his pro posal to create a committe of seven ' to protest to the chief executive. ^wdal! Special! Special! BAnERIES .r. . . $2.50andBp out! Prices going np. Buy Now and save the difference. Tires, Tubes, Spark Plugs, Fan Belts, Seat Covers— Everything for the Car. ' Try Our Repair Work. Satisfaction Guaranteed Wiley Brooks and Jeter Ory'sel The Motor Service Co. North Wllkesboro, N. O. 'M NOTICE THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WILKES COUNTY WILL MEET Fifty-five great leaders are invited to Washing ton by a senate committee to ^lain the causes of the. depnnakm and to suggest cui can throaghl thia ordeal, it MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933 AT ITS OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE IN WILKESBORO FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A COUN TY stiPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOE THE ENSUING TERM. This May 18, 1933. C. 0. McNEILL, Chm. C.C.WWGHT,S« JENKINS HARDWARE COMPANY NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, ^ »« CoimtyTaxes Additional penalty goes on aft er June 1st. Pay now and save. W.B. SOMERS, Sheriff Plants For Sale ALL PRICES REDUCED 20 PER CENT LESS THOSE LISTED BELOW CABBAGE Wakefields and Flat Dutch 100 for. _J25c 500 for — 80c 1000 for $1.50 POTATO PLANTS Porto-Rican and Southern Queen 200 for - 60c 500 for — $1.25 1000 for .. _.,$2.25 AND TOMATO PLANTS— PEPPERS, CELERY Prices as follows: 12 plants for 20c 25 plants for —80c 50 plants for —40c 100 plants for —60c VARIETY TOMATOES—^Earliana, June-Pink, Break O’ Day, the Early Wilt Resist^t; Louisiana Pink, Golden Ponderosa, Brimmer, Norton Wilt Resistant, and New Stone. Peppers, Ruby King^ Pimento, Cayenne and Chila Hot. 500 plants for $2.00 1000 plants for $8.75 Ready April 10th till July 20th We have transplanted Tomato and Pepper plants, well started with good roots; stocky; been cultivated; very early. Prices: 12 plants 1 S5c 50 plants ._80c 25 plants 45c 100 plants $1.60 j We pack all plants with damp moss that keeps ther fresh. Postpaid. Satisfaction guaranty. All plants here at the farm at less price. Gome and get them. We are just two miles north of town m cement highway No. 18. .9 s NORTH WILKE^OBO^ N.XV «
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