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Ik JoaM-Patri^ woBFESfimn m polricb PlAttsked Ikndays and ThondayB at Nortk WOkesborOb N. C. Jk I, CASTEB and JULIUS C. HUBBARD. PubUahen SUBBCRVnON RATEB: 3^ h tb« Stmt* |L099«'T«r Oak «f tke Stata fl-MparTaar Satond at tha pool affica at North Wflhaa haso. M. C- as seeand class ssatter tmdsr Act «f Mtaich 4. 1879. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15,1934 ZsiP‘ The letters ARC stand for Ameri can Red Cross. They stand also for An nual Roll Call. Let us make them mean that in this community All Residents Contribute. Senator Huey Long wants a two-year dejjt moratorium in Louisiana. Maybe he doesn’t know it but lots of people seemed to have made their own mora toriums, although they are without legislative sanction and do not appeal to everybody, especially the creditors. Pre-eminently the Red Cro.ss believes in people. It sees them at their finest and best, in the times of tragedy when human nature rises to its highest level of unselfishness and endurance. Be cause of this contact the Red Cross waits and works for the time when peo ple will be as generous all the time as they are some of the time. American Red Cross membership dollars are still keeping the promise made to American men who went to war. You as a member are still minis tering to the needs of those for whom the war has not yet ended; you are helping his family, his children; and through your membership you are also serving all American sailors at sea and all soldiers, marines or coast guards men wherever their parts or posts may be. Erosion Control Plan The plan for soil erosion control out lined in the meeting at Wilkesboro Sat urday morning is especially appealing, in view of the fact that it must be con ceded that washing away of the soil must stop if farmers are to have a half chance of succeeding. Although we have not .studied the plan closely it looks good on the sur face and if there is nothing better we can get we should adopt it. It has be come a matter of fir.st importance that the soil be conserved on the farnns of Wilkes County. This is not fanatical raving but the results of study—not by .such infintesi- mal efforts as ours would be—by the best minds of the country. When we consider that erosion takes away seven times as much plant food as a growing crop we can readily see the importance of erosion control. Trying to farm successfully on moun tain slopes without some sy.stem of erosion control is just like sitting on a limb of a tree and sawing it off be tween where you sit and the tree trunk. The results are the same—down fall. Terracing the lands means mak ing permanent ridges across the slopes at such angles that the water will drift slowly and not wash very badly. On the steeper slopes terraces should be close together in order that they would not be overfilled. But terracing is not enough. The proper crop rotation will help and put ting the steeper land into trees or pas ture will help greatly. There is com paratively no erosion of plant food on good sod and forest lands. A farmer may .say that his steeper lands are the best he has for growing crops and he needs to grow corn on the slopes year after year. Soon he will find that the steep slope that was a fertile field will be a labyrinth of unsightly gullies and the land “will not sprout peas.” Would it not be better to pas ture these steep slopes and improve the better laying land for crops? In im proving the more nearly level lands he will be doing something that will be more permanent and isn’t security in farming his aim? The erosion control plan outlined in Monday’s Journal-Patriot is worthy of deepest thought. It is what the state of Alabama is using successfully and the ■ federal government is recommending and backing up. If it is what we need -the farmers should respond readily and get busy on the sign-up of at least 2,- UOO acres to be terraced. Of State AfWr. In the past two years North Carolina has witnessed two rtormy sessions of the general assembly and unless our predictions run amiss there will be an other beginning in January. As usual, the biggest fight will be over the question of taxation. It has been truly said that we like one kind of taxes. That being a tax on the other fellow and that we hate taxes we have to pay ourselves. Without favoring or condemning any taxes we have we can truthfully say that the system of taxation is far from perfect but legislators should have per fection as their aim in raising revenue. In commenting on the tax question the Greensboro Daily News makes the fol lowing tiriiely comment: The long and short of It is that we shall have, D. V., another long parliament of discussion of the sales tax as the text and all other taxes In cidentally. The returns as they have been an alyzed at Raleigh indicate that opposition to the sales tax will be presented as distinctively a Republican contribution, but it will hardly be disposed of summarily on party lines, as any other paramount proposed by so small a mi nority would be. We have had the whole ground gone over at length once and again already. Taxation is the toughest nut for politics and economics to crack; Xorth Carolina cannot .have too much attention devoted to it. provided that attention will assay a reasonable proportion of good, hard thinking, of honest and industrious study. It is a subject that will never be disposed of finally; but the more it is debated by honest men and women capable of so-me actual con tribution to the truth, the nearer we shall be to the formulation and adoption of basic prin. ciples that will help in all the future. The old bases of tax policy are shot to pieces. All this struggle is one of reconstruction and addition. This state cannot operate without a vast amount of revenue but it is gener ally conceded throughout the world that it is time to call a halt on rising taxes and seek all reductions possible. Only in this way can a tax revolt be held off. Sunday Sdiool Lmbm By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN THE CHRISTIAN OHUROH MEMBER Lesson for November 18—Mntt. 5:13-16; Gold en Text, Ephesians 5:.30 The average layman does not take his re ligion very seriously. Church membership is often little more than a badge of respectability. It represents little appreciation of the Christian society as a world brotherhood permeated with the spirit of the Cross. Too many Christians think of their church as a club of congenial folk safely distant from the firing line. Much of the weakness of our church life is due to the absence of sturdy, intelligent lay men and laywomen willing to shoulder burdens instead of pressing them upon the frail body of the minister. Too often the poor clergyman is compelled to play a lone hand. It goe.s without saying that Christians should attend public worship, not expecting always to be inspired, but eager, by their personal pres ence. to strengthen the cause of organized re ligion. John Adams felt that four institutions are indispensable to a people’s liberty, the town^ the church. Ih; school end the mnitia. Ill addition the ChiisUau should enter into cmiimon wor.-diip with genuine hear.iness. Many aileiul their church with no Ihoueli' of the con tribution they can make to the beauty and in- spiratio” of the service. They go simpl," to be helped themselves, ami are aggrieved i: the mini.ster has an off day. AVhat a different at- luosphero would he created if folk entere.l rod’s house not simply to be ,fed, but to feed! Then the Christian s.iould give generously of his means toward the support of tUo .Masicr’u work. How many of the laity are thoughtless and painimouioiis in their stewarJslii;'? Gcl- doin indeed do they sacrifice something ^Ucy already desire in order to help their church. A good working rule is to give 10 per cent of one's income to church. To,do this requires careful plannin.g. hut it is rich in intangible reward. Borrowed Comment I of zoiainc A PLEASING SELECTION (Morganton News-Herald) The governor acted quickly andb we think, wisely, in filling the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. A. T. Allen when he named Clyde A. Erwin, of Rutherfordton, as state superinten dent of public instruction. The appointment will meet with general approval, especially in this section of the state where Mr. Erwin is so well and favorably known. The new superintendent, brings to the place so many special qualifica tions that it is confidently expected that his ad ministration will be outstanding in educational advancement for the state. He has the enthusi astic interest of youth coupled with valuable teaching and administrative experience. The son of a Methodist preacher he was literally “raised" all over the state and has a broad acquaintance with the people and the educational needs of North Carolina. The schools and the teaching profession will ^ave a fine leader in Clyde Erwin. Baildmg Bntliaaiaaai Washington, Nov. 12. , (Auto caster)—The biggest noise in Washington just now arises from the Mithusiasm over the plans of the Federal Houaing Administra tion to go ahead at fall speed with the building of millions of new houses all' over the United States. Under the first section of the Housing Act some 30,000 individ ual loans have been made by banks and other lending agenda for home modernization. These are instalment loans made by pri vate capital under a Government guarantee against loss. The banks have welcomed them partly because of the gu^ntee and partly because there is a net yield of nearly 10 per cent profit in them. The Second Step Now the second part of the plan, or organizing national lend ing associations and encouraging existing institutions to finance new building at 6 per cent on long term mortgages, with the same Government guarantees, is being started. Whether it will get under way as fast as the modernization loan part of the plan is still un certain. The Administration, how ever, will put all the pressure .possible behind it, bent upon three objectives. First, it wants to get workers in the building trades back to work as soon as possible. Second, it wants to induce pri vate capital to come out and do some work as soon as pssible. Third, it wants to reform the whole “mortgage racket" and es tablish an entirely new national system, under which nobody will have to pay more than 6 per cent interest on mortgage loans. This home-building prog^em is very close to the President’s heart. If it works as hoped, it should put many, many billions of dollars into circulation and re lieve the unemployment burden as nothing else has done. Planning Pufblic Works Next on the Federal program for consideration when the new Congp*ess meets is a much bigger and broader scheme of public works than has yet been announc ed, financed partly by Govern ment loans to localities, partly by direct Government grants of mon ey. The theory is that if the Gov ernment spends a billion dollars it will create fov” or five times as much business, with consequent real work for the unemployed. Nobody knows yet, because the Administration’s plans are not complete, how big this new Pub lic Works program will be. There is talk of “five billion a year for five years,” but that is only talk thus far. Tugwell is making such a-success in the com parative obscurity of the farm conference in Italy that he may be kept there.—Indianapolis News. on tiw w impoitttiee wages and' prices, and more upon tltft dadiali^ of selling^ goods at jak^ wiQ move Uiin snd keying « people il work at wiies indnetur cam aitord, xmdtr d^fnaaka diiioas, to pay, ^ % The new MBA Board has dmiA: little that is speetacniar. Waah- ington misses the “eomk rdloP that General Johnson famished- (M the surface, at least, it looks as If serious and pra^cal baai- ness men were exercising a good influence. At any rate, in the NBA and in all the of the Federal agencies and departments there is much less of die j"Hnr- rah, boys, let’s go!’’ enthosiasm that marked the first year and more of the present Administra tion. and more thoagditfol, sober- minded consideration of ways and means. ’’ The outlook now is that there will be much more wild talking and impractical enthusiasm dis played on.Capitol Hill whrni the new Congress meets than will be heard from the Executive depart ments. Aged Slave Passed ' Away November 11 Shermaa Tngman, Slave Of Pre- War Days, Lived In Fair- plains Oommnnlty Sherman Tugman, who was 85 years of age and was a slave for 12 years before the war between the states, died at his home at Palrplains Sunday. The aged man was weli known among bis race and many had gathered frequently to hear him tell of by-gone days. He leave.s the following family of children: Nannie Ferguson, Freeman^ Roscoe and Robert Tugman, Ellen Hays, Ethel Mae Williams, Arthur, James, Mabel and Grover Tugman. Funeral and burial were held Tuesday at Hill Cemetery with Rev. Carlton in charge. • *■ rams— :^KV- . -5? , ' .tC- ' MODEL T FORD SEDAN CHRYSLER SEDAN - $69.09 DODGE SEDAN - —$69.00 PAST 6 DODGE SEDAN $894)0 1929 MODEL A F^D ROADSTER $99.00 ESSEX COUPE — - $89.00 1980 MODEL A FORD TOURING .. . $149.00 1930 PLYMOUTH COUPE $1494)0 1930 MODEL A FORD COACH 1928 MODEL A FORD TRUCK 1931 MODEL CHEVROLET $199.00 CHRYSLER 65 SEDAN $199 00 $199.00 ..$ 99.00 Motor Service Store WILEY BROOKS—PAUL BILLINGS Ninth Street North Wilkesboro. N. C. a To Conduct Meeting At Friends' Mission Services Will Start On Sunday Evening And Oonttone For Several Days SIX FATALLY BURNED IN BLAST OF POWDER Avalon, Catalina Island, Calif., Nov. 12.—Six men wers fatally bnmed and two others critically injured by searing flames when 7,500 pounds of blasting powder bwame ignited at a rock quarry on the southern end of the island today. ! Rev. Gurney E. Laws, pastor services Friends Church, will be- Pleasant ^ series of evangelistic serv ices at Friends' Mission on Sixth Street Sunday evening at seven o’clock. Services will be held at the same hour each evening for sev eral days. The public is Invited to be present at each service. The valve of a crop rotation with legumes has proven valuable in Alexander county where com yields have increased from eight to 60 bushels an acre since the work started. To Si * Stage Beauty Contest On Friday, Norember 23 On Friday night, November 23, a beauty contest will be staged in the Wilkesboro school auditorium. The contest will be produced by Ted’s Productions and is designed to be a most interesting event. Further announcements will ap pear later. Reins- Sturdivant Inc. THE FUNERAL HOME LICENSED EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE North Wilkesboro, N. C. Phones 85 - 228-M How to do this and keep on with the other lines of work in which Uncle Sam is spending money, without resorting to cur rency inflation, is keeping some of the financial and economic ex perts awake o’ nights. There has been, of course, a great inflation of credit, worked by the same system that was us^d during the war. The Government sells its bonds to a bank, taking a deposit credit on the bank’s books for the price paid. The bank then can. in turn, when in need of currency, “hock” the bonds with the Feder al Reserve Bank and get brand- new Federal Reserve notes, which in effect, have nothing back of them but the Government’s prom ise to pay, represented by its bonds. Central Bank, In Effect So far the above system has not strained the Government’s credit very much, if at all; partly be cause of the huge gold reserve. It has, however, created a new and more intimate relationship between the Treasury and the j Federal Reserve Bank system, amounting in practice, though not in name, to a central banking j system such as prevails in most European countries. As a result of this wide exten sion of the Treasury’s sphere of influence, some Washington folk are beginning to call Secretary Morgenthau “Minister of K- nance.” Mr. Morgenthau seems to be growing more and more the President’s chief reliance, cer tainly in financial matters. Don ald Richberg, head of the Federal Emergency Council, also has the President’s ear and his advice is listened to. Of the other Federal executives, the most in favor ap pear to be Harry Hopkins, relief administrator; Secretary Ickes, who runs the PWA and is also Oil Administrator, and Miss Perkins, Secretary of Labor. Leveling Out Policies The Administration’s relations with organized labor are begin ning to show sigpm of shifting. The Federation of Labor is not pulling such a strong oar as it seemed to be a few months ago. There is tendency toward concil iation of labor disputes, which was not apparent last Spring. A noteworthy example is the ease with which the troubles between the unions and the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company were adjust ed. Less emphasis is now being plaeed by the Adminis^tion ujr THE pa OBUCTIOH Of THE PH 11^ 4. EXTRA-UBERAL ^ TRADE-IN ALLOWANaS ■k SMALL DOWN PAYMENT •k EASIEST TERMS /^ME IN THIS WEEK! 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