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tv- ^- TWO THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. fij. z'.h- '^V;i!!;:, V ,’' -? ■ ;«’^ ~^,r*’ - > ■*. '''*•'., "V .' - - 'r-^ /. ■■■ ■ ■.•■:.v-->’'i'-. ;•.. ■' ■-• ■■•■■,',•;" '‘‘v." n.irwQPrtPft >? r ■ ■•' ■ : ■.•-i:^ :i;V' , '.■■v-,.i -. f. THUHSDAYrAUG. 17, 43 The Journal - Patriot INDKPBNDKNT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, N. C. D. J. CABTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 76 Four Months 60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes boro, N. C., as second class oiatter under Act of March 4, 1879. THURSDAY, AUG. 17, 1939 Conscience Absent One of the most shocking crimes in re cent years was brought to light in Florida last week, where a young man who posed as a scout for movie and stage talent lured two girls away from home. He confessed to brutally attacking one of the girls and murdering her. Just what the other went through while held captive by him is difficult to imagine. The low down meanness of his acts are most apparent because he employed de ception and the natural desire of girls to win fame in order to get them away from home. Of course the girls should not have left home. But girls are girls and there is not one in a thousand who would not listen to a man if she thought he w?s offering her a chance for a place in the .sun. What makes his acts so despicable was that he deceived the girl and lured her away, he having knowledge and intelligence enough to know what would interest "he innocent girls. Such things do rot happen frequently but when suc.h incidents bob up we are made to wonder whether or not the world is civilized. Surely, there is no vestige of conscience left in any individual who would deliber ately plan and carry out sush fiendish crinies, which belong only in the devil’s domain, Outgrown The Roads Either one of two things have happen ed: a great part of North Carolina’s high- wav S’ e;n is outmoded or traffic has out grow: roads. WT .‘hides are so big. so long and so wide c they take up more than half of the pa.ement a dangerous situation re sults. North Carolina has many highways. It has a wonderful highway sy.stem, yet many ot *■ e highways are too narrow and too crot'k^il for modern traffic as now al lowed on the highways. The momentum of a truck loaded with several t( .us and going at 40. 50 or 60 miles an h nir is a tremendous foree. It is capable o de.draetion of life and proper ty Cut l! danger from such moving ob- ject.s is Multiplied ^vhen highways are narrow crooked or both. Too f( w jieople realize the power of speed'f.g ibjects and what happen.s when they meet headon. A bitter conception of the power ot speeding vehicles can lie gained t'V taking a piece of automobile steel not bigger than vniir fir;;t“- ami trying to bend it. Unless it is a b'!:,., pi“ce you will find it impossible with vour bare hands. Th'. •! ke a look at ;i car which ha.' been in .. collision. Count the number of pieces of steel which are twi.sted. bent. splintered. t time you are driving on a nar- nd meet a heavily loaded truck Sigh speed take time to be thank- did not hit you. • a matter of inches between ;ul the one you are meeting. In- che.s—IK feet—are the margin between life and eathi broki Til-, row ri going a ful 4hat It K ' vour ca Fire In The Forest •*P.e C ' eful of fire in the forest, le.st a spark sh . Id lay waste the treasure of the gen^’rati^’’ ''i ^ say.s an editorial in the I ort- land ‘.>!vg inian. "The time of danger is here again ... It is true that not all for est fires ,;'e started by careless vacation ist^ pr-rh ;us no more than a minor frac tion of thw'i—but were the forests miracu- louslv rc q.' (i that have been destroyed by vaca. oni.sts the green area of them would be vast. "It is best not to smoke as you pass through the friendly forest, but if you must smoke be sure that the matxh is out, and that the ember of the cigarette is extin guished. Be careful even to what may teem absurdity—for there can be no ab surdity in such precautions . . . Put out vour camp fire. With water. To the last spark. You have to be careful of fire m the forest ... , , . , . “You are only one of us wrho is seeking the comfort and coolness, the green re creation, of the living an^d beautiful forest. It is your forest. It is the bequest of hap- piness and health and leave to your children s children. Low cruef a thing it must seem if your love for the forest is the unwitting instrument that makes of it a pillar of smoke by day, of flame by night. Be very careful of fire in the forek It is that time of year apin. That eloquent message should be re membered. And be careful too of fire in the fields, in your home—anywhere you may go. It takes but a little thought, a lit tle effort. And it pays magnificent divi- dents—^to you, to everyone else, and to posterity. Borrowed Comment HOME TOWN JOBS (Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont) In a southwestern town of 2,500 is a young fellow who has been to the city and had his fling. Now he is back home and expects to stay there. Not because he fail ed in the city, but because he has decided he can go further and live more where he is. In the city he worked for a chain food store, learned its aggressive merchandis ing methods, care in buying, elimination of w-aste, et cetera. He became a store man.ager, then re- ■signed, w'ent back home and bought a small meat market. He has been there only a few month.s and the business of the market is already double what it was; up-to-date merchan dising pay.s on Main Street, too. Nowadays with increasing frequency one hears these new-type Horatio Alger epics of home town boys who came back and made good at home. They find com petition too terrific in the city, but apply successfully at home their experienced ac~ (juired in the burly burly of urban life. The effort necessary to reach even med iocrity in the city may achieve real suc- ce.ss back home, writes Ruel IMcDaniel in Nation’s Bu.siness. The keen young man from the country .stands a good chance of being a big duck if he i.s content with a little puddle. Two Sides To Everything NECTR.4LITV Expect Demand For FHA Money Congress wanted to go home, but they’ve got lo pass some “must” legislation before they leave. That’s tough on Congress! W’hen the American citizen first reads, each year, that Congress Is beginning to make noises like i . a homing pigeon; upon that in-, on the response of lending stant said American citizen—if institutions thronghout the coun Home-financing monef at the new reduced rate on FHA-insured mortgages will be more than adequate to meet demand. Feder al Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald said. Mr. McDonald based his state- Civil Ser. Exam Is To Be Held The United States Civil Service Commission has announced an open competitive examination for the position of Junior Public Health Nurse, in the Indian Field Service, Department of the Inter ior. Applications must be on file in the Commission’s office at Washington. D. C., not later than Septei-iher II if received Ice Cream Supj At Boomer stant saiu American cmion—.. • aepiei-mcr n ii receivea from he cares anything about what try to the new maximum rate of .States east of Colorado, and not happens to his country—should 4 j.g per cent put Into effect on later than September 14, if re- *. i 2 1 oftCXTlflrtTI tr\ 1 /s*«o/I r\ A T\ A Announcement has been »*** that an Ice Cream Supper will 1 be held at the Boomer School Building on Saturday evening, .August 19, beginning at 7:30.' The proceeds from the sales are to go to the Boomer Baseball Club, which is sponsoring the af-, fair. The public is cordially invited to attend and help the local team. start paying careful attention to I ^ ^ FHA-lnsured loans i=^Led from Colorado and States 1- ’ . \V»citT\'nrn Tho oaTorv fnr fVi/i Tvr»_ the matters which are b^lne dts . , . cussed by our lawmakers In ^’hlch they make tor building or Washington. Usuallv at tMa time buying homw or refinancing there is some vital bill under eon- borne debts. The new rate, om- siderafion and Congress has often half of 1 per cent below the rushed such bill.s thrnutb with-. Previous maximum of 5 per cent out the thorough consideration j represents the highest interest I westward. The salary for the po sition is $1,800 a year. High-school education and cer- Laura Bierman, who 1s em ployed by a New York Hotel, was idly shuffling through an old tlephone directory when a dol lar bill floated out. She then set to work in earnest, leafing tain nursing training is required ' through 200 discarded directories for entrance to the examination. I of the hotel. She found a dozen Competitors are to he given a love letters, twice as many odds which they deserve. ;rKrTot!rairwhich lending 'institutions practical ; and ends, and $40.20 in cash. Inis IS noi - nnpRtions. Annllnantcs mn;t nnt from lack of patriotism hut usually from sheer fatigue, bore dom and the prospect of the joys of home, holiday and rest. The Congressman is an ordinary, normal human being—not a sup er-man. And thatV tough on usi At that moment, the “Neutral ity Act of 1938” is the fly in the late Spring ointment. This Neutrality Act however, is no pro. i Ouestions. .Applicants must not have passed their fortieth birth- ! day. Tile age limit will not he waived in any case. F'llI information may he oh- Mr. McDonald said ' tins city. participating in the FHA gram may charge borrowers. Reaeflon Favorable "The reaction of lending insti tntlons ns a whole has been higli- !y favorald “Reports vhich have come to us from every part of the country show that virtually all institu- Use the advertising rolumus r mow mat viriuanx uii . • ions which have taken an active,paper a.s your shopping gtnu role in siipnlying home-financing SERVICE .lOHNSON BRO.S. Tommie and Herman —LOW KATES— Telephone 40(T .purraiiiy aci nu\vt;vci. lo „,tA «i „ i flv’» to the people of this rnun-, plan I’’- , trv-it is a great big American i caring to continue this activity.. Ragle I, is so vast in fact that it i The result should he a stimulus casts"a shadow over every other to residential construction nt est whiek we have today, for ^ "The Federal Housing Admin-,; upon this act, when and if It he- i.tration is now insuring only come.s law, may depend the fu ture of our country and of every one in It. I rnfortiinately this law was he- j ing formulated in a time of great And still, it seems Mr. Ti-kes gets post S: or his information about the subseiwience drums. But even if this were not so and peace prevailed of the press from the newspapers.—Rocke feller Democrat and Chronical. Unaccustomed as he is to public .service, the bewildered citizen of Kansas City will have to run his own town while Boss Pen- dergast is away.—Atlantia Constitution. Van Horn Moseley did not seem to have any evidence to support his charges. All he'displayed was a keen sense of rumor.— Detroit News. Stalin says the Ru.ssian revolution had iu- finger on the public pulse. Evidently the public had high blood pressure.—Dal las News. In the United States a burglar is known as a yeg. A man convicted several time.s for his crime is a hard-boiled yegg.—Mon treal Star. A man is reported to have lost his wife and his ca.sh at Reno. Money is awful hard to get these days, too.—Norfolk Ledger- Di.spatch. Thrown Out of Apartment Three Time Ijy Wife, Man Returns.—Headline. Evi dently, she’s putting too much backspin on him.—Arkansas Gazette. Censored literature may be provided for, but it will arrive too late. The worst po.s- siblo has already been written and printed. —Washington Star. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CH^jftLES E. DUNN all over the world, this law— whicli i.s to govern the actions of the I’pitfd States toward other nations in time of war—is ot the utmost importance to ns and to otiiers and embraces williin its scope possibilities of terrible im port . The preamble to this .so-called .Administration Act-—which ^as first introdneed in the House of Representatives by Congressman Bloom on May 29th -reads as follows; Whereas. The policy of the United States, In foreign wars not affecting the defenf.’i of the Unit ed States, is a polii y of neutrality in accordance with the rules of International law; and Whereas, The United States stands for restating and stren.gth- ening the rights of neutrals at the earliest practicable time; and Wliereas, It seems advisable, until these rights can he restated, to diminish the risk of this na tion becoming involved in for eign wars by restricting the exer cise of certain neutral rights of onr citizens: therefore, he it re solved etc. And so, to all appearances, the intent is to l>f; iKtnestly nentral and keep this country out of oth er peoplP’s wars. At the time of this writing the Bill had just come out of eom- Toittne and is iiefore liie House. { Already the ficht had eenter^nl I upon certain main phases. Firs.: — the duty of the President in event of a war—in which we are nctral—to define certain eomhaf areas into which American .ships and .American citizens would pen etrate only at their own risk. Seoond:- the requirement that foreign purchasers take title to goods before those goods leave this country, which, to some ex tent, re-enacts the “cash and carry’’ provisions of the old law. "Tbird:—the repeal of the embar go on the shipment of arms and munitions of war. Fourth: tlio contention that the entire act mortgages which liear interest at 4 1-2 per cent or less. This inter est rate, pins the one-half of 1 per cent insurance preminni. makes an over-all annual cost of a per cent, a ebarge which no potential home owner should have to exceed jn order to ob tain long-term financing for a iii.gii percentage of his pronertx' valuation. The new maximum rate permitted on insnred-niort-- gage loans for construction of large-scale housing projects is 4 per cent, a low level which should attract additional amounts of private equity capital into this field of eonstriietion. Staliilizing Influence “Many institutions, particular ly in the largo metropolitan areas of the East and Midwest, had been lending at rates below the old maximum for some time. But even from areas where long term amortized mortgage credit, running up to 25 years, has not been heretofore available below 5per cent, the response indicates that there will ho no reduced lending as a result of the lower rate. In general, lending institu tions have been prepared to see mortgage rates decline In line with lower rates on other forms of high-grade investments. Some rate will he a stabilizing infln- express the belief that the new enee in view of the fact that mt :iV institutions already were lending below the previous maxi mum.” Mr. McDonald also recalled that the FHA had put into effect liberalized home-financing terms ; early in 1 938 when it eliminated) Ian annual service charge of one- h.nlf of 1 per cent which lenders! could charge horrowers up until j n*.at time on FH.A-insnred finane-• ing. Simnifaneonsly the minimum down payment was cut from 20 per cent lo 10 per cent on new owner-occupied small homos. j DraughoR Business College Winston-Salem, North Carolina FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 4 Yon may file your application no'.v, for en rollment, and bejrin your traininjr on Sep tember 4. This school i.s Accredited by 1he National Association of Accredited fom- mercia! Schools. Experienretl and colletre teachers will teach you. Write for informa tion. / SENSATIONAL OFFER i during our Pre-Season Sale of ESTATE OU. HlAmOU legislation ever to come before our Congress. Ever.V citizen of this country should obtain from his newspaper a copy of the pro posed Act and should follow every move which is made in connection therewith; and it he believes that ALCOHOL AND THE COMMUNITY Lesson for August 20: Daniel 5:1-28 Golden Text: Habakkuk 2:15 In an effort to determine the exact re lationship between strong drink and hu man skill and endurance, careful tests were carried out in the SwedLsh army on the regular army manoeuvre grounds near Stockholm. There were three series of experiments, contention that the enii each one lasting for several days. Three privates and three corporals, all of them ® first cla.ss marksmen, and all of them ac-i R^cai'se of the explosive condi-, cu.stomed to alcoholic beverages, and j^e passage ot a| vinced that these are an aid to marksman-jg one of the most ^ ship, were chosen for the trial. complicated and vital pieces of In the first and third series, the men practiced total abstinence. In the second series, the men drank a .small amount of intoxicating liquor daily. Each experiment consisted of precision, quick-firing, and endurance tests with the target at a dis- , f 000 therewith; ana ii n» ueiii:.co ...... tance of 200 yards. j u ++ a fatal error is about to be com In every case the men made better rec-. ords on the non-drinkmg days. Alcohol ' ,g congressman and state m definitely impaired their skill. 'views in no uncertain terms. The same result was registered at the conclusion of a type-setting test conducted at the University of Heidelberg in Ger many. Four skilled typesetters, all of them beer drinkers, submitted to the care ful conditions drawn up. It was found that the average loss of working ability due to alcohol was nearly 9 per cent. This means that a printer paid by piece work, who could normally earn $2 per day, would earn 17 cents per day less on his alcohol days. Horace Greely once said that legalized liquor “is a worse bargain than the devil made with our first parents in the Garden of Eden, or than Judas made when he sold* the Son of God.” Not many would be Avill- ing to go as far as this in their oppositlion to liquor. Yet there can be no doubt this intemper ance is largely responsible for our stagger ing crime and unemployment problems. I .mi.'Uqr in a product derived from Lac. a resinous substance j obtained from several trees grow-1 ing in East Oldies. India, and Burma, particnlarly from Cro- torilaccifera. The name “lac” is taken from the Indian term for 100.OOn. and is significant of the swarms of insects taking part in its formation. Use the advertising columns 0' this paper as your shopping guide. I'.U MOTOP CO TELEPHONE S.34 J T. H. Willi.ams. Owner Oldsmobile Sal^a-Serrlc* Bear Frame Service and Wheel Alignment General Auto Repairing Wrecker Service—Electric and Acetylene Welding USED PARTS—For all aiakea and modela af can aad tracka FREE/ « Regular $14.50 AUTOMATIC HEAT CONTROL # Now tho tine to got oc«y, auto- matio heat for your home. When we install your Estate Oil Heatrola you can say goodbye to all heating muss and fuss! There is no dust, no dirt, no woik with the Estate Oil Heatrola. Just light it once. Keep the oil tank filled. That's^ all. Wonderful mechanical de vice watches temperature — keeps rooms uniformly Order yours during our Pre- Season^^ Sale —we'il install a regular $14.50 Automatic Heat Control without one oonny’s coit to you. It's a great opportunity. Don’t miss it! YOURS WITHOUT COST FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY srriT.. FORGET m Just dial the temperetove you went — this Autewetio Heat Control maintains it indafinitaly. Formerly avail able only on high-prteed basement heating plants. Cattle^Sale! Sell your cattle at the Wilkesboro Livestock Market. Plenty of buyers and good demand for all kinds of cattle. You can’t do better; you might do worse. Bring your cattle early. Lodk how OMY it is to get ywr FREE HEAT CONTROL CMM In, or tatopliMM. Or*r yo«ir fcw- tllMl Ettato Oil Haatrota durlnf aw Pra- littT- ■-*- (Tha Um b llmnad). Maka only a small Cmn paymant—pay nothin, mam until ra«, whan yau k.,ln yow aaay monthly Inatall manta. Gat a ,aniilni Katata Automatic Haat Can- Iral abacluMy Fraa whan your BaatraU b InataHed thb Fan. IllnatratioB ihowa naw low-typa Heatrola with ian-ioicad air ciiculattag ayatam. Several other atylae and wide range of aisat to chooae from. SALE DAY EVERY MONDAY Wilkesboro Livostock[Market «T HOW! TAKE ADVANTASE OF THIS QfPORTUHin R. P. RILEY, OWNER BETWEEN THE WILKESBOROS Rhodes-Day Furniture Gfr “Complete Furnishers of the Home” Ninth Street — North Wilkesboro, N. C.
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