The Journal - Patriot
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-Published Mondays and Thursdays at
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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<ou Bumgarner, of
North Wilkesboro.
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