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Thi JntwI - Patriot Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HTOBABg^MKS. ?. J. CARTER J. SUBSCRIPTION RATBB: One Year >2.00 (i? warn and Adjoini* CiuatiM) One Year |8.00 (Outsida WfihM aad Ami AdJetato* ComaUm) Rates Te These In Serviee: One Year (anywhere) >2.00 at tKa aaatadfiiu at Narth jora, Nmtk ? aider Act d MM \i, Monday, Sept. 8, 1947 Increosed School Enrollment Problem There are none so ignorant in Wilkes county that they do not know that school buildings have been badly crowded for years. With but very few exceptions, the larg er school buildings are housing twice as many pupils as they were built for. And the end is not yet, because the school enrollment is skyrocketing. This year the first of the children during the accelerated birth rate period are entering school. Next year there will be a larger increase, and six years from now the in crease will be many times the percentage of increase this year. The situation is similar throughout the country. During the past six years the birth rate has gone up, despite the war, and since the war the increase has been greater. This means that if the educational sys tem is not to collapse that a vast school housing program must be inaugurated soon. The necessary school buildings for Wilkes county at pre-war costs were esti mated at two million dollars. You can figure what the cost would be at present construction cost estimates. Children, of course, are our principal asset, and cannot be neglected. Wilkes county has already suffered because of the henious belief that "what was good enough for me is good enough for my chil dren," Unless our children are given edu cational and training opportunities on a par with the rest of the nation our chil dren will live their lives under a handicap that we handed down to them. Our atti tude should be that the best we can do will not be good enough and that we should not stop short of providing the best possible opportunities for the chil dren of Wilkes county. Stealing Watermelons This newspaper has received a long let ter from a Wilkes farmer asking that we write something that will keep watermel on rogues from his watermelon patch. We appreciate his belief in the power of the press, but it is doubtful that any message we might write would be read by those who take away his melons. Stealing watermelons has long been looked upon too lightly. Watermelons are property, and have a value, and stealing watermelons is larceny just the same as taking cash, because watermelons are ex changeable for cash. The farmer who toils long and hard to produce melons deserves to have the benefit of them, and he is righteously angered when loafing boys who are "too trifling" to work go in under cover of darkness and eat and destroy what he has worked so long to grow. Teach your boys that taking watermelons is stealing, and not fun. A man was fined for kissing his wife on the street in Warrior, Ala. Any conjunc tion of Mars and Venus is evidently frown ed on down there.?Greensboro Daily News. "I don't think the housing problem is so great that we can't find an answer to it," said Senator McCarthy. "If we can't we ought to resign our jobs and go home." Well??Greensboro Daily News. The feather No, we're not going to say anything a bout weather being talked about more than anything else but that nothing is ever done about it, because recently in a western state some flyers went up and j scattered dry ice in a cloud, causing a good rain in a small area. But weather is a good type of conver sation when nothing else is at hand, and we are reproducing the following com ment on the subject from the Elkin tri bune: "As much as we may like or dislike the weather, whether it is hot or cold, wet or dry, it's a cinch we can't do anything a bout it, but still there is some comfort in complaining about the current hot spell even if we do work ourselves up into a I sweat doing it. / | "Considering all the various aspects of ! the weather, we don't know what the hu 1 man race would do without it. For in ad dition to giving us something to complain about to ourself and others, it is one of the most wonderful topics of conversation known to man, especially in cases where one feels as if he must say something a bout something to a stranger. In 99 cases out of a hundred that something is 'isn't it hot, or cold?' or whatever the case may be. "Th&. weather is also something we are never satisfied about. If it is boiling hot, as it is at this writing, we wish it were cold. No doubt thousands of people are mopping their brow at this moment wish ing for cold weather, and giving no thought to the fact that a few months from now they will be shivering in the winter breezes and wishing just as hard for hot weather. Seems as if there just isn't any type of weather to please. "With so many other important topics to worry about, like the future of human ity under the shadow of the atomic bomb, or what's to be done about Russia, looks as if the weather could be given a rest. But it won't." LIFE'S BETTER WRY WALTER E. ISENHOUR HiMenHe, N. C. HIDDEN VALUES We believe there are many hidden val ues in the lives of inert that the world frev er knows about. Too many people keep their talents hidden away, failing- to use them for the good of themselves and their fellowmen. No doubt if men all about us would give themselves wholly unto God, and let Him have His way in their lives, many would be bright, burning and shin ing lights to the world, and would bless mankind while living, and then leave an influence behind to live after them to bless the world. No doubt many people are "diamonds in the rough." In their lives there are principles, traits and characteristics, which, if rightly developed and used, would uplift humanity and honor and glorify God. O that it might be so! All men have a precious soul, which is in deed the one pearl of great price, and this places us above every created thing upon the earth. The soul of man is abso lutely priceless. It is so precious in the sight of God that no price can be set upon it. The entire material world isn't worth even one soul in the sight of Almighty God. Jesus asked the question, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36). We are made to wonder how men can so lightly value their souls, when God values them above the entire wealth of the world. God paid the highest price that it was possible to pay when He gave His only begotten Son to die for our re demption. However, the masses of man kind tre^t their souls as though they were absolutely worthless, as they live in sin and wickedness, and give themselves to the devil, soul and body, time and talent, "lock, stock and barrel." They let the devil have their lives, with all of their wonderful treasures of knowledge, prin ciples, abilities, talents, traits and charac teristics. Of course the enemy of God and all men uses everything that is grtfen over to him for the injury, destruction and damnation of men and their souls. As a consequence hidden and undeveloped treasures in the lives of the masses of men are never brought to light, nor brought out to bless the world, nor to honor and glorify God. They are kept in darkness, and hidden away, only as the devil brings them out to advance his cause of wickedness and destructiveness. How tra gic, and how sad! ABNORMAL Bj DWTGHT NICHOLfi et*l RAMBLING COMMENT? Now comes the wprd that men's pants are to be shortened to two inches above the ankle. Personally, we don't think any style makers will get by with that. The style changers have been able to herd women In almost any direction they wanted to. The stylists have moved skirt lengths up and down so much that the scale operates like an elevator. But men are different, and very few of them will follow the three-quarter length suggestion. For more than fifty years men have worn pants with few style changes. The only major changes have been the width of the pants bottoms, which was not a mater ial change from the general pat tern. Men are not going to wear shorter pants because they don't want the freezing blasts of wint er winds whipping around their ankles, and they won't give a hang about what the stylists say. The movement for shorter pants looks very much like an effort on the part of manufac turers to save some cloth, but they won't get by with it. About the only thing silly a bout men's dress is that they must wear coats to public gath erings. Incidentally, they have never made a cool coat, and to date the manufacturers have not installed a refrigerating system in a coat. All coats in hot weather are hot. Dress hems may be put in and j taken out, and go up and down; but we'd wager two bits that the cuff of men's pants will not vary an inch. ? BRIEFING IT? Two years ago this coming winter the roads In Wilkes coun ty were so bad that you could go onto a road and find a sign which said: ''Choose your rut carefully. You are going to be in it for ten miles" . . . The only one who should put faith In a f*bbit's toot Is a rabbit . . Men who drive one-handed are headftd Cor the church. Some will walk down the aisle?others will be carried. MAKE BELIEVE? The newlyw^ds had. just got off the train. "John, dear," said the bride, ?'let's try to make people think we've been married a long time.' "All right, honey," was the answer, "you carry the suit cases." LOAN REFUSED? S'poke: '"Tie a fine lad yon have there; a magnificent head and noble features. Oonld you loan me two dollars 'til payday?" | Mike: "I could not. 'Tis me wife's child by her 'first hus band." OLD AND NEW? When grandma had her callers, They met with timid heart; And when they sat together, They sat ? this far apart. Wlhen granddaughter's boy friend calls He greets her with a kiss, And when they sit together They sltrealcloseltkethls. Elder Bennett Adams To Preach October 2 Center Baptist Church Elder Bennett Adams, of May King, Ky., will preach on Thurs day night, October 2, at Center church. Rev. Mr. Adams is a widely known preacher and It 13 expected that a large congrega tion will be present to hear his message. Everybody Is Invited. Traded (Her Happiness For A Title.?The poignant story of Vanderbilt beauty who traded happiness, for a title. Head "Bar tered Brides," first of a dramat ic new series of articles in the September 21st issue of The A merican Weekly, Nation's Fav orite Magazine With The Balti more Sunday American. Order from Tour Local Newsdealer. Strong demand and prospects for smaller output is likely to keep farmers' prices high in the next few months, according to BAB. It hap been proved that grain, silage, and hay can <be saved by fall and winter pasturee. Every pound of nutrients provided by pasture saves buying a pound in the feed sack. ^ . c Q I I For? 1 DANDY ' ' ??! BREAD AT AUCTION! Wednesday, Sept. 10,2 P. M. Sharp 1?1941 2-door special deluxe Chevrolet Coach 2?Bedroom Suites ~Diningroom Suite ?Breakfastroom Suite ?Warm Morning Heater ?Singer Sewing Machine jS| ?Living room Suite < ?Iron Safe, 24x21x27 inches Several Odd Chairs ?Dresser ?Adding Machine Some home-made bacon and lard, some small farming tools 1?Lawn Mower Other articles too numerous to mention ALL OF THE ABOVE WILL BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER All must go, as I am leaving the State. Sale will be held 4 miles east on Highway 421, near North Wilkesboro Speedway. R.C. MILLER, - OWNER ?SLi UN BUMGARNER S Miles West O* Highway 4X1 26-F-21 Nsrtfa Wllkesbere h with cars costing *1,000 / W ?io? more Tib big new Ford has an im portant feature you'll find in America's highest-priced cars ... its powerful 8 is a V-type engine. And that's only the beginning! Relax in Ford's large, roomy in _ terior and you'll be sitting on the same kind of soft, two-tone-tai lored upholstery used in costliest cars. Or examine that "baked on" enamel finish and you'll find it beats even custom limousines for keeping its "showroom com plexion." YOUR PICK OF POWER Another Ford feature unique in the low-priced class is its power choice ?the famous V-8 engine and sen sational SIX. Both engines give you balanced carburetion and 4-ring aluminum pistons for real economy. "KING-SIZE" BRAKES Yes, Ford has this feature of the costly cars, too! Just touch those oversize brakes and feel the smooth easy stop of self-centering hydrau lics. You're mighty safe! "LIFEGUARD" BODY Ford's "Lifeguard" body is a "costly car" feature! The Bmooth, flowing lines of Ford's longer, lower look cover unit-welded heavy gauge steel which gives you safer protec tion. Place your order now for the world's greatest auto buy! There's a in your future! Wv *Jm FORD'S OUT FRONT with the lowest-priced cars In its field: PLACE YOUR ORDER TODAY L EY MOTOR CO. Ninth Street "Ford Protective Service" North Wilkesboro
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