n, i. CABTER and JUUUS C. HUBBARD,
Pabliahera
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
1b tlie State
Out of the State
11.00 per Year
,$1.50 per Tear
■leered at the post office at North Wilkea-
'joro. N. C.. as second class matter under Act
of March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1934
Japan say3 Russia has sold the railroad. Won
der if that came off the same typewriter that
says Manchukuo is an independent country.—
Dallas Morning News.
* Redistribution Of Wealth
Communistic agitators in this day and
time are clamoring for a redistribution of
wealth and they do not know what they
are clamoring for.
If the total wealth of this country was
evenly distributi 1 today, nobody would
have enough to dt anything with, and the
process of collecting wealth by the more
shrewd and smart people would being all
over again.
But Irenee Du Pont, who the Greensboro
Daily News refers to as the ‘big shell and
powder man,” who allegedly made his mil
lions on munitions profits, comes out with
the statement that the government cannot
ta.x away w'ealth from those who have it
and give it to those who haven’t got it.
As a matter of fact, however, “those
who have may be safer when those who
haven’t are kept from starving, as history,
going no farther back than the French
revolution, will offer testimony,” the
Greensboro News editorial continues.
We do not favor taxing anybody’s pos
sessions to give somebody else. That
would be putting a premium on idleness
and would wreck the morality of a people
and lead to chaos. But, we do believe that
wealth should be taxed to give the people
a chance to EARN something for them
selves.
No, the government does not owe any
body a living and should not be paternal;
but its responsibility in going as far as
possible to give people an opportunity to
earn a living is a big one and should be
met.
“Dole” and “direct relief” are two
things that are nauseating to people who
work for everything they have. There
are some people who are not able to earn
a living. These should be taken care of in
the proper institutions and all who are
able to work should sweat for their live
lihood.
Democracy
Sometimes wo are prone to think our
government is not perfect, and of course
it isn’t, but a sim^ey of other forms of
government lead to the natural conclu
sion that democracy is the only form of
government that will stand the test of the
ages and prove anything like satisfactory.
Below we are reproducing from a Win
ston-Salem Journal editorial the results
of som.e of the monarchial forais of gov
ernment ;
Cterles 1 was a tyrant who had his Crom
well. Ho went to the scaffold.
Marie .\ntionette told the hungry mob to
e.nr cake. She went to the guillotine.
P'cmi r nolius.s brought pressure to bear
on the Au.strian Socialists and his govern
ment murdered many of them in their
Vienna apartments. Dolfloss was assassi
nated.
King Alexander, we are told by Louis
Adamic, was a hardsh king, stern dictator,
cruel tyrant. King- .\bxander was murdered
at .Marseilles.
So what now? Ad)lf Hitler has assumed
the role of tyrant and has ordered murder
and assassination in the name of the state.
Premier Mussolini mles with an iron hand.
Will these two men also read their destiny
in the muzzle of a revolver or machine gfun?
The ruler who governs with an iron hand
must take his chances and assume great
risks. His life is constantly in danger. His
power of the moment may be shattered sud
denly by a bullet or a keen knife coming
out of the dark.
Just government, according to the Jeffer
sonian ideal may not be perfect, but it usu
ally is healthiest, although we. too, have
had our rulers to fall by the hand of as
sassins.
In a government where one man is king
in every sense of the word, the people
have no way of changing things except
by a revolution or assassination. In
America we can speak for ourselves and
in a peaceable way go to the polls and
completely change the governing jiowers.
It is a mighty fine country after its
Sweepstakes on apples, poultry, com
and wheat are a part of the pr^niums
Wilkes county farmers carried off at the
North Carolina state fair last week, ex
celling the entire state m four staple
crops. What other county in the state
made such a record?
We are justly proud of what our people
can do fanning against more or less ad
verse circumstances, and The Journal-.
Patriot hastens to put in a word of con
gratulations to the winners.
Winning prizes at the North Carolina
state fair is not a question of luck and
the element of luck does not enter into
the matter at all. It is a question of
producing the best.
Surely such a record will gain for Wilkes
some favorable publicity that will go far
toward balancing off some of the bad
marks we have had heralded against our
fair county during the past few years.
Many of us have heard too many times
the remark from somebody in other parts
of the state: “Wilkes, oh yes, that's the
place com liquor comes from,” or “That’s
the place where they had five murders in
one month.”
Our 35,000 peaceful people are not com
mented on but about 1,000 are the source
of all the bad publicity. Wilkes county
can boast of its com in solid form, be
cause our com duo boys won almost ev
erything in sight at the state fair. Ap
ples from the Bmshies (not brandy)
gained the envy of the entire state at the
fair exhibit halls. Wheat exhibited by J.
L. Gregory won both first prizes and
James Pennell gathered a flock of blue rib
bons on his chickens.
Thus the overyhelming better element
:s being heard from and getting recogni
tion from the remainder of the state. Just
why Wilkes should be spoken of in a sar
castic manner bby people from other parts
of the state is beyond us, considering the
many ways we are able to excel the efforts
of others. Wilkes exhibits with their blue
ribbons spoke a forceful message to the
state and the successful exhibits ring a
challenge to our other fanners to do as
well.
The Book
the first line of which reads.
Holy Bible,” and which
contains four ^reat treamires.
By BRUCE BARTON
faults are considered.
A BOOK IS STARTED
From Athens Paul went to Corinth, then the
Panama of the ancient world where a boom was
in progress waiting a government appropriation
for the digging of the canal, which had still to
-wait seventeen hundred years. Bachelor as he
was, Paul utilized more than any of the other
apostles the abilities of women. In Corinth he
was fortunate in finding a woman of talent,
Priscilla, who with her hu.sband, Acquila, took
him in. He and they were tent-makers and
worked together; and Paul soon began to gath
er converts. The orthodox ruler of the syna
gogue, Sosthenes, did not like the way things
were going and stirred up a crowd which hurried
Paul before the Roman deputy, with the char
acteristically intolerant charge:
This fellow persuadeth men to worship
God contrary to the law.
The deputy, Gallio. was a brother to the Phi
losopher Seneca and a man of solid cimmon
sense.
And when Paul was now about to open his
mouth. Gallio said unto the Jews. If it were
a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness. 0
ye Jews, reason would that I should bear
with you:
But if it be a question of words and
names, and of your law: look ye to it; for
I will be no judge of such matters.
And he drove them from the judgment
seat.
With characteristic fickleness the crowd now
turned on Sosthenes and administered a sound
beating, which was in process when Gallio step
ped out of the court room:
And Gallio cared for none of those things.
Paul, who had been beaten repeatedly and once
stoned and left for ctead, rather enjoyed the
spectacle, and the thrashing did Sosthenes good,
for he subsequently became a convert. Indeed,
when Paul was at Ephesus a few years later
Sosthenes w-as with him a. ' appears in the en
viable position of joint author of the letter to
the home folks^ the Corinthians:
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of God, and Sos
thenes our brother.
Unto the church of God which is at
Corinth.
Sometimes it takes a sound beating to open a
hard-shelled mind to new truth, and the subse
quent results may be of great benefit.
It was in Corinth that Paul developed what
came to be his method: simply to move along
the Roman roads from city to city, selecting im-
portant and favorable centers and “digging in”
for a stay of considerable length, and estab
lishing a work that would radiate in different
directions through the agency of his own helpers
and such visitors as came to see him and took
away with them the essentials of his message.
But another thing happened in Corinth in that
autumn, a momentous thing. There the New
Testament began to be written.
China is taking to gum chewing, first of the
far eastern nations to go completely American.—,
Omaha Wtrid-Herald. . . ' ^
MONDAT,
-
OCT. la. ns
By R. DON LAWS
If the readers’ taste for q«iet
reading in literature Ins been
blunted or staled by the daily
press reports of the Dillingers,
Bruno Hauptmann and the Van
derbilt court fight, I can play the
part of the Hamlet ghost and tell
a tale of Mormon murder that will
harrow his soul and freeze his
blood.
In the year of 186? a party of
1/0 emigrants, well-to-do and anx
ious to better their condition,
started, from Arkansas and Mis-
•souri for California far across the
mountains. There was no Pullman
for them, but a train of ox wagons
or prairie schooners. The way was
long, hot and dusty, a savage cli
mate by day, savage wolves by
ir'ght, and fatigue and hunger all
the time for the men as well as
the women and children. The sup
plies soon ran low and when the
emigrants reached Utah they at
tempted io get food just like other
emigrant travelers, but they were
denied. Why? Because of no
money, because they were not
needy? No, because Brigham
Young told his Mormon followers
that he would sentence them to
death if they gave food, clothing,
medicine, or any help to these
needy emigrants. And why this
cruel order? Because Brigham
Young was angry, since a furious
husband in Arkansas had killed
Elder Pratt of the Mormon church
who had stolen his wife, taken her
to Utah and Mormonized her.
Fain and yet pursuing they
came to the famous, infamous
place. Mountain Meadow. It was
here the red-handed Indians sav
agely attacked them, but they
barricaded themselves, fought and
were safe. Then, like the Assyrian
wolf that came down on the fold,
the Mormon militia attacked them,
but love for wife and child nerved^
the emigrants to repel them. Self-
made prisoners, they needed water
from the spring just outside their
stockade. One day they dressed
two of their little girls in white
and sent them for water, believing
they would be safe. But these
dear little girls had gone but a
few steps when there was a flash,
a roar from the Mormon militia,
and the white dresses and the pale
faces were all splashed with blood
and they sank never to rise. Then
the emigrants made the sign of
distress, sent a petition to the
Mormons signed by the Odd Fel
lows and Masons to brother Mor
mon members of their particular
lodged. One venerable Methodist
raised his prayerful voice and
hands in blessings over the heads
of three emigrant men who brave
ly volunteered to go and, present
the petition for relief, but they,
too, were shot down just like dogs.
Pitying God. was there no help!
Age-long hours passed, heads and
hearts were aching and breaking,
when one day some Mormon wag-
ing i white flag: of
.clariBg that if tlH
wtmid only aarr^nder find ii^'i
their arma, they mi^t wallc^wv*:|
unbanned and at perfect liber^'l
ty.
First came the men, then the
women and the children. They*:
gladly marched out of the barri
cade, when at a signal the old and
the young, the men and the wom
en, the parents and the children
were murdered by the Mormon mi
litia with guns and knives. All
were butchered but a few children
thought to be too young to tell the
awful story. The emigrant women
were too old or too weak to walk
and were dragged out to where
their dead were, were stripped
naked of their clothing, shot dead
and piled up in heaps. Then the
murderous Mormons took the emi
grants’ jewelry, clothing, stock,
and wagons, to the amount of over
$200,000, and went home to read
their Mormon bible and praise their
gods, Brigham Young and Joe
Smith, for their great victory.
After 15 years, when John D.
Lee, the Mormon bishop, was on
trial in court, he testified that in
this massacre of the emigrants he
was only acting on orders from
headquarters, and that Brigham
Young had given orders how the
property of the murdered emi
grants was to be distributed. It
is also said that years later when
Brigham Young visited the scene
of the murder and learned that the
United States government officers
had gathered up the bones of the
murdered emigrants, buried them
and placed a head l^rd over the
big grave with the inscription,
“Vengeance is mine; I wT repay
saith the Lord,” he gave orders to
have it tom down. Wuat Devil
more damned in evils' To remem
ber this spot and recall its blood
makes one think in the words of
David’s imprecatory Psalms, or re
peat Wilson’s sonnet, “Avenge, 0
Lord, thy slaughtered saints.”
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WANT NUT SAMPLES
FROM NATIVE TREES
Good nut trees bring a three
fold advantage to the farm home,
says Prof M. E. Gardner, of State
college. They produce food, pro
vide shad^ and add to the attract
iveness of the land.scape.
Gardner is interested in locating
and developing the best nut trees
native to North Carolina. Particu
lar interest is centering around
black walnut, butternut, hickory,
native hazel, northern pecan and
some of the beech nut trees.
He suggests that farmers who
wish to help in the work, and who
wish to b’ helped, send small
.samples of their best nuts to C. A.
Reed, bureau of plant industry, de
partment of agriculture, Washing
ton. A pound of small nuts or
two pounds of large nuts will be
enough.
the
The bureau will examine
ons approached the stockade, bear-j nuts and plant them in test plots.
Later a report will be sent to the
farmer as to whether the seedlings
are good enough, in comparison
with other nuts from the same re
gion, to graft and use as a horti
cultural variety.
When sending the nuts to Mr.
Reed, Prof. Gardner advises pack
ing them carefully and marking
them so there will be no diffi
culty in telling from which tree
they came. Also write Reed a
letter giving full particulars about
the nuts. The return address of
the sender should be on the pack
age.
CRIME CURE
Salt Lake City—A Nevada coun
ty has solved the bank robbery
problem in an effective manner,
the local bureau of investigation,
U. S. department of justice, learn
ed today. In response to a ques
tionnaire sent out by the bureau,
the sheriff of the fortunate county
replied:
“We ain’t had no bank robberies
in the last five years. P. S.—We
ain’t had no banL”
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