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)utics t^,-^^UKnk\ ,, - V e,Jpt21^&KSD -^90RI{!nO!l RATES: "' _..,-»lJSO M6nth3 .75 Fopr Months ... .60 Out «f tbs State $2.00 p«ir Year tin post ofAoe at North WQkoa- seeGod daas matter'tmder Act THURSDAY, AUG. 25^ 1938 Making plans are easy—^the rub comes in carrying them out. One old newspaper man said "names are news”—and he is almost one hun dred per cent right. Local market report: Bill collectors, active; demand, persistent; receipts, very light! Industry and Agriculture The best news that has come out in a long time is the report from Detroit that the big automobile companies are calling men back to work and that the rains have changed the “dust bowl” back into productive farms which prom ise the largest yield of w'heat in a quar ter of a century. The motor manufacturers reduced their output for 1938. with the result that most of the stock is practically sold out, and in the higher-priced cars buy ers are gobbling up the best of the used cars of last year’s models. Now the makers of the popular-priced cars are looking forward to larger sales than ev er of their new models, and are prepar ing to put them on the market earlier than usual. One reason for the car - builder’s optimism is the certainty that there will be many millions more dollars flowing into the pockets of farmers as this year’s bounteous harvest is marketed. That much of this money will be spent for new cars is regarded as certain, for the motor-car is as essential to farm life as the horse and buggy used to be. Prob ably the worst examples of worn-out cars still doing duty can be found in the regions where farmers have seen little or no money coming in for the past few years. Prosperity in America has always been measured by the productivity of our farms and the ability of the rural population to buy the products of our factories. That is as true today as it ever was, though the proportion of farm folk to city dwellers continues to dimin ish. There are still more than six million families living on farms, twice as many more living in rural communities and small towns dependent in large meas ure upon the prosperity of the farmer. And the automobile industry is only one if many equally depimdent on farming. Motor Deaths Decreasing It is good news, as reported by the National Safety Council, that the deaths from automobile accidents in the first half of 1938 w'ere 22 per cent lower than in 1937, The effect of the nation wide campaign to make driving .safer is beginning to be felt. The saving of 3,- 670 lives which would have been lost if the motor fatalities for the first six months of this year had continued at the same rate as last year’s record is worth all that the safety campaign has cost. Not only are cars and highways stead ily being built safer, but the work of traffic engineers and traffic police is be coming more and more effective, and the efforts to educate the motoring pub lic are bearing fruit. Thirty-seven states and 287 cities report lower death tolls than in the same period lost year. There is still room for great improve- than in the same period last year, ening of public authorities and of the people generally to the needlessness of most of the motor accidents and the im portance of prompt and severe'punish ment of careless and .reckless drivers. -... The money spent on better highways is one outlay which no taxpayer should begrudge. If all the money collected for gasoline taxes were applied as it . should bo, to road building and main tenance, it wottm not„t^l?e loi^: fw,all showed that % th#27 countiea innthel state which hav^ liquor stores tha^- about mRlron dollars we^ sg^lent for legai'^^or last yea^|gA4^ td^a^ tile mount spe^ for boi^eg iu those counties and the'f^buiit for bootleg liquor in the other f8 cofhlWes in the state and the total should be some where above twenty million dollars, or about a§ much as the state spends on its school system. Even those* who favor legalizing i^le of liquor admit that liquor is degrading, causes poverty, unhappiness,* degraded bodies and doomed souls. We have a picture of a people .spend ing as much for liquor as they do for educating their children. Yet we claim to be civilized and refer to ours as a Christian natibn. We won der a noted student of world affairs said that the Christian religion is ideal and that some nation should give it a trial. Twenty million dollars would have constructed many new homes, would have purchased much food and cloth ing. It could have been put to produc tive use. It was used to destroy. Judge Rousseau Judge Julius A. Rousseau, who was elected in 1934, on Friday completed his first term of court in Wilkes county and made a favorable impression upon members of the bar and others having business with the court. Those who attended court were im pressed withe the manner in which he kept the business of the court moving and his efforts to clear the docket of the largest number of cases possible. As a result about 170 cases were disposed of and a comparatively light number of continuances are shown on the records. Court attachees commented favora bly on his judgments tempered wtih mercy and his apparent determination to do the right thing for the prisoner at the bar and for society. In his four years on the bench in the western part of the state many resolutions praising his services and his manner of presid ing over court have,been passed. The Wilkes bar very appropriately com mended the judge for his work here during the past two weeks. Borrowed Comment "GOOD OLD DAYS” A MYTH (Reidsville Review ) The “good old days?” They never were. That, at least, is the opinion of Donald Hugh, American author, set forth in the current Rotarian Magazine. “Men change, but time goes on,” he says. “Tests prove that the apple to day is a better apple than that of 50 years ago. The Weather Bureau finds} that over a period of 50 years there has been a change of a small fraction of one degree in the mean temperature of a certain small area in the Southeastern part of the United States, otherwise all is the same as before. The snow lies just as deep, the winters are just as cold, the summers just as hot—or vice versa. To this. Hough adds the verdict that the best cooking is found not on the farm of yesterday, but in the restaurant of today. Cooking in America—once enslaved to the frying pan and boiling pot—is one of the newest arts, he indi cates. The food is better now, perhaps, the appetites aren’t. “Not all the people in America live in three-room kitchenette apartments, most politicians can be bought, the country is full of young people who really do know more than their elders, money as a barometer of human worth is losing its grip, the cooking is getting better, people live longer, the whole his tory of man still can be summed up in one short word: ‘advance’. So says the author. “The ‘good old days’?” he asks. “Which ones?” ITS AN INSULT! (Greensboro Daily News) Raleigh has just had a million dollars earmarked for slum clearance. Which couldn’t mean that the citizenry may be interested in providing a new legisla ture ? ESi is one of tbe most pathetic figures in the BOnle;' We are inu j^rassed by Us luindlityr good in tentions ; and ‘motaUe length of service, for he judged Israel forty years. But ddspijEo kis sincerity and nprlghtims his, Wealmcss. of character is abundantiy' apparent. " Very likely he was too good- natured, too easy-going. Certain ty he lacked a sensitive, sympa thetic appreciation of Hannah’s bitter disappointment over her lack of children, for he foolishly accused her, as she prayed in the temple, of drinking too much. And while he had the insight to see that it was the Lord who spoke too little Samuel in the charming scene where the myste rious voice calls to the boy at night, it is significant that he shows no sign of surprise or pen itent sorrow when Samuel repeats to him the dreadful tidings the Lord confided. And what a piti ful end was his! When the mes senger arrived from the field of battle with the frightful news of total defeat, the death of his sons and the capture of the ark by the enemy, he fell backward from his seat and brock his neck. But Eli appears at his worst in his feeble handling of his way ward sons, Hophni and Phinehas. There was a complete lack of mu tual understanding between them. While the father was busy in his priestly duties his sons went straight to the devil. At the very temple gates they disgraced them selves with a shocking exhibith>n of sensuality. Here we have a perennial prob lem. As Prof. Phelps, of Yale, says, “Some children shock their parents, and some parents bore their children.” Since the .World War the gap between the older and younger generations • ha3 widened . perceptibly. Parents are bewildered by the antics of youth, and the latter consider their sires hopeless old fogeys. How deplor able! The remedy lies in a pa tient mixture of tact, imagina tion, and sympathy. Fortunately there are,many families where a happy solutiop has been achieved. KEEPING HISTORY STRAIGHT (Detroit News) It ia hoped that “Gone ,With the Wind” is filmed ;in accord with historic jtect , we jr^V(^Ie4 ,in. «arUer,;.^viz., that) O'! Lesson For August 28. 1 Sainuell^ 4;T2-I8 — Coldia Text; ,|^oy«rlM / ‘ ri: > fBML State College Answers Timely Farm Questions Question: Is it necessary to use fertilizer on fall crops seed ed after tobacco, com or cotton? Answer: In many sections the practice has been not to use fer tilizer on such crops in the belief that enough is left from the spring application for these crops. This is true to some extent, but except on very fertile soils, a spe cial application will more than re pay the coat of the extra, fertiliz er. An application of 400 pounds a 10-4-4 mixture is recommend ed for the Piedmont and Mountain soils and the same amount of an 8-4-4 for Ck>astal plains. Where a good coat of stable manure is applied during the fall oi* winter the commercial fertilizer may be left off. Ads get attention—and reoalts. G-Man Probe of Southern Auto Theft Gang Brought Recovery Of 33 Cars, Scheldt Announces 1 Charlotte, Aug. 18.—Edward Scheldt, head of the Charlotte office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said tonight that investigations of activities of an automobile thefi gang In the Car- olinas, Georgia and Aiabama had resulted in the recovery of 38 automobiles va'ues at $18,000 at Anderson, S. C. The cars, almost all of which were of the same make (Ford V-8’s) and recent model, were stolen In Atlanta, Macon, Colum- pus, Birmingham and Montgom ery, Scheldt sa'd. H» said agents were seeking a man who gave the name of Rob ert Whltall of Atlanta, who sold the cars to an autoirobile firm at Anderson. Scheldt said he sus pected the name was fictitious because -Atlanta addresses fur nished by the suspect had failed to check. Scheldt said the manager of the^J firm in Andersen clatmed he was “a victim of circumstances” and that the company would make good the cars that were sold and subsequently were found to have been stolon. Scheldt said records showed that in several instances automo biles were stolen on the same days in widely separated sections. Select at Rhodes-Day’s WHEN YOU CHOOSE A NEW DININGROOM SUITE TO REPLACE THE OLD ONE, OR CHOOSE ONE TO GO INTO THAT NEW HOME, BE CERTAIN THAT YOU SEE OUR SUITES . . . AND BE CERTAIN THAT YOU GET MODERN, UP-TO-DATE SUITES . . . SUITES THAT WILL GIVE YOU YEARS OF DEPENDABLE SERVICE. WE ARE NOW SHOWING SOME OF THE MAR-KET’S LATEST DESIGNS IN DININGROOM FUR NITURE AND WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOUR INSPECTION. These Are Real Values! One ten-piece Suite, nicely decorated, walnut fin ish; consists of extension table, china, buffet, server, five side and one guest chair. 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