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SUBBOapnON BATBS:
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 18,1933
g Out in Lob Angvles. applicants for liquor licenses
aAisper their reqtiests. That is what a 13-year
kabit does to us—Buffalo.
'V seems immaterial whether the customers stand
for beer and sit down for whiskey, so long as
, aabody is carried out.—Indianapolis Star.
The utter futility of war is brought home by the
tact thJt elimination of the kaiser gave the world
Hitler.—^Acron Beacon-Journal.
This really is much like a war. All the profits
are made by selling stuff to the government.—Los
Angeles Times.
Only five more days in which to do your
Chrtetmas shopping. Be sure to visit North
' Wlkesboro stores now.
Don’t forget to put one of those Christ
mas Seals on every letter and several on the
packages.
Wilkes Scores Again
The success of Wilkes com at the inter
national grain and hay show at Chicago and
Wilkes poultry at the Southern Poultry as
sociation show reminds us again of the
brighter side of civilization in the “State of
Wilkes.”
The fact that our own corn won pla^s in
the international show and that our chickens
took good first and second places in their
lines is worthy of commendation. \\ e con
gratulate those who entered these products
and cite their examples as worthy of emula
tion.
Tom Bost or who may so desire may write
all the dispa rging articles about Wilkes that
they desire, but as long as such evidences of
progress are continually presented, there is
no danger of decay. Greater emphasis upon
ducation and the development of high moral
character will eventually remove the curse of
our all too frequent homicides, a cancerous
growth upon our civilization.
Changes
Time changes things. Reminiscing, we
remember when the Smoot tannery whistle,
the loudest of them all in North Wilkesboro,
could be heard when the atmosphere was
right way out in the country and it was the
time-piece by which we corrected our erring
clocks and watches.
It was 5:30, 12:00, 1:00 or 6:00 and it was
not difficult to approximate the time when
the whistle sounded. But times have
changed that. One week we may hear a
whistle calling men to work at 7:00 a. m.,
and another time it may be 7:30 a. m. And
instead of that whistle which the man hoe
ing corn or twisting a cultivator plow
through roots and stumps in “new ground”
useil to quit by at 6 o’clock, we hear one blow
ing at 4:00 or 4:30 in the afternoon.
All of which means absolutely nothing. It
is recalled merely as a child of memory. We
hope the farmers have or will soon be able
to adopt NRA hours and still tune their ears
for the good old whistles which sounded so
good years ago.
c “Unhappy
Fluent and critical have been the com
ments upon the change of Alfred E. Smith
from the “Happy Warri»” of 1924 and 1928
to what €v«i his most ardent admirers mtttrt
admit is the “Unhappy Warrior” of 1982 and
1983.
Not a little disappointed were even
staunchest supporters of the former New
York governor at the attitude taken by hun
at the Chicago convention when supped
out of Chicago following the nomination of
the man who gave him the sobriquet of the
“Happy Warrior.” Here was a chance for^
to have proven himself a good sport, still tM
“Happy Warrior” in defeat. But inst^ m
congratulating a friend in victo^, kfr. Smito
sulked out of town and even his betatw ef
forts for the Roosevelt candidacy failM to
heal the wounds of his frien^ who had a
higher opinion of him than his attitude at
Chicago had shown him worthy.
Perfiaps Al may be right. He was four
years ahead of his time when he championed
the cause of the repealists in 1928. He may
be four years ahead of time in his present
stand on the money question. Time may
prove that he was right. But no longer is
he known as the “Happy Warrior.’’
Harsh criticism has been hurled at him
and his political future seenw at an end. As
a sample of the biting criticism that Mr.
Smith is receiving, we quote the following
editorial from the Caldwell Record, publshed
at Lenoir:
As a sincere admired and ardent supporter of
Al Smith for the last eight years, we are ter
ribly disappointed- The recent attack he made
on the president was not only vicious and ill-
timed; it was rotten sportsmanship. It is tragic,
in that it shows one of the few remaining
risen-from-the-ranks statesmen in America
who has sold out to the moneyed interests.
“Just for a handful of gold he left us,” and
substituted a passion for personal gain and
traffic with the House of Morgan for a love for.
and belief in, the ultimate destiny of mankind.
A disappointed office seeker—a highly gifted
man who was the idol of thousands of Ameri
cans who couldn’t stand the loss of the office
he sought. A poor sport. The brown derby,
a symbol once as sacred as the white plume of
Navarre, is now as sullen as when Henry of
Navarre said, “A mass is a small thing to say
for so fair a city.”
When Al Smith sold out to the Morgans, and
let his keen mind be used to help the efforts
being made by big business interests to stop
the aid that Roosevelt is giving the forgotten
man: the souls of Jefferson. Rousseau and the
old thinkers whose name Smith has borne, were
saddened. No longer does he believe in the
rights of the people- Rather, he sits enthroned
in the heights of his Empire State building and
listens to the siren call of Wall Street and the
money barons. It is a sad spectacle.
The saddest thing about it is that he is so
poor a sport. No “Happy Warrior” when he
loses the battle—instead a cowardly, skulking
fighter who can not accept the odds of the fight,
and who turns against his friend because the
friend is successful.
PUKJC PUtil*
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under tUa beadlns, and neither
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Ple«ae be m brief u possiNe.
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tn unless backed worksj
in some way. Wdl. in some way,
I shall be working!
DHere’s hoping t^t when .
Christmas Eve oomee to ni^ we
will be singing Christmas carols'
at our conu&unity house I .
Wants To Know How
Candidates Voted On
Wet and Dry Qoestimi
THE BOOK
.. . the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible”
and which contains Four Great Treasures . . .
By BRUCE BARTON
Editor Journal-Patriot:
It ia about time for the candi
dates to start offering themselves
for the 1984 election. We would
like for them to taU the pac^le
how they stood on the 18th amende
meat, whether they voted for pr
against repeal. .We have a dry
law and we don’t want to weaken
it by electing men who are not in
sympathy with it.
E. R. MINTON.
Purlear. N. C. ^
BY THE WAYSIDE
By 8. B. F.
Mr. and Mu. F. G. Holman
made a very g.-acious gesture when
they donated to the Wilkesboro
Woman’s Club the thousand dollar
lot on which to build a very great
ly needed community house.
It is too bad that the civil works
administration turned the project
down; but I presume they had suf
ficiently good reasons fqr doing so.
Here’s hoping that before they
have completed their work, they
will reconsider the community
house project and help us out with
it to some extent, at any rate.
We need that house for our
young people—that is the main ob
ject in having it. Now, our young
people are not a bit worse than
the young folks in any other place
—they are just normal young
folks, wanting to have a good, .
time: but they have no common I length of the stems,
PRUNE BUSH ROBES^^ff
IN EARLY SPRING
The beat time to prune bush
roses in North Carolina ia after
the winter freezes are over and
before growth starts te early
spring.
“Jhia recommendation-wB! ap
ply to all tibe common
and such as the Tdas, gjH^il|4aa
and Hybrid Periietnala,’' a|^ G-
0. Randall, floriculturist at B^te
College- “One of the most
mon errors committed in pi
roses is that they are not prwded
severely enough. This is true par
ticularly for the Teas and Hybldd-
teaa. Varieties in these classes
should be pnmed to from 2 to 6
buds with the exact number of
buds depending on the Vigor of the
variety. The most vigorous varie
ties should be pruned less severe
ly. Pruning stimulates plant
grrowth and if the weaker bushes
are more severely pruned, within
reasonable limits, the resulting
grrowth will be better.”
Randall points ont that many
persons prune their roses in the
fall and sometimes heavy freezes
occur to kill back the plants after
have been pruned. It ia better, he
says, to wait until after all freez
ing weather is over and then to do
the pruning. All weak and dis
eased canes should be removed
complet'-ly and only 2 to 4 canes
left. These are then pruned back
to the number of buds recommend
ed-
Pruning roses properly has much
to do with the vigor of the plants,
the size of the blooms and the
The Story Comes Out
Breaking a silence which has been ominious
since the memorable 1928 campaign when he
refused to support Governor Alfred E. Smith
for the presidency. Senator Simmons lets his
reasons for opposing the New York govenior
out in the article, which Carl Goerch is carry
ing in his excellent publication, “The State
Contrary to pop ilar belief, it was not Gov
ernor Smith’s religious or his prohibition
views, although the North Carolina senator
was disgusted with the latter, but Al’s con
nection with Tammany Hall, Wall Street and
former Republicans which turned Senator
Simmons against him.
The State’s article, explaining why Sena
tor Simmons declined to follow the Demo
cratic nominee of 1928 is intensely interest
ing. Besides anfwering a question in the
minds of the publiCj^ it seals the lips of the
Greensboro Daily News which challenged Mr.
Goerch to explain the senator’s 1928 stand.
As much as anything else, the series of
articles on the life of Senator Simmons re
veals the energetic and dynamic editor of
GENESIS .4ND GEOLOGY
The higher animals are evnlvd or created, which
ever term suits you better. And last of all, man.
His place at the top of the pyramid of creation is
the same in both Genesis and geology, the differ
ence being that Genesis compresses into six hundred
words what science expands into hundreds of
volumes, and Genesis has a reason for man’s crea
tion and a goal for his life, while science throws up
its hands with the blank admission^ “We do not
know.”
So we have maan and woman launched forth
upon a brand new planet. Science locates the be
ginnings of human life in the fertile and frag;rant
valley of the Euhprates. Genesis is more specific,
naming the beautiful spot the “Garden of Eden,”
and identifying the first couple as Adam and Eve.
Let us take a running look at these two interest
ing people and the more important of their descend-
aants. for in the Old Testament, as in all other his
torical records, the history of peoples is principally
the lives of a few outstanding individuals.
A lecturer on woman suffrage once challenged her
audience with the oratorical question, “Where, I ask
you, where would man be today if it were not for
woman?” To which a rather thick voice from the
rear benches answered, “In the Garden of Eden
eating strawberries.” Adam, our first ancestor, does
not make a very brave showing. He and Eve were
given the run of the garden, with permission to
eat any fruit except that one particular tree. They
ate the forbidden fruit and when God discovered
them in their transgression Adam took refuge he
ft'hind Eve. “The woman whom thou gavest to be
with me,” he complained, “she gave me of the
tree and I did eat.” A cowardly eoccuse which profit
ed him nothing. For their sin they were cast out,
and the garden was closed to them. No longer
could they have food without effort.
Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow
shalt thou of it all the days of thy life;
Thoms also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; ... In the sweat of thy face shault thou
eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. As a shepherd
Abel had nothing to do but sit on the side of a
green hill and watch his flocks grow fat, making
money for him the while. Cain was a farmer, and
any one who has ever worked on a farm imderstands
why farmers in all ages have been discontented and
will realize how Cain felt. In his jealousy over
Abel’s easy life and calm demeanor Cain slew him-
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” he demanded in surly
meeting place, or place for recrea
tion, and we just must put that
building through some way.
Mr. and Mrs. Holman have so
graciously given the Woman’s
Club the lot—now, if some one
would make an even more gener
ous gesture, and give the club one
thousand dollars, or several peo
ple turn “good fairies” and each
give fifty or one hundred dollars,
we might be able to get the re
maining amount by dint of good,
hard work. |
Christmas is drawing very near, i
Would it not be a great Christ-j
mas gift for the town as well as ,
the Woman’s Club, if some onej
would make the club treasurer a |
subscription for the community:
house as a starter? Indeed! And
think what it would mean to thej
giver. This community house isi
no “passing fad” just to be “doing'
something.” It is something we
need very greatly. Christmas be
ing a “time for remembrance and
for memories.” why not remem
ber our living young people, and
honor the memory of those of our
young people that have passed into
the “Great Beyond” by starting a
subscription fund for this build
ing?
What we need is more spizzer-
inktum. Now that is not a new
name for a “fad” of sofe kind.
New License Agent
Isaac R. Vannoy, of Daylo, has
been appointed as agent for hunt
ing and fishing licenses in Union
township. County Warden H. G.
Minton announced last week.
Make Ike dollar stfet^ out by
'somei
^ec&k’omus...
Tires, hea'ters,
WILL GIVE YOU
YOUR MONEY
BATTERIES, ETC,
SOMETHING FOR
WKW-^NTTO EXPRESS OUR SINCERE
APPRECIATION FOR THE PLEASURE
WE HAVE HAD IN SERVING OUR
FRIENDS THIS YEAR—AND WISH YOU
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
WRey Brooks and Jeter Oysel
He Motor SnvkeCo.
Brorth Wilkesboro, N. O.
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That word is as old as th? hills. It]
means many things: but chief
among its definitions is this one,
“The determination to overcome all
obstacles, no matter how diffi
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many person’s head above water
when it seemed there was nothing
to do but “sink.” If we work hard
enough, and search minutely)
enough for ways in which to raise'
money to get to work on, andj
then keep right on working hard,
we can in time get our community
house. And perhaps, somewhere
on the way, the civil works ad
ministration will come to the res
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nothing like working for what we
want in this world.
Did someone say, “Oh, It is al
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that is all you can do.” A hom,
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persistently enough, and sweetly
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