W'1
Despite the handicaps under
they labor, our teachers are carrying on:
The enthusiasm they continue to show to-
^‘''.Wasliiiqiton
mir-
Mmdays and Thursdays at
North ^WHkesboro. N. C.
ward their work and their c(!HiiM^Ejc^ot»i
jBitato growers and ai>oat
000 to the eweet-corn growers.
An ■ agreement of aogar Inter-
e«ts to correlate prodiictlon with
conanmptton. hat been coraOteted-
J. GAITBB and JfULIUS C. HUBBARD.
endeavor 'to improve and.^uild up their
schools are sufficient evidence > that they
Waahlngton.-^efore the end
of this. mont^^'llO million ddtlaraiCane and beet eugar’ Intweate,
will bare been paid' to cotton
growers by the Agricultural Ad-
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
|1.00 Tear in the State; $1.50 Out of the Stata
entered at the post office at North Wilkesboro,
li. C, ae second elaas matter under Aot of Hareh
4. 1879.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933
This Week’s Tragedy
During the coming week a ghastly
tragedy will occur.
' Two hundred or more lives will be de
stroyed. Property velued at about ?8,000,-
000 will be reduced to ashes. Because of
it, businesses will close, men will lose their
jobs, taxes will increase.
You won’t hear much about it—because
it won’t happen all at once. It will be di
vided among a thousand communities, a
thousand different kinds of property. The
destruction of a great factory or a port
able garage will all contribute to it. The
world remembers the great fires—^the
Iriquois theatre, the Cleveland hospital,
the little school at Coll’nsville. What the
world does not realize is that these fires
are no worse than those that take place
every week in this so-called civilized
world, and which, by cumulative action,
even exceed these single disasters in loss
of life and property. Many years can pass
without the occurrence of a fire as hor
rible as that in the Iriquois theatre—but
each year witnesses the destruction of ten
thousand lives and half a billion dollars in
property values.
If we look on fire in the mass, we will
come close to gaining some idea of the
unnecessary menace it is. Billions of dol
lars have been spent in seeking to prevent
it—and while these efforts have borne
good fruit, public indifference has pre
vented the success that should be achiev
ed. It is time for a “Fire Prevention Year.’’
It won’t be long until the forests will be
in danger. Wilkes citizens should be care
ful to protect them from fire. That is a
warning in advance.
However, throughout the year, we
should take every precaution to avoid the
useless waste of life and property
through fire.
realize the responsibility of their task.
Glenn Frank pays a beautiful tribute
and a worthy tribute to these teachers,
this band of faithful,workers, and in re
producing this tribute, We heartily en
dorse the sentiment expressed. He says:
“The vast army of educators through
out the nation who, in this crisis, are fly
ing in the face of trumped-up hysterias by
doing everything within their power to
save the schools from financial strangu
lation and increasing political manipula
tion are doing so because their sense of
relative values tells them that education
is one of the supreme responsibilities and
functions of government, that, after the
provision of relief for those in distress
and out of work and the protection of life
and property, education is the most im
portant single obligation resting upon
government in this crisis, for it is to edu
cation alone that we can look to produce
a leadership for the future that might
conceivably use this magnificent machine
economy of ours to free the race from
drudgery, poverty, and insecurity instead
of letting us starve like Midas in the midst
of plenty.”
p«nwtion tor cotton plowed udd
er. Add to that A market price ot
cotton more than double that of
a year ngo, and it is easy to «hare
,the Administration’s enthusiasm
for this method of putting more
money into cironlation and ^
storing the purchasing power of
a large number of farmers. The
$110,000,000 comes, of course,
from the ultimate consumer of
cotton goods, by means of the
processing tax on the mills.
Cotton growers were the first
to get the benefits of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Act, because
their crop matures first. The
wheat program is just now get
ting into effect, but enough head
way has been made to satisfy the
authorities that they will have
,refiners, and rhpresentatiyes of
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Phll-
jiUUnai^. Administration, as com- IjUtasi took part ip the W0ot$>
ations. The total consumption of
sugar In the United States for the
year ending next Jpne 80 is esti
mated at 6,650,000 tons, and the
supply available, if not curtailed,
would be nearly'a million tons
more than that; so the different
distrlets are working ont agree
ments for the allotment of pro
duction on a reduced ^scale to ad
just production to demand.
The Idle Acres ■: \ **
What is to be done with tie
land taken out of cultivation by
these and other parts of the Ad
justment plan? Well, the Admin
istration has set up a crops-fe-
placement section, to promote
land uses which will not adverse
ly affect the prices of cash crops.
The effort is to assist farmers in
to distribute more than $126,- shifting production from surplus
Brings Good News
Mr. Jeffress, chairman of the State
Highway Commission, brought good news
Tuesday when he assured friends of the
Millers Creek-Glendale Springs road that
a surveying party will be put to work
within the next few days locating a route
for an improved highway.
Apparently we are the nearest to get
ting some action that we have ever been.
A survey will be a start and no stone
should be left unturned to get the road
construction under way.
Time after time, the importance of this
road has been cited. There is no need to
review these citations or the points which
should commend the road to the highway
authorities. But we cannot urge too
i strongly that all our citizens keep active
' in behalf of the project.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
Organizing The Hen
The Federal Government is going to try
its hand at controlling the price of poul
try and eggs, in the interest of the pro
ducer.
We have a notion that this is going to
be a more difficult and complicated job
than putting up the price of cotton, or
wheat, or tobacco. But vve are for it. We
want to see the hen come back to her ap
propriate place in the scheme of things.
It will be a hard job, because there are
so many hens so widely distributed. It
doesn’t take a farmer to keep hens. In
fact, a lot of farmers don’t bother with
hens. According the Agricultural Depart
ment statistics, out of about 6,000,000
farms, there are hen.s kept on 5,400,000
of them, but the vast majority of these,
more than 5,000,000 farms, have flocks
of less than 200 hens, while only 22,000
farms have flocks of 700 or more.
But besides these hens on the farms,
there are the backyard hens, who aren’t
counted in the picture at all. The total
value of eggs and poultry which figured
in the commercial statistics the last time
they were counted ran to about 848 mil
lion dollars; that covered some twenty-
seven hundred million eggs from 379 mil
lion hens. It would be our guess th^t there
are another hundred million hens that
never got counted, in dooryard flocks of
a dozen or two.
We are for giving the hen a break. We
would like to see the poultry business as
profitable in reality as it is on paper. We
know of no line of business that has
tempted so many people with the notion
that it was easy to make money, as the
poultry business has done. It is an easy
business to get into, and usually an easy
one to get out of. If the Government can
put it on a basis where the possible profits
become real profits, we wish them well,
but we don’t want the job of trying to do
JONATHAN
000,000 to wheat growers before
the end of the year, raising the
money by a processing tax of 30
cents a bushel levied on millers.
And with wheat almost double
last year’s price, there’s a lot of
real money going Into circulation
fast In the Wheat Belt. In re
turn lor their payments wheat
growers must agree to reduce
their 1934 and 1936 acreage.
Corn, Hogs, and Milk
The corn-hog problem seems
to have been solved, by an agree
ment between the Government,
the packers and producers, which
has resulted in an immediate
emergency program for the kill
ing at once of 4,000,000 pigs and
light hogs, weighing from 25 to
100 pounds, and a million sows
due to farrow this fall. This is
to be done before the end of
September.
These hogs are to be process
ed In the usual "manner and edi
ble meat from them Is to be mar
keted at moderate prices to the
Unemployment Relief Adminis
tration, to feed destitute people.
The rest of the meat is to be
converted into tankage and
grease, to be marketed outside
the trade. A processing tax of
about half a cent a pound, paid
by the packers. Is to finance this
emergency program, and the dis
tribution of money from this
source has already begun.
The dairy section of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administra
tion is working out with dairy
men a system of “milk shed”
and national milk marketing
agreements. These are mainly de
signed to do away with cut
throat competition which has re
sulted in ruinous prices to milk
producers.
The milk program is far from
! completed, but enough hearings
have been held on national agree
ments among milk producers, lee-
I cream manufacturers. produc-
baslc commodities to other crops,
and thus attaim a better balance
In agricultural production. , Stu-!
tdies are being made of uses to;
wjhich lands taken out of pro-1
tiuction can be put, and as soon
as the basic agreements are com-1
pleted and working, there will be
an Intensive campaign, begun to
grow many other things which
can be consumed locally.
About the only basic commo
dity which has not received at
tention so far is rice; but there
are hundreds of special crops
which also have to get consider
ation. When it is all done, Sec
retary Wallace believes, every
farmer will be able to get a i
good surplus above a living—if j
he knows his business as a farm
er—and future complaints about
injustice to the farmer will most
ly emanate from the incompe
tents, who are often the loudest
complainers.
! ers of evaporated milk and dry
Lesson for September jlOth. 1 Samuel 18-20. Gold- skim milk to make it reasonably
sure that some sort of a na-
en Text: Proverbs 17:17.
History records some noble friendships. In ari-
ent times there lived Damon and Pythias, a
more recently, we think of Shelley and Keats, a
tional program for the whole
:coras some nome | industry, heretofore utterly
cient times there lived Damon and Pythias, ^nd,| worked out.
The first agreement to be put
friendship immortalized in Shelley’s noble elegy, j jjit„ effect is for the Chicago
it
“Adonais,” and Tennyson and Hallam, whose golden i milk shed, which took effect Aug.
affection for one another is celebrated in the music; 1 and requires every milk pro
of “In Memoriam.” I ducer to be licensed.
Our lesson deals with as fine a friendship as! The butter and cheese sltua-
any of these, that of David and Jonathan. So com- ^ , .ni
, , J . J .1. . .V, 'Of attention, and there is lit'le
pletely adapted were they to on^ another that th^y national plan
grew together as one soul. Both were courageous, marketing of those and
gifted, and noble-hearted. “Jonathan loved David.” , products will be
wrote Charles Kingsley, “because his soul was like ^ ju effect by New Year’s, with a
the soul of David. Because he was modest, he loved fair price to milk’ producers
David’s modesty: because he was brave, he loved | which can be enforced on mid-
David’s courage: because he was virtuous, he loved dlemen and consumers.
David’.s virtue; he saw that David was all that he! Sitecial Crops Coiiiniittee
, . i About three-quarters of the
was himself , . . , ...
,, , „ , . u J. ii, ! cigar-leaf tobacco growers have
Dr. Matheson calls Jonathan ’ one of the sweet-^ agreements to reduce their
est souls that have ever breathed- He is a acreage and destroy part of this
bow in a storm.” full of tenderness and generosity, ygay-g ;rop_ go that outside of the
Certainly his career is all beauty and sunshine, ceorgia-Florida district the out-
avoiding the dark blots that mar the biography of put will be only about hall of
David. He was a popular Crown Prince, trusted ^ last year’s, and about three-
implicitly by his father. All the qualities needed, quarters in that district. About
to make friendship a success, fidelity, love, disinter-' 500,000 will be paid to these
estedness, and self-sacrifice, were present in him.
Now note that there was no envy in Jonathan
He was the logical successor to the throne- David! „““eements“ bare' yet
was his rival. Yet he was not in the slightest de- ^ reached on the precise type
gree jealous. His love for David was so complete, ■ pia„ best adapted to control'
so unselfish that all thought of his superior claim of those crops,
to preeminence was entirely smothered. His perfect ( In order to aid a number of
devotion is well Expressed in that vivid verse, j Producers of farm commodities
“Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was,®®!’ specifically included In the
upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, ® special crops committee Is
even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his gir- marketing agree-
„ , ... . J ments for those lines. For ex-
dle.” No wonder David loved hirn and composed ^ marketing agreement
smagnificentlamentinhishonor!“0 Jonathan, my California cllng-stone
brother! You were my dear delight, your love for peach Industry has just been
I growers, derived as in other cas-
! es from a processing tax.
I
One flue-cured and hurley to-
An Appreciation
The Journal-Patriot,
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Dear Sir;
I wish to express my apprecL i
ation to the people of North Wil- j
kesboro and Wilkes County
through your paper, for the fine
spirit shown me, by them during i
the revival meeting, I feel to say
It was that, that made the meet-;
Ing a success. I want to say 11
shall never forget the good peo
ple of' Wilkes county and I shall |
continue my prayers for them. I
I am now In a revival meeting
near Jennings, N. C., will be
there for ten or more days. I ask
that the Wilkes people pray for
me and the revival, there.
Please announce that I will
hold a speial service on the
streets of West Jefferson, next i
Saturday, at 11:00 A. M. and will
go from there to Shatley Springs,
for service at 12:00 noon, and
back to North Wilkesboro for a
service on the old' camp lot, at j
4:00 p. m. The young people with
their string band who were with
me in the revival here, will be
with me Saturday, in all the said
services.
B. H. VESTAL.
Bad Taste in Mouth,
Sour Stomach
For quick relief from constipation
troubles, such as are mentioned
below, get a 25H:ont package of
'Thedtord’B BLACK-DRAUGHT
and begin taking It today.
“I have suffered a great deal
from biliousness and constipa
tion,” writes Mrs. D. C. Jones, of
Waterloo, Ala. “When I get bili
ous I have a bad taste in my
mouth, have sour stomach, my
color is bad, and I get dizzy and
feel awfully bad. I have head
ache constantly. When I take
Black-Draught it relieves me and
I feel like a new person. I don’t
think there Is a better medicine
than Black-Draught.”
Now you can pet Blaok-DnmpM M
the form ot a SYBVP, for Chilobxm.
Underweight
Children
Need More Iron in Their
Blood!
me was a wonder, far beyond a woman’s love.”
made effective.
This agreement assures grow-
Now'ers $20 a ton, or Its. equivalent,
1 quality
A Kansas hen laid four eggs in one day,
what are the expei-ts who are against overproduc-! for their entire No.
tion going to do about this?—Florida Timea-Union.''crop, and has been signed by
canning companies representing
If a child begins to become unmanageable, ad
vises a Chicago expert, switch his attention. Ah,
how we do progress! That wasn’t what they used
to s-witch when we were a boy.—Boston Herald.
Miss Louise M. Popp, New York telephone em
ployee, who won fll8,0C0 in the .Irish Hospital
Sweepstakes, evidently did not get the, wrong mun-
ber.—^Boston Tranacript. ■.
more than 80 percent of'the out
put. Each canner of peaches must
be licensed', so that- those who
did not sign can be forced In.
Tomatoes for canning Is. another
'special crop in which the effort
is being made to insure a fair
price to growers. Similar action
is under way in sweet com.
When completed, these agree-
Children who sre thin and pale and
adio lack appetite are usually suffering
from a defidency of iron. When the
blood lades iron it becomes thin and
poor and fails to nourish. Then a child
foM appetite and becomes stiU^ thinner
and weaker—and easy prey to *disea» 1
To build up your diild, give him
Grove’s Tasteless ChiU Tonic. It contains
iron which makes for rich, red blood.
It also tasteless quinine which
tends to purify the blood. These two
effects »"««> it an exceptionri medidne
for young and old. A few days on Grove’s
Thstdess Chill Tonic will work wonders
in your child. It will sbarpra hk ametite,
improve his color and build up ms pep
and energy and increase his resistance to
disease. Grove’s Tsstdeas Chffl Tonic is
ideasant to take. ChOdren like it end itt
absrrittteh^ safe for them. Cmtatea noth
ing hanafoL All storet idl Grovels Taste-
im Chm Tonic. Get a bottle today and
aaa how your diild will benefit froaa It.
Let us put your car in shape to give you dependable serv
ice this fall. You can’t afford to have trouble and delay
out on the highway.
Are your tires in good condition? If not, don’t fail to
figure with us before purchasing. We can save you
money on tires, batteries and accessories.
Wiley Brooks and Jeter Crysel
The Motor Service Co.
North Wflkeaboro. N. O.
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