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at I Carolina HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER ^Publishers ''' 'A\ l»8a~DANlEL J. CARTER—1948 ♦ — SUBSCRIPTION One Year $2.00 (In Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year ~ . £3.00 (Outside Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) Rates to Tfitae in Service: One Year (anywhere) ..........— $2.00 i * Entered at the postoffice at North Wilkes boro, North Carolina, at Second-Class natter under Act af March 4, 1 Thursday, May 25, 1950 Commencement Time In Wilkes County This week and next high schools ifl Wilkes county will turn out many gradu ates. <**!«■ If all the advice given graduates at com mencement time were laid end to end — it would probably be a good thing. Speakers will speil forth many good ad monitions to graduates. Little will be re membered. But graduates should remember that commencement means beginning. For those who choose not to continue in scholastic education commencement will mean the beginning of wrestling with the .lyoyld for a livelihood. For those who go to college high school commencement means a begin ning of higher education. Regardless of the future course in schools and colleges, high school gradua tion floes not mean the cessation of learn ing. What you have received in high school should prepare you to learn more and more as you grow into citizenship. Graduates will learn, some of them to their sorrow, that the diploma is no guar antee of a soft job with a fat pay check. They will learn that they must apply them selves with diligence and thoroughness to Whatever task they are assigned, and that success can be achieved only through con stant and efficient work and application to duty. Our congratulations go to each high school graduate this year. Many of you have struggled to reach this point in your lives the beginning of a new phase of life with greater responsibilities. Our best wishes go with our congratulations. _ - A - i « Vote In Primary , Saturday, May 27th On Saturday, May 2?, voters of the major parties in North Carolina win select their nominees for the fall election, Citizens should in this primary exrecise their right to vote. The right of a free ballot is the most precious right guaranteed by our constitution, because that right is the power to choose our governmental rep resentatives. In the primary Saturday voters of the Democratic party will choose a nominee for United States senate and representa tive in congress. There is also a contest for nomination to the supreme court. In Wilkes cdunty Democrats will choose a nominee for sheriff. The Republicans will select a nominee for solicitor of the 17th judicial district, a nominee for sheriff and for clerk of court. In some of the races nomination is tan tamount to election. In other, words, the primary will in effect be the selection of the officials. Those registered as members of the ma jor parties should consider it a highly im portant duty to vote in the primary, and have a voice in the selection of those who will fill the responsible offices. And every voter should make an effort to make honest selections and to vote for those whom he or she considers best fitted for the positions sought. o : — tors, lawyers, university professors, mentrf almost every profession and trade." Dr. Raws states further, that he was talking- with a judge from a southern state who sougtyt kelp in breaking the grip i of the alcoholic habit. In the conversation he mentioned the n*me of ajhewspa^er man from the saihe city. "The judge replied, 'Yes, I kne# that man. When I first bcame a judge, the second case to come before me for trial and sentence for drunken driving was that man.' Then he added rather sadly, "Since that time, I, myself, have been sentenced for drunken driving." Yes, your friends who seem so poised and so in command of their drinking, are just as much in danger of alcoholism as those they look upon as socially untrained gnd_!lweak." As for cutting remarks, our favorite is probably "let the chips fall where they may." — Greensboro Daily News. -TH E EYERYDAY COUNSELOR By Iter. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. Do you like to be alone? To feel alone? Few people do. Most people fear lone liness as they would a mad dog. Many go to tragic extremes to avoid it. Witness the tremendous amount of alcoholism and drunkenness due to loneliness. This is particularly true with women alcoholics, and alas, their number is in creasing. I have talked with many of them and have found that they drifted from social drinking to solitary drinking, which is the second stage of alcoholisip, from sheer loneliness and boredom. • The other day I had to make an emer gency trip by private plane. I was quuite interested to watch the clouds as we passed through them from time to tipie. They appear far different when viewed close at hand than far off. From the ground they look like huge mountains, but as we flew into them, they had a way of dissolving and scurrying away hastily. That's like a lot of our fears and worries. When viewed from man's level they look formidable. But when we rise up to meet them in prayer, they have a way of dissolving. .out the real sight came when we flew up above the clouds, and (Completely lost sight of the earth beneath. Here spread out before us was the most gorgeous and awe-inspriing panorama I have ever seen. Apparently we were flying over a bound less area of snow and ice covered peaks and valleys. The pilot commented to me, "If you want to know what a real feeling of lone liness is, then fly up here by yourself. If the grandeur of God's handiwork doesn't touch your soul and make you reach out for Him, then there is something badly wrong with you." S[ will never forget that experience, high above the earth and all man-made asso ciation, and extending out as far as one could see in any direction, either the very blue sky above, or these endless wierd and magnificent cloud formations. The words of the Psalmist intinctively came to my mjnd: "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast form ed ; What is man, that thou should care for him? For thou hast made him a little lower than God, and hast crowned him with glory and honour!". The wonders of nature never cease to make me bow in awe and gratitude, but the wonders of the power of God in the human heart are even greater. No, you are never alone. You may close God out of your heart, but He will always be outside waiting for admission and while He waits is doing a magnificent job with this universe of ours in spite of our lack of cooperation. If your faith gets weak, try flying up stairs sometime. You will be doing some praying up there, and some more when you come back. But you dont have to get in a plane to "go upstairs." You can get on your knees and do it. # Alone?' No. Not unless you order it! EDITOR'S NOTE: The fourth edition of Dr. Spaugh's little book on successful living "The Pathway to Contentment" is available. Orders may be sent to The Every Hedrick-Hardman To Pledge Vows In Tampa, Florida Invitations have bene received I here reading a« follows: "Mrs., Vecfla Johnson Hedrlck requests the honour of your presence at tie marriage of her daughter, Martha Craig, to Mr. Lawrence Edwin Hardman on Saturday, June the third, nfaeteen hundred and fifty, at five-thirty o'clock in the afternoon. St. John's episco pal Church, Tamps, Florida." Cards inclosed "Reception Im mediately after the ceremony Merry Markers Club, Davis Is land." Miss Hedrlck, having spent much time hers with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. John son, has many friends in ftorth Wllkesboro, who will be interested to learn Of her qpproachlng mar riage. Mrs. Johnson plans to go | down fop the event; NArs. McCoy Entertains D.A.R. Chapter The American Way of Life was | the theme for an instructive and j interesting talk given by Miss Lucy Flnley at the May meeting j of the Rendezvous Mountain chapter of- the Daughters of the | American Revolution held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. B. McCoy. A large number of | the members were present. The new regent, Mrs. W. R. Absher, presided, heard several committee reports, and the usual routine of business was transact ed. At the cloe of the meeting, which opened the D-A.R. ritual, the group was invited into the dining room where delicious re freshments were served by Mrs. McCoy. W.S.C.S. Of Union M. E. Church Meets The Union' Society ot fcfcftst-1 ian Service met with Mrs. J. M. Nichols May 14 with 12 members | and two visitors present. The meeting wafc called to ord er by the president, Mrs. Claude Laws. Miss Winnie McLean had charge of the program, assisted by Mrs. Charlie Warren, Mrs. Ezel Crysel and Mrs. Earl Baker. Pray er was by Mrs. C. W. Mahaffey. Officers were elected as follows: ▼Ice *ec inr The meeting tu dismissed with prayer by Mrs. J. P. Crysel. Temp ting refreshments were senrved by tbe hostess, assisted by Miss Mary Nichols and. Mrs. D. ». Turner. The Jane meeting will be at tbe home Of the president, Mrs. Claud Laws, on Tuesday night, June 6. All members of the church are invited to attend this meeting. ^ Staley-Wafts Mr. and Mrs, Bud Watts, of | North Wilkesboro, Route 1, an nounce the marriage of thair daughter, Betty Jo, Fl6yd E. Staley, son of #r- and Mrs. Bd Stal6y, of Wilkesboro, 8n May 12th at the home of Ret. data Brown in Oakwoods. rs Brewer Us. met with Rock W&MmL- JRRHR9. night, May 17, for the regular monthly meeting. Devotional was given by Mm. Roscoe Wood. The playet, "Invisible Bridges" was presented in a sprightly way by MrsHJtaMfta Sebastian, Mrs. Chaa. H. W4M, Mrs. Leroy Por mnrnm JOhl___. - r— offered. A number of have been given to the needy, sick and shnt-lns during the past month. During the business, session the following teachers were elected for the Daily Vacation Bible school; Mrs. J. C. Pines, superin tendent; Mr. J.'G. Pipes, Bible; Young People, Eulalia Johnson; Intermediates, Mre. Roscoe Junior. M1m Nllta mary, Mrs. Sinner, At the liel6na f»y the len BrewerJ
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