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^ W6I ‘8 lIHdV ‘AVaSHnHX
THE MAN YOU ARB
H ian*t the man that you might have been
Mad the chance been yours again,
Nor the prise you wanted but didn’t win
That weighs in the measure of men.
No futile *if” or poltroon “because”
Can rowel your stock to par.
The worid cares naught for what never was—
It judges by what you are.
It isn’t the man that you hope to be,
If fortune and fate are kind,
That the chill, keen eyes of the world will see
In weighing your will and minA
The years ahead are a chartless sea,
And to-morrow’s a world away;
It Lin’t the man that you’d like to be,
But the man that you are to-day.
There’s little worth in the phantom praise
Of a time that may never dawn,
And less in a vain regret for days
And deeds long buried and gone.
There’s little time on this busy earth
To argue the why and how.
The game is yours if you prove your worth.
And prove it here and now!
Ted Olson.
Greece has again told Mr. Insull that he has
got to get out of the country but he may not
believe it this time either—Indianapolis News.
Every new disarmament plan seems designed
to bring a little new hope to the munitions manu
facturers.—San Diego Union.
Why is it that whenever those Parisians stage
discord they use the Place de la Concorde?—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Women In Public Life
The conviction of Miss Beatrice Cobb
that women have no right to political of
fice other than on the basis of ability is
a most sensible attitude. For a short time
after w'omen were granted the suffrage
there was some tendency to give office
to a few women for sentimental reasons,
but in recent times the women who .have
been elevated to public office are those
who have shown themselves capable of
holding down the job.
It is interesting to note a list of the
women who are holding high positions.
Hattie W. Caraway of Arkansas is the
only woman member of the Se.iate. There
are seven women members of the House of
Representatives: Isabella Greenw’ay, Dem
ocrat, of Arizona: Florence P. Kahn, Re
publican, 0 f California; Virginia E,
Jencks, Democrat, of Indiana; Kathryn 0.
McCarthy, Democrat, of Kansas: Edith
N. Rogers, Republican, of Massachusetts;
Mary T. Norton, Democrat, of New Jer
sey, and Marian Clarke, Republican, of
New York. Other women holding high
positions in the government are; Frances
Perkins, (Mrs. Paul Wilson), New York,
secretary of labor; Ruth Bryan Owens,
’ Florida, minister to Denmark, and Nellie
T. Ross, Wyoming, director of the mint.
Legislative Candidates
No candidate for the legislature who
makes either a blanket or specific pledge
to reduce taxes without offering a sub-
^itute plan to raise money for carrying
on the business of the state government is
entitled to any special consideration of the
votera of either party.
It is always popular to be in favor of
economy. It is easy to be “agin” the sales
“agin” the high cost of automobile
licenses plates, “agin” just anything, but
it is more difficult to say just where one
proposes to find the money to take the
]^a% of revenue that has been eliminated.
Mmbers of th legislature should be
aUe to study the situation as it appears
, ftom/a broad view of the state as a whole
« iffid then working together build some
equitable system of taxation. There will
always be differences of opinion as to,
whttt constitutes an equitable system. It
sB depends upon whose ox is gored.
Generally speaking, candidates would
^ §aye thanselves better by merely pledg-
-Ing'their sincere co-operation in legislat
ing fMT the benefit of all the people, rath
er than by piomises which they know they
eannot fuHiU and by pledges to be "agin”
Ting which happens to be unpopular
tfie Bifticaiar group tlwy are ad-
Goi^rtusieiit InterfereiKe
We are iiKlined to agre^wtit the view
of those who maintain that private in
dustry has ho one but itadf to blame for
any interference which^tihe goveriunent
has found necessary during the iwwt year,
A year ago thousands of private bosi-.
ness enterprises were headed toward bank
ruptcy. Thousands had coUai»ed.* Thous
ands of others were headed for the fatal
plunge. Banks had crashed in every sec
tion of the country. The wheels of indus
try were silent for lack’ of orders. And
who had been in control? Certainly not
the government.
Industry hadn’t seen fit to clean ite own
house. Railroads which were borrowing
from the Reconstniction Finance Corpora
atioD to meet their obligations were still
paying exhorbitant salaries to those high
er up in their organization. Competitors
were still cutting each other’s throats.
Men were starving for lack of employ
ment and the employed were getting
scarcely enough wages to provide the bare
necessities of life.
Industry must learn, either through its
own iniatitive or through government
interference, that it must operate for the
common good and not for entirely selfish
reasons. The big business man of the fu
ture must be an executive who sees his
enteiprise serving the laborer and in
vestor alike, rather than a man who looks
only toward the large salary he is to re
ceive. This view is based upon the present
trend.
All of the restrictions placed on busi
ness may not be for the common good.
Changes will be necessary. But private
industry had its chance and revealed its
weakness in organizing to prevent cut
throat methods and keep the wheels turn
ing.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
THE CHILD AND THE KINGDOM
Lesson for April 8th. Matt. 18:1-14; 19:13-15.
Golden Text: Matthew 19:14.
Why did Jesus insist that the kingdom of
heaven is composed of those who manifest a
child-lik“ spirit? First of all, the child is the in
carnation of reverence. The child’s -eyes are full
of wonder. In Goethe’s great masterpiece. “Wil
helm M'^ister’s Travels,” the chief of three wise
men says to Wilhelm, “There is one thing which
no child brings into the world with him, and
without which all other things are of no use.”
"And what is that?” asks iVilhelra. “It is Rev
erence!” answers the chief.
Now reverence means respect. As Carlyle says,
it involves "honour done to those who are great
er and better than ourselves.” The child instinct
ively manifests such deference. And reverence
also means the hush of the human spirit in the
presence of the Eternal. It is. to quote again
from Carlyl**, “the soul of all religion that has
ever been among men, or ever will be.” Here
again the child is our best exemplar. God is. very
real to him.
Getting Grange Convention
The proposal of the Kiwanis Club to co
operate with Wilkes Pomona Grange lead-
era to secure the 1935 state convention of
the Grange is indicative of the progressive
leadership which the local civic organiza
tion has given and is giving North Wilkes-
boro.
We trust that the Sub-ordinate Grange
units, which have disbanded, will soon re
organize and thus increase the chances
of North Wilkesboro to obtain the con
vention. '
Grange leaders will find the Kiwanis
Club and other civic units of the city
ready to give the fullest co-operation in
the movement to land this meeting and
we hope that success will crown their ef
forts.
Wlahingtda, AprlL *. (Attto-
CMtoV)—^The presefnt outlook is
that Congress will be in session
for two months longer, adjonrn-
Ing alwut the first of June. Major
legislation that seesn to be sch»-
doled for passage includes^., a
modified bill fbr the regulation
of stock and commodity nachang-
es, a sliver bill designed to put
more money into eireulatton, a
measure to enable FederaU' Re
serve Banks to lend on long time
for capital requirements of in
dustry, and 8ome'’hew laws *gev-
erning ' aviation, probably one
putting all military flying under
one command, and another pro
viding a new system of air-mail
contracts. There is also’a practi
cal certainty of the adoption of
the Bankhead bill to enforce re
duction of the cotton acreage.
Some of the other proposals of
the 'Administration seem doubt
ful of passage at this time.
Booeevelt Not Worried
The best evidence that Presi
dent Roosevelt Is not worrying
about plans to put the skids und
er him and replace him with a
real dictator is that he went on a
week’s fishing trip while the sub
ject was a red-hot topic of dis
cussion. William Wirt, the super
intendent of schools of Gary, In
diana. wrote a letter to James
Rand. Jr., big industrialist and
head of the Committee for the
Nation, and Rand read it before
a committee of Congress. Profes
sor Wirt—who is not given to
loose talk—wrote to his friend
Rand that several of the young
men of the “brain trust” had told
him that their effort was to so
influence affairs in Washington
that there could be no real recov
ery. This would bring about such
a condition of revolt, they
thought, that the people would
rise and follow a new communist
leader and establish a Russian
system in America. The Presi
dent, they told Mr. Wirt, was in
the middle of a powerful current
and could not get to either shore.
He was merely Kerensky of the
revolution; the veal Lenin would
appear later.
The letter o
even thongli many peopir
not take the threat eeriouely.
Anyone who baa^itetened to nme
of the young men of the “hfain
tn»t’’ crowd, hovrever, cafT eas
Jly belike that they i«ld’^aneb
things to Mr; Wirt fWire it cer
tainly a etrbng Coramnniat urge
under the surface of activi
ties of some of the folk who have
a finger in the Federal pie Juat
now. But that they will succeed
In their plan is not for a moment
believed popsiblw.^^The sanest
view of the whole episode seems
*0 be that perhaps Mr. Wirt aiifl
Mr. Rand have dbde a publie
service hr directing attention to
a condition which many bate be
lieved to exist, if by doingjm! they
subject etery new propoeal for
reforming' everything to’ much
closer scrutiny. ban some parto
of the Administration program
have yet received-V
The New Labor Lineup
"The outstanding noveUy about
the labor situation In the anto-
mobile and other industries, is
not that there should be dis
agreement about the method of
carrying out the law regarding
collective bargaining, but that
the Federation of Labor should
have accepted the old 1. W. W.
idea of “vertical” unions, taking
In everybody employed In a given
industry, instead of the old
"craft” unions on which the Fed
eration .has been based.
The' “one big union” idea ie
what the "Wobblies” were fight
ing for, .before the war, while
the Federation Insisted that
there should be as many unions
as there were trades; if a shop
employed blacksmiths, plumbers,
carpenters, steamfitters and
bricklayers, then there should be
a separate union for each trade.
Now they are trying to organize
all automobile workers in a sin
gle un;on, and so on. Some ob
servers see the seeds of Com
munism in that, since that is the
way the Russian workers were
organized for their revolution.
Agrlculfore and Business
Evidence increases of dissatis
faction among farmers with the
results of the Agricultural Ad-
ijiistment Administration thus
far. There are signs of open re
volt among some of the cooper
atives set up under the Act, not
ably in the milk industry. The
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The Motor Service Co.
NORTH-WILKESBORO, N. C.
feeling that something more
! needs to be done to get money
[into circulation rapidly is spread
ing Into the ranks of business
and industry, who are chafing
under resirictions Imposed by
the N. R. A. 'Phe demand that
they pay higher wages, work
their help shorter hours and
charge more for their goods,
when not accompanied by any in
crease in the spending power of
the public or any means of get
ting the additional capital neces
sary to carry on while recovery
proceeds, is getting under the
skin of many business men, both
large and small. These men are
making themselves heard, now
that they have discovered that it
is not high treason to criticize.
One result of that Is the plan
of providing capital funds out of
credits that are under Federal
control. The outlook now Is that
these will not be direct Govern
ment loans to industry, but loans
by the Federal Reserve Banks,
which will be authorized to in
vest their surpluses in long-term
paper passed on to them by local
member banks. And another re
sult is the renewal of Interest in
projects for further currency in
flation.
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Suiunicr .4t .4sh. Ville
Summer visited Asheville Mon
day when the mercury soared to
80 degrees.
The Pari.s situation had been clarified Satur
day and all rioting put back on an orderly pro
fessional basis, with only Reds taking part.—
Detroit News-
The Mikado is reported to have called in an
expert to explain the effects of dollar devalu
ation. What, if you please, is the expert’s ad-
.Ixess ?—Portland Oregonian.
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In th? second place, the child is the embodi
ment of humility. This is a rare virtue in a ma
ture person. But you dio find it in those thor
oughly imbued with the scientific spirit. “The
first and last step in the education of the scien-
tife judgment,” said Faraday, “is humility.”
Now th:* child, although he lacks the patience
of the scientist, does possess his teachable spiriti
Huxley knew this, expressing his creed in a
memorable sentenc?, “Sit down before facts as
a little child, be prepare^ to give up every pre
conceiv’d notion, follow humbly wherever and
to whatever abysses nature leads or you shall
learn nothing.”
Finally, the child is an exponent of aimpHcity-
He is the world’s best interpreter of how to be
happy with a few homely joys. Give him a box..;
of hiexpenaive blocks, or a pair of scissors and
a cheap cut-out book, and can ea«Ty amOsg
himaeif for boon-
The child,^tben, in tols three-fold iashidn. is :
indeed a citizen of God’s Realm.-
The owl says much exaggeration
Is unfontroUed imagination—
Folks claim not what they ARE, you see.
But, rather, what they*d LIKE to be!
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