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?o«t Wace at Kora Wflko^
MONDAY, AUG. 15. 1938
Usin^ The Newspapers
^ Better service can be rendered when
there is a mutual understandings between
the firm or institution attempting to ren
der the service and those to be served.
In the following editorial the Eagle
Democrat, a newspaper published in
Warren, Arkansas, the editor tries to
tell his readers how the paper desires to
render a maximum of service:
“The Eagle Democrat is a community
voice, a lone medium of effective publici
ty in this trade area. As such, its col-
muns are at the service of the communi
ty.
“The Eagle Democrat is a business en
terprise, the product of a manufacturing
plant in Warren. As such its columns
must be under the control of its manage
ment.
“Often the biggest problem confront
ing the men behind your-newspaper is
reconcilement of those two first para
graphs. To please everyone means to
forget that here is a business to conduct.
And to conscientiously consider publica
tion as a business, one that has to be
learned through lone experience and con
ducted wisely in order to make any suc
cess of it, means that once in a while, at
least, somebody who wants to use the pa
per’s columns must be refused, or put off
until a later issue. Invariably, in either
case, it’s tough on the newspaper and
tough on those who have to make deci
sions behind it.
“A newspaper man who really loves
his publication, and he won’t get far un
less he does, actually gets more satisfac
tion than money from the work he does.
The pride he takes in his paper is great
er than individual friendship too. He
would lose a friend rather than cheapen
his paper by catering to some individual
wish, if such a price was the forfeit. If
his judgment tells him a piece of publi
city is truly good for his community, he’ll
not have to be asked twice to find space
for it. If he considers something to be
of little interest to the bulk pf readers, or
if he knows that space is wanted for
chiefly a selfish purpose, then, regardless
of how powerful the pressure, how se
vere the scourge, whether the command
comes from the richest or the socially
prominent, such matters must surrender
space to material that readers want to
read and pay to get.
“To make the Eagle Democrat inter
esting to the greatest number of readers
is our rule when decisions on its contente
have to be made. Not to stick to this
rule would not only penalize our read
ers, but our advertisers as well. For ad
vertisers buy not merely space, but read
er interest, also. Finally, it would penal
ize ourselves in loss of prestige and pub
lic confidence, upon which any publica
tion depends for its very life.
The Greater Wrong
Enough has been spoken and written
about the evils of liquor to fill a dozen
giant libraries, but in his charge to the
grand jury at the opening of Wilkes
court Monday Judge Rousseau expressed
a conviction that should have its weight
with many good people.
He said in effect that the person who
drinks liquor and who is able to control
liquor instead of being ruined by drink,
sets a worse example than the drunkard.
Reflection on the statement will convince
the most skeptical that it is true.
If your son between the ages of six and
12 years of age walks down the street
and sees a policeman collar a drunk and
iMk him up, the eeene leaves no favora
ble iinpr®®"”"”*''®'’'’''-
draiik will be 'etareerine or uttering oh-
'i^e langiiage which makes him despic-
eSiie Perhaps his eyes are glassy and
„ ,o rims of iBtetliteDce. -
tt Is Hi * baiiqaet or
vx vhe'ihbBt popidaf'a^ts
there takes| a couple^ o!f small drinka. It
may be that the drinks niake hia wits
keener for the duration of .the party and
the popularity of the person grpwa.
Your boy may say that drinking like
that is all right and that it will not hurt
him to take a couple of drinks. Your boy
may be just as intelligent and just as
strong willed as the one he imitates.
Yet your boy may be so constituted that
liquor will control and eventually ruin
his life instead of his being able to use
and control liquor.
The few exceptions among drinkers
who can control liquor should be careful
of the example they set before the boy
or girl whose life has never been con
taminated with intoxication.
Where Highway Is Needed
No doubt the people of Hays, Trap-
hill and several other communities in
northeastern Wilkes are cheered by the
news that the first step toward construc
tion of a highway from Fairplains thru
that section to Doughton has been taken
and that a survey will be made soon.
A study of the highway map of North
Carolina will show that in the northeast
ern part of Wilkes county is one of the
largest populated areas in the state not
crossed by a hardsurfaced highway.
People of communities several miles
from the nearest highway are justified in
their contentions that they should have
roads. Many of them are automobile
owners and a large percentage of trucks
used in farm work and lumber hauling
are off the highways. They pay the same
registration fees on their cars and trucks
and they pay the same rate per gallon
in taxes for gasoline purchased, as the
owners whose homes front on hardsur
faced highways.
There are good communities along the
proposed route of a highway to Dough-
ton and they will improve with a good
highway.
Don’t part with your illusions. When
they are gone you may still exist, but
you have ceased.—Mark Twain.
Borrowed Commwit
YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS
(Reidsville Review)
It is all very well to say that youth
should have its fling, but statistics show
that the way of youth is tending too
swiftly toward the path ol crime. Sta-
tirtics never give us the true light ,of the
crime situation, but they tell a great deal,
and they also show us that somewhere
there must be a weakening in our social
structure. We are informed by authori
ties that more than 20 per cent of our
crime is the work of persons who have
not yet even reached the voting age, and
the average age is steadily falling. 'This
means that one-fifth of all murders, rob
beries, and those who have committed
social offenses against our community,
are those of immature minds and bodies,
and those who should just be reaching
the threshold of a useful life. It is not
a pleasant outlook, and not a pretty pic
ture. Is there any suitable explanation
and fitting remedy that we may employ
in order to correct such conditions?
We have youth in crime because we
fail to provide them with proper outlets
and upbringing. The association of bad
companions, broken homes, poor recrea
tions and street life can all be contribut
ed to the cause of youth in crime. There
fore, the causes behind such a condition
must be wiped out. It is noted that the
influence of the church and Sunday
school, the Boy and Girl Scouts, the Y.
M. C. A’s., 4-H clubs, and other social
groups, have a great deal to do with the
moral training of youth. Give them the
training through the first two decades of
their lives and they will generally go
straight the rest of their days. We can
not progress or go forward toward law-
obedience until we start anew upon a
plane of understanding and education
in the all-important field of building
again what this country so sadly needs—
a reverence and respect for the majesty
of our laws.
SMILING SERVICE
The reason people pass one door
To patronize another store,
Is not because the busier place
Has better silks or gloves or lace
Or cheaper prices, but it lies
In pleasant words and smiling eyes.
The greatest, difference, we believe,
Is ih‘ the
:N. C. Fmnnew. Sell
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T. B0ND4, Sont* S, Aug,
soidto ruViVitl meeting wtil mk
gib at Betlisl'Otau^
guaC 14tli. B«t. Pbrdue.'^e
fttstsr. will be asfllsted by Jtpo.
iinUmore Lairrence asd ..otW
mibiaters. Tile eomnnihlon garv^
ice will also be held Sunday ai^
a large congregation is expectM.
Mre. Jesse Church and dangh-
to
Washington, Aug. 9. — (Ahto-
easter).—These are the “dog days” tor, Margaret, from Oreensboro,
^ ^a.1-1 — ASIA fsnAMsftA* dWA WAaItCI flAWA vfo-
CWBMUA n«W9 W MAO UV|( wi | aivaxa wavx;aaosws\/»
in which the steaming,'breathless are spending two weeks here vis-
CaiHtal pity spmids its energy in Itlng her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
trjring to keep cool and doing lit- N. B. Burchette.
tie else. Elverybody vrtio can .do Several from here attended the
so leaves town, and those who home coming at Swan Creek last
have to remain here amuse them- Sunday. Among the number being
selves with speculative gossip Mrs. C. W. OiUiam, Sr., who la a
about what is going to hapjwn charter member of Bethel a^h/
when the vacationists get back— having moved her memb^htp
and afterwards.
As an example, the latest expla
nation for President Roosevelt’
from Swan Creek chur^ In 1890
when the church here ifas built.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence
nation lor rresiorai ne^veu s gu^et last Sunday,
sea-voyage down the Pacific Coast ^ „ -
if
to the Galapagos Islands, as
the desire to go fishing were not
explanation enough, is that he
went to make a personal inspec
tion of that group of islands off
the coast of Colombia, with an eye
to their acquisition by the United
States as a site for a naval base
to protect the Pacific end of the
Panama Canal.
Those who circulate that yam
point out that the President has
shown signs of trying to emulate
his distinguished relative and pre
decessor, “Teddy” Roosevelt,
whose greatest exploit was the ac
quisition of the Canal Zone and
the initiating of the Panama Ca
nal.
The Galapagos Islands
The United States has taken in
no new territoiy under the Presi
dency of Franklin Roosevelt, ex
cept to hoist the American flag
over a few little islands in the
South Pacific which were, in ef
fect; nobody’s property but
which might be useful as refueling
stations for airplanes flying the
route to Australia.
If he could acquire the Gala
pagos Islands, where the big sea-
turtles come from, it would be a
feather in President Roosevelt’s
cap, the gossips say. How valua
ble an acquisition they would be
is another matter. Doubtless the
islands would make an excellent
outer defense for the Canal, but it
is pointed out that the approaches
to the Atlantic end of the Canal
are strewn with islands under for.
eign flags.
If the iKilicy of guarding all ap
proaches to the inter-oceanic wa
terway were to be pursued, we
would have to find ways to hoist
the American flag over such Brit
ish islands as the Bahamas, Bar
bados and Jamaica, the French is
land of Martinique, the independ
ent republic of Haiti and San Do
mingo, the Netherlands islands of
the Curacao group, to say nothing
of Cuba.
The silliness of the notion that
this nation will try to get more
territory in or adjacent to the
Central and South American coun
tries is obvious when the efforts
to bring about a closer under
standing between the United
States and our Latin-American
neighbors are considered.
No Need to Expand
There is more likelihood, say
those who claim to have inside in
formation of what the State De
partment thinks, that this coun
try may give up a sliver of terri
tory, than it will try to acquire
Mr. Clem Wood and family from
near High Point.
Mrs. Robt Ahan\f. who has
been taking t^iment at Davia’
hospital In Stat'esvine, returned
to her home here last Thursday
and Is Improving, we are glad to
note.
The intermediate class from
Sunday school here at Bethel,
with their teacher, Wayne
Stroud, enjoyed a picnic at Copps
Mill last Sunday This is a large
class and have made a fine rec
ord.
Eugene Jones gave hls class of
juniors a welner roast at hls
home last Tuesday evening, hut
due to the heavy rain only about
one-half of the class was able to
attend. This ir. a fine class and
they expect to have another eve
ning to play games and roast
Weiners.
Mr. and Mrs. Baity Lary and
little daughter, Joan, of near
Jonesville, visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Durham,
last Sunday.
Chas. Jones has returned to
hls work at the Home Furniture.
Store at Elkin after being ill
for three weeks.
Mrs. Luther Gray and daugh
ter, Vetra, of Cycle, and Mrs.
Robt. Swalm and family, of
Swan Creek, visited their father,
Mr. .1. T. Stroud, here at hls home
last Sunday, who has been con
fined to hls room with illness
tor two weeks.
Mrs. D. S. Gilliam and little
son, Bobby, and Mrs. J. G. Gilli
am, from Elkin, visited their
uncle and family, Mr. J. S. Rose,
of Mt. Airy, last Friday. They
were accompanied home by Mrs.
C. W. Gilliam, who had been vis
iting her brother there for a
week.
Mrs. J. B. Green attended the
funeral of Mr. J.‘ S. Martin, held
at Pleasant Grove church last
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock.
Mrs. W. A. Pardue and family
had as their guest last Sunday,
her daughter and family, Mrs. A.
P. Woodruff, from near Boon-
vUle.
Mr. anl Mrs. Lonnie Martin, of
Elkin, are building a beautiful
residence near here, and they ex
pect to be able to move into it by
the early fall.
Mrs. R. G. Myers has been con
fined to her home with illness
for several days, we are sorry to
note.
Miss Sadie Mathis, who under
went an operation for appendi
citis. wa.s able to return to her
home last week from a hospital
in Statesville, her friends will be
glad to know.
Charles Gilliam, small son ol
_
^ An e«t»l»«d o9tUr
of ioTdr^eirt. fondly ifiia
iponSlla {wrewisig S.AOi^'air-
loads of North r^jolfiui potatoes,
applec- fuid^bbat* bx^the Feder
al 9arj^i^^omaiO(lttT Corpork-
tloB ia two jmra ended June 30,
H was diselfl^ed ais wc«k bx A.
E. Laiig8toD,"st^e;dtf»Aor/
Receipts of carloads of
prodnee from other, points for dis-
trlbutton to needy Tar'Heel cltl-
sens gave those naable to pur
chase proper dietary materials a
total of 320,413,209 pounds—
sllg^j: more than 10,308 tons—
Itt ^ha^t9rp year period,
-"It fias 'b^eo esfitlhKlad by num-
'^i^ds groweik, a^U, and
j^tato dealers fhat participating
Is the marketing of IrjlBh and
sweet '{mtatoee kept the" prices to
the‘%rhlte potato growers., from
going as low as fifty cents a.hun-
dred or lower on the total crop,
while It is thought that'without
participation the sweet "potato
prices wonld have gone to twenty-
five cents a bushel or lower,”
the state Surplns Commodity Cor
poration head said.
The 1936-37 period marks the
first time the corporation bought
any appreciable amount of North
Carolina farm produce when 1,-
631 cars of Irish potatoes were
removed from the market.
Seventy cars of sweet potatoes,
12 cf apples, and 328 of cabbage
were bouvht by the corporation
In the 1937-38 fiscal period. Be
fore the FSCC entered the mar
ket, North Carolina cabbage was
being offered, ?.t 3-5 a ton with
few takers, while after the gov
ernment agency began operations,
a good comme’'cial market of $8
a ton and up developed.
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horses in tbe fftdrtee to giTd tb*;^^
appesraace Of Jgher. t
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NORTH WILKESBORO _
Insurance agency, inc
General Insnrance
“Protection Plus Service”
Bank of No. Wilkesboro Bldg.
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
J. B. Williams J. T. Brame
Elizabeth Barber Nina Call
(Office Staff)
”°Up in th. northwest comer mViM M,.. a S, ,“'w,:;.on
Mntae there it a tract of a few t»™ca f'»» » ™'‘ “
hundred square ; milefe which,
though a part of the United Ferlazzo
States, is inhabited by citizens of
Salem last week, with little Eddie
i3Lat,t;a, ig iiiii«aa,att=\a trjr wavaca...-. -- Thc ncw model for the Jefferson
French-Canadian | itraction, who flyg^cent pice has been approved
speak French, think in French, and jjy Treasury Department and
have to do all their trading in the replace the Buffalo-Indian
French Province of Quebec, be
cause their reg:ion is cut off from
access to the rest of Maine.
Theb^ are good farmers, intelli
gent and industrious, but all of
their racial and economic ties are
with Quebec, not with Maine. And
when they buy a tractor, a pure
bred bull or a sewing machine in
the only training centers they
have access to, they have to pay
duty on such merchandise as they
need on their farms or in their
homes.
These Maine farmers have sent
petition to Washington asking
that their section of Maine be
ceded to Canada. They have also
petitioned the Canadian govern,
mer.t to the same effect. The
State Department is looking into
the situation, and Washington gos
sips are wagering even money
that eventually Canada will get
that little chunk of Maine.
Whether it has any bearing on
the present Maine-Canada border
or not, it is a coincidence, at
least, that the National Archives
office has just sent to the Inter
national Geographical Congress at
Amsterdam a photographic copy
of the award to the United States
by the King of the Netherlands,
107 ^ears ago, of a strip of land
along the eastern border of Maine
but which is still in Canada.
IntematioBal Relations
The boundary dispute was so
acute in. the 1830’s between Mfdne
and New Bnuwirick.that the.Uni^
•d.
head piece in use for
quarter of a centurj'.
the past
€ETTIH$
GIFT OF
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WITH THE GENUINE
AUG. 13th to SEPT. 3rd
ritory to Maine aroused the people
of New Brunswick so that they
sent an armed force to prevent
Maine from taking possession of
it.
Maine countered %■ sending a
force of militia to the border, and
the two "armies” glowered at each
other across the Madawaska River
for a couple of years, while Wash
ington announc^ its intention of
sending 50,000 soldiers, if neces-,
sary, to enforce the award of the
royal arbitrator.
Before a third War with Great
Britain had actually been precipi
tated, however, Daniel Webster,
the American Secretary of State,
and Lord Ashburton, the British
Prime Minister, succeeded in nego
tiating a treaty in which the Unit
ed States gave up to dlanada most
of the land which had- been award
ed to Maine by the King of the
Netherlands.
Taking this historical instance
as their graide, Washington gos
sips are predicting that Canada
will get and the United States will
give up the block on the St. Fran
cis River whose residents want to
become Canadian subjects.
If there should develop any seri
ous controversy over the matter,
that outcome is regarded as w-
tain; for if there is one thing
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