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rTHB JOURNAL.PATBIOT, N^TH WEteSORq N. C- b-‘ - Patriot INDBPEN1>13NT IN POUnCS and Thursdays at f NorttTf^esboro, N. C i, CARTrat ukI JVUUSC. HUBBARD, PnbHahm SUBSCRIPTION RATES: [la the State [ Dot of the State $1.00 per Year $1-60 per Tear Satered at the poet office at North Wilkea* ' boro. N. C.. aa second class matter under Act '* ff March 4, 1879. A. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934 S^uth Carolina may be the most conservative trf the states, but it has voted both dry and wgt in less than a year.—Daily Oklahoman. What Califcmia’s old line Democrats want is tf/not a bolt but a lockout.—Dallas Morning News. A Railroad Jolts Mr. Ickes—headline. Well, anyhow, Harold, it took a railroad to do it.— Memphis Commercial Appeal. Utilizing Leisure Time The NRA with its shorter ■working hours and shorter working tveeks has brought to most of us an abundance of leisure time, as compared with the old ten-hpur day and six-day week in indus try. This is splendid for the laborer; but there is one problem that may prove se rious. This problem is the proper use of this extra time, especially for the factory worker. ’ Idleness gives an opportunity for crime to “hatch out” and for this reason an or ganization has been foiTned with the aim in view of helping people to use this leisure time profitably. The National Recreation Congress, composed of delegates appointed by the governors of the 48 states, will meet in Washington next month to discuss the problem of leisure time. They will deal mainly with recreation in communi ties, counties, states and the nation. The plan, we believe, calls for community play grounds, state and national parks. To this assembly Governor Ehringhaus has named as a delegate a prominent lady of this city, Mrs. W. R. Absher, who has clearly shown her leadership ability as president of the American Legion Auxili ary in North Carolina. If all the dele gates have the foresight and initiative of Mrs. Absher, we can hope for something worthwhile from the National Recreation Congress. It is not probable that all leisure time on the part of workers can be used for re creation. There are other diversions from routine work, such as good reading, home study, gardening and home improvements that should be stressed along with the playful side. School Ahead—Slow Down! During the summer months such signs as the above headline mean little for we know then that the children are not about the school but scattered to all parts of the compass But now these signs along the roadside have a grave significance. Throughout the country thirty millions of school chil dren have again picked up their textbooks and have marched back to the schoolroom. The roadside signs are vital warnings for motorists to watch out for the children. In spite of the efforts of school authori ties and safety workers, automobile cas ualties still account for more child fatali ties than any other accidental cause. Last j'ear, 4,100 boys and girls of school age were killed in such mishaps, and many thousands more were injured, according to figui'es supplied by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Undenvriters. The evidence undei-lying the statistics appcrrr to place the Marne heavily on Tnotori.st.'s. for th? youngsters have shown a remark..'-lc r.'.-iity to watch out for themselves by obseiwing safety rules and practices. In five j’ears. for example, while motor vehicle accidents involving adults have increased 34 per cent, those |nv(dving children have decreased 20 per cent. As a word to the teachers and parents we would advise them to teach the chil dren the importance of safety while on the highways. They should be taught not to insist on walking on the pavement, es- peciaUy while automobiles are in sight. It has been said that the schools are the brightest spot in the entire safety move ment. Children are being taught to gov ern their own conduct in traffic, but they are helpless if careless motorists refuse to eo-operate. Motorists, take care for school children. The sign, “School Zone—Slow,” is a driv- jxg coBunandment. ^ ■ ■* ■ Belmvior At Church ^ Frequently sHae of our wrrespOBdents state that “behavior was fine” in feeir re ports of reyival meetings over the county. • Since news consists morefof ex^ptiops than of the (wdinary, we are led-to wonder J if people are so demoralizedithat good havior at'^church is unustuiL ^ - Disturbances at church usually are tak ing loud while services are in progress, fights or other disorder about...the grounds. There is nothing more disgust ing than a person who can’t keep stil^ for a church service and who insists on run ning his mouth while worship is in prog- ressf There are rigid laws protecting the worship in .churches and if good behavior is getting to be unusual, it is because the good people will not take the trouble and responsibility of reporting and helping to prosecute the offenders. COUNTLESS READERS WELCOME WHOLBSOME FILM* 1 Enters Daily Field The Reidsville Review, for many years a progi’essive tri-w’eekly newspaper, has advanced into the daily field and has ei.- tered the larger and broader field of journalism. Here’s congratulations to the publishers and editors and wish them every success. The Book the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," and which contains four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON MARK TRAVELS WITH SAUL Saul’s conversion was instantaneous, yet its development was most interesting. Instead of arresting any one in Damascus, he at onco an nounced his change of convictions, and had to es- cane from the city by means of a basket let down from the wall. For three years he retired to Arabia. When he emerged he had a definite plan. He would go back to Jersusalem to be welcomed by the dis ciples, who would naturally choose him as their leader, and so he would become minister of the First church in Jerusalem. It ■was a grand plan, but it met with bitter disappointment. When he arrived in Jerusalem the disciples were afraid of him and, even after he had been vouched for by Barnabas, gave him a very grudging welcome. Rebuffed but still ardent, he went to his old home in Tarsus, a Greek city, where he had been born, a Jew but with full right of Roman citi zenship, a fact of which he was immensely proud and of which he took full advantage. For a while he had little to do. Then Barnabas, a dis coverer of men greater than himself, the dis coverer of Mark, went to Tarsus and invited Saul to come to Antioch. After a very successful work in Antioch, Bar nabas and Saul proposed to 'visit the old home of Barnabas in the island of Cyprus, and to preach as they went. This they did, and took with them Mark, who was a nephew of Barna bas. In Cyprus they had great success and estab lished a friendship with the Roman governor, Sergius Paulus. Saul, named for the Old Tes tament king, now changed his name to Paulus, probably after this governor. From Cyprus they went into the nearer regions of Asia Minor. And now an occasion of irritation arose. Bar- naba.s was the leader of this journey, but Saul everywhere became the more prominent charac ter. Barnabas was evidently a tall impressive man; Paul much .smaller, more active, and nerv ous. In one place on the mainland they were received with such honor that there was a pro posal to deify them: And they called Barnabas, Jupiter: and Saul, Mercurius, because he ■was the chief speaker. Mark did not like the way things were going. His uncle Barnabas was the really great man, but Saul was taking the lion’s share of the hon ors. Mark made himself disagreeable, and Saul did not like Mark, who finally left the two older men and went back to Jerusalem. In due time Saul and Barnabas followed, and both at Anti och and later at Jerusalem gave a vivid account of a most successful tour. Thus far there had been no serious quarrel in the church, but the calm was about to be broken. Borrowed Comment EDITORS MUST BE BORN (Reidsville Review) iWe are temporarily resigning our editorial desk in favor of the Kansas schoolboy who offers the following comment: “I don’t know how newspapers and magazines got into the world, and I think God does, for he aiii’t got nothing to say about these in the Bible. I think the editor is the missing link we read of, and that he stayed in business until after the flood, came out and wrote things up, and has been k'-pt busy ever since. If the editor makes a mistake, folks say he ought to be hung; but if the doctor makes mistakes, he buries them and people don’t say nothing because they can’t read Latin. Wh?n the editor makes a mistake, there is a big law suit and swearing and a big fuss; but if the doctor makes one. there is a funeral with flowers and perfect silence. A doctor can use a word a yard long without him or any one else knowing what it means, but if the editor uses one, he has to spell it. If the doctor goes to see another man’s wife, he charges for the visit, but if the editor goes, he gets a charge of buck shot. Any college can make doctors to order, but editors have to be bom.—The American Farmer. ESI PRICES Tires In To|m COME! SEE! w- .,4. TIRE 29x4.40 $4.20 TIRE 30x3^ $4.00 leisurely Recapturing the charm of the pre-war days In American rural life, ^“A Girl of the Limhcclost,” Gene Stratton Porter’s famous novel of Indiana country life, conr.rs to the screen of the Liberty Theatre Thursday and Friday. This picture has been most highly recommended by all the well wishers of better entertain ment on the screens of the coun try and in their answer this pic ture has been produced -to most effective results. Everywhere It’s praise has been heralded. In accordance to the high standard of the picture a short feature program of high calibre has been arranged by the man agement of the Liberty Theatre for Thursday (and Friday with such subjects as a.Betty Boop Cartoon in natural color, the first of a series, "Pbor Cinderel la’’ and a specially selected dance reel entitled “Society Notes.” TIRE 30x4.50 $4.60 13-PLATE BATTERIES a'95 EXCHANGE MOTOR OIL 49c; PER GALLON CAR WASHED AND GREASED $1.25 LOW. PRICES ON AUTO REPAIR WORK . ALL WORK GUARANTEED CLASSICS ... on the screen. Passing a motion picture thea tre the other day I overheard two young women talking. They were typical. “cheap’’ city girls, the sort that constantly seeks “thrills,’’ mistaking emotional excitement for happiness. The picture at the theatre was “Jane Eyre.” “Aw, we don’t want to see that; it’s nothing hut a classic,” said one of them. That attitude, that anything that isn’t “modern’’ hasn’t any thing in it for folk of today, is prevalent, I observed, among the unintelligent and half-educated. Yet “Jane Eyre’’ has been one of the great successes of the films of 1934, as was “Little Wom en” before it; suggesting to me that the scornful attitude of those who regard themselves as sophisticated is not as wide spread as many people think. ADVENTURE . . . always thrills. A wholesome adventure story dramatically told that will live longer than its author’s reputa tion in other fields is Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Is land.’’ And if anyone has any doubt as to whether a “clean’’ motion picture will be a box of ficc success he ought to see the crowds standing in line at the box office where the new film of “Treasure Island’ ’ is being shown. Incidentally, I hear that one of the large film companies is preparing to produce that other great “classic’’ of English litera ture, the first novel In our lan guage, “Robinson Crusoe.T I have long wondered why that hadn’t been done. REVIVALS . . . pack ’em in. Further evidence that you can please the theatre-going public other than by constantly giving them something a little newer and a little rawer than what went before is to be found in the cur rent revival of the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas, in New York, by an English company which for years has played noth ing else. The largest crowds to attend any New York play in years swamp the theatre every night. A great English actor-mana ger, Sir Nigel Playfair, died the other day. His chief claim to fame was that he put on a re vival of John Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera,’’ first produced about 1730, and it had a continuous run of more than 1,100 perform ances, proving that English au diences, like Americans, don’t care how old a thing is so long as it is good. And, incidentally, one of the most successful plays given at our Berkshire Playhouse in my home town the past summer was Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.’’ age, and the durability and quality of workmanship is often testified to by the tact that they have existed and been in use for a century or two. But when a common pine shoe maker’s bench, such as I used to see the village cobbler working at when I was a boy, sells for the price of a grand piano, then I can only think that somebody has more money than taste. NOVELTY . . . and living. It is easy to establish a wrong idea in one direction as in anoth er. A',gainst those who think nothing is good that isn’t new stand the ones who think nothing is good unless it is old. Neither, of course, is true. Much depends upon what sort of things-:-objects, ideas, enter tainment or what not—one is talking about. The sort of per sons who demand new ideas about life and living and the so cial order are usually the same type who regard everything else that existed before they were born as being out-moded. As a matter of fact, nothing is so durable as a sound idea, and nothing so evanescent as a new idea that is not sound. The test of time has resulted since the beginning of things in the dis carding of novelties in govern ment and social relations and the return to the ancient standards by which the world, on the whole, has been governed. Often the symbols and the methods are changed, but no social order has long existed that was not based on the durable truths derived from countless centuries of hu man experience in living togeth er. Hxcerpts from Constitution Day oratory indi cate that Republican orators punctiliously used their text "as a point of departure."—Louisville Jonrier-Joumal. ANTIQUES . . . and “taste.” The Interest in ancient things does not end with plays and books. There has grown up a great interest, in the past forty or fifty years. In the collection of what are generally classified as antiques. Old glass, old china, old books, old furniture, old anything and everything, command a market, even In times of depression. Here, again, there is great confusion in the minds' of the many,, who imagine that the value of these things derives from their age alone. That has much to do with It, but discriminating people never buy anything mere ly because, It is old. Leaving his torical associations out of the picture, the value of antiques de pends upon whether they are, first, more beautiful than their modern counterparts: second, better made and more durable. The beauty may in part be due to .ANNUITIES .... grow in favor I have a friend, a young doc tor, who isn’t worrying about his future. As fast as he can get bold of 1100 that he doesn’t need to use, he tells me, he buys an annuity contract from one of the big life insurance companies, which will begin when he is sixty to pay hi.m a pension for the'rest of his life, and if be should die sooner, all be has paid in will be returned to his heirs. “Any man who tries to pick his own investments or to make money by speculating in stocks is a plain sucker,” he remarked. “Nobody can make money In that way unless he gives his whole time to it, and a busy pro fessional man hasn’t the time or the ability to study investments. If the big life insurance com panies can’t do better with my money than I can, then their management Is incompetent, and I don't believe It is. And if they smash, the whole country will smash and I’ll be no worse off in one case than in the other.’’ Insurance men tell me that a rapidly growing number of busi ness and professional men are buying present or deferred an nuities, either for lump sums or on instalment payments. Motor Service Storel^ ±T. WILEY BROOKS—PAUL BILLINGS Ninth Street North Wilkesboro, Marriage Licenses Since September 13 licenses to wed were issued by Register of Deeds T. H. Settle to the follow ing couples: Ben Eller and Ida Laws, Lenoir; Brestoe Osborne and Maude Mable, North 'Wilkes- boro; Randolph Handy, Sheets, and Bessie Absher, Pruitt, Roaring River; Bill Mes ser and Dolly Heivy, Williamson, W. Va. LITTER OF ‘23 PIGS BORN TO KANSAS SOW A Winfield, Kansas, Duroc sow. which last spring caused something of a sensation by far- Winston- rowing 21 pigs, has produced 22 Salem; Archie Hemric and Ger tie Sparks, Roaring River; El bert Wiles, Offen, and Ruby In her fall farrowing. In her last five litters the sow has far rowed 103 pigs. 11% DISCOUNT On Town Taxes Taxpayers are advised that they are entitled to a discount of IV2 per cent on 1934 Town Taxes if paid on or before Octo ber 1st, 1934. W. P. KELLY TAX COLLECTOR, TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. Bank Is Opened Raleigh, Sept. 21.—The Wa tauga county bank at Boone to day opened for unrestricted banking business, it was an nounced at the offices of the state hank commiesioner. The Institution, which operat ed under restrictions from last March up to today, had resources of $3i74,841.01 on June 30, 1934. It is a member of the fed eral deposit insurance ■ corpor ation now. Card of Thaiilu To all our neighbors and friends who were so kind and showed so much sympathy for US In the death of our father, W. M. Johnson, we express heartfelt appreciation.'' - ^THB CHILDREN. I Don't Miss The Biggest Evmt of t)ie Whole Year Winston-Salem & Foriytli County iyp Oct 2,3,4,5 and 6,1934 Horse Raeiiig*^flne Exhlblts*-RigliClass ^ Aets^Featnrlng Schootey Revue (At MsU) Antomobile ,^irewoi^ Rae^ (Every Nigkt)
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