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V^5? Js W- ked IfjMSkrB and Thursdays it NaMTWIftesboro, N. C. h CASTER and JULTOS C. PabEakers SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ]b th« State .|1.00 per Year Oat of the State 11.60 per Year Entered at Oie post office at North Wilkes- boro. N. C.. as second class matter under Act of 4. 1879. MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934 A Scenic Country Under the caption, “Advertise North Carolina,*’ a well known state paper says .^editorially: I The National Geographic Magazine which, by ... means of remarkably clear and beautiful pictures In color and half-tone, almost succeeds in pick ing up the reader and transporting him to the acene depicted, g^ves long-delayed recognition to the Grandfather-Linville section of the North Carolina mountains in its issue for June. Several color and half-tone views taken in the vicinity of Grandfather, Blowing Rock, Linville Falls and Lake James, are used in illustrating the article. “Wild Gardens of the Southern Ap palachians,” written by Leo A. Borah. The pho tographs were made by a staff photographer of the magazine, under the guidance of Rufus Gwyn. of Lenoir. Possessing some of the most beautiful scenery of the Western World, scenery which a French- mm says in the Baltimore Sun, reminds him of the lordly Pyrenees of France and Spain, North Carolina has found it difficult to awake the rest of America to a proper appreciation of it. The mountain peaks around Asheville, thanks to an active chamber of commerce and the advertising of a railroad company, are pretty wdll known and the Great Smokies are coming into their own by virtue of the establishment of a national park. But the Linville and Grandfather country, which possesses the most picturesque and stately scenery in the Carolinas, perhaps, has been neg lected almost as badly as a red-headed step child- The publicity given this beautiful region in the National Geographic, one of the outstanding periodicals of its type in the world, should prove of immense and lasting benefit to the Linville- Grandfather aiea. At last the hill country has found its claim to distinction recognized. And we cite this as further reasons for the selection of the North Carolina route for the scenic park-to-park highway. The route proposed by North Carolina sponsors is as scenic as any that can be found east of the Mississippi and we urge our con gressmen and senators to continue their efforts on behalf of the North Carolina route. Public Hangings Three men were executed in New York the other night for the brutal and some what clumsy murder of a man who seem ingly was immune to death. After hiring a taxi driver to run him down, they tried freezing him to death in a park on a cold winter night. Later they gave him wood alcohol to drink and he liked the flavor. Shortly threafter they turned on the gas in an apartment and succeeded in ending the man’s life. While it took weeks for them to accom plish their crime, which was committed for the purpose of collecting insurance money, it required only 16 minutes for the state of New York to exact the death penalty of all three. These facts are stated only as an intro duction to another and more important observation. How many people even no ticed the item in the newspapers teDing of their execution? The average electro cution is scarcly noticed by the public. The thing has become so common that the newspapers carry a brief item and forget about it. * But not many as old as 60 years have foiYpotten the last public hanging in JVilkes, When Byers was strung up in tVilkesboro in 1888, a crowd was on hand and we have been told that murderers were scarce in the county for several years thereafter. The court records, we believe, will support this stetement. It is admitted that public hangings seem bmtaL To feed morbid curiosity in that bianner is not an admirable trait of an advanced civilization, but neither is mur der a desirable event. ' ^ " ' The type of man that will commit mur der is of the type that will be impress^ with the gruesome picture and the sordid details of a public hanging. Undoubted- ^'ly, a mind so impressed is less apt to dwell on doing evil toward fellow man. But to whisk a murderer away to Ra leigh and finish the job in the small d^th chamber, where only a few sp«5ta- tors are admitted, is to remove the crime- deterrent possibilities from the communi ty tiurt lAould thereby be benefited. Max\y of those believing in capital pup- ishment are inclined to believe that Ihe death ^air has been worthless as a crime ‘ detarrait. B^use a catbird, guarding her home in a thicket in the botanical garden in New York City, would not leave. Super intendent Allen ordered the dump of brush left alone for six months. Who says there isn’t sentiment still in the world? , Fletcher’s Selection The Book the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible," and which contains four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON LUKE USHERS IN WOMEN Paul, the most adventurous of the early Chris tian misssionaries, was often sick, and had as a physician a Greek gentleman named Luke. Luke had a friend named Theophilus who, as he thought, would be interested in the story of Jesus, but not in the form set forth by Mark or Matthew. Accordingly, Luke wrote: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewit nesses, and ministers of the word; It seems good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most ecccellent Theophilus. You will note that he does not criticize the ac counts already written but observes merely that he does not find them adapted to Theophilus. He did not claim to have been, and in fact was not, an original disciple, but he said that he had en joyed exceptional opportunities for hearing the story from reliable men who had first-hand knowledge. These are perfectly straightforward reasons for writing a book and they furnish a pleasing introduction to the Good News as Luke wrote it and to that later book, partly compiled fnn his own experiences as a companion of Paul, the Acts. , i ’ j ■ • i ’' i Luke did not care a fig about quotations from the Old Testament which might be very con vincing to a Jew, for Theophilus was not a Jew. But he did tell of the Go^ Samaritan, and of the Prodigal Son, and some other exalted stories of the appreciation of Jesus for folks beyond the narrow walls of Judaism. Metthew never could have written this book any more than Luke could have written Matthew’s. One other fact is significant abont the third Gospel. In some way the writer got hold of a fresh source of information about the women of that early Jerusalem community. Who told him and what was told we can only guess, but the fact is clear that Luke knew more and tells more about the women who were friends of Jesus than any of the other writers. That element gives an added quality of fineness to his book, which is probably the moat beautiful book in the world. Years later, in Ephesus, where Greek philoso phy bad tinged the thought and vocabulary of all educated people, a man named John wrote another story of Jesus. It is hardly the life- story; rather ia it an interpretation, and a very fine one. We should have lost some of the most beautiful sayings of Jesus if it were not for this fourth Goq>el, and one has only to read it through to understand why in every age it has been so greatly loved. . "4 ^ Lee s Hope To Complete No. 18 This Week A New York magistrate offered a tip to cities with civic organizations fiatwrest- ed in keeping their cities clean and at tractive. The magistrate sentenced 17 men, who had been arrested for strewing newspapers in Central Park, to_ spend three hours each giving the park a gen eral cleaning. It’s a tip, that if accepted would bring results. Highway 18 iU Be Hardsarfac- ed Through To Laurd Springs Soon X contractors. Three lawyers in Brooklyn, N. Y., lost the case for their clients last week when the presiding judge told the jury one of the lawyers had given his pwketbook t® an attendant for safekeeping. The five defendant.® in the case were pickpockets. The jury convicted them. Klker and Yount, who are laying the oil treatment pavmne^ on. highway No. 18 be tween #’airplains and McGrady, are expecting to complete the road this week, according to information given oat here. Five miles of the road out from Fairplains toward McGrady were paved several days ago and the contractors wmre called to ihq Smoky Mountun National Park to complete a tourist road. They re sumed work on No. 18 last week and weaker conditions prevented the completion of the paving'as soon as was expected. The road will be finished this week, provid ed weather conditions are favor able. ’• J. T. Edirard plrioices B«1 thc^tafes Questioned for three hours in Parlia ment several days ago, a witness drank 13 cups of Ru-ssian tea. Evidently, the gentleman was in a hot situation. Teacher Load Is Lowered It was forty years ago that a friend accidentally shot Ferdinand Wagoner, of Springfield, Ind., in the stomach. Doctors thought he couldn't live, but did their best to save him. They made him a whole new stomach which consisted mostly of silver tubes. They still thought he couldn’t live. But he did. Today, June 11, he celebrated his 102nd birthday. The selection of Henry P. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, as new chairman of the Republican national committee, is gener ally interpreted as meaning that the Hoover influence is still dominant in the councils of the party. A conservative of the old school, Fletch er was the choice of Mills and Brown, two of Hoover’s chief lieutenants. The Republican battle cry in the forth coming congressional races has been sounded with a plea for a “square deal’’ rather than a “new deal.’’ That will prob ably be the slogan until 1936. MTiether the hold of the “new deal’’ has been broken sufficiently for the Republi cans to win additional seats in the House of Representatives this fall is problemati cal. Political observers are doubtful. 'That a reaction from the tremendous popularity of President Roosevelt would be natural is universally admitted. But at this point in the program, political ob- sei’vers fail to see the break. Whatever one’s own political affilia tions, it should be interesting to watch developments from now until November 6. Raleigh.—Despite a decrease in average dally attendance, it appeared today that the number of North Carolina school teach ers would not be reduced next year. The state school commission, mietlng here, decided tentative ly to lower the tracber load in elementary schoon. The high school quota, however, was not changed. Had the teacher load not been reduced, the number of teachers would automatically have been slashed since the quotas are based on average daily attend ance, which dropped during the current year. The new teacher load for ele mentary schools was set at six teachers for the first 180 pupils and one additional Instructor for each 35 additional pupils. The former quota called for an ad ditional teacher for each 36 ad ditional children. All Attendance rqporta have not yet been received. The com mission will meet again in two weeks to make definite teacher allotments for 1934-35 on the basis of complete reports. MAN KILLED 'TRYING' TO PREVENT SUICIDE Rocky Mount, June 8u—Failing to wrest a pistol from his wife’s hand as she attempted to kill hei^ self here yesterday, Willie Gay, 39, was fatally wounded and his wife, 29, sent to a hospital with two bullet holes in her hings. The shooting occured as the couple with thei- daughter, Au drey Lewis Gay, 11, rode along a highway just north of the city lim its. F. W. Dudley, city employe working at the airport, was first attracted when he saw a car ca reen into a ditch near the airfield, heard a pistol shot and a woman scream. Dudley said that he found iGay slumped under the steering wheel of the car, a bullet wound in the right side, and the woman with the gun in her hand and a wound in her chest. Mrs. Gay said, according to Dud ley, that she intended to kill her self but that in the struggle with her husband for possession of the .32 calibre revolver she took from her purse, the weapon discharged and Gay was fatally wounded- 'When Dudley arrived at the car the woman handed him the gun and immediately ' after jerked it out of his hand and shot herself a second time. Both Gay and his wife were rushed to a local hospital but Gay was dead when he arrived. Phy sicians said that Mrs. Gay was in a serious condition but gave her chance to recover unless com plications develop. CONFEDERATE VETERAN > Believing that actual aeeonnta of real happenings by people who are known are of more interest than fiction. The Journal-Patriot ia publishing at regt^r intecvals lep ters written by Wilkes veterans of the Confederacy. Bdow is a letter written by J. T. Edwards, of Ronda. Ifr. Edr wards was a member of Company F, 37tb North. Carolina Regiment On Uie 2nd day of April, 1866, I was on picket duty in fimt of Battery 4^ when the Fsderals ibroke our lines on the extreme Just as the son was rising we could see their army march ing in line of battle toward Battery 45. Their guns and bayonets shin ing in the sun presented a grand spectacle. The Federals had a line of pick ets to the south of us and vdieA we would rise out of our dugouts they would shoot at'ns. Our lieu tenant. Tom Norwood, who had charge of the picket line at this place, saw the Federal picket line being reinforced, ordered our lines to fall back to Battery 46, our picket line being weak. When we reached our battery, we found our regiment there. They gave us the sad news that our captain, John Petty, had been killed. In the evening just after dark, orders were given to retreat. Then for seven days we retreat ed in the direction of Appomattcbc Court House, throwing up tempo rary breastworks every evening. On April 9, 1865, when we were in sight of Appomattox Court House, two couriers were met with flags of truce. One was said to be Gen. Custer, who later was killed by the Indians. Orders were then given to fall back and go into camp. The following day we marched between two lines of Federal sol diers and stacked arms. , In going back to camp we passed a crowd of soldiers cutting up an apple tree that was said to be the tree under which Gen. Lee sur rendered, each soldier getting a chip or piece of wood as a souve nir. On the evening of the 12th of April, after getting honorable dis charges, we left camp for home. I arriv^ home April 20, 1866. Mrs. Mary Jan« Walters Elkin, June 8.—Mrs. Mary Jane Lawrence Walters, 74, died Friday morning at her home at State Road after a lingering ill ness. Her death followed closely the passing of her husband, Rob ert Walters, 12 days ago, with whom She had lived happily for GO years. Mrs. Walters is survived by live sons and one daughter; John Walters, of Benbam, Wilkes county: Richard and Lu ther Walters, of State Road; Grove Walters, of Ronda, and Mrs. Rachel Key, of Austin, Wilkes county. Other survivors are a brother, James Lawrence, two sisters. Mrs. D. Wagoner and Mrs. Rebecca Swift and 31 grandchildren. The funeral rites were con- dudted Saturday morning from Mount Pleasant Baptist church. ^ fo/Mi&rBts FISK 'ORBS WILL GIVE YOU EXTRA VALUE AND DEPENDABLE SERVICE Let as put your car in sh^ for a hard summer. We’H change your oil, fill ypur’battery, grease all moving parts, and generally “tone” up your motor. Drive in today. WILEY BROOKS, Manager A THE MOTOR SERVICE CO. NOWTH WILKESBORO, N. C S' President Roosevelt Pieces Better Living For American Citizens Washington, June 8.—Presi dent Roosevelt told Congress to day that be was working out a plan to make it possible for “Americans to live as Americans should.’’ The plan, which he promised to submit to the next Congress, will comprise better housing, the planned use of natural re sources and provision against unemployment and dependent old age. Immediately, Senator Robin son, of Arkansas, the Demo cratic leader, said “legislation during the next session will be based on the message.” In the message, Mr. Roosevelt informed both friends and ene mies that criticism had not swerved him from his vision of a planned national economy to prevent periodical jarring fails Into depression. “It is childish,” he said, “to talk of recovery first and re construction afterward. In the very nature of the processes of recovery we must avoid the de structive influences of the past.’’ After scanning the trenchant phrases in the message, many Democrats came to the conclus ion that it could serve as an ad mirable campaign document for the fail campaigns. AND THEN HE SMOKED A CAMEL. GOING DOWN,.. When your flow of energy ebbs ...then smoke a CameL Camels help to restore en ergy. .. quickly, pleasantly. Smoke them all you want. Camel’s costlier tobaccos never upset your nerves 1 ‘Get a llIS with a Camel! FULFILLMENT t I sought the doubtful comfort of my grief Wherewith to meet Time’s an nual disaster, For I was burdened with the fall ing leaf. And subject to the wind as to a poastoTi I*! All winter long my heart was in the grave. Doubtful of life and al departed glory; Unmindful that the naked trees were brave And still bdieved the resurrec tion story. , /■! t— I ■ But not I have n6 eynlc’s word to say, .43 Time fulfills her old pcrpetu al pledges; As, inch by inch and day on growing day, The green creeps back along the wintered hedges. —James Larkin Pearson in New York Times. OU Code Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow Night Distributors and deal^ of pe^ troleum products in this territory will meet at the courthouse in WilkesWo tomorrow night at *4 8 o’clock, for the pniipose of discus sing provlelons of the petroleum code and to hear comida|nts of£ viola^ns. ' OU CAN ALWAYS SAVE AT HORTON’l , FOR THE SPLENDID BUSINESS YOU HAVE GIVEN US DURING OUR OPENING. WE AP- PRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE AND WILL BE HERE 365 DAYS EACH YEAR TO TAgE CARE OF YOUR DRUG NEEDS AT MONEY SAVING PRICES. O r«c DRUGS FOR CASH — AT PRICES THAT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY rou CAN ALWAYS SAVE AT HORTON’S
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