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THURSDAY, MAR. 14, 1940
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Girl Scouting
The Girl Scouts of the United States are
celebrating the movement’s twenty-eighth
birthday this week. Some of the girls who
are celebrating are poor, some are rich,
most are somewhat in between. Some are
black, some are white). Some live in cities,
some on farms. Sixty-five of them, typi
cal of more than half a millon throughout
the United States, live in North Wilkes-
boro.
Every one of them is a part of a Girl
Scout democracy in which each troop
elects its own officers and trains its mem
bers in delegating and accepting responsi
bility. Their leaders help each girl to see
that difference in enviroment or back
ground need not make a girl feel left out.
On the contrary, she can feel needed and
important because she has something all
her own to contribute.
America was built out of the welding of
many different peoples and ideas. Demo
cracy depends on that welding, and more
of our children must learn the art before it
is too late.
There is no question about their willing
ness to learn. The Girl Scout Council of
North Wilkesboro, like other Girl Scout
groups, has a waiting lisit of girls who are
eager to live by the standards of Girl
.-^^jaujung. But if the work is to expand,
I-.*.,-, more memand women to
that Girl Scouts are trying to build,
place to begin is North Wilkesboro.
time to begin is now
The
The
Individual Opportunity
Thomas -Jefferson, referred to by some
historians as “the father of the patent sys
tem,” was in fact the first patent examin
er. When the patent question first came
up. Jefferson was oppo.sed to granting
patents for they hinted at monopoly: but
when he saw how the government, by giv
ing patent rights, stimulated invention, he
became an immediate advocate. Since
1900, it has been estimated that 100,000
new products have been placed on the
market as the result of American ingenui
ty inspired by the patent system.
You grow with the times. Your com
munity is constantly progressing. The rea
son is that the American people are an en
terprising people and want to go ahead;
not because they are a .selfish people, but
because they are proud of their freedom
and the right to receive reward.s for their
own endeavors as individuals living in a
free country. This was reasoned out in the
days of the" molding of our pre.sent United
States and by great men who were respon
sible for the evolution of this country from
a wilderness to the w'orld's leading indus
trial and scientific nation. They knew that
as long as there was sound government to
regulate industry, monopoly could not ex
ist and therefore there was no reason for
government to compete with its own citi
zens in business and thereby de.stroy indi
vidual opportunity for reward.
Crossing Deaths
After a steady three-year decline, rail
road crossing accidents are threatening to
kill a record number of persons in North
Carolina during 1940, according to Ronald
Hocutt, Director of the Highway Safety
Division. .... - .
Six crossing fatalities in January and
five in February combined to miake a two-
months total of more than half the number
of fatal accidents at railroad crossings in
the state during the entire twelve months
x)f 1939. There were 19 crossing fatali
ties in North Carolina last year, compared
with 22 in 1938, 23 in 1937 and 30 in 1936.
“Just as we were congratulating out-
«elves on the fact that railroad crossing ac
cidents were on the decline in North Caro
lina we learn that motorists in this State
have started out the new year with a total
nf eleven crossing fatalities in two mon
ths.” Hocutt said. “This type is distress
ing. especially when we consider how eas-
i^this type of accident might be avoided.
T^ery railroad crossing is either guarded
'^marked, and in ninety-nine cases out of
: . A hundred the motorist who runs into the
*■ ’ jj- of a train or iito the path of one is
«Slty of inattention and negligence.
^ the exception of T love you’ the
ktMwn three-word utterance in the
is ‘Stop! LooklListen!,’
■3m
ettowe thete
a railroad
tton to them.
to atop. ,
on araroae^g a droasiiA
do 8o”can 'ilirove go cop||y.
cfos^ng ia otie of ilfce pipces whe
man controls his own alfety. Tj®.,train
will never hit your car unless it is there to
be hit. Stop, look, listen and live. ,
•o^
evei^
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Enjoy Your Work
While written primarily for fann boys,
the following advice is worth the attention
of boys in town and city also—hot to men
tion the girls. We quote from the current
issue of The Progressive Farmer;
“The first thing is to respect your job on
the farm. It may be just a little farm and
at times it may get pretty monotonous. But
it's important that you do the job well.
Little jobs, done well, open up into bigger
opportunities surprisingly often. Jesus
once told a parable about it. The fellow
who had done a little job well heard some
body say: ‘Thou hast been faithful over a
few things; I will make thee ruler over
many things.’ That wasn’t just a parable,
eit^r. Everybody who holds a big job
had a little one first, and learned to do it
well.
“Hold your shoulders up, and keep your
chin up, too. Personal appearance is not
just a matter of having shoes that are shin
ed. Your posture, the tilt of your chin,
eyes that look interested in people and in
farming, the way you walk about, your
general demeanor—all combined to show
the public whether you take pride in your
self and your farm. It makes a great deal
of difference to you, too. No matter what
your farming job is, don’t look as though
you feel apologetic about it. Look as
though you are saying to yourself: “Farm
ing is my work. I do it well.”
Borrowed Comment
A RARE ACHIEVEMENT
(Skyland Post)
ftditoE’s Note: -Hil» to the
of Y eerie* of artlclee on tnental
Ijr. m!«l ra
^ . It t tod Siii^
health ■which wUl he a weekly
feature of The Journal-Patriot
each week. Any inqnirlea relating
'^to-^total oroblema may he ad-
dr^e'd to Dr. Wataon In care of
thliv'paper. A ^
‘^jit makes ■much difference
whose child K la.” Thto observa
tion was'"made during a dlscns-
sion following an address In
which I had stated that one out
of every 22 ■boys and girls now in
our public schools will. spend
some part of his or her life In a
mental hospital.
That means that a ■million or
moi’e children now in sCtool will
some day be declared Insane.
•‘Yet,” says Dr. Hincks of the Na
tional Committee for Mental Hy
giene, “at least one-half of all
mentel illness could be prevented
If we acted In time.
Mentality is the highest attain
ment of the race. Using the word
“mind” in its broadest sense, it
is with the mind we love, think,
know, appreciate ibeauty, enjoy
life, worship Cod. To lose one’s
mind is life’s greatest tragedy!
The one child out of 22 who is
going to do this may be your
child, your grandchild, or your
neighbor’s child. Authorities say
that at least one-half of the mil
lion could Ue saved from this
tragedy. Few people seem inclin
ed, however, to do much about it.
There Is Control For
Sweet PotatoDiseases
There is little excuse for dam
age from the four major sweet
potato diseases—stem rot or wilt,
scurf, black rot, and root knot or
,—^ , j hig root—says Dr. Luther Shaw,
The power of the press and the depen- Extension plant pathologist of
state College. Practical, economi
cal. and effective control meas
ures .have been developed for all
four diseases, and not even the
hoime gardener should suffer, Dr.
Shaw declared.
The first and most important
control measure is to select heal
thy potatoes for bedding. Then,
all seed potatoes should be treat
ed by soaking for 15 minutes in
dency of Democracy upon a free pres.s
were clearly demonstrated recently _ in
Louisiana when the United States’ first
dictatorship was completely smashed..
“Sam Jones gets the governorship of
Louisiana, but he must share w'ith Uncle
Sam and a free and thunderin>^ pre.ss the
credit for smashing a dictatorship,” writes
Charles Nutter.
.. „ „ “The trinity for reform, actually was jjy goaking for i5 minutes m
■SSf, paced all.press,
ire «eir.TOt>wes mooting of the firmly^afereBClree;^ -Sgeming- pared m the proportion of one '
with girls, to act as leaders, or to give fin- jy invincible Huey P. Long dynasty will mmee of mercuric chloride to ;
ancial help. We want the kind of w^ld g^^nd as one of the outstanding journalis
tic achievements in decades.
“Using only publicity and other instru
ments of democracy the loose-knit opposi
tion forces finally broke the back of the
twelve-year-old Long Machine and are
are planning to finish the job.”
The Louisiana newspapers didn’t stop
with an editorial crusade. Their persis
tent and thorough investigations turned
up many tips leading to subsequent grand
jury indictments, federal trials and convic
tions.
The papers were fighting for honest, de
cent government and although the Long
machine bad become allpowerful before
they realized its crookedne.ss in the legis
lature, the courts and schools, neverthe
less they waged a battle of “giving the
people light so that the people may find
the way.”
Thomas Jefferson knew what he was
talking about when he said, “If the choice
were left to me whether to have a free
press or a free government, 1 would choose
a free press.”
^.s long as America has freedom of the
press, it will have a democratic system of
government. The first thing a dictator
does is to get control^of the newspapers.
AVERAGE AMERICAN
(Minneapolis Star-Journal)
Did the depression of the Thirt.es harm
the American spirit? Did it cause home
to lose faith in what we call the American
dream? Did it lessen self-reliance and sti
mulate cla.ss hatreds?
A lot of people have feared that it did.
ounce of mercuric chloride
eight gallons of water. The water
should be heated to around 100
degrees Fahrenheit, and the po
tatoes should be allowed to dry
and should be bedded without
washing.
If potato slips are to hie trans
planted on land known to harbor
the wilt or stem rot fungus, the
root ends of the slips should be
immer.'^ed in a Bordeaux mixture,
prepared by mixing 1 pound of
copper sulphate (blue stone) and
1 pound of lime with 2 1-2 gal
lons of water.
Where the scurf disease is pres
ent in the soil, the roots of the
slips should be dipped into a bag
of sulphur and transplanted im-
■mediately. When ‘both wilt and
scurf are present. Dr. Shaw ad
vises the u.--e of Semesan Bel.
There are re.sista t varieties to
control the black rot and root
knot diseases.
The Extension specialist offer
ed to supply complete Information
to any grower who writes him at
Slate College, Raleigh.
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ar« «lsd to Itom that
Fannto Welborn fa improriac aft
er five weeks illaess.
Rev. and Mrs. P. C. Paf’lu and
■Mn. Pearl Shore, spent Tneaday
visiting the sitde. They were the
dinner guests of iMr. and Mrs.
Tom Foster, of Wllkuboro. /
■Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Parka and
Mra. Joan Parks, or ^nston-Sal-
em, wne.Tlsitors in the Cycle
comtnnnity, Sunday.
Frienda are glad to learn that
Mrs. Glsie Shore is imfiroTing
from a long illness.
Friends gathered at the home
of Rev. P. C. t Parks, Sunday,
March lOtb, celebrating his 4lst
birthday. All churches of which
he is pastor were represented ex
cept one. The following named
churches represented: Fishing
Creek Anbor, New Light, Mount
Zion and New Hope. All friends
and '•elatives reported a nice time.
Friends are sorry to hear of the
illness of Mrs. A. C. Roberts.
Friends regret to learn that
Mr. John Brewer’s son Is a pa
tient in the Wilkes hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lackey
and children, of Boonvllle, were
visitors in the Cycle Community,
Sunday.
.Misses Ruby and Helen Pinnix,
Mr. Jess Pardue and iMr. Paul
Pinnix, of Brooks Cross Roads,
attended the birthday dinner at
Rev. P. C. Parks, Sunday.
■Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Parks
and son, of Wilkesboro, were
visitors in the Cycle community,
Sunday.
Mr. Bill Somers was a visitor
at the Baptist Hospital in Win
ston-Salem last week.
P. C. Parks, Jr., spent Tuesday
in Elkin.
..^ htogto by a
of his
bedeb He 42 yean
L-
Coroner R. (4. lAtoMitoa of
Lm eotofy said the RoHywood,
Calif., writer committed salclde
late Bnaday or eariy Moaday.
Sanndera bad (been la W health
for aeveral ^onths. Before eom-
Ing here a month aeo, he waa a
patieiit in Johns Hopkina Hoe-
pftal, Baltimore. A nurse attend
ed Saunders during his stay at
(file cottage 15 miles stAith of
here on the Gulf Beach unttt last
tttt
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Monday Oidy
MATINEE rad NIGHT
State College Answers
Timely Farm Question
Question: What are the best
planting dates for cotton?
Answer; The time of planting
varies from late March in the ex
treme southern part of the State
to May 5 in the nipper Piedmont.
The best planting dates for the
Coa -.al Plain area are from April
10 to 30. depending on the lo
cality, soil, and seasonal condl-
J, tSVUt nuu ov
.«i!s:-"ForTfee l^earfrdK--t^^ ■’'^OwiWG's
planting dates are April 20 to
30, an up to May 6 in the western
portion and along the northern
edge of the cotton belt.
Hey nonny nonny,
Merle and her Johnny
Ran of for a journey in June;
They laughed at conventions
And wedding intentions,
And their hearts jumped
OVER THE MOON.
>lf«tAL0(ikSATL0VE
FROM A NEW ANGLE
AND TURNS TRADITION
UPSIDE DOWN!
The lovely lUr
of “Wathering
HeighU' in a
gay comedy
written eapccial-
ly for ber by
America’s fore-
mortplaywrigbL
ALEXANDER EORDA (msmB
MERLE OBERON.
Rpbert E. ShervooJ’t New Comedy
OVER
EMO
IN TICMHKOLOa
ON THE STAGE
MONDAY NIGHT
ONLY
BEAUTY P.\GEANT
To Pick Miss
North Wilkesboro
For National Beauty
Contest.
You’ll Roar At This New Screw-Ball Comedy
‘THE GHOST COMES HOME”
MORGAN ■ RUTHERFORD
Hitler May Make
Early Peace Bid
a new Fortune poll:
Eighty per cent of Americans, from
farmi hands and factory workers to pros
perous executives, regard themselves as
members of the middle class.
Most Americans—including three out of
five married men with families to support,
and more than half of the unemployed—
would rather have a good job, with an
even chance of getting promoted or fired,
than a secure job at just enough wages to
get by.
A majority think that they are better
prepared to succeed than their parents
were, that their chances of success are bet
ter, and that their sons’ chances will be
still better.
Seventy per cent feel that they have an
obligation to pass on to the next genera
tion: better living and social conditions, a
higher standard of citizenship, more edu
cation, better health. Only ten per cent
feel that bequeathing material wealth to
their sons is important.
Self-confident, proud, believers in op
portunity, builders of a better world—
that’s us: average Americans! Those qual
ities and ideals have made America’s mid
dle class the highest Common denominator
of citizenship in the world, a class in
which the ali-Amercan headline still is:
Local Boy Makes Good
London. — With the Finnish
war ended, British and neutral
sources here said Wednesday
night that they expect Germany
and Russia—ijosstbly with the
n. luL ui iicvYv -w —assistance of Italy and the United
Road, then, what the American people .states—to launch an immediate
think of themselves today, as mirrored in i peace offensive.
■■ 'it seems certain, however, that
Britain firmly will resist peace
attempts and continue its effort
to crush Hitlerism—timed to
reach a climax in 1941.
Other developments as result
of the Russo-Flnnlsh peace may
be expected to Include:
1. Germany to regain the ini
tiative in the European war be
cause the threat has been remov
ed from her northern (lank.
2. The Allies to conduct a con
centrated drlv.3 to knit closer
their ties in the Balkans and the
Near East, where vigilance will
be sharpened against the .possibil
ity of a German or Russian thrust
in this direction.
British politicians candidly say
they do not like the look of
things,” especially In Scandinavia
after Finland’s acceptance of Rus
sia’s severe conditions. They ex
pect Scandinavia to be su'b(jected
to Increasing Russian - German
pressure.
They see a ray of iioipe, how
ever, in Russia’s vast loss of mu
nitions and gasoline In the Finn
ish campaign. They hope this will
give the Allies a breathing spell
in which to complete proPftntlona,
to resist any farther Rnsifiifi-Gc^t
man ezpanaloiUst moves. * >
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