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SUBSCRIPTION RAl'ES:
(hie Year „..S1.60
Bfai Menths 76
Pour Months 60
Out of the State |2.00 per Year
BMered mt the peet office et North Wilkee-
boreL N. es aecond cleee matter under Aht
of March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1940
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“TiEere is, . perhaps, no
4, siz^ ln tirut stabaitttnt 4 te
new hoiisi^ jfa^ities tll&ii ^f^d. Over
crowded. cond^ons are'to found in
hopies occupied by whjte as well as color-
ed .citiaens. Such condjtiow tend to create
moral degeneracy, particularly among the
colored population and to endanger health.
“Home-ownership was not ^written into
the precepts of democracy by the nation’s
founding fathers, but it is an essential con
tributing factor. Practice of thrift, en
couragement of civic resourcefulness and
good citizenship are not the least of the
many reasons for encouragement of home
ownership.
“A continuation of low interest home
financing, erection of better homes through
careful planning for maximum utility and
execution of plans whereby families of
low income can become home-owners
through monthly payments makes a bright
outlook for home construction.”
Housing Shortage
During the past five years far more
homes have been constructed than in the
period between 1930 and 1935.
Yet there are not nearly enough houses.
It is true that everybody is sheltered some
way or another but many people would
live in better houses if better houses were
available.
Comimenting on the housing subject,
The Oxford Ledger carried the following
editorial: .
“The immense increase in home building
in most sections of the United States dur
ing the past three or four years has only
begun to relieve the nation’s housing needs.
“Just last week a widely known build
ing executive made the statement that the
nation’s housing shortage was equivalent
to 126 homes for each 10,000 families.
When the 180,000,000 citizens of the Unit-
ad CMatee ere sub-divided into families,
reedily sees that there are millions of
The Farmer’s Biggest Crop
The biggest crop of which the average
American farmer is conscious is neither
wheat, cotton, or corn. It’s taxes—and
taxes are the hardiest annual of them all.
When he is confronted with increasing
taxes—Federal, state, and local—the far
mer can, of course, reflect that he’s faced
with a sdifficulty common to all citizens.
But when it’s a matter of cash on the line,
and more hard work to gather the cash,
that represents a pretty small .source of
satisfaction.
La.st year’s report of the Secretary of
Agriculture discusses certain aspects of
the farmer’s “tax crop” in the lollowing
words:
“This of course is an old story, but its
importance does not diminish. The gen
eral-property tax is the largest tax that
farmers pay. Properly, according to ac
cepted economic principles, a tax on land
values should fall on net rent. The far
mers should be able to pay it out of the in
come that accrues to the land as its share
on the farm returns. In practice the farm
real-estate tax varies greatly from such a
purely land tax. (1) In addition to the
permanent element df the land, the tax
covers improvements and also perishable
land elements that require upkeep. (2) It
is haphazard: a.ssessment is often nearly a
blind guess at the value. (3) It is re
gressive; in other words, blind guessing at
the value tends to overrate land of low val
ues and to underrate high values. (4) It
varies greath’ in the 48 independent State
systems, which include more than 160,000
semi-independent local jurisdictions.”
“The Helpful Hen”
Speaking up for “the useful hen" the
Christian Science Monitor editorializes a.^
follows:
At a time when America’s farm lands
are .still .stirring drowsily following a long
winter hibernation, when winter wheat
manife.sts Ijiit faintly the activity which
will culminate in July harve.sts, when the
summer corn is as yet unplanted, an ani
mated and decidedly vocal crop is emerg
ing from iis shell and heading toward ma
turity.
Baby chicks, tomorrow’s income-produc
ers on thousands of farms, now a>-e boing
hatched in yet uncounted quantities. Time
was when the production of poultry was
considered a side issue. A flock of chick
ens had always been a part of the farm pic
ture, but the husbandman raised them
much as he grew a vegetable garden, with
the thought of supplying his table, or, po.s-
sibly. because his parents having maintain
ed a group of hens, he was used to “seeing
them around.” Whatever was derived
from the sale of eggs he was inclined to
consider as “pin money” for the farm wife.
When economic clouds darkened the
sky, when crops were scant and their prices
low, the agriculturist realized, through the
small but dependable trickle of welcome
cash derived from the sale of poultry or
eggs, that “the helpful hen” was indeed
living up to her alliterative appellation.
With the incubator and brooder largely
taking the place of the traditional temper
amental setting hen, and egg production
attaining new highs with the develooment
of improved strains, the old-time “chicken
vard” has come to be recognized as a dis
tinct asset in the multi-phased activities
which make up today’s diversified farm
ing.
Borrowed Cominent
HELPFUL HUSBANDS
(Lenoir News-Topic)
The government is not the only pene
trating questioner. The Association of Uni
versity Women has been asking wives some
questions which prospective husbands may
resent. Their survey brought out the fact
that 57 per cent oi the husbands who had
been brought up on farms helped their
wives with dishes or other housework. Of
the city-bred husbands only 40 per cent
did so.
This is a little hard to understand.
Farm boys surely have less early training
in kitchen tasks that city boys. Chores be
gin early in the day and must be done
again in the evening, with other outside
work in between. The farm boy isn’t u.su-
ally in the house much during the day to
help.
Perhaps that is just the reason he’s
more willing to help in the house after he’s
married. He has never developed any
complexes on the subject, for one thing.
Fjr another, any indoor job must seem
fairly pleasant in some kinds of weather
to a fellow who has always had to do out
door jobs regardless otf rain or snow or
howling wind or extremes of temperature.
ABOVE THE BATTLE
(From The Christian Science Monitor)
As a light that shines out of darkness,
one of the most heartening signs of these
times is discerned amid the disheartening
moral half-light that war casts over Eur-
opeu To the New York Times, Anne
O’Hare McCormick reports that in both
France and Germany churches are filled
not only on Sundays but often on week
days, and that among the soldiers religion
is an increasingly vital force. Others have
observed similar conditions in England.
Amony young French soldiers religious
thinknig is reported assuming almost the
demensions of a youth movement. And in
the German army the religious attitude of
older officers is reasserting itself again.st
the demands of a paganized State religion.
Must of the German youth has been incul
cated with a fanatic faith in Hitlerism
which would preclude the independence of
thought requisite to true religious experi
ence. Nevertheless, as Mrs. McCormick
states:
In recent weeks . . . the Nazi govern
ment itself appears to have been en
couraging religion in the army. At lea.st,
authorities have not interfered with ef
forts made in that direction by the mili
tary command. This change of attitude
is .said to have been forced on the gov
ernment by the High Command as a
safeguard against demoralization of the
army.
Thus even a war that has come to pass
partly because of attempts to stamp out
religion, presses on men and on govern
ments demands whose fulfillment causes
them to turn back to religion. War, as
Mrs. McCormick puts it, “is not only a
national ordeal but a personal crisis for
everj’one involved.” Were this not so, did
not the element of personal crisis force in
dividuals to seek “something above and
beyond the battle they are forced to fight,”
we can imagine that war might easily have
annihilated human kind by now.
But the ordering of men’s lives is not by
mere military command or the behest of
dictatorship; it is such that the Psalmist
could discern thousands of years ago what
is being discerned in 1940: “All nations
whom Thou hast made shall come and wor
ship before Thee, O Lord; and shall glori
fy Thy name.”
HELP ON THE FARMS
(Mecklenburg Times)
In spite of the fact that there are hun
dreds of public works rolls and relief rolls
in this county, the farmers are having a
hard time getting help to do the work that
must be done at this time of the year. One
farmer and dairyman told us this week
that he could not hire men to work and
that he had more work to do than he could
get done at this time.
He has work about the farm, such as
caring for the hogs, feeding cattle, haul
ing, plowing, clearing branch banks, etc,,
that would provide work for several men
(for some weeks. A few of the jobs might
be permanent, but he still can’t get help.
Thi§ is a problem confronting many
farmers in nto^ all sections of the country
at this time Something should be done
about it
Many people of this commuB’
ity atten(ed the (Uth ''SaaMy
•inaias at Sweet Home Sunday
and reported a nice time.
Mr. and Mra.jHarrey Lakey and
children, of Boonville, were visi
tors in the home o( Mrs. Minnie
Shore, Sunday.
■Mrs. Pearl Shore visited her
sister, Mies Molly Gray, who is
sick at her home near Clingman,
Sunday.
Mr, and Mra Raymond Parks
and small son, R. H., Jr., ot Wll-
kes'horo, were visitors in the
Cycle community, Sunday.
Friends are glad to learn' that
Mrs. Elsie Shore has returned to
her h}me after a treatment for a
few days in the Baptist Hospital
in Winston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pinnix and
small daughter, Joan, and Mr.
Shep Transou, of Winston-Salem,
were the supper guests of Mrs.
Pinnlx’s parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Pervis C. Parks, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Parks and
son. Junior, and Mrs. Dewitt Rey
nolds, of Winston-Salem, spent a
short while Sunday afternoon in
the Cycle community.
Miss Opal Ashley, of North Wll-
kesboro, spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Ashley.
Mrs. Evelyn Lawrence spent
last week with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John Shore.
Mrs. Ruth Parks and Miss Foda
Parks spent Monday in Yadkin-
ville.
Roosevelt’s Trip
To Warm Springs
Delayed By Illness
Washington. — The White
House revealed yesterday that the
illness which has bothered Pres
ident Roosevelt for three weeks
is intestinal influenza and said
that he would defer a trip to
Warm Springs, Ga., at least until
April 18.
Aides previously had said that
Mr. Roosevelt had a cold, and the
President himself had described
his illness facetiously as “swamp
fever.”
Stephen Elarly, a presidential
secretary, said the. Chief Execu
tive’s temperature had been nor
mal several days hut that the
"flu” still was slightly in evidence
in an occasional gaseous condition
in the stomach area.
The postponement ot the trip
south, Early added, resulted from
a combination of adverse weather
at Warm Springs, the President’i
desire to he in Washington while
of the trade tready act, and ad
the Senate scraps over extension
vice of the White Hou.se physici
an. Rear Admiral Ross T. .Vlcln
ire, against a major change now
ti climate, food and water.
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of 'youyt
lit«7 On* tit (bil: oncoTirnglnCj
trends of otf time* is telntlve to
economfjS security tor ttie later
years of life. Another ia the re
search being made by preventive
medicine along dietetic and other
lines to secure information as to
bow to enable the aged to live the
latter part of life healthily. Con-
pled with this there should he a
similar interest in keeping a well-
ordered and active mind with
irhich to enjoy the 60's, 70’s, and
fO’s.
It Is a matter of grave concern
to psychiatrists that so many peo
ple are spending these lait-years
In mental hospitals. ‘‘Mental dis
orders are showing tremendous
increases over the age of fifty
years.” One of the purposes of
this paragraph ia to awaken In
terest in preventing senile de
mentia—mental disorders result
ing from age. It cannot all be
prevented but much of it can.
Mental dieorder does not occur
suddenly. The obvious break may
appear sudden ibut there are fac
tors leading up to It which have
been at work for years. One of
the aims of mental hygiene is to
help the individual to maintain
his mental health so that the last
decades of life may be a time of
contentment and happy enjoy
ment instead of dementia.
Editors note: This is the fourth
of a series of articles running
weekly in The Journal-Patriot.
Persons having honest ideas they
may wished discussed- may ad
dress Dr. Watson in care of this
paper.
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PHONE W . Ndm WOKESBDRO, N. C
A golfer had lost his 'ball, and,
not unnaturally, was inclined to
be annoyed with his caddie. “Why
didn’t you watch where it went?”
he asked angrily.
“Well sir," said the boy, “it
don’t usually go anywhere, and so
it took me unprepared like.”
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“YOUR HOME SHOULD COME FIRST”
British Children
Back To School
I.oiidon, .\uril 1.—Mon than
70.000 Loiidoii cliildren between
the ages of eight and eleven re
turned to school today for the
first time .«ince the ontbre.'ik of
the war.
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
North Carolina,
Wilkes County
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
HENRY REYNOLDS
—vs—
CLEM WRENN AND WIFE
MRS. CLEIM WRENN.
The defendants above named will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
the Superior 'Court of Wilkes
county, North Carolina, for the I
foreclosure of a tax lien on lands (
in North Wilkesboro township, for.
the delinquent taxes of the yfear
1937 and, |
The defendants are required toj
appear at the office of the ..’’'rk
of the Superior Court of 'V.'ilkes
county, within thirty ; (30) days I
from service of this notice and I
answer or demurr to the complaint
in 3aid action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in said action.
This the 3rd day of April, 1940.
C. C. HAYES,
Clark of the Superior Court.
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