The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina - ? KJLTUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. GARTER Publishers 19SS?DANIEL J. CARTER?iOSS ^ - -Mi- ^SuKiM0i^SsL' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postofflce at North WDkes Soro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter ander Act of March 4, 1879. Monday, March 3, 1947 Worth Cerouno QPV\ PtESS ASSOCIATION \Q, A Home Is Burning Now Somewhere, as you read this, a home is burning. Irreplaceable possessions are be ing swiftly turned to ash. There is a strong likelihood that someone is dying the most horrible Of deaths?cremation alive. It may be trite to say that your home can be next on the grim list of these dis asters. But that is true. And if that hap pens, the chances are the fire will begin from one of your causes. Check your own habits and premises and answer these questions: First, are you careless with matches and smoking materials? This accounts for 30 per cent of all fires. Second, is your heating equipment? stoves, furnaces, chimneys, etc.?faulty? Twenty-four per cent of all fires begin here. Third, are you careless in using kero sene, gasoline and inflammable cleaning materials? They give 12 per cent of all fires their start in life. Fourth, is there anything wrong with your electrical wiring and appliances? Failure to make repairs in time to this Equipment causes 10 per cent of all fires. If yoti can answer no to all of the ques tions asked above, your home is relatively safe from fire. But think, look and inspect before you make that answer. In the case of heating and lighting equipment, have an expert make a periodic check. Don't guess?^remember that the owner of that home which is burning to the ground this minute probably thought it was safe too ?and he was horribly wrong. A Message From Our State 4-H Club Leader By L. R. HARRILL, State 4-H Club Leader In the observance of 4-H Club Week, Wilkes County Farm boys and girls and leaders join with a million and a half oth er 4-H members in formulating plnas for working together for a better home and a better World community. Your 4-H Club, with its objective, "Training Farm Youth in the Art of Living," offers one of the best possible means for accomplishing this objective. ? The 4-H Club contributed in a large measure to the success of the war effort. Now that Victory is ours youth must do its share in establishing and maintaining world peace. There is no better way or place to begin than to begin at home. There is no better or more beautiful spot on earth than the section where you live ?(home). What could be more import ant than working together through the 4-H Club for a better home and com munity. The measurement of your success in this undertaking will be measured in terms of knowledge, skill, and character. The training you will receive in 4-H Club work will provide the knowledge, the practical application and the actual act of doing the job?making the garment, making over the room, feeding and training the calf, the preparation of the seed bed and a hundred other things will provide the skills, the lessons learned, the develop ment of wholesome attitudes, and helpful and honest habits will provide the charac ter training so essential to a successful 4-H career. v The 4-H Program in Wilkes Comity under the leadership of Mr. D. D. Wil liamson, Mr. R. D. Smith, Miss Margaret C. Morrison, and Mrs. Annie H. Greene, ' _ ? - " . provides unequalled opportunities for training rural youth for better living through economic, physical, social and spiritual growth and development. The economic objective is developed through better practices in agriculture and home making by thrift, money management, and wise spending; the physical objective is developed through good food, health and clothing habits, improved sanitation, more adequate housing, good physical training, medical examinations and fol low-up work; the social objective is de veloped through developing proper ideals and attitudes for wholesome relationships in the homes, neighborhoods, and com munities; through family living, club meetings, 4-H camps, Achievement Days, picnics, and community , organizations, and the spiritual objective is developed through 4-H Church Sunday programs, vesper services, practicing honesty in eve ryday living, devotionals, and developing a charitable attitude and a greater appre ciation for the finer things of life. The Committee on un-American Activi ties is asked to investigate Sam Hall, self styled leader of the Communists in North Carolina. First question for the committee is whether Comrade Hall is big enough to be seen with the naked eye or whether the committee will have to acquire a mic roscope.:?Greensboro Daily News. o Delaware teachers offer to punch a legislator in the nose for saying that they distorted facts. Shucks, coming from a politician that wasn't intended as a reflec tion on them, was it??Greensboro Daily News. Native of Arizona is named ambassador to Court of St. James'. And don't you know the British wish he would bring an over-supply of that nice dry air with him? ?Greensboro Daily News. o Remember those we pass on the ladder of success going up?we might have to pass them going down. LIFE'S BETTER WAY WALTER*. 1SENHOUR WT ri.Ja i ' tiL r ? IwWHHv| \*? ' ?V ' WHAT YOU CANNOT BUILD YOUR LIFE UPON What you cannot build y life upon the prayers of others if you do not pray yourself. You cannot build upon the lives of your ances tors, even though they may have been saints. This is indeed a good background, but you must build for yourself. Start on the right foundation, use good material and do good woric. You are your own builder, by the. grace of God, and it is up to you as df.what your life is and shall be. . Remember if you fail to build a good, great, noble and sublime life you are cheating and defeating' yourself. Multi tudes of people cheat themselves out of the best things of life, and perhaps won der what is wrong and why they don't make of life a success. You cannot build upon the devil's foundation, nor out of his ! material, and build great, and build for heaven. r - . . . A B N O R M A I ABSURDITIES By DWIGHT NICHOLS et a) 4-H CLUB WEEK? This is 4-H Club Week throughout the nation, and we'di like to use this space onca tor a worthy cause, to whldh all of our 12 readers say a fervent "Amen!" Being a .former 4-H Club mem ber, we think we know what we, are writing about. And of course our readers will say that is no indication, ibased on our past record. For about ten years we belong ed to 4-H Clubs and in that time learned that the four H's did not stand for "hog hominy, hell and high water." The 4-H Club program in Wilkes county has expanded greatly since those years, and is now more diversified with a great variety of excellent pro jects for boys and girls to choose. In our day we stuck to oorn ex cept for one unfortunate ven ture in pig raising with a sow which didn't aim to let us enjoy any success. Incidentally, we still think a pig project would be a paying proposition. Our 4-H club history included one trip to the North Carolina State Fair when that institution was really a big agricultural fair with midway concessions a side line instead of the main attrac tion. Our few dollars were di minishing rapidly with hotel bills, etc., and a check from the fair for prizes won on corn was most welcome. This week we pay tribute to the 4-H boys and girls and are glad to give the remainder of this column to a poem and an article about the 4-H flag: WHAT THE 4-H FLAG MEANS? The 4-H Flag is an emblem to me Of work and play and sincerity. Of hours of work and hours of fun Of a job to do and a job well done. The 4-H flag of green and white Symbolized a worthwhile fight? A fi^ht for4 knowledge, for health and heart, A fight for a club of which we're ' a part. The 4-H flag of white and green Tells of a growth that's pure and clean; A growth of health of heart and mind, A growth of all that is really fine. And each short moment of each livelong day As down life's river we wend our way, At every turn and on every crest Will be the word, "Not the big gest?the best." And as life slowly draws to an end We'll be better companions, bet ter friends, For no matter whether we're the ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE North Carolina, Wilkes County. The undersigned, having quali fied as administrator of the estate of William H. Grimes, late of Wilkes county, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the un- j dersigned administrator at North Wilkesboro, N. C., on or before the 18th day of February, 1948, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will make prompt payment to the under signed administrator. This 18th day of Feb., 1947. , . JOHNSON SANDERS, Administrator of the Estate of William H. Grimes, dee'd. I*rry S. Moore, Atty. 4-8-ttM San P. Mitchell Civil Engineer CITY AND FARM SURVEY8 PROPERTY PLATS ? Office and Fleor Buk of North Wlikceboro Befldinf ? Office Phone 227 Resilience 566 CnH V? For T*mr . . . Plumbing and Electrical Repairs AMD 8ERY1CB ? MYERS? water systems ANDERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY . Telephone CM WILKESBORO, N. C. L \ spoke or hu,b, We ?will profit because of the 4-H Club. 4-H CLUB FLAG? By A Former 4-H Club Girl What's a flag? What's the lore of a club for which it stands? Maybe it begins with the lore of your fellowmen. It is boys and girls at work. "It is the farmer riding his great machine in the dtist of harvest, the dairy man going to the barn before sunrise. It is small things remem bered, the little corners of the land, the houses, the people that each one loves. It is summer and winter, rain and sun and storm. ; It is a lasting part of what we are, each of us and all of us to gether." The nation, the members and the flag?the nation is a. conti nent; the members are eager rural boys and girls, the flag is a symbol of what 4-H Club work may aspire to when wto have learned to be hopeful, courageous ?when we have made the best better. The gfeen in the flag, nature's most common color, 1b emble matic of springtime, life and youth; the white symbolizes pur ity and high ideals. This flag means striving to make the best better. Support Y.M. C. A. Demonstration In Thinning Shortleaf J Pine Friday, Mar. 7 By JOHN E. FORD (Farm Forester) Do you know how to take care of your timber crop? To get the most out of a crop of timber, both as to improving the qttality of the crop trees and Increasing the quantity of total wood grown on an acre, certain cultural ope rations are necessary. One of the most important forest practices is proper thinning. O n Friday, March 7^; Mr. R. W. Graeber, .State Extension Forester, will be in charge of a meeting to be held on Mr. W. C. Wolfe's farm of State'Road at 1:00 p. m. Anyone interested in making their tim ber -crop more profitable are in vited to attend the meeting. Tr"? ?: fr Mii a; '&. Support the Y. M. C._ Carolina Home ft Auto Sipply Y o # f Bit -?S tor# FUEL OILS Co. Products .ear For Oil Heaters and Furnaces Metered Service ? Give Us a Xr'?' NO COLD HOUSE WHEN WE SERVE YOU S. V. TOMLINSON CO. Telephones 90 or 439 76*0'. J