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SUBSCRIPTION RATES;
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(Btered at the post office at North Wilkesboro,
M. C,, aa second class matter under Act of March
4. 1879.
THURSDAY, TONE 29, 1933
We have no memory at all for characters. It
Little Jack Garner who sits In the corner, Is
jt? George Ryan in The Boston Herald.
As Paris is Importing .\merican beer now, how
about slipping something into it to shame the
Frenchles into paying their debts?—New Orleans
States.
International conferences are sometimes spoken
of as parleys. “Parley- is defined as “mutual dis
course. conversation, talk.” -\nd the office cynic
that tells the whole story. -Boston transcript.
•ays
Elkin-North Wilkesboro Road
While Wilkes county citizens do not ask or
expect any more than their proportionate
share of the new federal funds for highway
construction, with no inconsiderable number
of our people there is a feeling that No. 268
should not be forgotten entirely.
It is very pi'obable that to place the blame
for the long delay in building this road upon
the state highway commission would be un
fair. But whatever may be the cause of the
inaction, that cause should be removed. It
will be necessary to remove the cause be
fore action can be expected.
The merits of the project are beyond ques
tion. There is no direct route to Elkin that
can be traveled with any degree of satisfac
tion- That there should be, citizens of
Elkin and North Wilkesboro and those re
siding between these two points will testify.
There is a big territory, peopled with the
best citizens of a great county, which is yet
to be opened up and we hope that before
another year shall have passed, a better road
will be provided.
^ The following 'taken
from tho Skyland Port, our West Jeffer-
^8on nantemporafy; ^3^ ' ^ ■ - -
“^iie'end of crtoie to Wllk«s county to
neor. Tho clttoon* there have had a meeting '
iiidiapiKJiBted^a committee with a'chalnnau
to aee timt murder Is outlawed."
Were it not for its implied meaning, np
mention would be made of the' squib for
evidently it was intended as a bit of irony
and not as a slur upon the good intentions
of the high-minded and forward-looking
citizens of Wilkes who sponsored the mass
meeting and are endeavoring to set in mo
tion a program looking to the betterment
of conditions. Our contemporary in one
....
School
By VHAmm E. DUNN
L«noa tor ti
1-8. Udden Tiw- 1:9.
The third qiwtt«r- pf lessons
Introduces us to sotod parly lead
ers of the Old Testament period.
The first of these Is Joshua. He
Is not, obviously, one ^ of the su
preme figures in the' Bible gal
lery of portraits. Nevertheless lie
is a great soul who took' a lead
ing part in the stirring events of
a critical period. He was one of
the two older men who were per
mitted to enter the promised
i land'
ipme sort of pt^ed In^^ii.
I The more I think of ifi the more
feel that the preacher ‘M|i
rtght. ' -X- ■
Now I am uncomfort^hly bald.
My morp than tbree-s^te and
ti^.yeaiV' may account for it--
liut f wish I conld have kept thafi
hair! Many a barber'll hyttsh hai
showed down Pii
whatever was In the fnstrument.'
Let me ropeat; The oai ber's hair
brush should be kept Immersed
in a good howl of antlse^to si^
lulion. .
Not only that: but, barbers
should be zealously guarded to
their own personal health ?and
condition of blood.' In these days
of rapid transit and'^inlxed cue-
fomers, too much care .cannot be
brief paragraph challenges the citizen-1 fickle-hearted folk in the ranks
ship of Wilkes to make this anti-crime 1 the children of Ood who
He wa'S afraid neither of j.exerclsed by men who have suc'h
the giants In Canaan, nor of fhe | varied contacts as barbers Imve.
I don't like to have a workman
move-
movement mean more than such
ments usually do.
The frequency w'ith which such pro
grams for good citizenship stop with the
appointment of a chairman is sufficient
basis for such comment. Rather than rise
up in wrath to reply to The Post’s ironical
of
yearned after the flesh pots
Egypt.
In these days of fear and dis
tress, people sometimes cry, “Oh
for a Moses to lead us through
the wilderness!" But 'What we
need most of all is a Joshua to
lead us out of the wilderness.
Now note that Joshua always
it a challenge, which it is.
The Journal-Patriot is convinced
that
11 • . • . 1 1 i iobeyed the divine command. He
allusion to this movement, we calmly term^Jn^ver guilty, like Moses, of
disobedience. Dr. Matheson calls
Joshua a prosaic man, that is, a
the Wilkes County Citizens Association i
, , V , , 1 V V instructions of his chief. God
has advanced beyond the usual stages the planning, and Joshua, a
ready. We are equally confident that it | willing tool, fulfilled the divine
is destined to succeed. It already has a far- i 'lecisions. “Arise, go over this
reaching program, one that extends be-
Jordan,” said the Lord, and
, Joshua and the people at once
yond the immediate present and looks to-! crossed the famous river into the
ward the development of a better citizen-1 lair land of their dreams. "See, I
ship through the education of our youth,
As an immediate goal, it has the speedy canaanite stronghold soon
trial of law violators. If it can bring about' fell, after a short seige. in both
earlier trials in the courts and arouse sen- j ’’f®!
! work. He it was who separated
the Jordan waters so that the
timent against the practice of begging and
petitioning for those who sin against so
ciety, it will have reached the first mile
stone. And what greater ambition can any
organization have than the education of
boys and girls to a greater respect for law
and order.
At the mass meeting one of the speak
shave me who has' a crop of ugly,
lesions on his. face—and certain-^
ly not on his hands! ^
It would make me leap for joy
to see a sign hanging in my bar
bershop, "A L L OPERATIVES
HERE HAVE NEGATIVE
BLOOD-TESTS.” It ought to be
the finest of drawing-cards for a
public barber shop or hair-dress
ing establishment.
I ran across a man profes
sionally this -week who was
"Wassernian plus four,” who ab
solutely did not know how he
acquired the ugly condition. Such
experience as this sets a man to
thinking. 'We should close every
door against dangerous invasion.
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For a limited time we are selling the 13-Plate, Twelve
Months Guaranteed-
Murray for $4.9S
AND YOUR OLD BATTERY
Crowley F. Chambers
Crowley F. Chambers, o f
Lovelace, age 30, died Monday
and funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3 o’clock in the after
noon at Fishing Creek Arbor
church with Rev. Noah Jarvis in
charge. The deceased was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cham-
I hers.
people passed over on dry
ground. And it was He who caus
ed the wall of Jericho to fall' We talk about our role in
down flat. Joshua was simply I European affairs, but what
the obedient agent of his God. i Europe is more Interested in Is-
And later, at Gideon, when lour roll.—Springfield Union.
Joshua faced the test of a cru-1
cial battle, it is the Lord who de
Buy your Tires and Batteries from us.
in Quality—Low in Price.
Wiley Brooks and Jeter Crysel
The Motor Service Co.
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Triple Birthday
Celebration Held
200 Frlend.s And Relatives Ga
ther At Home Of Mr. .^nd
Mrs. W. A. Bauguess
Approximately 200 people ga
thered at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Bauguess in the Fair-
plains community Sunday to join
in the triple birthday celebration
in honor of Mrs. W. A. Bauguess,
38, her brother, Albert Relmer,
31, and her niece. Miss Vera Rel--“
mer. - j
A picnic dinner was served'
and the occasion'was a most do*
lightful one for all present.
Rev. CalHe Pruitt made .a
splendid talk immediately prior
to the dinner.
Relatives and friends from var
ious points were in attendance.
r
The Essentials of Greatness
We have been thinking about the men
whom the world calls great, and wonder
ing how many of them will be so regarded
}yClf a century from now. In these days of
widespread and instant publicity, anj' man
who does something spectacular and gets
his picture into the nev. _ pers is ac
claimed by the unthinking as a great man.
He may have done nothing more import-
-■^nt than to go up in a sky-rocket or sit on
a flagpole, buf a foolish world does not
discriminate between notoriety and great
ness.
We would hanlly try to list the men of
real greatne.'^.s now alive, but we think
there is a critical test which, if applied,
would eliminate many who regard them
selves as great men. We do not find
. enshrined in histor yas great, men who
were not equipped with certain qualities
of character, that had nothing to do with
the positions in which chance or fate
placed them.
Jt is somewhat increasingly the fash
ion among the young to sneer at the old-
fashioned "copy-book” maxims of conduct.
But there is only one .«ure foundation of
character that will stand the test of time,
and that is adherence to those very prin
ciples. Honor, integrity, truthfulness,
■'diligence, tlhrift, sobriety, modesty, may
be old-fashioned virtues but they are still
the only rules of life ■ft’hich can lead to real
greatness.
It is a mistake to believe that the men
who rise to the top in great affairs do so
by chicanery and dishonesty. It is one
of the commonest of errors to think that
a man achieves success without working
harder and more faithfully at whatever
task he has in hand than do the lazy and
en-vious around him. And we have never
seen a man whom we believed to be on the
path to greatness who spent his money
recklessly, who wasted his energies in dis
sipation or who sought self-advertisement.
The very few men of great affairs who
have been disclosed in these recent times
a? men of no character are the glaring ex
ceptions. If all leaders of business and in
dustry were crooks, there could be no sur
prise at the disclosures of the offenses of
a Kreuger or an Insull. Men like those,
when their true character is disclosed, get
into the headlines because they are dif-
;f«rent from the general run. Nothing can
charac-
tiiat it is
can he
and then by halting the sun and
moon. “The Lord fought for
Israel,” as the narrative says. So
Joshua, a n obedient servant, j
with the strength and courage
proclaimed by our Golden Text,
fought under God.
ers cited as an example the course taken! termined the vitcory, first f/
by a citizen of the neighboring county of sending a disastrous hall
Ashe which admittedly has a better rec
ord for law observance than Wilkes. In
the case cited, this citizen, aroused by a
murder in his community, committed by
his own son, if we are not mistaken, set
his heart on the organization of a Sunday
school, none having previously been con
ducted near him. The Sunday school was
organized and since that time there hasj
been a marked decrease in crime in thatj
community, it was stated.
That is the goal of the new Wilkes or
ganization. Teaching, law observance in
the schools and in the churches will go a
long ways in halting the crime wave.
The Skyland Post offers a challenge.
We believe wc speak for the association
in saying that it is accepted.
The Family
DOCTOR
By John Joseph Gains, M. D.
BRUCE BARTON WRITES
;^.|Bore destructive
to 'fall into*
fflbipSi life—
TO BE UNDERSTOOD
Finally Jesus knew the necessity for repetition
iitid practised it. One of the sons of President
Garfield was traveling witii him througli Ohio,
when ttie President was addressing county fairs.
At the close of the day he asked his boy what he
thought of his speeches. The tioy was eiiibariassed
by the question:
“Why . . . why they were fine, dad,” he stam
mered. “but I felt awfully uncomfortable part of
tlie time. You repeated yourself so often; once
yon said the very same thing in different 'words
four limes over."
Garfield slapped the lioy's shoulder with a
liearty laugh.
“So yon thouglil your old dan was running out
of ideas, did yon?" he cried. “Well, I don’t blame
yon; but there’s a method in his madness. To
morrow when I reaeli that passage in my talk,
you watch the audience. The first lime I make
the point, you’ll see by their faces that a few
folks iiear the platform get it. But further back
there will he noise and commotion; people will
be tu-ning their heads to find out who has just
driven uji. or what sort of a hat Mrs. Jones has
on and they won’t hear pie at all. When I repeat
it the second time a few faces in the middle of the
crowd will show a response; on the third go. I’ll
make still more converts, and on the fourth trial
they’ll all have a notion ,of what I am talking
about. But it takes four shots to land them all;
experience with all sorts of audiences has made
me sure of that.”
I't has been said that “reputation is repetition.”
No important truth can be impressed upon the
minds of any large number of people by being
said only once. The thoughts which Jesus had to
give the world were revolutionary, but they were
few ia number. "God Is your father,” he said
“caring more for the welfare of every one of you
than any human father can possibly care for his
children. His Kingdom is happiness! bis rule is
love.” This is ■what he had to teach, but ho knew
the necessity of driving it home from every pos
sible angle.
So in one of his stories God is the shepherd
searching the wilds for one wandering sheep; in
another, the Father welcoming home a prodigal
boy; in another a King who forgives his debtors
large amounts and expects them to be forgiving
in turn—many stories, many advertisements, but
the same big Idea.
Because the advertisements were unforgettable,
the Idea lived, and is today the one most power
ful'influence on human action and thought. To
be sure the work of the advertisements is far
from complete. The Idea that God is the Father
of idl ntenrriioi ■uereto rt a Bpedrtto-,Jieleotod
12
A TOXSORIAL TALK
I have been a patron of the
barber shop for over fifty years.
I am one of the best friends the
barber has. That’s why I am s'
much intere.sted in the very be
for both operator and customer,
in this important field.
I may have mentioned in this
i column licfnre—that I knew a
i clergyman with the finest “suit”
! of hair I ever saw; he would not
; permit a l arber’s brush or comb
■ to touch his .scalp—for fear of
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North Wilkesboro, N. ^
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