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Joonul-Patr^ nn»raNi>»iT xh politics : lloiidaTs aiKl Thimdsys at Wilkeaboro, N. C. D. J« GAITER ud JULIUS C. HUBBARD PabtWMra SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year . : Six Mentha Four Months — Out of the State ... .76 60 .. 12.00 per Year Altered at the poet office at North Wilkes* bore, N. C., as second claas matter under Act of Ma^ 4. 1879. MONDAY,’JUNE 5, 1939 Nothing Too Good Dr. Roben J. Maaske, professor of edu cation at the University of North Carolina, tjeWt^in^ hiy address before the graduating class of North Wilkesboro high school an interesting incident depicting the interest American people have in their children. He said that in a humble school house erected by pioneer residents of one com munity there was the inscription on the building: “Nuthin's Too G(ood For the Kinds.” The people had erected the achoolhouse and had taken pride in the work, hence the inscription. That represents one factor which has placed America in the lead. No nation with parents who have that perspective will lag but will continue to go forward. It has always been a cardinal principle of the true American that he wants his chil dren to have opportunities which he did not have in his boyhood. Some few are exceptions, saying, “What was good enough for me is good enough for them.” The idea that “Nothing Is Too Good For the Kids” is behind the vast expenditure of public and private funds for education al purposes. That theme is responsible for the school bui.dings throughout the coun try. The parents want opportunitits pro vided for their children. There are many men wro are meek and hurnble when they are being dealt with di rectly but who will rise up in wrath the instant something is done which they think will not be the best for their children. “Notihing Is Too Good For the Kids,” and may that idea continue to prevail in this fairest land of them all. ' ’ Slot Machines The way the state legislature has handl ed slot machine legislation is nothing short of disgusting. In 1937 they passed what was supposed to be an iron-clad law against operation of fhe so-called gambling machines;. In 1939 the legislature included license on slot ma chines in the revenue bill. All this adds to confusion concerning the question of legal ity of the machines which rob school chil dren of their lunch money and lead to gambling influences. The slot machine row has been going on for many years in North Carolina and it is high time that some legislature pass some final and comprehensive legislation. Sure ly it could not be said that a North Caro lina legislature is not able to write a slot machine law that will hold water and will not be the subject of so much wrangling. The general public is tiring rapidly of so much ado about slot machines but hard ly a day passes that some mention of slot machines in North Carolina is not found in the papers. Local and county officers are due a vote of thanks for banishing slot machines in -this vicinity. There is no excuse for exis tence of such infernal devices and we are glad that local officers have exercised the same opinion. To allow slot machines to operate and to run poor devils into court for shooting crap or playing penny poker is the height of inconsistency. But such things happen in other parts of the state. We do not believe that the people of. North Carolina want any more fence straddling or pussyfooting from the legis lators about slot machines. Looking At 1940 Not much happens around the nation’s capital these days but has some bearing on November, 1940, when the people of the . nation will elect a president, all its repre- ..aentetives and one-third of the Senators.^ Of course, the most interesting aspect is •ttie race for president and no one knows at present time who will be ti»e pj^cipala ifa that marathon. ' Btrt there is almost universal agreement t me phase who aie^suppoeed to keep one ear. td tike groond. '^ The person who if elected In iP4G wrillin alt probirtJiBtF be in 1044 he runsf(* a pechnd tefm. ^ % This prediction is beii^ baade generally wiUiout regard as tOv,; Who the awcessful candidate may be ^ either party In 1940. Aff phe pronosticatdPs agree that the next president will have to make many re-ad justment and may become very unpopular before the end of one four-year term,"' to say nothing of a second. It is generally agreed that the govern ment cannot go on forever spending far more than it takes in and that any pr^i" dent or administration who effects any thing like a balance will be in for a lot of grief. Amost everj-^body wants government ex penses cut but when the showdown comes they want the cutting done on somebod; else. The situation is made because of speculation concerning Presi dent Roosevelt’s attitude toward a third term. His popularity among the voliers has held up longer than any president dur ing his second term and the would-be as pirants are not going to do a lot about the 1940 race until the president makes some pronouncement of his own intentions and ambitions. The time is not yet ripe for such an announcement and the ambitious boys will have to wait ar . t Add to th« long honor roll of; Aaieriean naval heroes the nknie.’ of Uoyd B. Manesa of Gre«aah N, C, electrician’s mat* on the Submarine "Squahis.’'^ ' 'Ihere’ were 69 afficere 4^ — on the Squalna when she submerg ed on her trial trip off the Isle oi Shoals. Somethin went wrong with the mechanism Intended close the air-valve into the engibt, room, when the vessel dived.; sea flowed in, and certain death by r drowning faced the entire crew. Lloyd Manass acted, insUmtly There was a door in the water- more interesting tight bulkhead between the for ward part of the sub and the af ter end into which the water was It took the strength of Back To The Country Investigators who have been studying the subject! of where and how most people prefer to live have come to the rather un expected conclusion that more young mar ried people than elderly ones -prefer coun try life to city life, all the year around. The general impression has been the other way; that the diversified interests and entertainment afforded by city life made it more attractive to the young than to the old. It probably is true that this change in tastes is accounted for by the fact that modern improvements enable people to live in the country with all the comforts and conveniences which the cities afford, and the added gratification of the inera dicable human urge to live among natural rather than artificial surroundings. The movement of population today i; not merely from the cities to the suburbas areas, but beyond the suburbs, to the real country, where people can have a garden keep cows or pigs if they want to, live nat urally and simply, and at the same time get to town about as easily as they can from nearby suburban districts. Modern highways and motorcars make a fifty-mile drive to and from a city office or factory as easy as traveling from the outlying sections of a great city to its cen ter. People who live in the country these days can have well-built homes, insulated and air-conditioned against Summer heat and Winder cold; they have electric lights, modem plumbing, oil-burning furaace.s and all of the other “fixings” which a few years ago nobody but city dwellers could enjoy. The United States Census Bureau says that this movement from city to country is definitely under way. There is plenty of vacant land still unoccupied in every part of the United States to . provide country homes for everybody who wants one. AMERICAN COURAGE (Christian Science Monitor) The resiliency of American thought and courage is a powerful and dependable as set. To quote a familiar line, “We whistle whole we work. And as we whistle and work we count our blessings. These are many, and they multiply as they are rea lized and appreciated.” This history of the so-called horse-and- buggy days may not be very interesting to all of us. It may seem drab and colorless. We smile at the boasted erudition of our elders. But we are forced to admit that in their crude stubborn and faith-inspired way, they did a tolerably satisfactory piece of work. Today we need that same faith, that de termined confidence in our own ability to rise above the confusions, the hatreds, the fears which would discourage and alarm us. Let us rejoice in the possession of these. People without jobs should do as the Wright brothers did, says Henry Ford. If you can’t find work, hurry home and in vent the airplane.—Nev. Yorker. Giass that may be bent, rolled and twist ed is on the market. Thus, at long the principle pf the toothpa^ tabe ttiky be applied to the catsap bottle.-AAitlant& ConctitatioD. pouring. _ gia.it, almost, to pull that door shut, with the vesel tilted upward at an angle of nearly 46 degrees, but Maness had the strength and the presence of mind to use it- Five of his shipmates slipped through in the last second as the door was closing- Twenty-six were left behind to drown in the flooded engine room. But thirty-three who would also have drowned if Maness had not had the wit and the strength to close that door and keep the water out of the forward end of the boat were rescued alive. That is why I call the boy from North Carolina a hero- SUBMARINES . . • Bushnell The idea of navigating a ship under water is, like flying, almost as old as the human race. No body knows how many inventors of primitive times lost their lives in home-made submarines. Before electric batteries and motors were invented, submarines had only hu man power for propulsion. The first submarine boat to operate successfully was built by David Bushnell of Philadelphia in 1776, for the purpose of blowing up British warships- It was made of wood and was operated by two men with oars projecting through leather-protected openings. Bushnell tried to blow up the British ship “Eagle,” and got his submarine underneath the other craft. He failed to attach the bomb securely, howeve_, so that when it exploded an hour later the “Eagle” had moved away and no damage was done- IRISH Holland It was an Irishman with a gfrievance against the English who invented the first modem sub marine, a hundred years after BushnelTs experiment John P. Holland, a naturalized American, had a project for build ing a fleet of submarines to blow up the whole British Navy. He built an experimental boat with gas engine for surface navigation and electric motors for underwater propulsion- Holland showed his submarine to friends, who talked him out of the idea of raising funds from Irish patriots to carry out his original purpose, and brought him COUNT THE EXTRA SMOKES IN CAMELS h IMt. % 'G mL 7 / -Wi: / rO^ bior UuwkmJ / in touch with the United States than the “Squalus” of 1460 tons- public opinion became aroused to Navy Department- The result was Men of the Navy, if they are the fact that a great nation had that in 1883 our Navy contracted young and adventurous, welcome thrown into the discard all rulea with Holland for the very first detail to submarine craft. Their to which others still adhered, submarine torpedo-boat ever built job calls for high intelligence and When American ships were tor- by any government. great courage even in peace time; pedoed by U-boats and Germany From then on the United States, but it carries extra pay. The pro- warned America that the Stars has been in the first rank among' provide and Stripes could fly on the high sea-going nations in fighting pow-war-time pensions for widows and ^ seas only by German permission, er %o*other country has over-1 of sjdors who lost we went to war to preserve our taken us submariS? design “"d! them lives in submarine service. I liberty and our national self-re- serS^noi^bJilS^^ The ruthless use of submarines! j ^aval and military men will have 100 of these deadly wea-.by Germany had more to do than' agreeing with me that the aub- pons of defense. , "“"y °ther one thing wth bring-j marine is a much more danger^ ^ V n America into the World War.'weapon than the airplane, in ROMAUCfc er e, quite in accordance with' scmpuious hands. It is harder to The modem submarine was de- rules of civiliged warfare for | detect and more difficult to ward scribed long before one was ever “unterseeboots,” or “U-boats” as off its attack. built, in a widely-read romantic others called them, to sink fight-[ novel by a French author, Jules I PEANUTS Verne. The “Nautilus,” the un-^ Germans,; North Carolina’s peanut crop derwater pirate craft described in submarines, has averaged in value about J9,-^ “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ^ peaceful 773,000 during the past three the Sea,’ had everything ships, beginning with'years, reports the State Depart- submarines have and some things “Lusitania,” that American ment of Agriculture, which have not yet been develop ed. One American inventor, Simon Lake, has built submarines with I doors through which men in div-' ing suits can emerge on the ocean floor, to salvage treasure from sunken ships, but the chief use of i such craft is still to sink enemy j ships at sea. | John Holland’s first sub, the “Plunger,” was only 55 feet long. The one just sunk, the “Squalus,” is 299 feet long, 27 feet wide and twenty-two feet deep- Many ocean' going surfjice icraft are smaller | INSMN f 1.M POCKET AND WRIST WATCHES M.OO to 3.95 ALARM CLOCKS ^ n.OC to *2.95 * LOOK FOR ON THE DIAL \ By bunriiv 25% sfowsr than tlw ■varaga of tha 15 other af tho largest- saHiBC braods tatted-slower thaa aoy of tbo« - CAMELS giva soMkars UM equivalent of h, — of ^9DSliM fOlKOW ReggrdlgggofwluitmAko car you ara now drlrlng, ^ urM you to drlTg a now Qior- rolat with htehisht Vacuum Gam- thtft. which Roeg Into Actioo ^tu, and auppllM SO par cant of tha rMftfng aftort, the moment you touch ft wlA fhanka to an axclutlTe racuum booeterl You owe It to yourealf to learn how much sVaenum GeateWt. gopleamaccept thla torttatto^gaarw Omyrolet dealer today; take the '"'Beel^^l natlon’g lar|wt MlUni motor mt m tim Eaeiu^ Vacuum Oaar^ amt woti Omreiat out-$prhU tha/Mdl NORTH WOLKBOKm H. C
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