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lW«ed eMhe 'pos* office at Nortk Wilkes
eeeoad daae matter nader Act
bore, IV. o., aa ac
of 4,1879.
MONDAY, AUG. 29, 1938
Schools Open
Today about 10,000 children in this
county answered the call of the school
bell and entered upon their studies for
another eight months.
But few of the children realize what
this means. Within the memory of
many of us who have not reached mid
dle age, a child was fortunate who had
a school of as much as five months to
attend. Sometimes the school did not
last three months.
No child was hauled to school and
many of them walked more than two
miles to and from the little cottages
and cabins {which W'ere called school
houses. The children sat on home made
benches, and books were few.
Today, the bus goes along the road in
front of the house, hauling the children
to the school door. The buildings, in
most cases, are heated by steam and the
utmost comfort is assured. On opening
day the children are furnished books
without cost. The school continues for
eight months, two thirds of the year,
and in many schools there are teachers
for each individual grade.
Yearly the state spends about $25,-
000,000 to carry on schools, not to men
tion the sums spent by counties in cap
ital outlay and current expense. The
people of the state and counties are
taxed this large sum. It does not come
from far off Santa Claus who has noth
ing to do but shake a tree and watch the
dollars fall.
We fear that there is not a proper
SMXse of appreciation for educational
opportunities among the children of to
day and that the product of the schools
is not as good when compared to the
expense as it was 20 or 30 years ago.
Facilities are better, teachers are better
trained and it certainly cannot be laid
up to lack of opportunity. School is not
taken seriously by a great many of the
children who have advanced to the age
when they should have a deep sense of
appreciation for the opportunities which
daily grow' better and make it easier to
get the most out of school.
To those children w'ho enrolled today
we would kindly ask that they attend
school every day this year and that they
really put forth efforts toward acquir
ing an academic education. But book
knowledge is not all that is involved.
Schools to many children are the first
opportunity to mingle extensively among
other children and qualities o.? leader
ship are to be developed.
School playgrounds offer to children
a wonderful opportunity to show and
develop qualities of courage, honor,
leadership and service. It is the start
ing point for learning Ifo “mix” with
others. School children learn to know
each other. They soon learn who is
“O. K.” and who is a “fourflusher.”
They learn the bullies and the brag
garts. They quickly ascertain who
among them are cowards.
Schools for many represent the cross
roads. A child will develop tendencies
toward the right or wrong. School age
is the age when morality should be en
couraged to the fullest extent.
The Crazy Cycle
As we have often said before, every
thing runs in cycles. It appears now
that we are in the midst of a cycle of
crazy and fanatical doings.
Only a few weeks ago a nut jumped
seventeen stories to the sidewalk in
Slew York in open defiance of those who
were trying to rescue him from his own
insanity.
In San Francisco a woman threat-
med to jump ten stories but was caught
from behind, and was sentenced in
jourt for drunkenness and disorderly
•onduct. On Thursday we read of a
iroman who ^Ic. tte Bible admonition
*f ^T(
» jaid iiid; «iu^:
„u:i^j|:aev«ral years of newspaper
™ork it intwestiqjg to note how
|il9tlpea)-ls(^i^ ^appear^ite be
tag.” • For I" while there ^ were the' twi
mtting endurance contests and that wild
scheme later turned to flag poles "‘as
sitting spots.
In Wilkes we have reported as many
as five violent deaths in one week, and
We have seen five months pass with no
happenings -of that nature. All of
which leads to the belief that almost ev
erything runs in cycles.
The Otitltfok:"Waf or Piece?
Last week was the'tlmd'that most ob
servers set for critical events in Europe,
with the fear that Germany would make
M'nome - overt move .i^cainst Czechoslova
kia and tiius prOOta'itate a crisis in af
fairs that would lead to open war.
The danger is not exactly over. The
German leader has about a million men
under arms, engaged in maneuvers de
signed to test the fitness of his newly
created army. Whether he has any idea
of using them remains to be seen but
there is considerable opinion to the ef
fect that Hitler is not yet ready for a
mad gamble with war.
There may be an opportunity to pre
vent war in the future through some
consessions to Germany and Italy that
\vill ease their severe economic situa
tion. Great Britain has been trying the
policy but without much success so far.
The great danger, it seems to us, is in
the fact that both Germany and Italy
have warlike leaders, with both nations
organized on a wartime economy and
with their people fed steadily upon an
aggressive phychology.
Why do Hitler and Mussolini rigor
ously prepare their nations for war?
The answer, it must be, is because they
expect to have war. It is possible that
they hope to get adequate concessions
w'ithout resorting to force but any peace
based upon buying off the two powers,
w'ill not last longer than the bait thrown
out to them. When, eventually, the
other nations reach the end of conces
sions the German and Italian dictators
will have to face the issue of using their
military and naval forces to obtain oth
er concessions.
Whether war will result, in the long
run, depends upon whether Hitler and
Mussolini believe they can win. Obvi
ously, they realize that a losing war will
put their peoples in a worse position
than at the end of the World War. They
will hardly start conflict if they realize
it will be long-drawn out struggle, in
which the superior economic strength of
their adversaries would be decisive.
Neither will they begin to fight if they
understand clearly the forces that will
inevitably be lined up against them.
Either or both of these dictators,
however, might prefer to go down fight
ing, rather than to passively accept de
feat in the grandoise schemes for world
power. This is a real threat of war.
LOCAL PATRIOTS
(Richmond Tiines-Dispatch)
It has been a banner summer for all
local patriots: An Irish airman lands
in Ireland, and only lately the Span
iards captured a Spanish town.
Add life surprises: Getting five dol
lars back from a man who borrowed it
two days before with the understanding
he would pay it back promptly.
Borrowed Comment
AN EDITOR’S PRAYER
Blessed are the merchants who adver
tise, for they have faith in their o\vti
business, and their prosperity shall in-
:rease many fold.
Blessed is the woman who sends in a
written account of a party or wedding
for she shall see the details and names
of her guests correctly reported.
Blessed are those who do not expect
the editor to know everything, but tell
him whenever an interesting event oc
curs in which they are interested, for
they shall have a better newspaper in
their town.
Blessed are they who cooperate with
the editor in behalf of the community,
for their town shall be known to all
men, far and wide, as a good place in
which to live and do business.
Blessed are they who do not think
they.could run the paper better than the
editor runs it-^ear there; are so few :
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By tile aid of heliura new rec
orde for dSep-eea dMng wen set
in July. This g»s, whi^ enables
airsbips to. soar, also enables^ jin-
man beings to go deeper in 'ike
ocean thw anyom has‘^ever gone
before.
The trick is to pump a mixture
of helium and oxygen into the di
ver’s helmet while he is ’ sub
merged. Willian Badders, Mas-
terter Diver of the United States
Navy, went down 401 feet from
the U. S. S. Falcon and remained
submerged at that depth for half
an hour, with no ill effects.
The greatest danger to deepi
sea divers is the necessity of
keeping the air pressure inside the
diving suits as great as that ex
erted by the seawater from out
side, which increases wiijh the
depth. Under such high pres
sures the nitrogen of the air
pumped penetrates the blood-ves
sels and causes a paralysis which
is often fatal after the diver has
been hauled up. With helium sub
stituted for nitrogen that danger
is eliminated.
TREASURE . . . recovery
For nearly 160 years efforts
have been going on to recover 10
million dollars’ worth of gold bars
which were simk when the ship
“Lutine” was wrecked on the
coast of Holland in 1790. About a
million dollars has been salvaged.
Only a few weeks ago divers
brought up another bar worth
about ten thousand dollars.
Off the coast of Portugal divers
have recovered nearly half of the
4 million dollars of gold which
went down with th(J ship “At
lantis’’ a few years ago. The
“Lusitania” carried two or three
million in gold when she was tor
pedoed by a German submarine
in 1915. The wreck has been lo
cated off the Irish coast, and soon
er or later that gold will be
brought up.
All along the Atlantic coast of
the United States are wrecks of
ships which carried gold or silver,
but which lie too deep to be
reached by ordinary means. There
is a million dollars or so in cop
per bars in the hull of the ‘‘Pon-
tias,” 300 feet deep at the bottom
of Lake Huron. Improved diving
apparatus will make the recovery
of most of such sunken treasure
possible.
SUNSPOI^ . . predictions
(Whenever astronomers see
through their telescopes an in
crease in the number and violence
of magnetic storms on the sur
face of the sun, they nowadays
make two predictions which so far
have come true. They predict
that there will be serious droughts
over a period of years ,and that in
that period there will be excessive
static interference with radio sig
nals.
Sunspot cycles run about eleven
years; five or six years of activi
ty, then an equal period of quies-
soon as it 1^3«en dcanonstimted
that tkere' are "biff pnifits to be
made, competition hebon^ eo'vb^.
oroas that prices faH bbibw '
cost of produetico'and. tbe farijser
who has put bis. land and his cap
ital into ]a .iQiMOlative
ventote goes broke.
Cotton is Ameriea’a dassis. ‘9'
ample, but citrus fruits, tobabeb
and many others have ruined
communities into which they ones
poured wealth when they were
first introduced. Brazil has been
all but ruined by its coffee crop;
the Central American republics
which once flourished by growing
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Under and by virtr.e of the
)ouer and autnori^ v^ed in me
pi
by a judjment of the Superior
Ciourt of Wilkes county, in an ac
tion entitled: J. S. Bray vs. A.
0. Bray, therein appointing the
undersigned commissioner to sell
the lands described in the peti
tion:
I will, therefore, on Monday,
September 5, 1938, at the hour of
two o’clock, p. m., at the court
house door in Wilkesboro, ,N. C.,
offer for sale for cash to the high
est bidder, the following described
real estate, viz:
First Tract: Lying and being
in Newcastle Township, Wilkes
county, adjoining the lands of
and others and de
scribed as follows: Beginning on
a maple on bank of creek in Jas.
Hunt’s old line; thence south 82
poles to a red oak, Richard Walk
er’s comer; thence west with said
Walker’s line 26 poles to a pine;
thence south 45 degrees west 40
poles to a chestnut oak: thence
west 22 poles to a Spanish oak;
thence south 16 poles to a small
chestnut oak; thence west 53 poles
to a chestnut oak by a path;
thence north 32 degrees west 62
poles to a chestnut on bank of
said creek; thence north 64 de
grees east down said creek 180
poles to the beginning, containing
100 acres, more or less. Except
30 acres sold to Sam Spangh on
the west side of said tract.
Second Tract: Lying and be
ing in Brushy Mountain Town
ship, Wilke, county, and dezciibed
as follows: Beginning at a stake
on the east side nf Brushy Moun-,
tain Avenue, 160 northwardly i/
bgmtuMi; the
wealth ai 4iflgl«i«rop
49Mlll%ia botmd,: to peter
1.0 tftlbadz
phem^te brjOI be. ,nzed;.by
ell coniity fanaerf by September
^ NOnCB.,,
.By virtue of at power of sale
ebntyined in .a deed of trozt to se-
.bore a mim of mms executed by.
Ifafield Nldiou oa the O^day of
Febru^, 1929, the fin^ payment,
of .which waa due on the 9tii dayC
of i.Felmiary, 1981, to the under*.
signed trustee for J. R. Finley
executor of J. T. Finley, deceasei^^
recorded in office of Register of^|
Deeds of Wilkes county, in bodc
161, pam 226 said indebt^ess be
ing stfll due and unpaid, the under
signed will on Thursday, Septem
ber 1, 1938, at two o’clock, p. m.,
sell to the highest bidder for cash
at the courthouse door in Wilkes
boro, N. C., the lands described fai
said deed of trust, as follows:
Lots Nos. 1, 2, 39 and 40, in
Block J, on a plat of land former
ly owned by J. T. Finley estate,
known as the Finley Park Exten
sion, as surveyed and platted by
Samuel P. Mitchell, En^neer,
which plat is recorded in omce of
Register of Deeds of Wilkes coun
ty, in book 67, page 639, to which
reference'is hereby made for full
er description.
This 1st day of August, 1938.
S. P. MITCHELL,
By Chas. G. Gilrealh Trustee
Attorney 8-15-22-29
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from the north comer of Brushy I
Mountain Avenue and Lithia SL,|
and running eastwardly along tjie
boundary line of Lot 67 220 to an v
alley; thence northward along the...||ig®
west side of said alley 50 feet to jjupi
stake; thence westwardly along
the south boundary of Lot 56, 220
feet to Brjshy Mountain Avenue;
thence southwardly along the east
side of Brushy Mountain Avenue
50 feet to the begrinning, contain
ing 11,000 square feet.
Said land being described as
Lot 57 cn the map of Brushy
Mountsin Iron and Lithia Springs
Company.
It is understood that each lot
carries with it the right of one
•family to use water from the Iron
and Lithia Springs.
This 1st day of August, 1938.
A. H. CASEY,
8-29-4t Commissioner
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cence. The present cycle began in
1931, and until 1937 there was an
almost constant succession of
drought years. Now, astronomers
say, the magnetic storms on the
sun are subsiding. There have
been only two flare-ups since last
Summer, the latest in April this
year. Simultaneously, the past
year has been marked by the
heaviest and most widely-dis
persed rainfall in years. In the
first half of 1938 the average rain
and snow was 12 per cent above
normal for the whole United
States. The “dust bowl” is green
once more and the largest crops
in years are growing in the wheat
and com country.
MILK . . refrigeration
It must have occurred to every
body at one time or another that
it would be a grrand thing if
milk could be kept sweet and pure
indefinitely without refrig;eration.'
Well, that’s happened. Out of one
of the largest chemical research
laboratories has come a processj
which has been patented, for pre
serving whole milk at room tem.-
peratures for as long as three or
four months.
The thing is done by adding, hy
drogen peroxide and potassium
iodide to the fresh milk and then
heating it to 131 degrees for fif
teen minutes to an hour. As lit^
tie as six drops of perc^de and a
third of a drop of iodide to a gal
lon of milk so treated are said to
be enough to kill all the bacteria
which cause milk to go sour, more
effectively than pasteurization
does it.
According to the laboratory
ports, the taste of the milk re
mains unimpaired for weeks, and
no trace of the hydrogen peroxide'!
can be found in it by the mos*
delicate chemical tests. The slight
trace of iodine makes the treated* -
milk beneficial, especially in rdt^ I
gions where the water-supply if fj
lacking in iodine.
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