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INDVarDKNT II9 POLRICS
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WakMbor*, N. C.
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suBSCRipnnoN RA’rts
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^ Slontks
^F«nr If Mitlis
i |>at «f the State _—
$1.60
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12.00 per Year
Bntexsd ai Ute post office at Nartii Wilkea*
hwo, K. C., as swoad elaae matter under Act
'of Hanih 4 li79.
THURSDAY, FEB. 11, 1937
The Nicaragua Canal
ilhe proposal for the United States to
dig a seccmd canal connecting the Atlan
tic and Pacific oceans is again before Con
gress. It is an interesting idea, and to
which is worth gi^g cartful considera
tion.
For many years the United States has
had a concession from Nicaragua for a
canal across that country. Engineers
have reported on it favorably. The Navy
and the Army have made extensive sur
veys and are agreed upon its military
value. The only question now is whether
we need a second vanal in addition to the
one at Panama, and whether it would be
worth what it cost.
The Navy pec 'jle would like to have it.
Our present naval set-up is one big fleet,
based on San Diego, CalLfomia, to pro
tect both our coasts. If we did not have
the Panama Canal, making it easy ^o
move ships quickly from one coast to the
other, we would have to maintain two
fleets, one in the Atlantic and one in the
Pacific.
Lately there has been a good deal of
alarm expressed about the danger of the
Panama Canal being blocked by a land
slide or an earthquake, and the sugges
tion has been put forth that it would be
too easy, in case of war, for enemy air
craft to blow up the canal locks.
TWe ia more to the Nicaragua canal
plan, however, than merely providing a
"second string'' in case of war. It would
cut more than 1,000 miles off the navi
gating distance between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, and so would shorten the
voyage for freight and passengers by
two days or more, at corresponding re
ductions in cost. It IS also much nearer
to United States temtory, at each end,
' and so easier to defend against foreign
It would take about $700,000,000 and
ten years time to dig the Nicaragua Ca
nal. Ten years is certainly not too far
to look ahead. As money goes, in these
days, $70,000,000 “ year does not seem
like too much to spend on a project as
useful as the Nicaragua Canal.
Floods And Droughts
The eastern part of the United States,
which has been suffering from lack of
water ever since the great drought of
1930-31, is now getting more water than
it needs. It is probably doubtful if the
net damage caused by the floods in the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers and their
tributaries will prove to be anywhere
nearly so serious as the wide-spread dis
tress and economic troubles which the
seven-year drought circle.
Nobody has yet found a way to con
trol the climate, and until that is done it
is likely that most efforts at either flood
:x>ntrol or drought control will prove fu
tile, or at best will be of value to a very
small proportion of the people.
- The theory that floods and soil erosion
are the consequences of human actions
m cutting off the forests and plowing up
the pWs is frequently expressed. The
fact is that there devastating and
soil-robbing floods before there were any
settlers at all in America. TTte accounts
of De Soto’s discovery of the. Mississippi,
In 1641, ten of the mttddSr waters and the
floating trees and logs, fti 1647, Pei-e
Marqnette wrote of the great quantities
of soil and the floating islands of trees
that came down the Missouri.
In the long ran, nature always strike
balance. Droughts and floods recur in
ji^gular cycles, but the farmer who is
able and willing to sticlt through aU of
the hmarda and uncertainties > waally
.1 out avan in the eirf.
Boy Scout Week
This is Boy Scout anniversary week
and as such is being observed throughout
the country.
The Boy Scouts compose a wonderful
organization, one that is planting the seed
of good citizenship. Parents should take a
more active interest in Scouting and if
they have a boy of Scout age they should
encourage him to join the most conven
ient troop.
Radio addresses on Scouting are being
delivered each afternoon this week. En
courage your boy to listen.
Eastern Star
A chapter of the Eastern Star frater
nity has been organized here and pros
pects are bright for a most active chap
ter.
Judging from what chapters in other
places are doing the Eastern Star should
prove to be a very beneficial organization
in Wilkes county.
Lincoln’s Birthday Friday
Wise with the wisdom of ages.
Shrewd as the man of trade.
Grim as the prophets and sages.
Keen as a damask blade;
Firm as a granite-ribbed mountain,
Tender as woman's song,
Gay as a sciutillant fountain—
Yet was he oaken-strong.
Here, the wonder of eons:
Bom into pain and strife;
Dead, with a thousand peons
Deathless, he enters life.
—^Thomas Curtis Clarke,
in Rural New-Yorker.
Out in the agricultural sections of the
country where men have not had an op
portunity to work at a real job for any
wage the past four years, there isn’t
much sympathy for the “sit down” strik
ers. They arg willing to put up with
most any sort of a job until the country
gets on its feet again.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUI®7
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Lesson for February 14th. John 10:1-16
Golden Text: John 10:11
Judah is a land of shepherds. David was a
tender of flocks from his boyhood. Amos, tee
first of the writing prophets was a herdsman of
Tekoa. The shepherd, to tee man of Bible times,
was the ideal figure. ‘The king and every true
leader of men,” writes Principal G. A. Smith,
■‘was called a shepherd.” And Dr. Smith re
minds us of the majesty of tee shepherd’s char
acter. You understand why tee Bible gives to
him such prominence “when you meet him, sleep
less, far-sighted, weather-beaten, armed, leaning
sn his staff, and looking out over his scattered
sheep, every one of them on his heart.”
Note, as an impressive illustration of this ten-
ier solicitude, that each sheep has its own name.
rt is not distinguished merely by a brand or,
liead-mark, but has an indi-yidnal name like a hu
man person. “He calleth his own sheep by
name,” as our lesson text reminds' us.
“And the sheep follow him: for teey know his
voice.” Each shepherd has his peculiar call, and
the flock know:; tee voice of its leader.
In tee exqni&ite 23rd psalm we find God piC‘
bured as both a loving and guiding Shepherd.
We must remember that the Oriental shepherd,
instead of driving his sheep, as our western
herdsmen are wont to do; goes before them. And
he is always present. I recall seeing riieep in
northern Vermont unattended, with pieces of
board yoked about their necks to prevent their
escape through a thin fence., In the East the
shepherd is never absent. 'Diere are no feacMg,
and danger is cemstant. The Shepherd, as Ofur
glorious Golden Text makes clear, must be ready
to give his life for tee flock. ' ■'
How perfeetly Jteus pfaiys the role of shepherd!
Se is tte Good Shei^trati indeed, an inspired lead-,
er who> pourH out him pym ttood in defense of
his afpm sheep.
Merit Recognized
Naturally all are gUwi tb know that g|
Wilkes did very well in contributing, over
$2,000 for Red Cross relirf of flood suf
ferers and we read with delight -the fol
lowing editorial comment i)t Monday’s
Twin-City Sentinel; ’
/The news was published last week that the
people of Wilkes ccanty chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross bad given IS times ite request
ed quota to the Red Cross flood relief fund.
The original quota was $180. The chapter has
given 12,000.
It is remarkable how people respond In an
emergency when they are acquainted with the
nature of an emergency. The people of Wilkes
county know a thing or two about a flood. It
has beeu 21 years since they witnessed the
worst flood In the history of their county, but
they still remember.
The need for relief funds has not pass
ed and any further contributions will be
welcomed.
Tlus W
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Washington, Peb. 6 (Auto-
castor)—-Btr Ikes and floods oc
cupy first place in the minds of
official Washington, upsetting or
deranging plans and programs of
legislative and administrative
agencies.
The strike sttnatien to giving
the Government more- conoMvt
tban is indicated by official oG
teranoelL Bow to remain entire
neutrdl in the tbree-«ornere^!ia«
bor controversy between General
Motors, the I^wls CL I. O. labor
organisation and the Federation
of Labor is pusxling
istratloB.
The paajor issue is whether the
Federal government shall grlve
open or tacit sanction to the
principle of “sit-down” strikes,
where workers take possession Ct
an industry, refuse either to
work or tb leave the property;
and prevent others from working.
The statement; by the Seontary
of Labor, Miss Perkins, that tee
legality of the elt-down strike
has never been setUed does not
reflect the general view in Ad
ministration circles. But every
one concerned hesitates to ap
prove or order any action look
ing to the forcible removal of sit-
down strikers from the General
Motors plants.
The Labor Deadlock
Washington has not forgotten
the forcible eviction oi the bon
us marchers from the govern
ment buildings of which they had
taken Illegal possession, and of
the disastrous political effect up
on President Hoover which en
sued.
This administration .does not
want to run the risk of arousing
Labor’s antagonism. Yet as long
as the management of General
Metors refuses tc negotiate for a
settlement of the questions in
volved until the sit-down strikers
evacuate the company’s property,
a serious deadlock exists which
the Government has no power to
break.
That Is why Secretary Perkins
bos asked Congress to give her
power to issue subpoenas and so
command the attendance of all
concerned at conferences on la
bor questions.
Some observers here are point
ing to what they regard as i
parallel between the General 'Mo
tors sit-down strike and those
which, occurred In Italy in 1922
In Itoly gronpe of workers, avov^
edly Otomnnleti, tpok posseHlonL
of. autontbhne and othbr faetcHrlew
and not' only occupied them ' bat
undertook to operate teem. A
young Socialist newspaper man
named Benito MossoHni offered
a solution which the King of
Italy accepted, a system of State
Socialism which he called Fas
cism.
Flood Relief and Control
The disastrous floods have
brought the subject of flood con
trol sharply to the foreground.
Congress acted speedily In appro
priating $790,000,000 whlcn the
President had asked for relief
purposes. Much of this. It is an
ticipated, will be spent for the
relief and rehabilitation of those
who lost homes and property tn
the Ohio and Mississippi 'Valleys,
it is also the expectation that
some of that appropriation will
go toward starting flood-control
works in various parts of the
country under the so-called “Jad-
wln Plan.”
After the 1927 flood in the
lower Mississippi General Jadwin
and the Army Engineer Corps
worked out a comprehensive plan
reaching to the farthest headwat
ers of all the Important rivers of
the nation. By means of reser
voirs, dams, dikes and dredgjlng
this plan, it is believed, could
retard the flow of heavy rains or
melting snow and so avert fu
ture floods.
The drawback has been the
enormous cost. The Jadwin plan
contemplated that Individual
states would bear the cost of the
necessary works inside . their
boundaries. But states began to
ask why they shonld spend mon
ey at the headwaters merely to
keep some other' ctate, farther
down river, from being flooded.
The belief here is that flood
control will be accepted now as
a national problem transcending
state interests, and that a begin-
Seaith-Wreckfaii: Foaetloaal
PAINS
Severe ftmctioiua patoB of
mensteuation, cramp^
and landed nerves soon rob a
woman of her natural, vonth>
ful freshness., PAIN lines In
a woman’s faoe too ottai grow
into AGB lines! ; •
Thousands of women have
found It belp^ to take Car-
duL They say ft sMxned to
ease their pains and thi^ no'
ticed ah increase In their ap*
petttes and finally a strength
ened resistance to the die*
btlp you, SM roar dootoa
if.
_ aede- to'.— trr""-
Ing’ Ofil tee JedTrin PU» .kirM]^ 'QS
exelnsively Federal undertaking.-.
New NBA in OMbif :
Bomething of the .naturo of a
new NRA is definitely in the
making. Trades and induatrioi
aiw to be authorised ^
agreements among themselvoi bn
what'‘con8titutt« niifalr CcjUper,
tlon or other ...impropw trade
practices; such agreements to
cover minimum wages and maxi
mum hours of work. As onttined,
the, proposed law wenM meke
violations of such voluntary a-
g^mente' Illegal and punisbahle
ay penalties imposed by Fsderal
courts. ^
On Capitol Hill there h talk
of going much farther, and im--
ptoiag excise taxes upon business
concerns proportioned to the de
gree to, which each conforms to.
accepted standards: of -iMura and
wages. Those who advocate this
plan also propose that Congresw
ahould set up its own definition
of. interstate oommerce, tens prar.
(rapiptively blocking any attempt:
of the Supreme Court to declare
unconstitutional any law em
bodying or based on that defini
tion. '
Some good Sawyers in Congress
are doubtful whether the legisla
tive branch dan get away with
any attempt to control the Judici
al branch of governmeUL The
most popular proposal is a law to
require a 7 to 2 decision to de
clare any law unconstitutional.
Meantime, Senator Guffey of
Pennsylvania, is proposing a Con
gressional investigation of the
Supreme Cmirt to determine how
far its members are Influenced
by personal or political bias in
their deciBlons.
'iBUCb cod-lI|^
oil should be'toed when fed on
the scrat^ feed? 0
Answer: l^411ver oil should
be- fed at (he rate of one and
one-balf pounds to each 190
pounds of sciwteh feed. Tbs heat
way to feed this oil is to
iout 26 pounds of sorstch toad
-and thoroughly wta fix mhm
of cod-liver oil with this amount.
This should tlwn be used until
entirely consumed before another
lot Is mlaed. It is also adrlsaUe
to keep feed that is inlxsd with
cod-liver^eil in soma; container
that can be closed so that it wUl
not be ei9&ed. to the direct raFi
of the snn as this exposure vreukl
detract from tkei^Cssiii*6: veins
and also cause tho^fesd to sour.
tliigwish' the- (
ambltten and.gMed.V'-
Punishmei^ for ste:
appears KThe a hank :
It is the only that^
have shown^ which nsM Is
Readiny the *18. get yon BMoe'
—for less money. Try it *
rntammammmtmsaamiBmmtaest
NO matter bow many
yon have tried for your
cold or bronchial irriir"
get rtiief nom wite
Serioas trouble may be
yon cannot afford to take a
with anything leas than Qt
sioL udiich warn tight to tea
(M Ihe tronble to aid nateie.
soothe and heal the bdiemwimiBP*-
braaea aa„the nnn-«^ pblecm.
is loosened amT expelled^
■veo if other xeniiaes haws
fall^ don’t be d
droopst Is aoteoriaed
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REPAR0
Let B> Re«etttff, Re-Cover or Repair yovr Liviiijt Room
Ftemitiiro.-: We use tbo beat mnhsriota, and OMI
nuike yowr jo6 as good as nesr. Exqiort woricmoiL.
Wkies Funiitiire Exchame
Door to Goodhrill Storo
lOTH STREET ^ NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
Reading the ads. gel you more
—for less money. Try it.
Charlotte, N. C., Notice of Sale.
Whereas, Chevrolet Sedan, mode!
1930, Motor No. 1996019, and 200
lbs. chops, heretofore advertised in
this district for three weeks have
not been claimed, the same wiU be
offered for sale at public auction
as provided by Section 3460, Re
vised Statutes of the United
States, at 12 noon, February 26,
1937, at Motor Service Store, North
Wilkesboro, N. C. T. E. Pattonn
Investigator in Charge, Akohm
Tax Unit, Bureau of Internal Rev
enue. it
TBUE 2S -3U1LM. ION TW,
F
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HAS JVST BEEN BUILT
It has never oecorred before in auto
mobile history that 25 million cars of
one make, bearing one name, hove
been manufactured under one man
agement. The 25J)00,000tb Ford car
rolled off the Ford Ronge Plant pro-
dnetion line on Jaimnry 18, 1937.
25 milHon enru wnce 1908... more
tif n nn^tlityd of all tho. 8019 eVCT
bnilt.. ^ enonidi to ttwgtmtt the
entire population of tboUniteJStntea.
The fignres represent a remarkable
eontribntion to the social welfare, the
indfwtetal stability and die general
progress of oar country.
Peoplere^pectFordeffideney. They
knew Ford nsea fine materhdsT the^
best workmanship at good wages, the
mostlexaet precision meannmnents.
A1
They' know these things mre'psssed
along to purchasers in the form el
extrs vdne. NatnrsdDy, thsy Bke to
do bosineto iril& soiA a'’’'conipniy.
That is the only reason & b-^
required to^ptodnoe 25. mUKon .cars.
Natnrally, too, they tofoti - ""
each year than the year before. They
have vrarj right to. The experience
gained in building 25,000,000 can en
ables Ford to produce today a really
snperb motor car at a really low price
—with the BMuty, Gimfort, Safety
and Performance of much more ex
pensive ears.
The 1937 Ford V-8 combines ad
vanced design, all-steel constmetion,
extra body room, and brTn'iant brakes
with a choice of two V-type Beylin-
der engines—the most modem type
of poww-plant on land, sea, or in
the air. |
The 854iorsepower engixie provides
top perfiWmsnce with onnsasily good
economy for itg.hi|^ power.
The fiO-horsepower engine gives
good performance with the greatest
gasoline mfleage ever bnilt into wFord
car^-^d wears the lowert Ford price
tag in years.
People qipect mttt of a Ford car
becanse’it’s a Ford —and they get
more tff a F(»d ear, more thia
year than last year—more
ittOM, for the same reason. It
jb wndeniaMy the gnaBty car
;fai the low»rfce~ikld.
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