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SUBSCtIPTION BATES:
CUM Taur te the s6m; |L60 Gift el the State.
J. CAKTBB ani JUU08 C. HUBBARD.
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THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933
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Cmgratiilatioiis To Roaring
■ f River
The Joornal-Patxiot congratulates the
ll'Bdiool-minded folks of Roaring River and
. tite faculty of the hijdi school there upon
the aeeredited rating which has been given
tte flchool.
Schools do not raise their standard by
mere chance. Behind the scenes there must
be hard work, sacrifices and a spirit of pro
gress. The willingness of Roaring River
citizens to give of their best toward building
A better sAool and through the school the
building of a better citizenship is recogniz-
ed. "s
As in the case of every other standard
»^bigh school, the new rating is conditional
upon compliance with the requirements- One
«todition, the state department of educa
tion specifies, must be met. That is the mat
ter of adequate building facilities. Roaring
River should make every effort to meet this
recrement even if it must be a community
project.
Roaring River has steadily moved for
ward and we congratulate those responsible
for this progress. •»
Beginning Mcnd^, Wilkes^ to have four
weeks of court, the lmgest period ^urt has
ever been is seaaion in the county al^far as
anyone recalls at the moment.
Inquiring persona may ask the reason for
this long court There could be wdy two an
swers. Either we have had an insufficient
number of^ courts, considering the population
and the normal crime expect^y, dr the
criminal element is gaining too much head
way. Th^ Wilkes is not the moat cxiininally
minded'Guilty in the statd. la ihoitn by tW
figurea gathered the etatiatidans and
pdtdiBlied in the News Letter, publidied by
the University" of North Carina, ^veral
other coonties have a greater crime ratio
than Wilkes, the News Letter shows. ^
Looking at the calendar, we sire convinced
that the number of murders during the
past several months has been all out of
proportion. .The citizenship of the county is
more concerned with finding and in remov
ing the cause of this homicidal wave than
in trying the 22 defendants involved in the
15 murder cases. That is the problem that
cries out for solution at the moment.
However, despite the editorial comment
to the contrary, Wilkes has a long ways to
go before it reaches the depths that Chicago,
New York and other metropolitan centers
have reached- Wilkes murders are crimes of
passion. They are committed by men in the
heat of passion or under the influence of
intoxicants, not by men who are hired to
kill someone they do not know and who use
machine guns to annihilate an enemy gang.
Elimination of the need for extra courts is
an end worth striving for, but we do not
believe that Wilkes is going to the bow-wows
just because crime has forced a special term
of court. - ~ - - - - .
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SPOUTS
oBy MCK ADAMS
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By#defeatiiif B. Ellsirorth
ViMa. Jr., Amerietn,, champion,
Jack Cramord, of Aoatralia, won
the men's ainclet, tenida title at
i Wimbledon, England. Mra. Helm
Willa Hoo^, of Beriosley.^CaL,
triu^jdwd over Mias Dorothy
Ronml, of England, to-win the
women's singles title. The nun’s
ddnljls^'title wmt to Jean Bon^
sAd Jacqnes Boignbn, of Frai^.
women's donblm title wAs wm
by Mias BUzabeth Ryan, of CaU-
fonda,'’^and Mme. Rene Mathien,
of Franee- The ndted donbles. title
was canied off by Baron CSott-
fried Ton Gramm and Franlein Hil
da Krahw&ikel, of Germany.
• • ' s
It was back in 1923 that .an
Englishman last won the British,
open golf championship. The title
was won this year by Densmpre
Shute. 28-year-old resident of
Philadelphia. His opponent in a
thirty-six hole playoff was Craig
Wood, well known American play
er.
• • •
Oarsmen wearing the colors of
the University of Washington, Se
attle, won the national intercol-
leg^iate rowing championship at
Long Beach, Cal., defeating Yale
which came in second, Cornell,
third and Harvard fourth. Wash-
ing^ton for years has occupied a po
sition in rowing which compares
with the football supremacy of
I** Good Condition
It k not necessary that one be familiar
with the banking business to recognize the
fact that the quarterly reports of North Wil-
I hesboro’s two banks are among the best they
boro's two banks are among the best they
have ever issued-
Total resources of the two banks amount
to approximately $1,400,000.00. That amount
is only slightly less than the January state
ments showed and it is realized that many
defpositors have been forced to use part of
their “rainy day money” for ordinary living
expenses.
Not in recent years have the banks shown
a smaller total in the amount of rediscounts
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
ISAIAH DENOUNCES SIN
Lesson for July 23rd—Is&iah 5:1-30. Golden Text.^
Proverbs 14:34
Our lesson text is a flaming passage from Isaiah
in which the prophet hurls thunderbolts of defiance
at Judah for her manifold sins. There are six
counts in his indictment.
First he denounces the greed for land. Wealth
was becoming the possession of the few through
the seizure of small properties by powerful land
owners. Cruel evictions, by which the peasants
lost both homes and citizenship, were common,
A sfmilar situation abcists today. There has been
and bills payable. Items listed as assets, such | an immense concentration of business wealth into
New York'Vt have bMn '’ti^iiing
for what 'call a fhfA^t
Uprid’s series, a aeries
the New York Giants of' the Ka-
tiopal League and the New Toric
Yankees of the American League,
two'teams whose parks can., be
reached by taUng a fiva-cent sub
way ride. -r.
•• •
Ill i tiack and field meet in,
pMidi repiaentatim of TMe and
Aurrard were pitted against ath
letes Oxford and Cambridge:
trkm oTfrasia, in the Haivard
Stadium, otherjday, the Amer
icans mn. "
,2^ •' '
'vDon^d H. 6. Matl|ieBite. pouhE-
archery ehampion of Gxeenwi^
Conn.^ is about to try his aim in
international competition at Oik-;
ford, England. , r- , |
• « •
\They held a ski tournament at
Brighton, Mich., the other day-
Straw was used instead of snow.
Philadephia, Pittsburgh and Cin
cinnati have bera admitted to the
National Prof^sional Football
League. The Staten Island (N. Y.)
Stapes have withdrawn.
Multiplication
“Say, mister,” said the little
fellow to a next door neighbor,
"are you the man who gave my
brother a dog last w^ek?”
“Yes."
"Well, my ma says to come
and take them all back.’’.
Motor.
do your overhatd f
ISIIIII lllllllll lllilUM^—Ml I
Any kind jg our specialty.
egainatwowwA Many type
as banking houses, furniture and fixtures
and real estate, are given at far below their
actual value.
The Deposit and Savings Bank and the
the hands of two hundred corporations managed
by a relatively small group. The rank and file are
deprived of their rightful share of this enormous
capital. Millions are jobless, and at least one-
Bank of North Wilkesboro are safer and third of our population is inadequately hou.sed.
sounder than ever before and their reports
are convincing evidence of wise management
and intelligent banking service.
Getting Out of Debt
We have seen a statement recently, pre
pared by men who have made a deep study ^ toxicants?
of the subject, that the United States and its'
inhabitants are in debt to the tune of one
-hundred and thirty-four thousand million
dollars. That includes all governmental debts.
The prophet then grapples with the perennial
liquor problem, pronouncing woe upon all who
■stain their souls by indulgence in riotous debauch
ery. There is a timely warning here for America
in this hour when she is abandoning the experiment
of prohibition. Can we, with our flare for excite
ment, fxercise moderation in the handling of in
The third woe is directed against hardened rascals
' who mock and chuckle with apparent impunity. We
I see them, following Moffatt’s vivid tramslation,
I drawing “guilt on themselves by stout ungodliness,
I as with a rope,” “harnessing themselves” to sin.
Federal, state and local, the debts of the j sneering at God with a blustering challenge,
railroads, public utilities and industries, I ‘'Pray let us see what he will do!” Our modem
mortgage debts and financial bond issues- world can boast of many such:
dnnhf thof in tlipl The fourth woe is cast at those who deny the
There is no manner ol dount tnai in inej ^ *i
.r i. i clear distinctions of the moral law*, who call evil
great bop era credit was far tw easy, men I „ In our owTi confused era, how
and institutions went into debt reckless y, | differences
that the great problem of the hour is-
be-
and that tne greai prouiem oi me uuui 1=> | -jvrong that black seems white 'and
how debtors can be enabled to pay their;
debts without at the same time ruining their; ^ timely, practical ks.son! .4merica, in her
creditors. Short of univer^l bankruptcy— primarily^ old-fa.shioned intigri-
for the rest of the vvorld^ is much m the character. Isaiah’s clarion call to righteous-
eame boat—the path back to solvency is,
bound to be a slow and painful one. We are
not at all sure that all of the plans proposed |
at Washington to lighten the burdens of m-
dividual and corporate debtors will work as j
"planned, but they are at least a long step to-|
wArd pulling us out of the hole.
J The problem of the debtor who can’t pay
ia as old as humanity. In the 15th chapter of
Deuteronomy we find the way in which the
ancient Israelites solved it- “At the end of
every seven years thou shall make a release.
And this is the manner of the release; Every
creditor that lendeth aught unto his neigh
bor shall release it; he shall not exact it of
his neighbor or of his brother, because it is
caSed the Lord’s release. Of a foreigner
thou may^t exact it again; but that which
. Ia thine with thy brother thy hand shall re-
■ Forgiveness of debts was one of the tenets
the early Christians, and the plea comes
iown to ua in the Lord’s Piaver.
' Ferhaps too many debtors of our day ex-
BA nect to be released without any payment
^latever. We would not go so far as to ad
▼o*»te Hie Chinese system, under which Jfor
ihoosands of years every Chinese had to set-
tte all hif debts every Neiy. Year’s Day* with
BReiniative, 'lf he failed, of committing
or entering iWb slavery to his emii-
, ^ But we do beli^ that most of us
" be better off if we never had beeai
airlD J?orraw on kmg terras, but Only for
^ asd then only as much m we
reasonable creditor #e could
ness sounds a note we do well to hear.
In Tribute To a Friend-
(Written by editor The Journal-Patriot on the day
of Joseph A. Roland’s funeral)
There is rest for him.
It was fitting that he bear the name of Israel’s
noble son, for in the bondage of disease, he fed the
soul of friend and foe alike. If we believe in Holy
Writ, from dust we came and t« dust retumeth-
In this finely molded clay, now on. its way to Moth
er Earth again, there lived a soul without a peer.
, I have seen a soul and found it pure and clean.
1 have looked into a heart and watched it throb
with noble manhood’s best. I have gazed into the
eyes that were jeweled with the joy of love and
life. This was the privilege of one who knew him
well.
Yesterday a “cradle asked its whence”; today, a
“grave its whither.” We cannot peer beyond the
scene of birth, nor see beyond the twilight of this
hour. But hope, the star that shines in every night,
is light to all those left behind. It-gleams from
his every act and deed and penetratea the gloom of
doubt and fear. » '■
A life is judged in this world by what ii| .seen
and known, though God records its every thlwglH
and deed. He left for ns a record that was spotl^,
and (dean. Today, as earth reclaims its emxi, we
can believe that ^ soul ot him who bade fareweff
tocsin anti pain. Uvea on iii deatUeaa
And I who .U»k hi* frioldsidp aa the. twilight wik
across the hbriȣ of hln life, Bnd gi^f sa^
■ftter of
LET’S FACE
THE FACTS!
1. Our Electric Range
Ends Saturday, July
Event
22nd
All G>mmodity Prices Are
Rising and Never Again
Wm You Be Able to Buy
at Present Low Prices!
Our Special Low Terms
Enable You to Easily Own
An Electric Stove!
Study Carefully the Many Advantages
ELECTRIC
COOKERY
Clean—Cool—Automatic
Safe—Modem—Simple
\ Economical—Labor
Saving!
Bum women stffl lead a life of DRUDGERY in the Utchen labor-
ing over steaming kettles and fiery ovens . . . watching . .
pAktiig . .. tsstint. ELECTRIC COOKERY requires no ctmstant
attimtin" and the modwn woman has taken a new lease m life and
tieeddn by installing an electrie stove. Never has it been so adi
Vaniageous, or will it ever be, for yon to have the benefits of eleo-
trietty. Test’s low mriees and convenient terms should compel
Sfvegy home to act quickly, and buy an Ellectrie Stove now,
idde now to break away fron the life of Dnidge/y . Call w
OT^-drop by our cUnday rooms and lean all ths faets
‘ " ' OINTV and UMversa!>®lediric Ranges.
abfiil the modern HOTPOI
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