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.^mnial - Paliiot BaMmgNMWT m poundi ? JioMiit^ and llMridays at Wflkadions N. C.' X>. J. CASTER ud JULIUS a HUBBA5D Pobliahara SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On«i Year $1.60 1& Men^s .76 Taur Months 60 ^ ’ Out of the State $2.00 per Year Satered at the post office at North WSkea- here, N. C., as second class matfer under Act March 4, 1879. MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1939 pPAI The Summer School North Wilkesboro city schools are to be commended for the operation and main tenance of a summer session. The summer session in tihe school here is something more than a place where de linquent students can cram for a few weeks to make up failures. An opportunity is provided for students and out-of-school people to take commer cial subjects and thus increase their effi ciency on business jobs or to prepare for secretarial, office or stenographic work. The school also provides band instruc tion and it is interesting to note that eight students a”e in that class for the summer session. It also provides opportunity for any per son to study academic subjects, regardless of whether o • not they are students of the school. Such a school during the summer months in an asset to the city and com munity. School Needs Water According to a recent statement by the Millers Creek Parent-Teachers association, Millers Creek school is badly in need of a water supply. There they have one of the large.st schools in the county, a magnificent build ing well equipped and not enough water for the children to satisfy their thirst, to say nothing of water for the heating plant and for the sewage system. It is not exactly the fault of any school or county authorities. Two wells were drilled to great depths but the water sup ply was meager. But because two wells failed does not mean that such a bad situation must be tol erated. Children must have water and plenty of it. The school plant must have water. It is indeed encouraging to note that school authorities have engaged a geolo gist to try to locate a well site and that fiurveys have been made of nearby springs to ascertain whether or not it would be pracldcal to pump one or more to the school. - - - Before three months pass it will be school time again and we sincerely hope in behalf of the school and the hundreds of children who gather there that an ade quate water supply for all needs can be provided. Any efforts on the part of the county superintendent of schools, the county board of education and the county board of commissioners to remedy the situation before another school term be gins are commendable and we wish them every success. . Driving School The WP.A driving school which opens today in this city deserves the support of the public spirited people in this city and vicinity who are interested in promoting safety. It is alarming to know the number of people who drive automobiles and who have such a limited kqowledge of the rules and regulations for driving. A cross section of the situation can be obtained by listening to examination.^ put to appli cants for drivers’ license. Once we heard a prospective school bus driver questioned relative to the simplest rules of driving that every amateur should lrry>w. But that person who was to drive aschool bus and have the responsibility of tjbe safety of more than a score of children did not even know the signals for a left tom, right turn, stop, etc. An alarming number of drivers cannot tell you the things that the law says a car must have «nd in good working order. Many do not know that it is dangerous to try to pass another vehicle on the crest of ; » hill or on a curve. The safe driving school- offers a good opportunity to learn something about driv ing., Even the best drivers would' profit ;|»y sttendanee. "^Aecprdliarf the'Grtat jNoilliwdBem ^ ta be held hereagain 4n this year wUt ''total'^out‘!|8r eh amount whibh will c^^re offered at many 006, orably with premiums lai^er shows. ' The increase in cash premiums for ex cellency of farm and home products has been made in classes where it yvas thought more encouragement is needed. The increase in premiums should mean hr."’Townsesa and w« toiu»v- an increase in the number of exhibits and we sincerely hope that it will mean en couragement to farmers and home makers to produce more excellent products and a greater variety. ‘^Beating Back” At 82 How old does a man have to be to be too old to be of any mjore use in the world? It was reported not long ago in the daily papers that S. S. McClure is about to re vive the magazine which made his name famous around tJie world. Mr. McClure is only 82 years young. He has never stop ped writing and lecturing and teaching people how to be good Americans, since he came to America. Sam McClure has no old-age pension. He has nothing, and never had, but what he has earned by his own work. A boy on an Indiana farm, he wanted to go to col lege. There was no money in the family to send him to college, so he set out t» earn it any way he could. Te tramped the country roads with a peddler’s pack on his back, 8elli-:g everything from cheap mi- scropes to books. He found people eager for good reading, and tried to get them the books that w|ould.do them the most good. He earned enough in this way to go through Knox College; then he married the college president’s daughter and she shared his poverty until he had gained tiie top of the ladder. He got the idea of buying the newspaper rights to the best current and popular literature, and established the first news paper syndicate. He became a friend of the great writers of forty, fifty years ago. He though there was a need for a popular, low-priced magazine, and started the first of its kind, McClure’s Magaziiie. .It made a great and immediate success. \E^or many years it earned great profits and Mr. Mc Clure enjoyed a huge income. He was not a good business man, how ever, and the competition of new maga zine modeled upon his own was too much for him. By 1914 he was broke, and had to take a newspaper job at an age when most men would have felt that the end of all things had come tor them. Now, at 82, S. S. McClure feels young and has gained the confidence of a new generation who are backing him in getting a fre.sh start. WHEN PRISONS BECKON (Statesville Daily) Oscar Pitts, State Penal Superintendent, reports a number of prison escapes from State highway camps during the past few weeks. Several of them, by the way, are reported from Iredell. Superintendent Pitts attributes the crave for freedom to the warm weather, which annually touches off a number of prison breaks. Any prison official will tell you that when winter begins to pinch the prison population increases, by the proverbial “leaps and bounds.” Likewise when the buds begin to swell in the spring the long ing for the wideopen spaces makes the prisoners very, very restless. If in the past wistful offenders have found the prison accommodations so ap pealing, one wonders what the result will be when word gets around that! the new prison hostelries are regular dreams. Take the new prison plant that is near ing completion out on the Harmony road! Everything is spick and span: Modem kitchen equipment, comfortable dining room facilities, shower baths; provisions for adequate medical attention, all the grub that actually is needed to keep a fel low fit for work. Only that word “work” mars the picture. Otherwise the occom- modations that State provides are much better than ninety-nine of every hundred prisoners ever had in their homes. If it wasn’t for the work, don’t know if we wouldn’t try for a bunk out there. Don’t get us wrong. We’re not saying that the State should shove itb prisoners in to a barren shack and make them like ii This new way is defendable as the best way. No question about that What we are concerned about is whetoer these at tractive camp’s wont make somebi^y’s hm house more appealiag as a maana b| official mitre. . " ' t-t- _ And toI snt hsFW tkar tkoatht yto OK BO to thoir di^aotioni)^ PoUUealtr the htor to til* open of *lHa «■—— eanor)-^^-^toft Toiftonaa Plan far* Federal peailons of 819 a flioiitfi by to ererybody over 45 years old was finally brousht to the floor of the House of RepresentatlTes and knocked on tha keadt'as jiirs- rybOdy expected It would bailee It came to a rotpj. ^ era had been trylttf tor sereral year* to set Const^ td"'aet on the proleet, and raSny members elected last Fall bad Mren pledy- es to bring the meaeure to a rote They kept that pledge, but only a few of them ^ voted for the Townsend Plan, which was beat en by a vote of 302 to 97. As an offset to the defeat of the Townsend Plan, the House Ways and Means Committee brought out a proposal to amend the Social Security Act so as to make it possible for the depen dent aged people of the nation to receive old-age pensions np to as high as |40 a month if the states will carry half the load. Now both parties are trying to put the blame on the other for the defeat of the Townsend bill. Nobody knows how many votes there are behind the Townsend program, hut all the politicians are afraid there are more than they know about. Therefore the Democrats are trying to make capital out of the fact that two-thirds of the Re publican members of the House voted against the bill, while the Republicans are saying that 85 per cent of the Democrats oppos ed It. Both statements are true; the vote was 107 RepuMlcans, 194 Democrats and one Parmer- Labor member against the hill. Eye On Election Such tempest-ln-a-teapot dis putes are the sort of things that indicate to experienced observers that a national political cam paign is approaching and that politicians of all parties and shades of opinion are grasping at straws which may help their own causes or hurt the other fel lows’. Nothing that Is done In Washington these days, by Con gress or the White House, is done without an eye on the Presiden tial election of 1940. The belief is growing that President Roosevelt will put him self forward as a third-term can didate, though no prediction a bout the President’s actions can be certain. The opinion of practi cal, professional politicians, is that Mr. Roosevelt cannot be nominated unless he personally insists upon a renomination, pos itively and definitely. That point of view suggests that Mr. Garner stands a better chance of becoming the Demo cratic 1940 candidate than does Mr. Roosevelt, even if the latter wants It. But with the President in opposition to the Garner can didacy, talk is swinging around to some candidate whom the President would be morally oblig ed to support, and who could also get the whole-hearted sup port of the Southern wing of the party. The man most talked of in that connection is Cordell Hull of Tennessee, the Secretary of State. Hull Respected Mr. Hull has been growing in stature as a statesman, and gain ing Increasing respect from lead ers of both parties, in the past year or two. He does not “play politics” in the usual sense, and there has been no suggestion of any political Implications in his proposal of a way to settle the vexed question of American neu trality in case of a European war. Mr. Hull’s proposal is that American neutrality legislation should enable our government to keep a free hand where our na tional Interests are concerned and should not pnt the United States In a position where It might In jure its friends and help its ene mies. Mr. Hull’s program, which ho has suggested t o Congress, would prohibit American vessels from entering combat areas, and American citizens from traveling In those areas. There would be no restriction on any sales of any kind of goods to any belligerent nation except that the Monitions Control Board might decide that certain types of military equip ment should be reserved for our own use. All purchases by for eign nations should he paid for In cash and taken away by the buy ers In their own ships. No loans or credits of any kind to any na tion at war should he given, and no one should be permitted to solicit funds In'America to aid any nation at war. 'The demand for some amend ment of the present neutrality law is so strong and increasing that it now seems certain ■ that Congress will not ndjpurn until some such law is passed. Nothing Of coatBqBMMe sajemt to have come out of the much- dinner pasty which to a gronh of laHnd H shonU ehonge#^ Aeeording to 8eef«t«Ky of Corntnarce Hop« what per The’^mtoeteek produced on ^ BagWW aad wltk tk# clover %Lf Iped to timp bplaace Mu Idiot dMnH aay arii^ loM f||^a cotton, 4a^ peetollr wWi Unt^'prtoee what they Ike. .-S ‘jsyr.. s Tpndanheki; aopplod with the iaclafarioB .>thatthe ll40 candidatee of hath pdrilae should ha pledgM! to term, so that Whoeve# ipacc ’ Mr. Roowvolt win he’^l^ to regardI4^>A,.thaj?oilt1^^ qnepces to hmiili. . 1 All Washingtofl agrew that the next President ie going to have a tough time of it, especially It to work himself to diaath on l^’’Aayi lfE. Bargen "[Aap iet ■ Aj my. land lay, oat evaor- year-4a olover aad laak*. ; IhOMiy than roaa tend tt the shade in a. Roetag edftm wort.!' ^ ’ ''ri^ehty insane -4 whlfe Wi wimre held in N. C. coaaty jails he tries to cut down Government spending > and increasing taxes, which would have to be.- done it the pnhlie debt is not to keep on growing. Only a man with no farther political ambitions could afford to tread on the number of corns that would have to he trod upon to carry out any such pro gram. Works H^-Time, Making Money J. R. Barger of Salisbury,' Route 2, has found a way to work ^ half as much as the average farm er and make more money than he would working full time. Mr. Barger developed the system in cooperation with D. H. Sutton, Rowan county farm agent of the State College Extension Service, and both men recommend it to ail farmers in the State. Here is the way the Rowan farmer does it: He plants his fields to clover one year and rests. Then he dons his overalls, turns under , the clover, and pro duces a crop of wheat the fol lowing year. He makes twice as much wheat In the rotation as he does when he follows cotton with wheat. Therefore, he culti vates a crop only every other year and makes just as much grain. To demonstrate his system, Mr. Barger planted one field to red clover, another to sweet clover, and a third to cotton. The first crop of red clover was mowed for hay and the second crop turned under. The sweet clover was pas tured last spring and turned un der. The cotton was harvested and all three fields planted to wheat. The red clover field yield ed about 35 bushels of wheat per acre: the sweet clover field | yielded between 35 and 4 0 bush els of wheat per acre; the cotton field yielded only 18 bushels of HELP. rklTwrt LatalivM—Ta^ Eal Evaotitof Im Saop la Nula n* •utMih ikMU mam la* ana* W tB>a Siltr. Wha Ka at kaatf, anaa, m rich t-v'!! «r aaa vaa afa aaaaaa. aaaylaa a chew poarly—roar aiMaack aua aaaaa aw aaa waaa Said. Tear toot aaawV tlim aad sn hara aaa. baarttian. aaaaaa, paai a* mm •taaaK*rTaa faal aaw, alak mt aaaal aX arw Iiacia'a mr trm taka a laiatlat lat ainairk R la. 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