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jlBB Hk lomnal-Patriot IMDWBnaSNT IN POLITICS PabllBlied MoiidajB and ThvndaTB at Wi&csboroi N. C. !». J. CAKTKR and JULIUS C, HUBBABD, Publiaken SUBSCRIPTION RATES: la the State $1.00 per Tear Out of the State .|l-6Q4>er Tear Entered at the poat office at North WiDcea- bero. N. as second clasa matter under Act ad March 4, 1879. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1934 Thanks! The State Highway and Public Works Commission did something last week for which all of us who have been crossing the Yadkin River bridge here are very grateful. What we refer to is laying a satisfactory surface on the approaches to the bridge. Then we “see by the papers” that those little aggravating patches of gravel are going to be supplanted by concrete, all of which is to the liking of everybody who has crossed the new bridge since its construction. Indian Summer The first frosts of the season have come and gone and we are now enter ing into one of the most beautiful and glorious seasons of the year—Indian Summer. Leaves of the beautiful mountain fol iage are turning a shade pale and with in a few days the countryside will be resplendent with the gold of autumn. The nights are chilly, inducing the de sire for a warm fireside and a little lat er—peaceful sleep under blankets. The glory of autumn on the moun tains of Wilkes is hardly surpassed by spring, when orchards are in bloom and everything seems to have taken on new life. During the summer the trees take on new growth, which is now in a pre mature and pulpy .stage. Following autumn will be the winter frosts, snows and blizzards. Next spring the new growth will be mature and hardened. Can w'e see a similarity between plant life and human existence? In youth body and mind grow fast and take on abundance of life. The prob lems and difficulties of life and re sponsibility mould that growth into a substantial being. When a person faces life itself with all the responsibility of his or her ex istence and probably that of someone else, he or she is in the Indian Summer of existence. If he has the courage, morality and iniatiative — in other words character—he will get through the winter with the growth of youth hardened into experience that builds for an individual a w’orthy existence. Easy Money Gone What the “man on the street” thinks and says is always interesting. Today we hear many people talking about re covery as the time when easy money will flow without much effort. They seemed to think that to have good times we must have chances to get rich quick or make “easy money.” There is no guch thing. ' Our dei'mition of prosperity is a time and age when everyone has an oppor tunity to earn a decent livelihood. By this we do not mean that one should get $10 per day for unskilled labor, if such were the case the quickly earned money would be of little value and would be spent more rapidly than it was made. When a person is able to sell his la bor for enough within a period of ten years to buy and furnish a home and keep up with current expenses he is prosperous. When he has to earn what he makes and gets it it is of value to him and he can possess it with pride. About 15 years ago some people did get rich comparatively fast and the world considered them lucky. But let us consider whether we know of the long years in preparation for accumu lating the riches. Do we know how much midnight oil those men burned while hard at work when less active men were slumbering and hoping for a streak of luck? Do we know how much they sacrificed in order to accumulate some worldly goods and to be ready when opportunity came? There are still, and always will be, opportunities to accumulate wealth but the chances do not come without effort and the intelligence to make circum stances work out to advantage. Too many ambitious young people cherish the hope that they will accumu late wealth without effort. Too much Btress has, in the past, been laid on edu cation as a means to that end. Our ad vice to anyone going to school to “get an education so they will not have to work” is to get another idea for that one simply will not pan out in this mad scramble we call life. NQgra »XO, K. AI^ Ekm^ The government has set* aside $650,- 000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1 to help‘North'Carolina fanners to control soil erosion. Our soil is our most priceless asset, and it most likely will continue to be. Therefore, it is an economic necessity and a patriotic and moral obligation to preserve this all-important resource that cannot be rebuilt within the ex pectancy of a human life. The federal government, becoming duly alarmed with the increasing de struction of farm lands from unrestrict ed washoff has set in operation 25 huge soil erosion projects in separate sections of the country under supervision of the Department of the Interior. One such project of two separate areas was es tablished, and another of 67,000 acres of the Brown’s Creek watershed of An son and Union counties. In our country there is something like 30 million acres of formerly cultivated land destroyed by gullying and deep washing alone. About 4 million acres of bottom lands, formerly cropped, have been rendered essentially useless by a covering of inert material deposit ed over it and by increased waterflow resulting from silt-choked stream-beds. Insignificant that loss is, though, when compared to the loss from that vast area subjected to a more serious type of washing which steals off a layer of soil with each successive rain, sheet erosion. The removal of a thin covering of soil, more or less uniformly, during every rain heavy enough to have run off is sheet erosion. Rainwater flowing out of cultivated fields is always muddy, never clear. This discolored washoff is the very fat of the land! Simple deduction and ob servation indicates what eventually happens where the process is not arrest ed. The uncontrolled wastage of our land is what the soil erosion service of the government is out to prevent,—to demonstrate how individual farms can be handled so as to arre.st the evil ef fects of erosion. Work of the soil eros ion service also will reduce loss of wat er from runoff, will minimize the ef fects of drought, reduce flood hazards, will prevent the covering of bottom lands with unfertile subsoil, stop wash outs, prevent the silting of streams and channels, and stop the filling up of ex pensive reservoirs with farms soils and mud. Already our nation has permitted the essential destruction and unrestricted erosion on an area of formerly cultivat ed land exceeding the combined extent of Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecti cut. This means that there has been made unfit for profitable husbandry 218,000 160-acre farms! North Carolina is being robbed of its full share. Yearly farmers of the state suffer an e.stimated loss of $66,000,000 from erosion. That doesn’t include the loss to the state of the stupendous dam age to highways and the silting of res ervoirs, streams, ditches and harbors. Thousands of North Carolina farm ers are operating on slopes stripped of the more productive surface layer have only the slimmest of opportunities to m..ke a satisfactory living whether prices are up or down. Beeovery Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN THE OHRISTlA?J AT PRAYER Lesson for October 21st. Matt. 6:5-15. Oold- en Text; Romans 12:12. It is perfectly clear that to multitudes of people prayer has become unreal. The main reason for this is the temper of our day. Our age of speed and secular emphasis is not fav orable to the practice of prayer. We belong, says an editorial writer, “to a generation that believes, first, in nothing, and, second, in Self." Lyman Abbott wrote this parody of that model prayer of Jesus included in our lesson: "Our brethren who are upon the earth, hallowed be our name; our kingdom come; our will be done on earth; for there is no heaven.” Well, if prayer is no more than self-communion, it loses a great deal of its reality and value. It becomes almost as absurd as the girl who, in her eagerness to Jbe popular, “sat on the sand, and held her own hand.” There are, however, encouraging signs that people still believe in God. and still pray to Him, using the Lord’s Prayer in the original form of our lesson text. “Time spent on the knees in prayer,” said the late George David Stewart, an eminent surgeon, “will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.” And Dr. Elwood Worcester, so gifted in the cure of souls, testifies that when the pressure of his work has seemed beyond endurance, "reliance on spiritual foree has brought new and deeper understanding of dif ficult problems.” People, then, are still praying. Let us take comfort in that fact. Moreover we need not take too seriously the widespread opinion that there is no God who hears prayer. Therefore pray. Pray every day. Pray every hour. “Pray without ceasing,” as Paul says. Pray as a happy privilege. Pray in secret as our Lord, in the lesson passage, advises. And remember that prayer is not a monologue, but a conversation. God talks to us in true prayer. New NBA^ Atmo^BW Washington, Oct. IS. (Auto caster) — The most noticeable thing In the National Capital these days is the comparative peace that has descended upon the city since the retirement of General Johnson from control of the NRA. a new atmosphere, calmer and apparently more’de liberate and reasonable, has al ready become noticeable in the offices of the Recovery Admin istration. Business and Indnstrial leaders who have had boslness at NRA headauarters in the past week or two report that what they had to say was listened to with apparent respect. This is held to be encouraging to the be lief that the Government may not. after all, frown upon the making of profits in business, and may be more inclined to modify some of the restrictions which have prevented the mak ing of profits. Removing Obstacles Chief among these obstacles, it is realized now, was the effort to put wages ahead of increase in business. Th® President’s pro posal for a "labor truee” In his recent radio address is being in terpreted as indicating that the Government will not use its in fluence to force unionization, and will help to prevent the forcing of workers into unions by intimidation. The most recent interpretation of the famous “7a” clause of the Recovery Act is that, while a ma jority of the workers in, any in dustry may elect to Join and be represented by any labor union or organization they prefer, tbat does not compel the minority to go along. Every worker retains his right of individual bargain ing, and a minority group can set up their own collective bargain ing organization. On this matter of labor and wages, there is a good deal of talking and some deep thinking going on about the suggestion made by the President that per haps the best way to approach the subject is from the point of view of annual income of the workers, rather than rate per hour or week. That has a defi nite bearing on the building trades, which are traditionally seasonal, and the highi wages which are justified by labor on the ground that they don’t work all the year around. The Presi dent’s reference to England as an example of recovery has led to Inquiries about British wages. After making due allowance for differences in cost of living, which are not great, it seems to be the fact that building trades workers in England do not enjoy a much higher rate per hour than other industrial workers. Housing Work Booms The matter of wages in the building trades has a bearing on the program of the Federal Housing Administration. That is starting out to be the most suc cessful of all the Administra tion’s plans so far. Applications for “modernizing” loans are In creasing at the rate of 40 per cent a week, and the outlook for widespread new home building activity gets distinctly brighter from day to day. The question of labor costs will shortly become a distinct concern of the Housing board. The average annual income of industrial workers in this coun try is estimated. In the best of times, at $1,500 a year or there- ^boutq. Can building labor be spread out over a great number of operations so as to give every one of the four or five million unemployed in the building trades an annual income of tbat much or more, without loading labor costs too heavily on in dividual houses? In the AAA they have just been taking a vote of farmers in the corn-hog belt, to see how many of them want to go along next season in the matter of crop reduction and birth-control in the hog family. The replies re ceived so far indicate that more than go per cent of the farmers are for the continuance of the plan. Now » Cotton Poll Another vote of farmers is to be called tor soon, under the Bankhead cotton control law. As the law stands, the total produc tion of cottom la limited to 10,- 000,000 bales a year, with the act quotas allotted to each grower and a fine of $20 a bale for growing more than one’s quota.) But unless two-thirds of all cot- ’ ton growers vote for a continu ance of the plan, it is to he abandoned after one year. Another poll, conducted by an outside agency. Is giving the Administration something t o think about, however. The Na ll o n a 1 Industrial Conference Board, of which Virgil Jordan is the bead, and which has a good reputation as an impartial fact finding organization, sent a questionnaire to the editor of every newspaper in the United States, dally or weekly, aski^ several questions about -pBbUi! sentiment In: each community to Tsrious phases of the ptolfeap. 6,000 ‘4t thi is,000 edUors'^ltwAiWjt sent In replies giving tltoir iNM at th^ ■aitftoda'.. ' ' ■ ' ^ IWtoca^B^ovt - The majority. In many an overwhelming majority, ported that people geheralty were opposed to compulsory Un employment insurance, for old- age pensions, against further In crease In the national debt,!; for r^uctlon in the Federal |wyroll8 and the application of the Civil Service law to new jobe, againat price-fixing of both agricultural and indnstrial products, sgatnst restriction of agrlcultunl or in dustrial production, opposed to Government competition In any kind of business, to Government taking over the banking system, against power of the Executive to change the value of the dollar, opposed to the use of the taxing power for the redistribution of wealth, for private profits in business, against regulation of profits except public utilities, for Government fixing of mini mum wages and maximum hours of labor, against compulsory membership in labor unions, and for legislation making sympa thetic strikes and lockouts illeg al. CORN-HOG FARMERS APPROVE AAA PLAN Raleigh, Oct. 16.—Corn-hog producers in North Carolina are voting 12 to 1 to; continue the AAA program in 1935. Returns from 23 counties showed today tbat 1,311 farmers voted for the program next year, while 110 voted against it, W. W. Shay, of State College, an nounced. Shay is conducting a referen dum among the 4,117 growers in North Carolina who signed contracts to adjust their corn and hog production and receive benefit payments from the gov ernment. Marriage Licenses During the past few days mar riage licenses were issued from the office of register of deeds at Wilkes to the following; Robert W. Lee, Winston-Salem, and Vel ma Ethel Teague, North Wllkes- boro; Lonnie Winkler and Nora Sheets, both of Sherman; R. H. Johnson, Windy Gap, and Minia Hendren, Wilkesboro; A. W. Wood, Hays, and Rnth Rose, North Wilkesboro. 13-PLATE STANDARD BATTERY . $3.95 AND OLD BATTERY You can wefl afford to have a new Battery placed in your car at this low price . . . then you will be readfM for cold weather. Motor Service Store WILEY BROOKS—PAUL BILLINGS Ninth Street North Wilkniboro, N. C. HEALTH INSURANCE URGED BY SURGEON Boston, Oct. 16.—Prepayment health insurance, to be admin istered by communities rather than commercial organizations, was advocated by Dr, Robert B. Greenough, of Boston, at his In augural as president of the American College of Surgeons to night. Though asserting that "the personai and fiduciary relation between patient and physician is too precious a relationship to be jeopardized by radical changes of a socialistic nature.” Dr. Green ough told his fellow surgeons, gathered in Symphony Hall, that periodic prepayments were “the only way in which people of modern means can be expected to pay either the hospital or the physician for the necessary costs of serious Illness or operation.” Crippled Children Taken To Orthopedic Hospital Mrs. Bertha Bell, county nurse, carried a number of children to the state orthopaedic hospital at Gastonia Tuesday for treatment. Included In the number were Billie Gray Kemp, son of B. D. Kemp, of Cycle; Ruth Joines, daughter of George Joines, of Traphill; Ralph Wood, son of Benny Wood, of North Wilkes boro. Qnality at Savings — Some places yon can get qnaMty, but you usually pay more; other places have cheap prices and al so cheap quality. 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