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^ Months .75
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*8p3^-a an op«m fteeUnjf of the Grange
at Wilkesboro and courthouse
not half filled. Wilkes people should
show ^ greater interest In organi^tions
devoted to the, welfare,and^,weU "being
’of theTUral population.
po8t office at North Wilkea-
Doro, N.^ second class matter under Act
uum, n. 1^,, as set
of March 4^ 1879.
' MONDAY,' JULY 18, 1938
" Why Abolish Primary?
Many allegations of fraud in prima
ries throughout the state have given
momentum to the movement to abolish
V the primary method of nominating dele
gates. Many, who perhaps are sicken-
'■ ed at abuses of the primary law, want
lo return to the old convention system.
The way it appears now and after
both methods have been tried it narrows
down to a choice of two evils and that
neither system could be held up as ex
amples of honesty. In the convention
system, candidates are often hand
picked-by politicians. In the primary,
candidates are often hand picked but
are put over by different methods.
Some of the methods most frequently
mentioned are voting members of the
other party, voting absentees without
their knowledge or consent or by other
unlawful methods, by the use of coer
cion and bribery and by the shameful
practice of buying votes, which has be
come' as much a part of primaries and
elections as ballots themselves. In dis
cussing a candidate’s chances to Win,
the first things mentioned are how much
money does he have with which to buy
votes and who among his supporters
and workers can “control” votes.
It is true that elections laws in North
Carolina need a sweeping revision and
that the late Attorney General Brum-
mit once said that North Carolina has
the worst election laws in the country.
Perhaps the election laws need mak
ing over but as a matter of fact laws as
they now stand have never been strict
ly observed or enforced. Some are of
the opinion that the laws, including the
primary system, should be observed
and enforced once before being discard
ed in favor [of untried measures.
Practically every newspaper in the
state has published editorial comment
literally blasting the election laws and
the manner in which primaries and elec
tions are carried out. Here is an exam
ple of conclusions of editors as ex
pressed in an editorial from The Meck-
lenbury Times relative to alleged fraud
in the second primary in that county on
July 2:
“Looking back into the last primary
hel4 in this county, and reading of oth
er primaries over the state, every hon
est-minded man and woman must ad
mit that under our present system there
is no such thing as free and untram
meled choice otf public officials by the
people* Elven when the election is prop
erly handled the w^iole procedure
smacks of bought votes or votes cast un
der pressure for this or that candidate
—and in either case nio honest expres
sion of the will of the people is possi
ble.”
There is no need for an absentee bal
lot law in North Carolina. People who
are able to get to the polls can select
officers and the absence of absentee
votes will not interfere in expression of
the will of the people.
Prominent Man Coming
On Tuesday night the Wilkes Pomo-
la Grange will bring to Wilkes ^s guest
ipeaker at the annual picnic of the or-
fanization Harry A. Caton, of Coshoc-
x)n, Ohio, secretary of the National
Grange for 10 years, former lecturer
md master of the Ohio state Grange
ind chairman of the board of trustees
)f the Ohio state university. -He is rec-
)gnized as one of the outetanding au-
;horities on rural affairs.
The picnic will be an open meeting
Uid all interested in promoting a more
ibundant life for rural people are in-
^n this connection we recall the last
^ of a nationally known Granger to
p^ilkes. The lecturer of the National
SM^e. one of the outatandmg speak-
to the country and i^u-
^6 reached in ft'pivbleina rfthe age.
DON’T SLIP THE POOR INTO -
UNIFORM
(Reidsville Review)
•More (more, as “preparedness”
agitation begins to gain force, eyes turn
to the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Those who believe in increased military
preparedness are drawn, like flies to
ward sugar, to the hundreds of thous
ands of young men passing through the
CCC.
Here, they reflect, is the raw materi
al of armies, ready at hand.
Here are young, eager fellows, re
ceiving outdoor physical training under
the supervision of army officers, learn
ing the rudiments of the discipline in the
necessities of living together. Why not
use this material, ready at hand, as the
nucleus of a military trained reserve?
All it would take would be a little close-
order and small-arms drill to convert
this great body of youth into a valuable
military reserve.
It sounds, superficially, attractive.
But it ought to be resisted with the last
ounce of strength.
The key to the reason why this plan
won’t do was unwittingly uttered by
Maj.-Gen. Hugh Drum in a message to
CCC boys in the Chicago area. Gener
al Drum said:
“Enrolles come from all walks of Am
erican life ...”
No, general, enrolles come from only
one walk in American life. That is the
all-too-great stratum which has been
unable to find a place in the “regular”
economy of the country. The CCC en
rolles are the children of need, and the
sons of necessity.
'That, general, is not the basis on
which to build an army reserve. Quite
apart from the question of whether in
creased military training is necessary is
the question of how it ought to be pro
vided if it is necessary. Thousands of
boys have found no better school than
the streets. No better occupation than
idle wasting. For the government to
give them an opportunity to go to the
woods, live in a healthy manner, learn
a trade and earn some money mean
while—^that is all to the good. But to
go on from there and say: “Now we
will also train you as soldiers, to he
first if military need arises”—that would
be a gross betrayal.
It would be a grave denial of democ
racy, and mockery, in that even the Eu
ropean systems of universal service are
more democratic, for they make all men
subject to military training, not merely
those for whom the economic machine
has not been able to find a use.
If we are to have mass military train
ing, or universal service, let us have it as
such, so we will know where we are go
ing, and not slide it in under cover of a
civilian works program made necessary
by other failures. If young men must
train for war, let it be all young men—
not a group made helpless by forces be
yond them.
The name, general, is CIVILIAN Con
servation Corps.
PERILS OF KISSING
Every so joften some learned doctor
—whose best friends, we suspect, won’t
tell him what his trou'ble is—has his
fling at taking the joy out of life by is
suing solemn warnings against the per
ils of kissing.
Now comes one Dr. O’Leary of Minne
sota, who declares, as many have done
before him, that kissing is likely to
spread a wide variety of disease germs,
ranging from tuberculosis to house
maid’s knee. Says he: “Even the
healthiest are liable to diseases from
germ infection through careless oscula
tion.”
But, like others of the killjoy tribe,
the doctor doesn’t know just what can
be done about it. In spite of all warn
ings the ancient art of kissing still
flourishes. It is even suspected that in
certain quarters it is on the increase.
Yet few will deny that kissing has its
dangers. One lof which, in certain c?
es, is that of getting caught.—Exchange.
To be socially agreeable, you must
talk entertainingly when you have noth
ing to say, and laugh heartily when you
are not amused. — Omaha WorW-Heiv
aid. '
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Te tmAf
is, still
to IsTg^st 1^ nsnias pirt
eompflsd. TfeiU is the
MibgQft workers to whotfV'/fibeisl
SecBitty nufnbers have ..M-
tmm are named Siidlil. Hi A John*
sons come next, with S6O,00O
names. Next, in jfreqnency, a r e
Brown, Williams, MQler, Jones.
A man’s name is no sore
catim of. his ancestry, stttee?^^
America one’s name is whatever
one chooses to call himself. Mort
people, however,' keep the names
of their fathers and gTandth^n*
Hie preponderance of names,!
have listed indicates that*the dom
inant racial strains in America are
still British, German and Sdan£-
navian.
Smith is a name almost as com
mon in Sci^land as in En^and,
though'many Smiths are of Ger
man stock, their names having
once been Schmidt. 'The names
of Williams’’and Jones are dis
tinctly ’ Welsh. Johnson may be
either Scandinavian, English
Scottish. Hiller is English
German, and so is Brown.
JOBS . . , . . ability
Speaking of unemployment,
friend said to rtie the other day:
“The greatest area of unemploy
ment is above the ears.” He was
trying to emphasize the truth
that most people do not use their
heads when looking for jobs
A day or two later I' saw a
newspaper paragraph about a
young college graduate who used
his head so well that he got four
jobs when he only wanted one.
One took competitive examina
tions for engineering posts in the
Army and Marine Corps and ap
plied for Army service on the
strength of his college record in
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps. Then he went out and
hustled for a job in private em
ployment, and got one. After he
had gone to work he received no
tice that he had been appointed to
the Army post and that he had
passed both of his engineering ex
aminations.
That boy, of course, had special
qualifications. But the point is
tliat he didn’t sit down and wait
for a job to come his way. He
used his head and got four jobs!
Almost everybody has some spe
cial ability. Too few use their
heads to find where those abilities
are needed.
WORK . . . incompetency
A young friend of mine started
in business for himself as a
plumbing contractor about three
years ago. He had no capital, but
lot of intelligence and moral
courage. He knew his trade and
was willing to work hard. He told
me the other day that he had jobs
for a dozen good workmen if he
could find them. The trouble with
most workers, he said, was they
tried to get by with poor work and
take things easy. *'
A building contractor I know
will not hire young workmen be
cause, he says, they don’t use their
heads and don't take their work
seriously enough to master their
trades. I don’t know how far
that is true generally, but I have
an idea that it is pretty general.
I think that the idea that boys
should be kept in school until they
ai-e .16 or 18 has made white-col
lar loafers out of a great many
young Americans who could have
become first-class artisans if they
had been allowed to work when
they were young enough to learn
a trade.
EDUCATION . . . learning
There is a homely old proverb
which says: “You can’t make a
silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” All
the schooling in the world will not
make a scholar out of a person
who is not capable of learning.
Those who are capable will acquire
learning and often wisdom in spite
of lack of educational “advantag
es.”
I was re-reading the other night
Rudyard Kipling’s autobiography.
What struck me most forcibly was
his efforts at self-education. He
was under 16 when he quit school
to go to work on a small daily pa
per in India.' Biside of ten
Us Bute WM well known all oNlt
fhe wild. He «ka flte bMN
literary fonius of modem
univmrHty eoi^ri||ave
understanding of
wblidi h# leanaM at
ink personal contacts
«ra tBe K«
er went to school i be|Mid ' sw^
grade. His opinions on publt^a^
mhiistrati«i are eaga^y
He is an educated man in the best
sense of word, hut be educated
himself. His name is Alfred E.
Smith.
GHA^CTBR « ‘ edaeatioa
,Th3*^^d« I grow, the more
Repoiit RareiJ
Better Bu«neM
fealixe that the qualities which wa
call “charact^^ are more impor
tant than learining or ^technical
ridll. A nmn may know every
thing in the books, be a master of
bis craft, but if he lacks character
he is heading for disaster,
matter how high a position he
may reach.
The world thought highly of
Richard Whitney. He thonght
well of himself. He had intelli
gence, ability and qualities of
leadership far above the average.
But he had, also, ambition and
persoMl vanity wloich made him
believe that he was not bound by
the ethical codes which men of
honor follow. He is in Sfiig Sing
prison today because, when he
came to the test, he did not have
the essential quality of character.
T knew, years ago, the most skil-i
ful engraver in the world. He had
everything but character.' He quit
his job with -the Government to
become a counterfeiter. He is in
prison now.
Education which does not build
character is worse than no educa
tion at all.
Rai^,t jBlf ^ l4>LRepoi|l|
t)i» 8tiit^' departmeirt:,Qf
th^ , North ,(^llna -^i£^
ness 'to ddftelMy^oa the upcmde,’’
Commissioner^ Maz-
i^/'Nbrth Csrolihn' to rsnUy "going
forward,” the ’ c^mlssioner told
80 electfical eoiffirnctors " attend
ing a three-day short' conrae at
N, G; Btots CoBei^. ^
He reported that 48 new Indus
tries located in the state during
the first four months of this year.
[ “Our growing population
means more new homes and, of
course, more people who want to
turn a button and have electricity
perform their household tasks,”
he said.
The short course will end to
morrow.
Reading the ads. get you more
for less money; try it.
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of paymeots’to offset lost exportK
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New Wheat AFotment
President Roosevelt has just
signed the bill set’ing 55 mil
lion acres of wheat as an allot
ment figures over which the agri
cultural department may not go
In fixing the 1039 acreage allot
ments for the nation, t
Prior to signature of the bill
the limitation was from 42 to 50
million acres.
iPoplar Blocks
-WANTED!-
Price: No. 1-425.00 Per 1,000 Ft.
FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
Lynn or Cucumber Blocks
Accepted Same as Poplar
Specifications:
Length, 3 to 6 feet; diameter, 15
inches and up
HUDSW VENEER CO.
Lenoir, North Carolina
KEROSEIIE
an
Those Who Want a Better Kerosene—Consider
the Following Facts About Fonse Red Kerosene
1
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A Standard Testing Lamp—filled with FONSE RED KEROSENE
burned 72 hours with very little more than slight incrustation of
the wick (technically known as “TOADSTOOLS”).
n Twenty-four hours burning is the most severe test that any kerosene
“ is usually called on to p^ss.
Q Alfter thirty-six hours burning with FONSE RED KEROSENE the
lamp wick seems only slightly charred. (NO TOADSTOOLS]!
fonse RED KEROSENE after 72 hours burning, left a chimney
that the passage of a handkerchief could clean and leave the
handkerchief unsoiled.
The unpleasant odor usually associated with kerosene is complete-
9 ly absent when FONSE RED KEROSENE is used.
6 —The color of FONSE RED KEROSENE is a brilliant RED—so per
fect that an expert would have to shake a sample bottle to distin
guish it from HIGH GRADE GASOLINE.
m This clean, long-time burning KBIROSENE is of inestimable value
■ as a labor-saver when used for lighting or heating.
The high temperature (Jlash point) at which FONSE RED KERO-^
SENE flashes is a safety factor which will be highly commended
by any fire department. We stre^ this point, because a number
of users confuse maximum with minimum flash point. ’The higher
the temperature is before the kerosene will flash, the less danger
there is of accidental ignition and explosion.
Q—Be thrifty and buy “FOIjISE RE|? KEROSENE” at lie per gallon
^ retail and save the "difference. Wholesale price to customers
bringing drums to be filled.
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vrithRShM!
TRY
fORESTER’s
royal blue
gasoline
HIGH GRADE
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INSURANCE A(^NCY, Inc
General Insurance
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