The Journal - Patriot INDNPBNDBNT IN POLITICS -Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JUNIUS c. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER Publishers 191b?DANIEL J. CARTER?1945 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Orife Year $2.00 (la Wilkes sad Adjoining Counties) One Year $8.00 (Outside Wilkes sad Adjoining Counties) Rates to Those in Service: One Year (anywhere) .? $2.00 Entered at the poetofHee at North Wllkeo boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March. 4, 1879. Monday, September 20, 1948 Wilkes Sends Many Students To College A partial list of Wilkes boys and girls entering college this fall either as old or new students reveals that Wilkes people are not neglecting higher education for their children. Greatest asset to Wilkes county is the ^children, and the increasing number of parents who realize that they must not handicap their children by lack of educa tion is an indication of more progressive citizenship. Fewer and fewer are the reactionaries who had the attitude that "what was good enough for me is good enough for my chil dren." You who had only a few months school for a very few years under the old conditions grew up in a different age, which was not so competitive in relation ta education. Traphill Road Surrey Has Been Authorized All local people wUl join with the citir zens of all the northeastern part of Wilkes county in rejoicing over the decis ion of the North Carolina State Highway and Public Works Commission for author ization of a survey of more than half of the highway route from Hays to Traphill. For years it has been recognized that the Traphill road was one of the most needed projects in the highway program of northwestern North Carolina. That part of Wilkes county composes one of the largest populated areas in the state not penetrated by a paved highway. When constructed the Traphill road will be a great economic asset to north eastern Wilkes and will result in much development of that area, which is particularly suited to diversified and live stock farming, timber and wood produc tion. Of course, authorization of a survey is a long way from actual construction, but it is a beginning and shows that the highway commission recognizes the need and importance of the project. u Education, Health, Crime and Alcohol The first effect of alcohol upon the po lice problem, is to be found in plain, or dinary drunkenness, followed by chronic alcoholism and then by drunken driving, fighting, and the commission of innumer abl enuisances. Dr. Ralph S. Banay, Research Associate at Columbia University College of Physi cians and Surgeons, recently addressed a meeting sponsored by the University and the Research Council on the Problems of Alcohol, and called attention to the fact that alcohol acts as a "release mechan ism," causing an explosion of those per sonality potentials which impel to crime. All of us have criminal impulses. Prob ably the majority of people have an in clination to take what they want when they want it, and to strike out violently when they,are irritated or stopped from* what they Want to do. The man who is free from alcohol has these impulses und er control; his intelligence, moral convic tions and realization of the necessity to conform to social regulation, determine his conduct. The inner-man of crime and violence is kept under; sometimes, his very existence is hardly realized. But alcohol suppresses the higher con trols, unseats civilization, removes the inhibitions upon conduct. The submerged impulses come to the surface and crime results. - Just how much crime is caused by drinking must remain undetermined. Some criminologists have said that alcohol is responsible in some degree, for about 25 per cent of all crime. The average police man will tell you bitterly, that it is respon sible for three-fourths of all his troubles, while more than one judge has%attributed to drinking at least 90 per cent of all the .criminal cases coming before him. What ever the percentage, it is enough to make quite evident the fact that the fcrofit-per-. centage in the whole alcohol custom and traffic, is simply not there. Free' speech is free speech in the Uiiited States, where the need of a democratic people for honest information as to the ebb and flow of world tides is excellent ly served. The Iron Curtain in Europe excludes in formation from the slaves of Communism because information would be fatal to that Satanic tyranny. There is an Iron Curtain in America which has nothing to do with freedom of speech. It is a curtain which delimits the opportunities of the American people. By it, America is held back from a promised land of prosperity, culture and almost un limited satisfactions. The New York Times Magazine of Au gust 29, in a review of a report by the President's Commission on Higher Educa tion,. asks: "Can this country afford to spend more than three billion dollars a year on a higher education program?" The answer must be indirect, but defi nitely conclusive: "We are spending now, nearly ten billion dollars a year for in toxicating beverages." The President's Commission proposed that higher educational facilities be dou bled, that we create a vast system of free, two-year community colleges, ex pand graduate and professional facilities, establish a large program of scholarships, double the number of teachers by 1960, and inaugurate a greater program of adult education. All of this we could do, and more, if the ?I * t money now spent on intoxicants were de voted to education. ' V ?? "I have fought the good fight. I have finished my work. *1 have kept my belief." ?Retiring Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. Yes, and she kept her throne, too, until she voluntarily relinquished it to her daughter.?Winston-Salem Journal. o A new course in atomic energy is to be offered grammar grade children, accord ing to the division of elementary educa tion of the U. S. Office of Education. New emphasis upon subjects already in the course of study might be better until Jun ior's elders leam a little more about what atomic energy is and means to the world. ?Winston-Salem Journal. (LIFE'S BETTER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 SOMETHING RICH AND SWEET I sought for something rich and sweet That I could cherish on life's way, And that would guide my weary feet That they might never go astray; And so I found God's wondrous love Through Jesus Christ His only Son; My soul's now fixed on things above As on life's upward race I run. How sweet this love that fills my heart And lifts my soul above the world, As I go forth to do my part Beneath salvation's flag unfurled, To win the lost to Christ my Lord And help dear pilgrims bear their cross, That we may have a great reward Where none shall ever suffer loss! > - - ? . ' This precious, holy love of God Keeps out desire for evil things, And blesses 'neath the chasfning rod Until one's heart and spirit sings, And glories in the heav'nly grace That comecrso sweetly flowing down To strengthen one on life's great race Till he shall win and wear a crown. Thank God for love that lifts the soul To higher realms than earth affords, And keeps us true while evils roll And Satan seeks with many swords To cut our faith and trust and hope And leave us stranded on life's shore, Where we in pain would have to grope, Lost ^nd. defeated evermore. * '?" v ? .'V Wilkes Chapter Advanced Sim To Aid Polio Cues National Foundation For ward* $5,411.46; Local Funds Exhausted National Foundation for In fantile Paralysis has advanced to the Wilkes Chapter $5,411.46 to pay hospital bills of infan tile paralysis patients from Wilkes during the past several weeks. At the beginning of the epi demic the WilkesChapter began using the -chapter's funds from the 1948 campaign and the funds were used until exhausted. In accordance with the Nation al Foundation's plan of opera tion, the chapter \ was advanced funds to pay bills of patients frdm Wilkes, $am Ogilvie, chap ter chairman, said today. With many of the polio pa tients in convalescent centers, it is expected that another advance will be received from the Na tional Foundation to continue treatment of the patients until discharged. It is the policy of the Foundation to have only one funds campaign during the year, that being in January. , Oi Poker Alice ? Wild West's Wildest Gambling Queen I Writer Homer Croy reveals the fabulous career of glamorous, cigar-smok ing, gambling quSen?Poker Al ice?in a dramatic story of the old Wild West! Look for this amazing tale ? "Meet Poker Alice"?appearing in the Octob er 3rd issue of The American Weekly, Nation's Favorite Maga zine With The Baltimore Sunday American. Order from Your Lo cal Newsdealer. China's 1948 flue-cured tobac co crop is expected to equal that country's consumption require ments. . Saither D. Porter Is Claimed By Death Gaither Dock Porter, a well known citizen of Reddles River township, died Sunday. Funeral service was held Tuesday, two p. m., at Pleasant Home Baptist church with Rev. A. W. EJUer and Rev. W. S. Luck in charge. ^.Mr. Porter, age 36, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alafair Porter; one son,"Paul E. Porter; his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Porter, all of Wilkesboro route two brothers, J. W. Porter, of North Wilkesboro route one, and R. W. Porter, Plymouth; three sisters, Mrs. C. H. Vanderburg, Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. P. L. Williams, of Statesville; Mrs. Annie Austin, of Asheville; and three half-sisters, Mrs. Reba White, Statesville; Mrs. C. R. Walker, H*ys, and Mrs. A. F. Thomas, of Greens boro. Tot* Tor Bellfllnr ft Bospltel FK El If Excess Acid causes . foe p*ms ot Stomach Ulcers, Indigestion, Heart bare. Belching, |M a frm sample of UDGA a /we Interesting pamphlet at HORTON DRUG STORE STOP THOSE HEAT LOSSES SAVE MONEY WITH EACH FUEL BILL INSULATING WITH U. S. Mineral Rock Wool SHIELDS & HAYES INSULATION CO. BOB DAY, Manager Caulking ? Weather Stripping Wilkesboro Mfg. Co. PHONE 7 Lee Ander Harris Last Ritas Thursday Funeral service for Lee Ander Harris, 71, well known Wilkes citizen who died Wednesday in a ?Statesville hospital, was held Thursday, two p. m., at Davis Memorial church. , Surviving Mr. Harris are his wife, Mrs. Ida Harris; three sons and two daughters, Willie Emmet and Dean Harris amd Mrs. Millard Johnson, of Purlegr, and Mrs. Dock Wood, of Mt. Airy; one brother, Franklin Harris, of Charlotte, and four sisters, Mrs. Daisy Ferguson, of Charlotte, Mrs. Elbert Elledge, of Cham pion, Mrs. Kettle Williams and Mrs. Ida I