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MONDAY, OCT. n^
The
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PahHrihrt HoBdajBi and Thursdays at
Noitt Wilkesboro^ N. &
a J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD.
PaWaten
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
b tbe State $1.00 per Year
Oat of the State
$1-60 per Year
Entered at th? post office at North WQkea*
m>o. M. C~ aa aeeood class matter onder Act
ad March 4. 1879.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934
Things have quieted down since that circus
Bon escaped at Richmond, and General Johnson
cot out, all on the same day.—Detroit News.
1' What Can Be Done
The United States department of jus
tice is showing what can be done in,the
suppression of crime. Its latest victory
was the rescue of Mrs. Berry Stoll, weal
thy Louisville, Ky., woman who was kid
napped from her home by a fanatic who
apparently wanted to do away with her.
Let us review some of the things the
department of justice has been able to do
which thousands of policemen, state and
county (officers could not, or did not, ac
complish.
Wove a net of evidence about A1 Capone,
chief of Chicago’s gangland and sent him
to the penitentiary for failure to make in
come tax returns. Doubtless he was
guilty of more henious offenses, but the
department of justice got him on a fed
eral charge and federal courts, all the
way up to the supreme court of the Uni
ted States, have denied Capone’s pleas
and manipulations to get out of prison.
Dillinger’s notorious gang was run to
earth by the department of justice. And
many other cases could be mentioned; but
we mention these Avhich go to show' what
only 350 men have done with a ten-itory
to work over that includes the vast Uni
ted States and its possessions.
Just why have these few men been
able to do so much? If w'e arc correctly
informed, it is because each man was se
lected on the basis of ability to fit the job
and his individual character. Politics has
as yet played no part in the selection of
the members of our little, but capable,
“Scotland Yard” of the U. S. A.
Since this number has been able to ac
complish so much, why not enlarge the
department with still more trained and
able men? It would be a gi'eat menace
to crime and w'ould be worth a thousand
fold its cost to the American people.
Definite Objectives
The Wilkes County Schoolmasters Club
is rendering a service of essential benefit
to the schools in arranging a systematic
program of athletics in the high schools
of the county.
We have alw'ays favored a reasonable
amount of athletic activity in the schools.
Not only because of the physical training
the boys and girls get, but the training
they receive in working for definite object
ives. A game between rival schools al
ways brings out the best physical effort
on the part of the players on opposing
teams. Thus it will teach these same peo
ple to put forth their l>est efforts w'hen
they leiive school and go into the business
of making a living.
We can remember the time when high
schools in this county played basketball in
a haphazard manner. That is to say, each
team w'ould schedule a game with another
school at any time. If one team w'on it
was forgotten in a day and nothing w'as
achieved. There were no definite ob
jectives for the athletic clubs.
Under the arrangement worked out by
the schoolmasters club there are two
leagues in high school basketball in the
county—western (and eastern divisions,
with four teams each. Coming out at the
end of the season as champion of either
of the leagues is an enviable achievement
for the schools and winning the title bas
ketball series would indeed be a definite
objective.
With the winners to be figured on a
percentage basis, each team has a definite
objective in winning any of the games.
A victory means a step nearer the cham
pionship. It matters greatly whether they
win or lose.
A program of athletics with definite ob
jectives for the schools and players will
have a good moral effect and we believe
the basketball schedule made out by the
Schoolmasters C3ub will be a major
achievement of that organization for the
current school yef r.
Press reports would lead us to believe
that when congress convenes nej£t year it
will be Democratically topheavy. By this
it is meant that new D«nocratic faces are
likely to be in the two houses and may
present a problem to the administration
in handling the group.
The last congress was easily handled
by the administration. However, trouble
ahead is predicted by writers who are
inclined to look ahead into the political
situation.
'The Greensboro Daily News looks at
the next congress as is expressed in the
following editorial:
By all the signs, the topheaviness of the
congress majority will be more and worse
before it is less and better; following a ten
dency inherent in the nature of a represen
tative government.
Also, following a tendency inherent in the
nature of legislators, the increase will send
to the house and senate a greater number of
majority members who believe they were
chosen for conspicuous ability in statesman
ship, on their own merits, and who will
therefore feel but little responsibility for
party organization and party policy in a
broad sense.
It is generally true that the present con
gress was selected in disapproval 'of the
previous legislature and administration, and
it will be generally true that the next con
gress will have been elected as an endorse
ment of Mrr. Roosevelt and the legislative-
administrative record of his half term. Not
withstanding which there will be more inde
pendent enterprises, more disregard of party
authority, more irresponsible group coali
tions. It is proverbi.’il that Democrats are
more likely than Republicans to break up
in a row when they have everything their
way, and history strangely supports the
proverbial notion. Nevertheless, it is the
way of topheavy majorities to defeat the
mass sentiment that creates them.
A President’s patronage power, let him
conserve it as carefully as he may, is al
ways much depleted by mid-term. And it
may be recalled how great a reliance patron,
age was in the last session.
As far as the next congress goes we
have somewhat the same attitude of the
minister who was preaching to a skeptical
congregation on the subject of “hell.”
W’hen it seemed that his message was not
being received as it should have been, he
exhorted his audience to “wait and find out
for themselves.”
The Book
the first line of which reads,
'•The Holy Bible." and which
contains four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
A PRECIOUS BOATLOAD
We have already considered the writing of the
four gospels. The date of the first of them,
Mark, is about 61, and Paul reached Corinth ten
years earlier^ in 51. Up to that time the story
of the/life of Jesus had been told orally. No
one felt the need of a written biography; no one
felt qualified to write it. So it was not with the
gospels that the actual writing of the New Tes
tament began, but with the letter which Paul in
Corinth wrote to his old church in Thessalonica,
the Epistle to the Thessalonians. You will be
interested in the story.
Go back to the period before Paul’s arrival
in Corinth, to his crossing from old Troy to
Europe. He 'had seen a vision of a man of
Macedonia inviting him to Europe, and he went.
The little boat that carried him and, his three
companions, Timothy, Silas and Luke, bore the
most precious freight that ever landed on the
western shore of the Mediterranean. But Paul
did not meet the man of Macedonia. For a good
while he had a hard time. As we have already
noted, he was beaten and imprisoned in Philippi,
mobbed in Thessalonica, criven out of town from
Berea, and flouted in Athens. “Our flesh had no
rest,” he wrote about those days. "Without
were fightings and within were fears.” When he
arrived in Corinth he was alone, having left
Silas at Berea, and Timothy at Thessalonica.
The weeks while he waited for them to come
to him were a period in. ,which Paul was very
near to nervous prostration. If it had not been
for Priscilla’s goid cooking and the companion
ship which he found with her and her husband
he might have broken down entirely. His whole
work since coming to EJurope seemed a total
failure'; it had brought only hardship and hu
miliation.
He was afraid Timothy and Silas would nev
er come. He was afraid they would be mobbed
to death. And if they came he feared they
would say: "It’s no use. These people just will
not hear the good news. Tn Philippi they say
that if they had us back in jail we would never
get out. In Berea they are ready to quote the
Jewish law against us and say that Jesus did
not measure up to the prophecies. In Thessalo
nica we dared not go on the streets in daylight.
In Athens your sermon is a joke.”
So in his lonesomeness he conjectered and
was tortured by his imagination. But one day
two dusty travelers arrived in Corinth, found
the Ghetto, and there inquired if a man was
boarding somewhere in town, a small, wiry,
nervous man of defective sight, named Paul. To
their joy they learned that he was staying with
Aquila and Priscilla; they hunted him up, and
there was a glad reunion..Timothy and Silas had
rejoined Paul.
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In pur MgemeM to
war records of tli4‘ confederirfe
veterans who have "paswd on to
the great beyond,” may we not
forget the veterans from Wilkes
who are with us still—Rlchard-
Ine Pnryear has expressed our
sentiments so well that I shall
quote his poem:
j, llie ro
Valley i
"To you, who are fewest
To you, who were truest,
To yon who undauntedly
Faced union Blue.
To you of the Southland
Who lent heart and lent hand,
This day do we offer
A tribute to you.
To the South give all honor.
The world smiles upon her,
For nothing can ever
Her courage excel—
Though famished and flounted,
You fought on undaunted.
Ever urged on by Dixie
And fierce Rebel yell.
And though we regret them,
Can we ever forget them?
Those foot-prints of blood
On the cold frozen ground?
Ah! we love the grey jacket,
For soon we may lack It,
And tearfully stand
By the newly-made mound.
The soul of our sires.
Each fond heart Inspires,
And wakens within us
That same holy flame
Whieh sent you to glory.
To song and to story.
And on our heads hoary,
Brings honor and fame.
As the grey of each morning.
The day is adorning.
We see you again.
Thro’ the mist of the years.
We’ll cherish you ever.
You’ll live on forever.
Enshrined in our hearts.
And refreshed by our tears.
So here’s to the fewest,
The bravest—the truest—
We tenderly offer
Our tribute today—
For no hearts are graver,
Not once did you waver,
No soldiers fought braver.
Than those of the grey.
None dare to deny it.
Tongues ever outcry it.
The ages all honor
Will ever them pay.
As ’tls oft repeated.
They were not defeated.
But only depleted—
Those knights of the grey.”
Wllkap jfjpBBty.
on May 10, 1984, -«&.u
J. J. Bentley f
Cass, M. C. Campbell, L- }i.
Crouch, Larry Dula, Joe T.
wards (present), R. F. Jarvis, T.
C. Minton, J. H. Bheets (prea>
ent), Jacob Shew, W. P. Shew,
Pressley Shepherd, Harvey Vaa-
noy (present).
BESS GORDON F. GRIER.
Local Branch Cswolina
Motor Club In Contest
with new car sales morq than
twice last year’s mark and total
license plate registrations scores
of thousands in excess of 1933
pointing to a general Increase in
business and prosperity in the
Caralinas, J. C. McDlarmld, man
ager of the North Wllkesboro
office of the Carolina Motor club
today announces bis organization
has entered a 60 day contest with
the Automobile Club of Phila
delphia.
"Philadelphia lawyers are not
smarter than Carolina lawyers,"
Mr. McDlarmld said, "and Phil
adelphia business is not more
prosperous than Carolina busi
ness and we are confident at the
end of 60 days we will show a
greater growth In new member
ships than the big Pennsylvania
club.
“Carolina Motor club officials
feel they have cause for this
faith in Carolina business for the
next 60 days because already to
date this year three times as
many members have been receiv
ed into the Carolina Motor club
as were received for the same
period in 1933 while more than
95 per cent of the members have
renewed their memberships this
year.
“The Carolina Motor club is
now recognized as one of the
leading organizations of its char
acter in the nation and national
headquarters of the American
Automobile association in Wash
ington has recognized the pro
gressive service methods of the
club and purchased for circula
tion to its nearly 1,000 other
•\AA affiliates many of the
forms and systems that have
Motor club.
been developed by the Carolina
“Valuable prizes are offered in
the 60 day membership exten
sion contest and our slogan in
the Carollnas now is ‘We are Off
to Beat Philadelphia’.’’
You never do this—
my do
THIS?
^ You never take a spark plug from one qrlinder
of your car to replace the plug of another cylinder.
Why borrow a lamp bulb from one socket to re
place the lamp in another? For this not only puts
one fixture out of service; it exposes you and your
family to eye strain from improper, inadequate light.
Have spare lamps on hand. Get a carton of thnfty
General Electric Mazda lamps today . .. then you
will be sure of good, economical, eye-saving light.
Buying a carton of six saves you 10 per cent.
BETTER LIGHT > BETTER SIGHT
Ambassador Saito says the open door policy
will be carried out in Manchuko. Judging by the
Japanese army's control of industry and im
ports in Manchuko, the government’s policy will
indeed be “carried out”—^feet first.—^Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
Our Annual Special Offer on Mazda Lamps is now on.
If (OUT representative has not called upon you, Tele-
phtme 420 and we will gladly deliver your lamps.
Tune In WSOC 11:45 A. M. Tuesdayr-WBT 9:45 A. M.
Monday-Wednesday-Friday
Question: Should grain be fed
to poultry In troughs or In the
litter?
Answer: For sanitary reasons
alone the grain should be fed in
troughs. Some poultrymen be
lieve that feeding grain in the
Utter gives the birds much need
ed exercise but, unless a close
confinement system Is practiced,
the birds will receive ample ex
ercise on the range. Then, too,
there is a tendency to neglect
changing the Utter which makes
for unsanitary conditions. A “V’’
shape trough is very simple and
Southern Public
Utilities Co.
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NORTH WU^SBORO, N. C. .
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You can well afford to have a new Battery placed
your car at this low price . . . then you will be rdaHlr
for cold weather.
Wash and Grease job $1.2S|
Motor Service Store
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Ninth Street
North Wilkesboro. N. C.
QUBS’nON AND ANSWER
inexpensive to build and should
be used at all times for grain
feeding.
The battle formation of a sol
id phalanx protected by shields
was used In Mesopotamia over
2,000 years before the Macedon
ians made it famous.
Chest Colds ^
Don’t let them get a strangle hold.
Fight them quickly. Creomulaion com
bines 7 helps in one. Powerful but harm-
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[ own druggist is authorized to refund your
money on the spot if your cough or cold
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AFTER TOMORROW
WHAT?
You have perhaps tried ev
erything in an rffort to re
gain your health. You are
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now. If it doesn’t get you
proD
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Heart, Liver, Kidney or Fe
male Trouble, Asthma, Ane
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Skin Eruption, Sciatica.
Catarrh, Biliousness, Gas on
Stomach, and Colds.
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