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MONDAY. JULY 24th. 1944
Excellent Choice—
The appointment of Presley E. Bmwn to
the State Board of Elections as one of the
Republican members of that body will
meet with the approval of the people of the
state.
Mr. Brown, a former sheriff of Wilkes
and for many years prominent in public
and political affairs, was recently appoint
ed to the state board of elections by Gover
nor J. M. Broughton.
Ex-Sheriff Brown is highly capable to
serve with distinction on that branch of
state government. He is well versed in the
election laws of North Carolina. Those who
know him be.st are confident that he will
be eminently fair to both political parties
in administration of the election laws of
North Carolina.
Gen. Theodore Roosevelt—
The nation mourns the death of Briga
dier General Theodore Roosevelt, fighting
son of a famous .(ighting father, who died
in France last week.
General Roosevelt was a man in whom
the soldiers had utmost confidence. He
shared the dangers of the buck private as
well as the higher ups, and he was con
tinually among his men, often with the in- ^
signia of a general covered with wad of
chewing gum tp conceal his identity so
that his men would not fee! uncomfortable
in his presence.
Three times he was wounded, and in
spite of a weak heart which finally stopped
under the strain, he went into Normandy
with the invasion forces and fought until
death.
General Roosevelt wn' a fighting man
whose record is further evidence of the un
conquerable spirit of Americans at war.
Presidential Candidates—
The political parties have named their
candidates for president in the first elec
tion campaign in wartime.
The nominees, as you all know, are Pres
ident Roosevelt on the Democratic ticket
and Thomas E. Dewey on the Republican
ticket.
Records of both candidates indicate
great ability, and regardless of the out
come of the election, a great majority of
the American people will feel that the af
fairs of our great nation will be in capable
hands.
This year many Americans will die to
maintain and perpetuate certain rights,
one of which is the right of a free ballot to
select our presidents, law makers and oth
er officials.
This year it behooves every American to
io his part to help win the war. It is not
a time for partisan mudslinging, but it is an
election year, and it will be a sorry Ameri
can who will not exercise the right to
vote, which is being made safe by the sac-
rificU of American lives.
In our democracy the conduct of govern
ment is determined by the people, who
have the right to vote out or to vote in any
candidate they choose. Every person with
the right of citizenship should vote. There
should be that much interest in one of the
greatest rights of free men.
-V-
Cemment
^MON HONESTY
(Greensboro Daily News)
We take it that tobacco growers really
intend to take a holiday if the ceiling price
get for the leaf does not take into consid
eration the pains the growers have taken
in grading their product.
^ the life of us we cannot see why
there should have been any
season'in this connection. All
^ with what it wa. all about
last year. ,, j
Advisors of growera have all
year recommended and pled for •
The soundness of their reasoning is
ous. The stuff cannot be marketed sav
by grade, so why pay somebody elw for d
ing what can be done for one s self. ^
And isn’t the corollary just as sound.
Having graded one’s tobacco, why accept
in return for one’s product a price no better
than that paid non-graders?
There’s only one way to settle the dis
pute, and that as we see it is no more com
plicated than common honesty.
greeting a soucitcwr
(The State)
This is the day of drives.
There are all kinds of drives-War
Bond, Red Cross, Hospital, Churches, Col
leges, and many others. All of them are
for worthy causes.
In most instances these drives are
ly systematized. A chairman is appomted
and he arranges for workers to go out and
make personal solicitations. Those work
ers, in many instances, are among the lead
ing business and professional men m your
community. They leave their work and
spend hours in tramping over town, mak
ing calls and urging people to cooperate.
They don’t particularly want the job,
they accept it as a patriotic or civic duty.
When you make a contribution, you re
not doing them a personal favor in any
way. They’re out working for somebody
else.
And yet, it is surprising how often a so
licitor is greeted rudely or discourteously.
He goes into a store. The merchant is
busy. Before the solicitor can more than
state the purpose of his call, the merchant
says: “Come back and see me tomorrow,
will you? I’m rather busy right now
Or, perhaps he goes into a lawyer’s of- animals.
fice. The lawyer is dictating to his secie-
tary. The solicitor states his business. The
lawyer says: “Come back.tomorrow: I’ve
got a lot of work to finish up today”.
Are the merchant and the lawyer justi
fied in their attitude?
Emphatically not-
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DWIGHI’
NICHOLS
et al
COSTS TO
Jack Pruitt, the pitoter'a devil
around this la lcNimn|[
by the hard way to bet He
has a bie iaoiteriu fpr the Whshr
inston ie&|ii|re 0‘^e American
League to tU 4hd he lets
his tegtimehtf ift Iff/ vith him
and he bets li^llee, etc., on
the Senators NgafaiH#.
After about three stTfight losses
to yours truly and others of the
force, Jack decided to cover a^
reckless tmi-cent bet he bad made
and suggested that maybe he
tould bet the other way on the
game and suggested maybe Vernon
Klzer, our linotype operator,
would bet with him.
In that event, he told us, he
would not lose, because he would
win over us or Klzer and could pay
the other.
We told him there was always
some way to lose, and that he
could depend on that. He asked
how, and we told him that one of
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S. leroee laadod brahMdt bay during the H.)IUndia,
Dutch New Oufaieu, operafieBe Iheae eighl lapaaese were captured. The
seoMid and third ««*■« from the fcft arc cfleers and both have trie-* to
i»**f fhclr faces fresh the ^tegtapbm. The group is leit^g !r.':en Uy
tmck to a ^ane.
Wives Work While
A. W. 0.1. Soldier
Hubs Keep House
Lenoir, July 21.—The domestic
troubles of two Wilkes soldiers
are over, according to Sheriff Fe
lix Parlier, who returned two de-
U8 could die—yours truly or Klzer serted service men to Morris Field,
•before the game was played, and
in case the one died which lost to
hlnl he wouldn’t collect and in
that way would lose.
‘In that case", said Jack, 'Td
be willing to lose”.
SUGGESTS CHANGE—
Miss Betsy Keith Bowman, who
is vacationing on a visit with her
father and mother at Wilmington,
Delaware, writes a suggeotion.
She has been to the zoo, and has
collected some pictures of the
She said she has some cute ani
mal pictures, one of a monkey
which doesn’t smoke a pipe but
which does stand on its head.
Her suggestion is that one of
the pictures be used instead of
the one at the top of column three
on page two of The Journal-Pa
triot.
Complimentary, ain’t she?
B LIFE’S BETTER WAY •
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hiddenite, N. C.
MY LITTLE MOUNTAIN HOME
I’m thinking of my little mountain home
Where all my happy childhood days
were spent,
The sunny hills o’er which I oft would
roam.
Where peace prevailed that made my
heart content;
Where mountains lifted up their summits
high,
Oft robed and crowned in golden clouds
so fair,
Or touched the acres of a sun-lit sky
And shared the beauty of the heavens
rare.
WE PRINT FAI—
Note: We only print words.
Pronounce them yourself.
There Is a wonderful new in
secticide being tested by the ento
mologists. It is derived from
coal tar, salt, and alcohol. It’s
called DDT tor short. It’s real
name is dlchlorodlphenyltrichlore-
thane.
I’m thinking of my little mountain home,
And the loved ones who were so dear to
me.
And though afar I may travel or roam
That little mountain home still I can see,
And the sweet face of a mother dear,
Although she’s bent with many years of
care,
But still she has a heart of love and cheer
And a noble spirit to do and dare.
The years have come and swiftly passed
away
And carried off those happy childhood
hours.
When we were merry at our work or play
In open field or the shady bowers;
And in their place the years have brought
us pain,
Along with joy to know we’re serving
God;
And though we’ll never see childhood
again
We’ll be happy when thfe heaven we’ve
trod.
the
I see the little mountain home today
Nestled among the hills and by
streams.
And merry children as they romp and play,
And of the future have their childish
dreams;
But O, those days shall ne’er return again;
Childhood’s morning so swiftly passes
by;
But may we from this little home so plain
Go to a mansion far beyond the sky!
HOT DOG—
Man is like a sausage,
Fair upon the skin;
But you can’t tell by the outside
How much hog there is within.
which was
ported.
a first-aid kit.—Re-
Fram Sankii i
GOOD USra) CASS. TBUCKS^
AND TRACTORS
Easy Tarms
• Coaplete •
Body Rebtoldiikg
Eleetrk and Ac«tyl«ae Wildlaf
I Will Pay Cash for Laf« MaM
Wrecked Cars and ‘nroeln
’Phone 334-J
Charlotte, after finding them
keeping house three miles west of
Lenoir whHe their wives worked
to provide the needs of the two
couples.
The two men, Glenn Hawkins
and Eugene Minton, both 19, of
Wilkes county, had married two
Caldwell county girls, and the
four were living at a place in
Dulatown. According to the
Sheriff this is the second time
Hawkins and Minton had been ar
rested for desertion.
Deputy Bill Piercy was with
the sheriff when the arrests were
made.
Ronda Home Club
Has July Meeting
The July meeting of the Ronda
Horae Demonstration club was
held in the school lunchroom the
second Tuesday.
Mrs. O. P. Walls, the vice-pres
ident had charge. The meeting
was opened by singing “It’s A
Good Time to Get Together”, and
repeating the collect.
Miss Price, our assistant home
agent, led a very helpful and in
terestlng discussion on “It’s Good
Business to Keep Well”, and dis
tributed literature prepared by the
North Carolina state hoard of
health.
In a contest at the close of the
meeting Miss Price won the prize
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Come on In, the fun's
finel Oceons of tolentl
gorgeous new star,
Esther Williams! Riotous
Red Skeltbnl Two grand
bandsi Scores of diving
darlings In o wonderful
water carnival! It's the
biggest musical splash
M-G-M ever madel
Since this poem was composed my dear
old mother has passed -to her eternal re
ward. Her body rests on one of the beauti
ful hills o/ Watauga county, western North
Carolina, where I was born and reared,
where nature is grand and God is near. i