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The ftournal - Patriot INDKPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina * JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER * Publishers 1 Ml?DANIEL J. CARTBR?iMS : SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $8.00 (Outside Wilkes end And Adjoining Counties) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffieo at North Wflkes aoro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1879. Monday, March 10, 1947 . r Horth Carmina^A ^AMOCIATH A Criminals Freed To Prey On Society In Massachusetts recently a boy who was let out of reform school over the pro tests of his own mother raped and killed an eleven-year-old giri. Instead of being an exception, that seems to be a rule. In North Carolina many of the crimin als who are wanted for felonies are form er inmates of reform school, which leads us to express the opinion that the state is making a dismal failure of efforts to reform boys. Recently a youth in Wilkes was arrest ed for attempted .rape of a six-year-old child. It developed that the boy, age 17, had been in the state reform school. All of which leads thinking people to wonder if the name of the institution should not be changed to "criminal factory." In the Litteral-Bell trial it was brought out that Ralph Vernon Litteral, one of the two men convicted for rape of a 15-year old girl, had been let out of the state hos pital at Raleigh over the protests of his own mother, because she could not or did not pay the fees for his extended stay at Dix Hill, and that the crime of rape was committed at a time when he would have been confined at Dix Hill if his mother's wishes had been carried out. The Greensboro Daily News had this to say editorially on the subject of "What's Reform School For?": "When the mother of a 17-year-old degenerate reports him to the police for murder and rape and then states that he was released from reform school, where he had been confined for crimes similar if in less degree, over her objections we .think the matter becomes one of overall <cpncern?otherwise we would gladly turn the most recent horror over to Maiden, Mass. The fact that his victim, aged 11, was formerly of North Carolina does not count. "It i? just that we cannot see why any boy child sent to reform school in 1943 for attempted criminal assault, returned the next year for a sex offense involving a seven-year-old girl, and sentenced in March of last year for assault with intent to rob should have been loose and free to rape and murder. "What is a reform school for, and what are those agencies who represent the state in dealing with sexual crimes and perversions doing when they cannot as sist a mother in controlling a son whom she realizes to be a menace to society? "Well, anyhow this cannot be charged up to Tobacco Road." Naval Reserve Unit Proposed Two meetings will be held here this week relative to the establishment of a naval reserve unit in North Wilkesboro. If there are sufficient men interested, the navy will set up a reserve unit here, which would be comparable to a National Guard unit of the army. Under the proposals as recently out lined, North Wilkesboro is to have a Na tional Guard company. Those who are interested in the navy branch of military service point out that a navy reserve unit would also be a good asset to the community. The navy proposes to establish a unit here in radio and electronics, in which young men could gain valuable training and experience in radio and radar. The navy also points out that the work would be extremely interesting for those who show any aptitude in that line of work. In addition to regular training, navy reservists are eligible for a twb weeks sea cruise each year with pay. The meetings scheduled here this week will be on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and are announced elsewhere in this newspaper. * The Thursday night meeting at : the town hall will be extremely interesting because it will contain color movies of the atom bomb tests at Bikini. All veterans and others interested should attend. Borrowed Comment THE LEWIS OPINION (Charlotte Observer) The opinion of the United States Su preme Court upholding the contempt of court decision of Judge Alan Golds borough against John L. Lewis is a con firmation of President Truman's position that the public welfare must always be placed above the interests of any minor ity. It establishes also the principle that the United States government is not to be classified as an ordinary employer; consequently, a strike against the govern ment is a defiance of the authority of that government and an atteihpt by the minority guilty of such defiance to set itself above the law. The third effect of the opinion follows from the second, that, inasmuch as the United States Government is not to be classified as an ordinary employer, it is not subject to the same limitations in re gard to injunctions as are placed on pri vate business. Chief Justice Vinson further pointed out in strong language that a contract is a contract, and one party to it has no right to withdraw without consent of the other. Lewis, therefeore, not only violated the contract, but also he ignored a court order to delay abrogation of it until the legal issues could be decided. The danger of another coal strike be ginning April 1 is also eliminated, because the court ordered Lewis not to try to can cel the contract again, or it would reim pose the full amount of the fine, which it reduced in part. Lewis will have to wait until the courts decide whether he can legally abrogate a contract by unilateral action, and that may take months. Coal, therefore, will continue to l)e mined after April 1. This opinion should serve as a further warning to labor czars that the country is fed up to the eyebrows with, their ar rogant disregard of the public welfare and that the United States is still a long way from that stage of decadence in which a minority can take control by par" alyzing the national economy. The opinion should also serve as a stimulus to Congress to proceed with a mending the Wagner act and passing any supplementary legislation needed to pro tect the public welfare against irrespon sible labor dictators. > LIFE'S WETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENH#UR HUW?nite, N. C. A CHILD OF GOD You may not stand in halls of fame, Nor rise to earthly glory; The world may never hear your name In wondrous song or story; But you can be a child of God And live a life of beauty, And go the way that saints have trod And do your Christian duty. There is a place that you can fill, Though it may seem quite humble, Where multitudes, depressed and ill, And likely soon to stumble In outer darkness and despair, Forever there to languist, Need love and help and tender care To save them from such anguish. Then as a child of God today Go forth to honest labor, And be to men along life's way A friend and Christian neighbor, And lead as many as you can To Christ, so meek and lowly, Who loves the soul of ev'ry man ' And longs to make him holy. , Keep faith in God and all that's good, And live in sweet communion With His dear children as you should, And look for that reunion Where all the saints shall gather in To praise the King eternal, Beyond this world of strife and sin Where things are all supernal. abnormal ABSURDITIES By D WIGHT NICHOLS at al GOOD REASON? On cooler days you must allow This though's worth paying heed to; The sweater girls wear sweaters now Because they really need to. ? CLOSE TO SKULL? "Madam, what do you mean by letting your child snatch off my wig?" "Sir, if it is just a wig, think nothing of it. I was afraid that the little devil had scalped you!" DIRECT PROPOSAL? .Two spinsters met on the street and began to talk about their respective churches. "I understand," said one spin ster, "that at your church the attendance is very small. Is that so?" "Yes, I'm sorry to say it is," replied her friend. "There are so few people there on Sunday that when the rector says 'Dear ly Beloved'vyou feel as if you had received a proposal." COULD SELL ANYTHING? Business Man: "What do you do wtih all thse pictures you paint?" Artist: '1 sell them, sir." Bu|iness Man: "Name your figure and report Monday. I've been looking for a salesman like you for years." ALL FOR WOMAN? This is a woman's world. When a man is born people say, "How is the mother?" When he mar ries, they say, "What a lovely bride!" And when he dies they say, MHow much did he leave her?" THEN AND NOW? Grandpa: "I miss the old cus pidor since it's gone." Grandmother: "You missed it before?that's why it's gone." SHE KNEW THE TIME? Two lltle girls were playing to gether one afternoon in the near by pa?rk. "I wonder what time it is,!' said one little girl to the other. "Well, it can't he four o'clock yet," replied the other girl, "be cause my mother said that I was to be home at four, and I'm not. DISCRIMINATING? The newly converted colored brother asked the minister if there wasn't something active he could do in the Army of the Lord. The preacher asked him in return what he was willing to do. "Well," said the convert ser iously, "Ah'm willin' to do any thing de Lawd wants me to do, jes' so long as it am fair an' honest." ? IGNORANT OP SUBJECT? A young man, just starting out, wanted to make a good im pression upon his congregation r and knew he must speak on a subject that was not loaded with dynamite^ one that was general enough so that he wuldon't get himself strated wrong on his ministerial career. The young man preached on j the subject of marriage. All the! congregation, Including Mrs. O' Brien and Mrs. O'Osllahan, lis tened carefully. When the sermon was ended, Mrs. O'Brien said, "Fine young man. Fine speech It was." "Yes," said Mrs. O'Callahan, "but, ah me, 1 wish I didn't know any more about marriage than he does." TAKEN TO TASK? "First cast out the beam out of thine own eya and then thou shalt see more clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.'* That Biblical Quotation needs no explanation. In the mail this week we re ceived a note which bore the en lightnihg signature of "A Read er. With the note was a clipping from the front page of Monday's Journal-Patriot. On the clipping was underlined the word,x"burst ed", in a sub-headline on a story about a safe which was found and which had been open ed. The note called attention to the fact that the principal parts of the verb, ''burst," are "burst, burst and burst." But if there is a guy so smart that he knows that "bursted" is not good usage, should not the smart guy also know that prin cipal parts are principal, and not principle? "Principal" is the adjective used to describe "parts", in that particular usage, and "principle" is a noun, which' is defined as a fa: truth. An illustrative nse be: "The principles of government are outlined constitution." Our friend Webstsgj whom te/ are not on terms, says that 'Ibnrstlnc "?bursted" are inelegant 1 octal uses of "bnrst." course, we contend there nothing elegant about a robbery. However, we do stand <*>* ed, and admit that 'Wanted" Is not a good word, or at least is inelegant. But It hurts badly to be cor rected by someone who didnt know the difference between "principal" and "principle." ?. e The total forest acreage plant ed in the United States since 1926 is 6,483,632 acres. No Town Would Have Her.. Could fame Her! Defying convention... daring disgrace . . . this glamorous gambler matched her beauty' against man's lust for gold... in the brawling, reckless days when California was bornl SPECTACLE AS BIG AS THE DREAMS OF AMERICA DRAMA AS MIGHTY AS THE STATE IT GLORIFIES In Technicolor A Paramount Pkfvr# starring RAY MILLAND BARBARA STANWYCK BARRY FITZGERALD GEORGE COULOURIS - ALBERT DEKKER ANTHONY QUINN - FRANK FAYLEN JOHN FARROW Production * Directed by , John Farrow Scroen Ploy by Profile Butlor k. and Theodort Strovu Thursday-Friday ? at ? 1 - 3- 5- 7- 9 VISIT HUB -IN NEW LOCATION Next to Dixie Home Store
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