1NDS^D£NT Of POLITICS
led Mondays and Thursdays at
North WBkesiboro^N. C.
J. CARTES and JUUUS C. HUBBARD.
PnUishera
WILLASD G. COLR Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
In the State $1.00 per Year
Out of the State $1-60 per Year
Eiitered at the post office at North Wilkes-
boro. N. C.. as second class matter under Act
of March 4. 1879.
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1984
The New Campaign
The newest campaign inaugurated by
the Agiicultural Adjustment Adminis
tration is that affecting the dairy in
dustry. •
How much interest will be taken in
Wilkes is problematical. Everybody
knows that there aren’t half enough cows
in Wilkes. The Caldwell Record confesses
to somewhat the same situation in our
neighboring county. And yet the plan of
reducing dairy herds and placing a cow
with a family whose children are under
nourished for want of milk is apparently
the most sensible step taken by the AAA.
In the main we fully agree with the
Caldwell Record which discusses the new
campaign in the following editorial:
The new campaign that is coming for the farm
ers in this county is a reduction in the number
of dairy cattle and the amount of dairy prod
ucts. We have more sympathy with the plans
for this campaign than for any of the others
that have been inaugurated by the Triple A. Not
because we think there are too many cows in
this county. We know good and well that as
long as there is one child in Caldwell county
who does not have a quart of milk a day that
there is no surplus. But we favor the plan be
cause the AAA proposes to distribute the sur
plus cows to families on relief who can feed
them.
All the non-producing and sick cattle are to
be disposed of, and the good surplus will be re
distributed through the relief office of families
who are in need of food. It is a sensible move,
and the government will buy the cows from the
dairy farmers and where they give a cow they
will cut .some of the relief funds.
Another good thing about the plan as it af
fects local farmers is that the cattle which will
be bought by the government here and given to
poor families are good cows. High-class Jerseys;
producing fine, rich milk. The social aspects of
this plan appear to be much better than plowing
Up cotton and reducing wheat.
We drove ten miles in this county la.st Thurs
day afternoon. During th» drive we passed a
little house on a hillside where there was not
enough of anything. Two little children, pale,
dirty and ragged, played in the yard. There Is
not too much of any necessity of life so long as
a condition such as that prevails. It would be
far better to spin and weave the surplus cotton
into clothing for folks like that and see that
they work to secure the necessities than to re
duce production as long as there are hungry peo
ple to b? fed and naked people to be clothed.
In this connection, it is well to realize that as
bad as the relief situation here has appeared to
be, it is much better than in nearby counties.
The University News Letter, the hottest little
sheet that shows us what 'vre are, comes up with
a show of figures in regard to the relief situa
tion in the state that is most illuminating. For
instance, Caldwell county last year had 12.6 per
cent of her citizens on relief. Wilkes, to the
east of us, had, 8.3 per cent, Watauga 20 per
cent, and Avery 23.2 per cent. The other near
by counties varied as widely. And the varia
tion in th“ state as a whole was even more
noticeable. Stanly county carries off the blue
ribbon, w'ith only 3.7 per cent of its population
OB relief. Stanly is also a Jersey county, and a
good farming section.
The conclusion at which we arrive after read
ing these figrures and thinking the situation
through, is that Stanly is probably feeding that
'percentage of its population that all of us
should feed. The plain fact is that no farm
population in this stats should; have to be fed
:&«ni federal funds. The government is doing
all in its power to assist the farmers to do good
farming and to grow enough food for their
fsinilies, and their last move—to put a cow on
every farm where one can be fed—will go a long
way in that direction. The necessity for assist
ance from the fet^ral government has created
m situation that has produced too much depend
ence-
“Heaven Bound’’
“They couldn't get enough money for
their schools, so they went ‘Heaven
Bound.” That is the way Carl Goerch
heads an interesting article about the
pageant which negro school teachers of
Cleveland county have given throughout
the Carolinas and Tennessee.
The coming engagement of “Heaven
Bound” in this city gives added interest to
the stoiy of how this pageant came into
existence. 'The pageant was bom of the
depression and cradled by the mother of
many great achievements, necessary. With
inadequate funds to carry on their educa
tional prograiB among the .colored children
of Shrtby and surrounding communities,
jthe toai&ers, under the leadership of
lliomas, began thinking of some
way to raise the needk4 money. The out
come was the writing of “Heaven Bound"
and its presentation to more than 500 au
diences.
The play, pageant or revival meeting,
whichever you choose to call it, has Atir^
upwards of 100,000 pei^Ie. It needs no in
troduction to people in North Wilkesboro
and Wilkes^ro. Those who saw the per
formances hem last year,;, have declared
it one of tile finest plays seen here in
/School
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Stollowlne Is the honor ttjll
Aifeor Roll
a
Be^ Pardne.
i: liairi!, Jo:' PMaoBi
:ins, Huf#'
'Brvlu, llamye
years.
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The realization that the colored school
teadiers of Cleveland are using this page
ant as a means of suppiementiilg^ state
funds for the operation of their Mhools
and the consequent enlargement of the
opportunities for their race should help to
increase attendance at the perfhrmance
here.
th«.'North Wilkesboro eity school
for the 5th report period:
Qihde 1: Billy OsJnrlel, Eugene
: Hayes, Palmer RoHon, Edwin
Long, Sl^ Hill, Mary Elmore'
^nley, Betty Hutchens, Chalma
Thagoe, “Matle St. John, Rosebe
McNeil, J. C. Perdue, Dick Un
derwood, Bobble Louise Hawkins,
Pstsy Ruth McNelU, Dorothy
Summers, * Gilbert Anderson,
.Ralph Cbnrch, Ralph Craven,
Bill Jenkins,
Tates.
Grade lift Elisabeth Jennings,
Nina Dali, filaech Miller, Sara
Boltnger, Ulyeses Poster, Lola
Glass, Eugene Tester: 9
Grade 11: Annie Vtnnoy,
Annie Jo Halgwood, Rebecca
Bthrae, Gladys Bryant, Henry
Bauguees, Elisabeth Johnson,
Elolse Nichols.
Sniiiiggler Captured
itAipn uoi^rciii R»4pn v;r»ven,. • *•.- O
Glenn Golliher, Jackson Hayes, III 1IU9 v^OUUllUlllty I
Realignment of Parties
“Every so often a great personality
flashes across the horizon of our national
life so brilliantly that a cleavage is left in
our strong political parties and the result
is a realignment,” Attorney Ira T. John
ston, of Jefferson, said as a remark inci
dental to his address dealing with the his
tory of the Whig party at the Kiwanis
Club luncheon Friday.
A list of men who have so influenced
the thinking of the nation would include
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and
perhaps Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Re^firming his belief in the two-party
system of government, Mr. Johnston made
the significant statement:
“I am firmly convinced that there
should be a realignment of our political
parties. There should be a strong con
servative pai’ty to put on the brakes
when the liberals have a tendency to go
too far. And there should be a strong
liberal party to keep pushing ahead and
prevent the conservatives from halting
the march of progress. ’
And when we think seriously of the
present party alignment, we realize that
both the Democratic and Republican par
ties are composed of a hodge-podge of po
litical thinkers. La Follette, Cutting,
Hiram Johnson and Norris are much
closer to Franklin D. Roosevelt in their
views on government than many Demo
crats, including such outstanding men as
John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith and Car
ter Glass. Strictly speaking neither party
can be classed as conservative or liberal.
There are conservatives in both; there are
liberals in both,
Mr. Johnston’s view that the nation
would be served better if there were one
conservative party and one liberal party
is logical. Perhaps, as the Jefferson at
torney suggested, the Roosevelt personali
ty may be the means of regrouping the
liberals in one party and the conservatives
in another.
Christal Anderson. Lila Anne
Belscb, Helen Candill, Marie El
ler, Betty Gwyn Finley, Nancy
Foreeter, Oaynell Hayes,.
Grade 2; William Btayes, Annie
Ruth Blankenship, Betty Jane
Turner, Patsy Ruth Healey, Joyce
Harrpld, Kate Porter, Lomax
Kilby, Jack Anderson, Bill Half-
acre, Lewie Hill Jenkins, Thos.
Whicker, Hope Allen, Helen
Blankenship, Betty Jean Bush,
Pegay Jane Hart, Mary Moore
Hix, Ruby Lee Johnson, Frances
Kennedy, Ruth Wyatt,
Senior Clase Disregards Friday,
the Thirteenth, And Will
Present ‘Way
Waugh, Charles Williams, Wil
liara Keck, Fred Miller, Frances
Rousseau, Billie R. Trogdon, Lu-
cile Casey, Peggy Nichols.
Grade 3: Rose Zell Caudill,
Mildred Elledge, Wilma Higgins,
Ruth Laster, Cl.ara Louise Par-
diie, Malcolm Bntner, William
Wade Estes, Claude Reynolds,
Craven, Gladys Dagenhardt, Mar-
Edna Mae Minton, Betty Joe
Roy Lane, son of Widow Lane,
has been captured for saraggling
dope into this community. The
go^s have been found in an old
deserted honse. What happens in
this house is revealed in “The
Mystery of the Third Gsble,”
which will be presented by the
Henjy I senior class of North Wilfee^l^oro
high school in the school aud»-
torhim Friday evening at 7:^
o’clock.
The seniors have disregarded any
superstitions they have possessed
about'Frday, the thirteenth, and
are giving their annual class play
on the so-called unlucky date.
The cast includes Judge How-
arch played by Ross Scroggs; Mrs.
gie Galllher, Frances Finley, 1 j t> u -d .
Betty Hill, Joyce Kilby. Brsle Sherwood, ReW^ Bramejj ^y
The Book
the first line of which reads,
"The Holy Bible," and which
contain.^ four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
BEGINNING OF THE END
The beginning of the end of the Jewish na
tion.
All of this took place around 1000 B. C., which
is a useful date to remember in connection with
David and Solomon. From the death of Solomon
until 586 B. C., when Jerusalem was destroyed
by the Babylonians, the history of t’ne two little
kingdoms is a sad tale of intrigue, sinfulness,
bad management and steady decline. Some
times the kingdoms fought and sometimes they
were allies. In periods of peace the crown prince
of one kingdom was usually named after the
reigning monarch of the other, so that the rec
ord in the Book of King;s is confusing enough
to the average reader. You get the gist of it
in verses like these:
“In the thirty and first year of Asa king
of Judah (the smaller kingd|Om) began
Omri to reign over Israel (the larger) . . .
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the
Lord and did worse than all that were be- ■
fore him. . . .
Omri slept with his fathers, and was
buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned
in his .stead. . . .
And Ahab the son of Omri dfd evil in the
sight of the Lord above all that were before
him.
Each king, you see, excelled his predecessor in
wickedness and incompetence. We have no time
for them in this rapid survey except a single
glance at two of the most dramatic figures—
Jezebel, the strong-minded old queen, and, Jehu,
who slew her. Jezebel was a princess of the
proud kingdom of Tyre, and when Ahab, king
of Israel, married her, he thought he had achiev
ed a great diplomatic victory. As Queen Moth
er, Jezebel’s powerful influence lasted after the
death of her husband and throughout the reign
of her son Joram, king of Israel, and Azariah,
her son-in-law, who was king in Jerusalem.
Attaliah was another Jezebel and dominated Je
rusalem as the mother did Samaria. Jehu was a
kind of Cromwell, stem, bloody, unmerciful. H-'>
killed both Kings Joram and Azariah, and raced,
back to the capital to make away with Jezebel
and all the members of the royal family. iWhen
Jehu started for a place he arrived in a hurry.
The driving is like the driving of Jehu the
son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
Jezebel could have fled, but her queenly pride
scorned such cowardice- Instead, she “painted
her face, and tir^^d her head, and looked out at
a window.” When Jehu drove through theutreets
she taunted him as a dog who had slahi his
master. And Jehu ‘lifted up his face to the
window, and said. Who is on my side? who?
And there looked out to him tvro or three
eunuchs. And he said. Throw her down. So they
threw her do'wn; and some of her blood was
sprinkled on the wall, and on the.horses; and
he trode her under foot”,
With such edifying spectacles Gw record is 1—S™'
thickly dotted. "" - Thb
Faye Lyall, Grace Miller, Hubert
Clark, Carl Gwyn Coffey, Ward
Eshelman, Royal Eudally, John
Kelly, Thomas Lowe, Hill Carl
ton, Joe Clements, Joe Hunt,
Wade Palmer, Fred Jennings,
Ohri.stine Byrd. Lucile Covington,
Martha Frazier, Betty Mills. Mar
garet Rhodes.
Grade 4: Jack Hadley, Henry
Landon, Donald McDiarmid, Ed
na Absher, Pauline Bumgarner,
Pearl Dancy, Katherine Finley,
Xellie Gabriel. Wanda Kerley,
Xell Rousseau, D. T. Bush, Jr.,
Ward Kenerly, Bob MoCoy, Hal
Owens, Henry Reynolds, Mary
Brewer, Betty Halfacre, Lucile
Rhodes.
Grade 5; Mildred Williams,
Johnsie Lackey , Ruby Jones,
Nellie Galllher, Floyd Palmer,
Mack Miller, Bobby Hethcock.
Paul Halgwood, Walter Jones,
Wayne Caudill, Grace F. Kilby,
Lorine Jones, Mary Lois Frazier.
Betty Sue Pierce. Cora Pruitt,
.nice Wells. Wanda Johnson.
Grade 6: Pat Williams, Mo-
zelle Beeson. Mary Louise Clem
ents, Corinne Faw, Margie Ga-
jbriel, Jane Perry, Frank Cra-
nor, Joe McCoy. Russell Pearson
[ Harry Shaefer. Ozell Andrews,
Mildred Ford, Virginia Morrison.
Grade . 7: Ralph Crawford,
Edward Day, Johnny Edwards,
George Wells, Agnes Elledge,
Margaret Mills, Lassie Minton,
Elizabeth Neel, Mary Frances
Pardue. .Margaret Whi-ttlngton
Ralph Bowman, Edward McNeill
Robert Schaefer. Charles Whick
er. Mabel Johnston.
Grade 8: Ruth Absher. Grace
Dancy. Helen Kelly. Mary Nich
ols, Sara Poole, Charles Sink.
Lane, Allen Ward: Roger Hadley,
Frank McNeill; Sally Sherwood,
Dovie Pardue; Mrs. Lane, Mary
Lane; Tom Sherwood, Buford
Jones: Jane Morgan, Elsie Nich
ols: Janet Morgan, Marianna Cas-
sel.
The admission charge will be 25
cents.
J. F. Cannon, Concord bank
er and textile manufacturer, fac
es a suit by his soa-in-law, F. B.
Smith, of Charlotte, for_ $250,-|
000 for alienating the affections
of Smith’s wife. Mrs. Smith,
daughter of Mr. Cannon, was the
first wife of Smith Reynolds.
Helped By Cardui
Here’s the true story of how Car* ■
dul helped Mrs. H. E. Dunaway,
of McComb, Miss., as written by
herself:
"I was sick and rather discour
aged. I was BO weak and thin, I
was not able to do my work aa it
should be done. This made me
fret a good deal, and did not help
my condition.
“1 bad pains across my back
and lower part of my body. My
nights were spent In rolling from
one side of the bed to the other,
hoping I would soon go to sleep. .
Then when morning would come,
I would be just as tired as when 1
went to bed. A neighbor, seeing
how badly I felt, tdid me to try
Cardui. After I had taken one bot- :
tie, I was much better. I kept on |
taking Cardui, and I was stronger {
and elept much better at night”
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YOU CAN HAVE A COMPLETE LAUNDRY IN
YOUR HOME AT LOW COST
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Phone 328 Meadows Bldg.
TAL J. PEARSON
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Thousands have Ended
their Bowel Worries
by taking this advicel
Can constipation actually be over
come? "YesP’ say meucal
men.
“Yesf’ say the many ^nsai^
who have followed their advice
and know.
You are not likely to cure your
constipation with salts, pills, tablets,
or any of the habit-fornung cathar
tics. But yon can coirect this con
ation by gentle regulation with a
sniUddeliqaid laxau've.
nung force. An approved tiqaid
laxative (one whkb n most windy
used for noth adults and chtldra)
idy
rea)
is syrw peprin. Dr. C^dwetTs
Syrup Pepnn is a prescription, and
is peneetty ettft. Its laxabve action
is naaed on senna—a nafara/ laxa
tive. The bowels will not become
dqpendent on 'Gtis form of help, as
in the ease of mincfal dn^
Hospitals and doctors have al-
THE LIQUID TESTi
jays liquid l^tives.^ '^c'
-m eah. he meaMred. and the
action contndled. Pills and tablets
containing drugs of viofet t action
are hard on the bowels.
If there an» children in yonr
select a prop^y prepared
t. Second: take the
household. d»’t rive them any fad
form of laxative, nut 1
I This ii the wiqr many men ai^
; women have made ther bowels as
' regular as dockworfc in a very
: .sh^ time. 9
I First: select a
! liquid laxative. — •
f dm yon find suited to your system, pepsin. Its very taste will tdl you
. Third: gradually reduce the dose it is.whotesomo, and ureeable to
j OBtil boti^ are noviag of thdr tbe stiunach. DeNAtfuftaste. ud
I own accord. dcli^tM actiim; there n no dis-
isn’t it? And it workt
Ekinid laxative brings
uae a hmlthr
fut. hdpfni preparation like syrup
We do the job right. Give us a chance
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