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MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1940
'Sonh Cantina'a
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The National Guard
Some o|f us Friday night had the pleas
ure of learning more about the National
Guard and its value to a community.
In a banquet at Hotel Wilkes the full
personnel of Company A, officers of the
105th Engineers and a representative num
ber of business men enjoyed a meeting to
gether.
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts de
livered an instructive address, in which he
pointed out that the National Guard is an
organization of service as v/ell as a poten
tial fighting force and a vital link in our
chain of national defense.
The National Guard stands ready for
call at any time as a secondary police force
to protect life and property. It is also
ready to assist when disaster strikes in the
form of floods, conflagrations or tornados.
It w'as fitting that the meeting be held
in that it gave an opportunity for at least
a limited number of civilians to gain a bet
ter understanding of the value of a Nati
onal Guard company to a community.
Company A, the National Guard unit
here and which Genera! Metts said was
one of the first organized in the .state fol
lowing the World War, was highly com
plimented by high officials of the Guard
and also by a number of business leaders
w'ho freely expressed their desire to offer
every cooperation.
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cdmiiniidities aiSii NortS iStfCN
Una and qther states which hte^ cqpdjae^
ed adveiftisum campaigns
indication, the money thus exipteMed will
bring rich dividends to North Wilkesboro
and Wilkes.”
Borrowed Comment
MAKING THE CRIMINAL'S
WAY EASY
When Undersecreta^ Sumner Welles
stopper over in Berlin in his quest for inr
formation concerning the basis for the
peace that sooner or later must come,
Adolph Hitler gave him to understand
that Germany is determined to fight Eng
land and France until she has guarantees
that these powers will not interfere with
Germany’s living space, and that the last
remaining “wrong” of the Versailles
treaty loss df German colonies be “right
ed.”
“Living space,” does he say? The kind
of space he took from the Czechs and the
Poles, and their subsequent enslavement,
the while he admonished German women
to bear children and consider theim hono
rable, even if without benefit of marriage.
Hitler talks seriously of the loss of Ger
man colonies. One cannot blame him for
that. From every direction comes com
plaining about the injustice in the treaty
of Versailles, and the crediting to it of
Eurone’s presenjt woes. So why shouldn’t
Hitler play on that harp until the strings
snap
Co-Operation Helpful
^ In our opinion, the visit of a delegation
from the North Wilke.sboro Commerce Bu
reaus to Governor Hoey and the Depart
ment of Conservation and Development in
Raleigh Wednesday will be very helpful in
the publicity campaign for North Wilkes
boro and Wilkes County.
The bureau of advertising of the state
department of conservation and develop
ment can be a great aid to local efforts in
advertising this city and county.
The bureau has worked wonders for the
state in the way of advertising and publi
city since it was established and operated
by means of a state appropriation. Tourist
travel in the state has increased va.stly and
many new industries have been e.stablished
in North Carolina.
It is this department which has the task
and the pleasure of answering inquiries re
lative to opportunities in the state.
Unless the bureau is provided with ma
terial about North Wilkesboro and Wilkes
county it of course will give information
about whatever .sections for which it has
the material.
By supplying the bureau with the new
phamplets they will be in position to let
interested people know what we have to
offer in the metropolis of northwestern
North Carolina.
The state bureau will cooperate fully
and has already agreed to send its indus
trial engineers here for a survey. That is
getting somewhere.
The men w'ho left their positions and
their business to go to Raleigh for the con
ferences did a commendable thing and
their actions no doubt convinced the .state
officials that North Wilkesboro is awake
to opportunities and they will not hesitate
to recommend North Wilkesboro as a city
of opportunity.
Commenting on the subject of “Adver
tising Wilkes,” the Winston-Salem Journal
on Sunday carried the following editorial:
“Just a few months agO it w^as that lead
ing busines sand civic leaders of Noifh
Wilkesboro and other communities in the
“state of Wilkes” puts heads together and
laid plans for making the world acquaint
ed with Wilkes climate, .soils, minerals,
material progress and other intererting
features they thought the world ought to
know about.
“But much has happened in a short
time. An attractive 32-page booklet ad-
vertising North Wilkesboro and Wilkes
county is now being distributed over a
wide area and other steps are being taken
to place the advantages of the community
M an agricultural, recreational and indus-
Sal area before the outside traveling,
M»eking and investing public.
^ %e progressive citizens interested in
movement to PubUeiee Wilkes gained
We wouldn’t set ourself up against the
wisdom of the world statesmen and eco
nomists. But we have become tired and
weary with all this talk about unjust peace
terms forced on Germany when she failed
to stafe her enemies. And we fell less
lonesome in this position after it is reveal
ed that General Pershing favored pressing
on until Germany was forced to suiTender
unconditionally. That would have meant
that the German people would have tasted
the kind oif Avar they took to innocent Bel
gium and hoped to carry to Britain and
France. And the chances are that "we
would be having no w'ar today, if Allied
soldiers had occupied Berlin for a spell, or
even if the terms of the peace agreement
had been observed or enforced.
And Germany signed that peace treaty,
didn’t she? And abided by it only as long
as feet were under the council table. Then
came Hitler whose way may have been
easier, because of it, but no easier than the
next who will benefit by any soft-hearted-
ness brought to the next peace pow-wow.
The terms of the next peace should be
measured by the same yardstick Germany
would use if victorious in this war. For the
world knows by this time that as worthy
as the German people may be, they are
too easily led astray, to be given free rein
again.
We could be wrong, of course, but a
mad dog is a mad dog to us, and a feather
dii^^tor is 11'^ fit weapon to use against any
of theni. We don’t yank an arch criminal
into oiir courts, convict him of murder,
hand him an all-day sucker and tell him to
think of what a bad boy he’s been. Un
less he’s abundantly heeled with cash we
take him out of circulation. Germany out
of circulation for a spell wouldn’t hurt
civilizavion a bit.
IT COSTS TO BE A DOCTOR
the ear of their local
VS, with the result that appropnations for
f^’pXose were authorized m a local act
SLed by the legislature, thus clearing the
SSTforV expenditure of a relatively
Sill Jmoant of public funds for this pur-
(Elkin Tribune)
The research committee of the Ameri
can Medical .'Association figures that the
co.st per credit hour for a medical student
is $26.96 as compared to the next highe.st,
$15.87 for dentistry. The cost for law
courses averages .$11.05 per credit hour
and only $4.06 for teaching.
Those figures go to show that it costs
more to turn out an acceptable physician
and surgeon than is required to certify any
other specialist. And that doesn’t take in
to account the sacrifice of from four to six
years required in th's preparation—time
which could be used in producing an in
come rather than constituting a continuous
drain on somebody’s pocketbook.
Nor does the cost even end there: Your
doctor of today cannot practice from a
saddle-bag stocked with pills, potent and
make-believe. He must have expensive
equipment, for his tools must be dependa
ble. He can’t play hide and seek with
theory. He must know what he is doing
and check his conclusions with scientific
doodads that cost money.
It uced to be that the most potent medi
cine the old country doctor had was his
sympatheic friendliness and the confidence
that it begat. His presence and his hand
on a fevered brow, in those days, was
enough to make some of his patients well
That phychology is not entirely gone, even
now. But the demand is more urgent that
he be equipped mentally and mechanical
ly to do his job.
A lawyer can make a legal slip, and
start all over aga’n; the teacher can check
her conclusions by the textbook that is be
fore her. But the physician cannot re
store the life that he has allowed to flick
er out, and in order to be efficient in hi •
chosen profession he must spend and
spend and spend.
And it might be well to remember this
when next you are confronted with a doc
tor’s bill that seems powerful high—now
that the emergency is over.
mm
Br R. V. h6ht0N
The Interracial meeting held at
Rlckard’a chattel A. .M. E. Zion
chvrch under the * direction of
Revs. S. R. Lomax and R. V. Hor
ton, marks another milestone In
American civilization when out
standing menrhers of both races
met to discuss .problems as It re
lates for the well being of all
American people. After a short
devotion the speaker of the eve
ning was Introduced by Rev. Hor
ton, who with few words gave the
people to know that Rev. Gar
land was no stranger to him, men
tioning how they had worked to
gether in Tennessee, North Caro
lina and Georgia. He also sPoke
of the eight years Rev. Garland
spent In Africa as a missionary
for the A. M. E. Zion church,
and he came to warn of the un
seen hazard that serves to jeop
ardize the lives of the American
people.
The speaker did not hesitate to
tell his hearers that here In the
Southland Is the best place to
live, where we have friends' and
where races understand each oth
er, and I am asking that we do
not allow any foreign agitator to
break up this feeling, and we
can only keep this feeling by cul
tivating a workable understand
ing and by fighting Communism
on every hand, notwithstanding
it is said that one should never
(;-oss Uie bridge before they get
to it. However I must say that I
believe that there in these moun
tains w'e are not far from its di
rect bainful influence, and it is
also believed that both races are
actually engaged in spreading its
doctrine. It is sad, the speaker
said, to see the school children
in Russia at high noon when they
are called to march out and with
one accord make three loud yells
••(here is no God.” This is instill
ed into the minds of pure souls
that could be converted into
great Christians.
The speaker closed by recom
mending the great God of Heaven
that lias .brought us through the
ages, and with God’s help we
have made .\merica the greatest
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E. C. BUir,' the
State CoUege Ekteiii^n' Service.
The crop sbould be grown on me
dium to heavy soils, preferahly
those well supplied with moUture.
Kobe, Tennessee 76, and (Com
mon varletiee are adapted to the
Coastal Plain, and the Kohe, Ten
nessee 76, Korean, and Common
to the Pl^mont and mountains.
From 26 to 40 pounds of seed
per acre ie sown and covered with
a weeder, or the seed may be
drilled shallow on small grain.
Lespedeza responds to fertilisa
tion with phowhate, potaah, and
lime on some eoils>. The only cnl-
tlvatlon necessary is to cUp off
the weeds once or twice during
the summer.
Because most soils in North
Carolina need additional fertility,
Blair strongly urges that farmers
make plans to turn under at least
a part of their lespedeza crop for
soil improvement. It should be
turned under in the fall of the
first or second year. Lespedeza
will re-seed itself and produce
another crop the second year.
Two years is generally long
enough to leave it. A grrain crop
may be put in after the first year
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as'
the Tcbmmddlty
Cfe^t OOfi^raigon in eonneotlon
'Wtfb?l^e tf40 seed loan program.
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UPWARD
National Income turned upward
in 1939, the net value of goods
and services tiroduced being esti
mated at 168,500,000,000, ac
cording to the U. S. Department
of Commerce.
'Form^y with Qnai^ ^aa^
Announces The Opening
Of A Sewing Room In Yho
Basement At Penner'd
Store March 1st
All lands ef sewing and altera-
tioos at reasonable prices.
% discing and drilling.
If lespedeza is harvested for
hay, it should be mowed when in
full bloom or when 12 inches
high, whichever occurs first. To
wait longer will cause loss of
leaves, the agronomist explained.
Hay is usually cured within two
days. Tliree to four Inches of
stubble should be left so that the
crop will re-seed itself.
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
nation on earth today. He tirged
his hearers not to shake hands
with any foreign agitators 1m i
keep a workable and sympathetic
friendship with the white south.
Rev. Garland then introduced
Mr. John K. Prevette, who came
to rostrum with a broad smile and
gripping personality, carrying the
American flag in his hand. Mr.
Prevette began at once to give its
symbolSi. and for a few minutes
held the interest of the entire au
dience, giving the history of the
flag and how the people of yes
terday lost their blood to make
and preserve it and how that even
today we are willing to do the
.same.
■Mr. \V. P. Kelly, secretary of
North Wilkesboro’s Commerce
Bureaus, did not choose to speak
but voiced heartily his approval.
Mr. J. C. Reins postmaster of
North Wilke.slioro, with few
words gave the people to knew
that there are principles if one
possess which demand the respect
of others, and lie or she can be
woriliwhlle citizen.
The music through the session
as rendered by the junior choir
f the Damascus Baptist church,
the glee club of the Lincoln
leights high school, and the
iiiarlet of .Nortli Wilkesiboro.
IXTERESTEI)
Nash County farmers are ex-
hiliiting a lively intere.st in the
ilHO agricultural conservation
program, says H. E. Alphin. farm
agent of the Slate College Exten
sion Service.
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