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Journal - Patriot Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBRAJiD—MBS. D. J. CABTEB lftt—DAN1BL J. CARTER—iMI SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (Id Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $8.00 (Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Ccontlca) Rates To Those In Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffioe at North Witkss joro, North Carolina, as Second-Class lnder Act of Mawh 4, 1«79. Thursday, Nov. 27, 1947 ,1^. —• ASiOtlA!., 'A . ^ • Thanksgiving Significant In the United States Thanksgiving is an American holiday, started by the Pilgrims who thanked God for a bountiful harvest and for the protection of a divine providence through a difficult year. Throughout the years America has always been in position to be thankful. Of all the nations of the world, America has escaped war in her own land since our independence, except for the War Between the States. This year we can-survey the world and with fullest gratitude thank God that we are Americans and constitute the world's most favored nation. We are the nation with the food, the clothing and the other necessities of life, along with numerous luxuries. In no other nation does such plenty exist. Being thus favored with plenty, we ^so have the responsibility and the privilege of keeping otHeF^peoples^of-the world from starving and dieing in want. Truly this is a great Thanksgiving season, when we should to the fullest extent be grateful for our blessings. which a dear friend of mine told m$ that his father was often, accustomed to pray, "O Lord, let this vessel of cjay, dip down into the well of Thy grace, and bring up only as much as it can hold." From California comes the story of two , close friends and residents of a thriving community. One of them, C. V» H. Jones, was a real estate operator. He and his friend, Perry Byerly, led a successful pl$n for widening the main street of their community to bring increased traffic through the town. Sometime later Byerly was killed as he crossed the busier, widened thoroughfare. Saddened, Jones proposed traffic signals for the highway. He went before the County Board of Commissioners to urge their installation, particularly at the intersection where his friend Byerly was killed. A few days later Jones, too, was dead —struck'down by a motorist at the same intersection. Of course there are those who will say that they simply , paid the price for progress which they urged, and that they were killed by their own negligence. However, we can't hel]5 but wonder whether this would have happened if they had Retained their narrower, quieter and less frequented city lane. So many of us try to outreach ourselves. Long ago when old Aesop wrote his fables, he told the story of a dog*who had stolen a piece of meat out of a butcher shop. Crossing the river on his way home, he saw his own reflection in the stream below. Thinking that it. was another dog, with a larger piece of meat in his mouth, he made up his mind to get that also. But in snapping at the shadow, he dropped the meat he was carrying and so lost all. This is written at the beginning of the earliest Christmas-shopping season I have known. Although it is not yet Thanksgiving, merchants are displaying articles for the Christmas trees. Street lights have been put up. Christmas parades and all the wildest displays that human ingenuity can devise have been promoted. . As if this were not enough, today I received a sales letter from a church supply house advocating that I purchase my Lenten and Easter supplies now. Truly we seem Ao be outreaching ourselves in our mad rush for things,* things, and more things! The other day a correspondent sent me a cartoon. It pictured two processions of people rushing in the opposite direction, paying no attention to one another as they passed. Both roads converged in one meeting place—a graveyard. There's a wealth of philosophy in that old prayer, "O Lord, let this vessel of clay, dip down into the well of Thy grace, and bring up only as much as it can hold." o You wouldn't know we had free elections from the candidates' expenditures. —Greensboro Daily News. -THEEVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. So many of us want more than is good for us. We don't recognize our limitations. We don't know a good thing when we have it. I have never forgotten the prayer **wwwwmwwwwwhmuhwwwwv ELLER'S LUMBER SUPPLY HAS BASKETBALL TEAM ^>tvwv\w%wvw»mwi»vw%*vw W»VWWWWWWW%* * ~ '.WWHHWHMWmWW at Millers Creek manIuf*ctu"n8: firm owned and operated bv H. L. tiler western North Carols ♦!?* * basketball team in competition with the best in pictured above as r year- Me™!)ers of the E'ler's Bluejacket squad are Tobi McMillan and R«l^!u u r°w» left to right, Wayne Church. Paul $nider, drews, Rex WhittinjrtonP Tl I w kack row» ,eft to ricrht, H. L. E'ler, Tom Anpresent wh« STSE? 7<le ^atk^# a"d Larrv Wiles. Gilbert E'ler was not tough schedule made. The Bluejackets have played Chatham. A lege B t—n All t,ma<*e too teams in semi-oro ranks and w'th colwhere Mr. Eiler is aiJ! ?am*s ^l!1 be played at MiUers Creek fchool "vmnasium, 14 ^ co*cK nf fK- *ch»ol bovs and girl, in basketball. By DWIGHT NICHOLS et al THANKSGIVING— Looking around in a' more 01 less haphazard way, we fini many things for which we shoulc be thankful in addition to tohos< that everybody recognize at blessings. ' J ' Since we write on light subjects, we'll bqgin on football All Wilkes should be thankfu that a school in the county— Wilkesboro—produced a footbal team which went through th< ten-game schedule all the waj victorious with no defeats anc no ties and has brought mucl favorable sports publicity oui way from all over the state. And, too, we are thankful, thai the North Wilkesboro team had a successful season in the Soutl •Piedmont football conferen^ foi the first year, when cynics predicted that the local entrj wouldn't win a game. The Mountain Lions finished fifth witl three victories, two defeats and one tie in big league competition, We are> thankful that at least a part of the local populace had the courage, the money and the public spirit to * loosen theii pocketbooks and furnish a lighted athletic field here. We are thankful that there are citizens who think more of the well being of their boys than holding on to every cent thej i make. .I mm ■■ But we guess we'll have to beg Santa Claus for' a grandstand. Still on our "pet peeve," which is lamenting the neglect of youth in our county, we are thankful that some of the rural people have awakened to th»i fact that athletic fields are better than questionable "Juke" joints, bootleg centers and barnloft gambling for rural youth. This community should be thankful for the recent gracious ctffer on the part of a widely known baseball cl»b owner to place a professional dub in North Wilkesboro IP GRANDSTAND FACILITIES ARB PROVIDED. Wilkesboro school district, which comprises about one-fourth of the county, should be thankful tor progress oi^ the school gymnasium, and should continue efforts to comp the project. So much for so felt Hate, newest style* ors.—The Goodwill Store, The new Nylon Raincoats In stock. If you judge the future by the post six weeks you sure will need 'em.—The Goodwill Store. ia-1-at HOLIDAY GREETINGS! JOIN THE BIG PARADE! GET THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT! Stop With Us For Lunch or Between-Meal Snacks TASTE-RITE SANDWICHES TASTE-RITE! SOUP CANDIES SANDWICHES CIGARS ICECREAM GUM CHOCOLATES Stop In and Buy Chase's Foil Fresh Candies Now On Display ® t • , " ' — . • . ' ; OPEN NIGHTS AND SUNDAYS TASTERITE ICE CREAM PARLOR 308 10»h Street North Wilkesboro, N C.
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