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VACATION
.ft eeemo to me I’d like to go ~ .
Wliere belle doa’t ring, nor whistles blow,
docks don’t strike, nor goings don’t sound,
^'And I’d have stillness all around.
I^^.Not real stillness, but lust the trees’
Xrf>w whisperings, or the hum ot bees,
'4>r brooks taint babbling over stones
' la strangely, soltly tangled tones,
‘ ■Or maybe a cricket or'katydid,
the song ot birds in hedges hid.
Just some such sweet sounds as these
fill the tired heart with ease.
'it *twern’t for sight and sound and sirtell
I’d like a city pretty well.
But when It comes to getting rest
r i like the country lots the best.
^7 (■flometlmes It seems to me 1 must
\ Jnst Quit the city’s din and dust
And fy out where the sky is blue;
Arid say, how does It seem to you?
. ^ —Eugene Field.
WJF '
,S ■■ A
ts Good News
.= ^‘Bridge Over Reddies River May Be
Built Soon” . . . Watauga Railway May Be
Operated Again.” . . . “Wilkes Is Consid
ered for C. C. C. Camp.” . . • These are
"deadlines in Thursday’s issue of The Jour
nal-Patriot. It is good news and we hope
tbat on many occasions we may have the
opportunity to bring such information to
.-' the attention of the public.
There is no doubt a strong possibility
that the old covered bridge across Reddies
Biver will be eliminated and a modern
.atructure built. In justice to the state
highway system, one of the first improve-
> ■ gnents should be the elimination of dan-
gerous and antiquated bridges.
Whether the Watauga and Yadkin River
railway may again be operated is partly
dependent, we feel sure, upon business
conditions. If there is any possibility that
the lumber business will rise to its old
heights—and we feel sure there is—we
may again see trains running over the old
road.
A C. C. camp will mean much to the
county and the consideration given Wilkes
is appreciated.
Some good news is breaking for Wilkes
and we rejoice with all our citizens over
the fine prospects for these improvements, great heart.
1^ Death Friday evening tirou^ i^,
to a career that was marked with both'
'successes and failures,'*%ith the successes
predominating and casting into oblivion
the unimportant and ilrelevant mistakes
which were ever of the mind and not of There la
the he«t ^ '
Twenty-three days befort, C. C.
Wright, known to^thousands fs just plain
“Charley,” had retired to the quiet and
peace of his country home with the ’ex*
pressed purpose of writing a series of
memoirs covering the history of education
in Wilkes coon1y> especially during the,
thirty-four years he served as county
superintendent of schools. Death inter
rupted this work and posterity lost a valu
able contribution to the written history of
the county.
But the contribution Chariey Wright
made to the cause of education and pos
terity is not lost, can never be, lost. He
wrote history in a bigger and better way
than he could ever have done in his re
tirement.
Any summary of his ac'hievements must
necessarily deal with the past thirty-four
years during which he served Wilkes
county with a zeal and devotion which will
inspire the boys and girls trained under
his leadership throughout the years ahead.
But those early years of his life were not
wasted. He was training himself and ac
quiring knowledge that would enable him
to serve his fellowman with all the powers
with Which he was endowed.
Following in the footsteps of the great
educational governor, Charles Brantley
Aycock, whose political and educational
faith he held, C. C. Wright preached the
doctrine of equal opportunity through
education for every boy and girl in the
“State of Wilkes.” He preached it at a
time when the three and four months
school was in vogue, when education was
not the popular doctrine it is today. And
he lived until the state of North Carolina
declared that the child bom in the moun
tains of his beloved Wilkes should have
that to which he is entitled—an eight-
months school just the same as the urban
born child. i i ^ ^
The vanishing of the log schoolhousq
with its one teacher and twenty pupils
brought no touch of sadness to this vet
eran educator who was big enough and
broad enough to more than keep pace
with the advances and progress of educa
tion. While cherishing the old, he was
first to greet the new and embrace those
things which had possibilities of making
better men and women.
First of all we think of him as an edu
cator. He was. But that was not all. He
gave to the church the strongest leader
ship he had to offer. What those associ
ated with him thought of that leadership
was revealed by his service of 31years as
superintendent of his home church Sum
day school.
In the different fields where he was
called upon to play a part, C. C. Wright
gave the best of a brilliant mind and a
im (Nolfk Candtna'
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A OAIili "
Prohibition »Ua all Christian
people;
need for work"'*'and
prayer, ,
If the eighteenth amendment Is
to be- kept.
We mnsfrsily our forces erery-
wbere.
The lesialafi
wpbai^s
trnthtul 7 WlteiBajUs,;
those ur^ilf the nsd of
:'-,fand tobaceo as soeiallyg si
essential to bnslnesa snceesa and
even beneficial to health.
Ther^is no neutral | ground In
prohihitton.
Ton must take a deilnita atand;
What‘Is good for your own home
Is good for STSi^ home in oar
land. '
->'■ ^ .
If the Kingdom Is to be won tor
Jesus,
We must not lose our record of
the past.
But must keep the
amendment, ■
And work for prohibition 'tfl the
last. -i '
—Sally Oakes Wright.
“HE THAT KBBPBTH THE
LAW, HAPPY IS HE."—-Bible.
cleaning
EDITORIALS
Apropos ot tba honse
this Is suggestlTe:
Yes, clean your honse, and clean
your shed.
And clean your barn in every
part;
But brush the cobwebs from your
head,
And sweep the snow banks
from your heart.
Attend your regular W. C. T.
XJ. meeting and pay your mem
bership fee.
Will the boys and girls at oth
er schools please note the action
taken at Stanford:
SMOKING AT STANDFORD
Smoking In public was banned
by the co-eds of Stanford tlnl-
verslty at a mass meeting held
recently of their association.
They voted 215 to 49 to prohibit
their members smoklng^ on the
In this day^ of hlghbrowism
does this message from the presi
dent of Tele Unlvenrlty carry
weight: fS
On the prohibition issue | i
apeak as no fanatic, but 1 do|
apMk as one who remembers
vividly the beastliness and . moral
|Uth ot the old aaloon and the
testoring sore which it represent
ed at the heart ot our pollUMi,
social and economic life. T&eM
conditions we owed to the ntter-
ly callous and socially perverted
oondnet of the Hqnor interests,:
eighteenth to whose vldons practices we ase
indebted for the dgbteenth
amendment and thO Volstead act
far' more than to any fanstiiml
desire, to invade personal liherty
and the enployment ot decent
pleasures. Public patience finally
became exhausted and, wisely or
unwisely, decided to wipe out the
whole miserable business.—
President Janies R. Angell, Tale
University.
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DR. MAYO’S ADVICE
Dr. William Mayo, eminent
American surgeon, when enter
taining a tompany of surgeons
from all parts of America and
Europe at his home, at the close
of the jilnner remarked: "It la
customary, as we all know,. to
pass around cigars after dinner;
but I shall not do it. I do not
smoke, and do not approve of
smoking. If you will note,’’ he
said, “you will see tSat the prac
tice Is going out among the ablest
surgeons, the men at the top. No
surgeon can afford to smoke.”
We appreciate your basiiiesg.
WQcy Brooks anA Jeter Oysel
The MotwSmice Co.
Nartb WtOcesboro, N. O.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Question:
scratch feed
Should I
before my
keep
young
birds at aU times?
Answer: It Is a good practice
to feed an abundance of scratch
feed especially during the de
veloping period. This will build a
good frame and develop vitality
for the egg laying period. An
excess of animal protein fed dur
ing the developing period will
bring the birds into lay before
they are fully matured and an
abundant feeding of scratch will
retard this early production and
aid in building a large, healthy
body for maximum egg produc
tion.
Madison county farmers are
taking advantage of the newly
established livestock market at
Asheville and .are disposing of
BUiplug animals.
powered bj the makers of
Preferential Rates
Much of the debate over electric rates
arises from a misunderstanding. The av
erage consumer hasn’t had sufficient op-
Iportunity to observe the difference be-
fji^'-^^gen a political and an economically
In commenting at the time of the an
nouncement that he would retire, we said:
“He has served well. There is no greater
tribute.” That tribute is repeated.
Needed: 500,000 Homes
The motor fuel that
(^4ia^a/nt^ Smoother Performance
According to government reports, the
nation is short some 500,000 homes. Build
ing operations have practically ceased
„— . , j since 1929. The fact that communities are
The political rate structure is a dodge pjag^gred with “for rent” and “for sale’*
« 1 T - t-nctrwr rminiPinftl _• •...
sound rate structure.
^ ^ piasxereu wiiii loi leiiu auu x^a
employed by a great many municipal sjgng jg no indication of an over-supply of
nlants. Under it, certain classes of users dwellings; it simply indicates the extent
those with a great man votes—are given of the doubling-up process that has taken
ipose wit 7 place dunng depression—a process that
preferential rates that the actual cost of reversed as conditions improve.
service does not generally warrant. It is
> well known fact that low household
rates granted by many municipal plants
are largely made possible by overcharging
-industrial users or creating deficits for the
^taxpayers.
^ The private power industry makes its
ynte structure, with the sanction of the
state regulatory bodies which have no au-
thority over municipal rates, on a different
basis. It has taken the position that each
Kclass of users should pay its own way,
Whether the consumer buys 20 or 20,000
^kilowatt-hours a month. It has no politi-
^eal axe to grind, and it has not found it
* Recessary j:o favor one class at the expense
’-' of othew in order to manufacture either
, -^ecbicity or votes.
■ It to difficult to argue that this position
ia opsound. -Electricity is, really, a com-
modily. No one would expect the manu
facturer of a ?600 car to sell it at less than
: cost and make up the difference by raising
^Tthe price of 16,000 cars. Such a policy,
apUed to faidustrial enl.erpri8e8- would
c© chj«J8. Public service companies,
vate or public, have no justi-
seeking to go contrary to
somie practices, and when they
foredoomed to ultimate faib
will be reversed as conditions improve.
By the same token, the survey demon
strates that there is an almost incalculable
amount of reconditioning and moderniz
ing of existing residences that needs to be
done. An interesting phase of the survey
is that the small, one-family home, costing
$5,000 or less, will be principally in de
mand when the new-building wave starts.
The thrifty home-owner and prospec
tive builder, reading this, will not miss its
message. It means just one thing: higher
prices for both new construction and al
ternations and improvements. The first
signs of that price rise are appearing, with
a gradual and steady strengthening of the
commodity price level. Prices are still ex
tremely low—construction and material
firips are offering bargains that would
have seemed fantastic not so long ago—
there is a plentiful supply of skilled and
common labor. That condition won’t last
forever.
If you are one of the five hundred
thousand who need a home, build now if
you possibly can. If you are one of the
several million who have permitted need
ed repairs to go undone, have themMone
now. That leaky 'roof—^that inefficient
furnace;—those rickety steps-—that anci
ent wiring—^that neglected plumbing-
now is the time to fix them. You’ll be do
ing mcH-e than buying yourself someth^
jFou need at a low price. You’U be he!"*"”
provide employment and a market
supplies. You’ll be An influeike for rer
coVrtpy. Employment and
cheaper
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