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THURSDAY, OCT. 6, 1939
Great Opportunity
The North Wilkesboro Commerce Bu
reaus has been working on the task of as-
isembling infortration for an instructive
and informative phamplet telling about
North Wilkesboro and Wilkes county.
Such a publication has been sorely needed
for several years.
There are so ntany good things to say
about North Wilkesboro and Wilkes coun
ty and so much information that the out
side world needs, that the persons compil
ing the phamplet will have a difficult task
condensing the ntaterial to the point where
it will be readily and interestingly read.
Reams could be written about the
healthful climate and the wonderful scen
ery which excells that of many places
which have been highly publicized and
have been centers of tourist travel for
years. Northwestern North Carolina is
one of the most beautiful and healthful
sections in the world and iti has suffered
for lack of an organization to push it to
the front in the public eye. No one man
can do the job well, it must be a coopera
tive effort all public spirited people.
One opportunity we should not let pass
Is publicizing the fact that North. Wilkes-
horo is a logical gateway to the Blue Ridge
Parkway. From here three splendid roads
reach the parkway in some of the finest
scenery in eastern America. To capitalize
on this advantage we must let the people
of all this state and states to the south of
us know that they should not miss north-
westlem North Carolina.
There is also a great opportunity to at
tract the tourists who are out for a week
end trip or just one day. Too few people
in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Durham,
Raleigh, Salisbury, Charlotte and other
cities know of the beautiful drive over the
parkway by way of roads leading out of
North Wilkesboro. It is our civic and
moral duty to let them know.
JOUBNAL-PATMdlfe^BTH'
might work in doser eodpmiition with the
hospi^l 'and in order'that R'might render
a greater service^ to the public. It -gOOtf
without siayhsg that the denomination ww
^ly to the cause. ^ ""
The Enemy of Honeit LehcNr
The radical excess of certain small
groups of labor leaders constitute a.,direct
and growing menace to the welfare and
progress of the legitimate labor movmn$nt.
The left-wing labor leaders apparently
regard operating industry as the proper
target for attack in spite of the fact that
operating industry is the primary source
of employment for the 'American work
man, skilled and unskilled, organized and
unorganized. They seem to think capital
should be destroyed in spite of the fact
that a very large capital investment is
necessary to provide the average workman
with a job at high wages. They support
business-baiting legislation in spite of the
fact that passing this kind of legislation is
the surest way to shut down industries,
and throw men out of work.
No tiiinking businessman opposes union
ism—he knows that honest unions provide
the workers with necessary protection and
help assure the generally high standard of
living among laboring men which is essen
tial to the maintenance and expar»ion of
our indusWal system. No thinking busi
nessman favors sweatshop employment
policies, or bad working conditions, or ex
cessively long hours of work. Time and
again for many years leading businessmen
and the heads of the established unions
have sat down together, discussed common
problems, and by the process of arbitra
tion arrived at solutions which have been
beneficial and fair to all. There is no anti-
Roote2
News
RQMDA, Bovte i. Oct.
Just a few days ago,, Hte» Om
Mathews, of Spring Garden, For-
eyth conhty, wrote her annt, Nan
cy Walker, that her father, Mr.
George Mathewa, was In bed with
rhei{niatlsni, her brother, Carl
Mathews, was a ylctlm of typhoid
fever, not expected to be np tar
six weeks, her little eon, "IMckle’’
had jaundice, and that she was
suffering with an attack of tonsl-
lltls.
The Matheweee have resided
In Dellaiplane, Brier -Creek and
Cllngman communities. , They
have many friends in sympathy
with them in their illness.
September 17, Miss Polly Par-
due was stricken vitdently ill. A
physician was called. He relieved
her temporarily and advised her
to go to a hospital. Mr. Worth
Sale and her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Pardue, carried her
to Hugh Chatham Memorial hos
pital where she entered for treat
ment. The 2Sth she underwent a
serious operation and is said to
be getting on nicely. Her numer
ous friends wish her a speedy re
covery.
Mr. and Mrs. Kermlt Pardue,
of Cycle, come real often to her
father’s, Mr. Martin Pardue’s to
go with the family to see Polly.
Miss Edith Pardue, who has
bousekept for Mrs. Jack Ingram
for two or three years. Immedi
ately came borne where she learn-
BM her friende at
iTIuneda^ aftenMKm.
Mn. W. G. Church, Mias !>••
light Cfauinh, Sara Bappenfield,
Mn. Gnluun JCyoyn, and Mn. D.
% KeUy vfbited at Holly HUL "the
towrth Gonday.’* Then retatlvea
like to get together. « , .
Messrs. C)ai4c W^ker,' Hvtbprt
Vicus and Hubeit Estes were ont
rtmnlng around Sunday evening
If it did thunder and pour down
rain.
Brier Creek.'school failed to
make the required average. Last
week it was consolidated with
Roaring River. The school bus
comes to take Mr. Johnie Foster’s
children. This is their first year
In school.
Mr. and Mrs. Quince'Sebastian
announce the blKh of twin girls.
labor feeling among the business leaders
Losses Recalled
As we have pointed out in these columns
before, the American people are definitely
against Hitler and the nazi form of gov
ernment which he heads. And being
against Hitler their sympathies lie with
BriHain and France in the present war.
But in order to keep out of the war and
to maintain neutrality the people must
keep down war talk and not accept the
pessimistic attitude that we will inevitably
be drawn into the war.
The war talk centered mostly among
people whose age does not make it possi
bly thit they recall vividly the war experi-
encet. of 18 to 20 years ago.
Tj refresh memories of those who for
get we quote the following from a Char
lotte Observer editorial entitled “Lest We
Forget”:
“In the World war, America made con
tribution of 233,184 soldiers who either
gave the supreme sacrifice of life itself or
were wounded, many of the latter so seve
rely as to carry the physical marks of bat
tle in them for the remainder of their days.
“Of this number 1656 officers and 35,-
S12 enlisted men were killed in action.
“Those dying of wounds were 559 offi
cers and 12,383 enlisted men.
“Those wounded were 6,475 officers
And 176,195 enlisted men. Nor were these
the only losses in life and body.
Died of disease, 62,670; died of acci-
ident, 4,503; drowned, 727; suicide, 965;
murder or homicide, 318; executed, 35;
other causes, 228. Total 69,446. Measles
killed 2,370; poison gas 1,399.
“Marine corps casualties were: Killed in
action, 1,450; died of wounds, 1,007; died
of disease, 304; accidentally killed, 28;
died of other causes, 18; total, 2,807.
.Wounded, 7,714. Total casualties, 10,-
621.”
A Forward Step
The Baptist of North Carolina are tak
ing forward steps in the movement to in
crease their hospital in Winston-Salem to
double its present size and to establish a
sf our-year medical school there as a braheb*
of Wake Forest College.
Until the four-year school is establish
ed the only four-year medical school in
Nortto Carolina is at Duke University.
Wake Forest and the University oif North
Carolina have two-year medical schools
MOW. ^ 1. , .
The increase to a four-year school is
Miade possible through a donation from the
: Sate^the late Bowman Gray, a family
widch has done much to promote public
^^abod In North CaroUua: ^ ,
^i??*The Baptist hospital
tiro food teMpps, that a
of this country—even as there is no anti
business feeling among “real” labor lead
ers. Both sides know that each depends
on the other—that capital and labor will
rise or fall together.
It is the racketeering radicals that cause
the trouble. When they unfairly fight
business, they fight employment, better
wages, improved working conditions. They
fight the welfare of the worker whose
cause they pretend to espouse. The sooner
American labor as a whole realizes this,
the better off we all shall be.
Borrowed Comment
HE IS AN AMERICAN
(From the New York Sun)
He is an American.
He hears an airplane overhead, and if
he looks up at all does so in curiosity,
neither in fear nor in the hope of seeing a
protector.
His wife goes marketing, and her pur
chases are limited by her needs, her tastes,
her budget, but not by decree.
He comes home of an evening through
streets which are well lighted, not dimly in
blue.
He reads his newspaper and knows that
what it says is not concocted by a bureau,
but an honest, untrammeled effort to pre
sent the truth.
He has never had a gas mask on.
He has never been in a bombproof shel
ter.
His military training, an R.O.T.C. course
in college, he took because it excused him srapes.
from the gym course, and it was not com
pulsory.
He belongs to such fraternal organiza
tions and clubs as he wishes.
He adheres to a political party to the
extent that he desires—^the dominant one,
if that be his choice, but with the distinct
reservation that he may criticize any of
its policies with all the vigor which to him
seems proper—any other as his convic
tions dictate, even, if it be his decision, one
which holds that the theory of government
ojf the country is wrong and should be
scrapped.
and her mother spe.:U much time
at the hospital.
Mrs. Amanda Pardue Swalm,
week before last, climbed the
barn wall where she might see if
there were eggs in the loft. She
came down backward and thought
she was ready to make the last
step. She was farther from the
ground than she thought She
fell bacVwards and experienced a
shaken i;'jnsetion. The doctor said
no bones were broken. Her sister,
Miss Lizzie Pardue, spent the
week-end with Mrs. Swalm.
Last Saturday morning, Mrs.
Worth Sale accompanied her hus
band to North Wilkesboro to do
some shopping.
Mr. Roscoe Johnson killed a
nice fat beef and delivered it to
buyers last week.
Mr. Berry Mathisi shucked his
corn crop last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pardue
and Master Wayne Pardue called
at Holly Hill last Saturday after
noon and carried-Misses Matile
and Armlsa Sale-' with them to
North Wilkesboro to do some
shopping. They discussed visiting
the Tilly Place. All wished to go
there, but no definite plans were
made for the visit.
Messrs. P. B. and Noah Luff-
man and Lee Wagoner called at
Holly Hill last Saturday morning
and gave their friends a glad sur
prise.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Sale and
little daughter spent Saturday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Wprth
Sale.
Barbara Jane is especially fond
Her aunts, M. E. and
Misa, gave her a treat October the
first, of nice grapes Just off the
vine. They have a succession of
Starke’s grapes that ripen early
and continue till October. These
are delicious varieties.
Mr. and Mrs. Worth Sale at
tended the Brier Creek Associ-
attoo. iMt ‘Manwr*
Mia. Nancy Walker called
to
HoBir Hin Lenoir ebwnty will be leiger than
ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING
$.72,000 WATER BONDS
BE IT ORDAINED by the
Board of Commissioners of the
Town of Wilkesboro:
Section 1. That the Town of
Wilkesboro issue its bonds, pur-
He does not believe, if his party is out ^ *he Municipal Finance
of power, that the only way in which it
can come into power is through a bloody
revolution.
He converses with friends, even with
chance acquaintances, expressing freely
his opinion on any subject, without fear.
He does not expect his mail to be open
ed between posting and receipt, nor his
telephone to be tapped.
He changes his place of dwelling, and
does not report so doing to the police.
He has not registered with the police.
He carries an identification card only in
case he should be the victim of a tiraffic
accident.
He thinks of his neighbors across inter
national borders—of those to the north as
though they were across a State line, rath
er than as foreigners—of those to the
tli0y s|!)6b1c b
language different from his,' and with the'
Act, as amended, in an amount not
exceeding $32,000 for the purpose
of paying all or part of Die cost
of extending the existing water
works system of the Town, includ
ing the acquisition of an addition
al water supply system.
iSection 2. That a tax sufficient
to pay the principal and interest
of said bonds shall be annually
levied and collected.
Section 3. TTiat a statement of
the debt of the Town has been fil
ed with the clerk and is open to
public inspection.
Section 4. That this ordinance
shall take effect when approved
by the voters of the Town at an
election as provided by law.
The foregoing ordinance was
passed on the 26th day of Septem
ber, 1939, and was first published
on the ^th day of September,
1939.
Close Scni&y Of
Beer SeDm Asked
Raleigh, October 2. — Close
scrutiny of retail beer outlets
was urged by Colonel Edgar H.
Boln, State Director of the Brew
ers and North Carolina Beer Dis
tributors Committee, in a letter
recently addressed to members of
the State Association of County
Commissioners.
Colonel Bain pointed ont that
some beer retailers fall to obtain
county licenses or to renew such
licenses upon expiration.
“Our Committee called one
county board’s attention to the
fact that eleven beer retailers had
failed to renew their licenses,’’
he wrote. ‘‘We do not want beer
sold by outlets that are not ope
rating in strict compliance with
the law, and we know that you
do not want to be deprived of
revenue. May we, therefore, sug
gest the closest scrutiny of retail
beer outlets?”
The Committee, now in the
fifth month of its "clean up or
close up” drive against law-vio
lating beer retailers, was instru
mental in obtaining the revoca
tion of a Mecklenburg County
beer license last week. Six other
licenses throughout the State
were revoked upon the Commit
tee’s recommendation during Sep
tember and one license was sur
rendered following the organiza
tion’s petition that it be cancelled
for law violation.
‘We are ideased with the re
sults of our immpalgn, which has
been designed to protect the pub
lic welfare and the interests of
the vast majority of law-abiding
beer retailers,” Colonel Bain said.
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Reading the ads. get yon mote
for less money; tzy tt.
Dr. Chaa. W. Moseley
Stomach Specialist 0f Greens-
!x>ro, K- C., will be at Dr. E.
M. Hiitchen’s office, North
Wilkeslmro, N. C.—
ON MONDAYS ONLY
Beginning Monday, May 1st,
1939, and on each Monday
thereafter until further notice.
“Cleanup
or Close Up” Action!
The Brewers and North Carolina Beer
Distributors Committee wm organiz
ed for the purpose of cooperating with
state and local law enforcement offi
cials in’helping to eliminate those re
tail outlets which permit law viola
tions behind the respectability of legal
beer licenses.
Wajme GNinty authorities in
tember revoked the licenses of five
retail outlets because of impr^r
conduct of their establishments.
Wilmington officials closed an outlet
attention had been called to its
operation in viedation of the law.
A Mecklenburg County license was
revolted and another license was sur
rendered following our petitimi to
the County Commissioners.
It is our desire to continue cooperation
such as this with the constituted law
enforcement agencies of the state, its
counties and its municipalities in
bringing about conditions of which
the industry, the authorities and the
public may be justly proud.
You can help us by restricting your
patronage to the places that obey the
law.
Brewers and North Carolina
Beer Distributors Committee
Soito 813-17 CommU BdUbg, RakV>, N. C.
ColoDd Edgar H. Bain, State Dnecter
CHILEAN NITRATE
caigoei «r« moving
Steadily from Chile
to the United States
south more as strangers since they speak a I . action or proceedi^ quea-
language different from his, and with the validity of said ordin-
knowledge that there are now matters of ThSyTyg
difference between his government and
theirs, but of neither with an expectancy
^ war.
He worships GOD in the fashion of his
choice, without let.
His children are with him in his home,
neither removed to a place of greater safe
ty, if young, nor, if older, ordered ready to
serve the State with sacrifice of limb or
life.
He has his problems, his troubles, his
uncertainties, but all others are not over
shadowed by the imminence of battle and
sudden deatii.
He should struggle to preserve hjs
AiMricenism with its priceless pri^ege&'
Ho is A foEtdnAte man.
He Is All Amerietn.
tion.
J. R. HENDERSON,
Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Oct. 6-2t. (t)
GILREATH and STORY
Chas. G. Gilreath T. B. Story
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Practice In All Courts,
Criminal and (Svfi
OFFICES:
Wilkesboro: Opposite Gout-
hoaso, Pbm MJ
North WUhatooro: Bsak ol
1^. Worth'^WlHtoibwo Bsdhttw. ^1
I>hono M« . . js-
NATURAL
CHILEAN NITRATE
OF SODA
PLENTY OF IT
INCREASE IN PRICE
tTo eliminate all uncertainty due to war In Europe, Chilean Nitr«e Sales
Corporation makes the following statement regarding its prices and
supplies for the coming fertilizer season:
There will be no increase io Ae present price of
^ Natural Chilean Nitrate of S()5ia during die entire '
season, which ends June 30,194E0.
Stocks now in the United States ate larger than usual and ships ate
steadily bringing eztn supplies whidi wUl fully provide for the heavy
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