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.Tlie ’Joanal -Patriot ct^ jasnmBmmt w politics NMU^d Ifoadays and Ttesadaja iri ^ North ^esboro^ N. C. Dk J. CARTER and JUUITS C. HUBBARD. PBbllaken SUBSCRIPTION RATES: -■.'-••s' ,1b the State Oalof the State .I1.0e per Tear -ll-SO p«r Tear Catered at the post office at North Wilkee- oro. N. C.. as second class matter nnder Act at March 4. 1879. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 Pay For Preachers The Baptist State convention in ses sion recently started a new question— that of a 10 per cent increase in pay for ministers of that denomination. As the Cleveland Star points out “we have campaigned insistently, if hope lessly, for higher salaries for North Carolina teachers, we have neglected for a long time to say a word for the parsons. It remained for Dr. Zeno Wall, who not long ago declined a salary raise himself, to point out to the state that the preachers deserve more mon ey. His request for a 10 per cent boost for Baptist preachers is reasonable and timely. Let us hope that this excellent idea will be an example to other de nominations.” The Shelby paper continued in the same editorial with the following de nunciation of the attitude many people have toward ministers: “The common belief that a parson should subsist on scanty diet and live in a poor house because he is a servant of the humble Jesus is, as a matter of cold fact, opposed to the teachings of that same humble Savior. Christ eschewed and despised pride of possession, but he taught poyful living. “Joyful Chris tianity” is what the preachers try to teach us.” The minister has the noblest calling of all and accomplishes everlasting good to humanity. We can see no basis for the belief that a minister should be poor and destitute. On Crime News Since the advent of the modern news paper some people have been criticising the pre.ss for displav of crime news and some have gone so far as to condemn newspapers for printing crime news at all. We admit that the que.stion i.s debat able but hasten to call attention to the belief that if we .should cease to print news about crimes people would stop their papers. However, we believe that it is the duty of a newspaper, as a substantially accurate informer of the people, to give the people the very best accounts possible of what is going on. Since kidnaping is a sensational type of crime, and one of the most horrible, let us con.sider what the public would think of a local newspaper that would not tell them if a child had been carried off and that its parents had received a ransom note. It would be the clear duty of the press to inform the people and— forewarned—they Avould be better able to protect themselves. On the other hand, we do believe that printing crime news can be over done. By this We mean “playing up” sensational crime news in order to get newspaper circulation. Many metro politan newspapers rejoice in the oppor tunity to spread a horrible deed over the entire front page. Printing crime news has been object ed to for years on the grounds that it places wrong impressions on youth to follow in the footsteps of the arch crim- inalu. In this attitude we believe that the press has been wrongly accused and that the people are to blame for gaining their own impressions that are by no means published. Too many are apt to sympathize with the criminal, even though the press accounts of his expolits paint the dark picture of hor ror that is undeniably the truth. I n the unprecendented homicide wave that struck this county about a year laigo, leading metropolitan news paper “played it up,” to the chagrin of the good people of Wilkes. But this publicity, bad as it was, proved bene- ^ial in awakening the people of the county to a sense of duty to remedy the situation. After considering all facts, it ap pears that conservative treatment of crime news by newspapers is the bet ter course and that the public should be informed of the horrible acts that are daily committed by the criminal element throughout the country. mm THE WUMESBOSO. N. G »., and tim O^jpiian ^ With the' Th^nksEivinr holidays just ahead the attention of all churches; other institutions and . public ,. United citizens is turned to the aimual Thanks giving offering for the orphanage and children’s homes. . - j*: ■’ Unless the output of the orphanages is considered it is hard for people in this fast age to realize'the" iinportance" of these institutions. Statistics reveal that the product of the orphan home is equal to, and even superior, to that of the average home. When we pause to give thought to the fact that it is so clearly demonstrat ed that it is easy for children to go amiss in the best of homes we can begin to understand the good work of a chil dren’s home, to which the fatherless and motherless children are taken and moulded into good citizens. Many lives and souls are saved from a life of crime and degredation and a great burden is lifted from society. At Thanksgiving the people are ask ed to give freely to help support the orphanages and an undenominational organization in North Carolina has is sued the following clarion call to all the citizens of tjie state: “Imagine yourself left an orphan at a tender age, without a home, with no loving kindred, or means of livelihood, just to drift along with the tide in a world of uncertainty. Well, there are hundreds of little tots in North Carolina today who find themselves in exactly that situation and those in a position to do so should welcome the opportunity to aid in rolling up bountiful offerings for the various orphan homes during the approaching Thanksgiving period. “ ‘The poor ye have always with you.’ It is wisely ordained that it should be so. They need us and we need them. They are an obligation and a blessing. Without human need and human suf fering to appeal constantly to the heart of a materialistic world and keep open therein its fountains of love and sympa thy, it would harden into stone in a generation, or be eaten out by sordid selfishness and greed. Let us thank Je hovah, then, for the orphans. They help to keep warm and soft and tender our own hearts and the great heart of the world. “Not a single citizen in the State, either male or female, should fail to join in the movement to provide room for helpless orphans in the homes sup ported by loving generosity. We can not escape condemnation here or here after if, seeing human need, we pass by on the other side like the priest and the Levite, or, if facing manifest duty, we seek, like Pontius Pilate to shift respon sibility to others. “On Thanksgiving Day, the Master expects everyone to do his duty to the orphans. His children, our neighbors— our brethren. Every citizen of the State is admonished to forward the income of a day to the orphanage of his choice. It will be an investment in the mind and heart and soul of an orphan child, or children, with all their infinite capaci ties for good or evil in the world.” Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DI'NN THK rHKISTMV STK\V.\i??) I.e-ssoii for November "5tli. ilatt. _.:14-30. Golden Text: Matt. 25:21. It is a siirnifica»’t fact tliat most oecole do not know how to distribute their income. They have no hiidtret system, and no philo.sophy of .stewardship. -4n expert on income manage ment once gave me interesting glimpses of the manner in which people give to the church. She told me of a young man with an a..nual income of $2800 who spent $208 a year on recreation, and gav© only $12 to the church, less than one-half of 1 per .ent of his means. Another man she interviewed was paid a sal ary of $10,000 a year, and gave only $100, or 1 per cent, to the church, while he spent $600 for a saddle horse. If folk would take membership in the Chris tian church as seriously as their* daily work and recreation the churches would not have to beg for financial support. An abundance of funds would be available. For instance of presenting to God a mere pittance, everyone would feel ashamed not to give a decent part of his income on a regular basis. St. Paul well stated the rule of Christian giving when he said, “Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him.’’ Someone has written: “I am a nickel. I am not on speaking terms with the motorman, I am too sm ill to sit in the movies, 1 am not large enough to buy a necktie, I am a small consideration in the purchase of gasoline, I am not fit to be a tip. But, believe me, when I get into church or the missionary society, I am some money.’’ It is plain that the rank and file are not conscientious in their giving for they fail to take to hea"t the Christian principle that we are trustees, for the time being, of God’s wealth, and must devote it to the highest uses. Thus few deserve the cordial “Well done” of our Golden ‘Text. .> : to Waslifigton, iidv, haaterb^Now that-„tbetet tiaa been -time to take a long breath and analyze the election returns, political Washington—and there istx't anything in ^Wnshington that isn't political—has resumed Its favorite pastime. ’ which is guessing what is going to come next. The three brain-teaaers oy er which the.'aooth-eayers ~and self-appointed prophets are puz zling at the moment, are:. W|hat will the Administration try next in its effort to get work ers off the relief roiis ana the wheels of business rolling full speed again? Will the new Congress eat out of the President’s hand like the old one, or will it take the bit in its teeth and Jump over the traces? What is there ahead for the Republican party? Curiously enough, the answers to that last question are easier to guess than the others. The man in the street Is saying that the Republican party is dead. The same unthinking folk were saying the same thing about, the Democratic party in 1920—not to go any further back—and again in 1924 and 1928. But the real students of politics point out that great political parties are not “killed’’ by one or two or even a dozen national de feats. mediate credit banks to lend up .. two er three billlona to small on five year to Htem to start .up Abft.jpkt BWlB back tb; work. t?: ,v- ' - tee’-lS minioAs i^w^ j)ii rellel rto^ three. or fone ot}ifomj£rie atBl.F.tbe - greatest' pepUem Mr. ' RotMpyeltT: lat)M. Tkerw have bepa suggestljlilte Government guaranteee of prot’^ its in'tbe staple industries might stimulate private capital t start , the wheels ^turning agalB. The banks Jiave plenty of n^oney: and are willing to lend itj y thetl. trouble "ia„tbat'‘few competei^ businesses are .^wtHing to telfdt the risk of borrowing uatil they get some assurance from Wash ington that the government’s fi nancial and bnsiness '.policies have, been stabilized. And the Administration is beginning to understand that ita great hous ing program, intended to be fi^ nanced by private capital, can’t get very far until people .who want homes are back on reason ably stable payrolls. Senator Borah’s demand for investigation of waste 'and an graft in the distribution of relief funds is being taken seriously. The investigation is to be made by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, who stands out as one of the high officials who does not let political considerations warp his integrity or his Judg ment. Wilkes Youth On Wake Forest Hrnor Roll List G. (). P. Root.s Stfll Deep The wise ones are pointing out that, although only 28 of the 47 millions of registered voters went to the polls on November 6th, 12 millions of them voted the Republican ticket pretty nearly straight. And there are plenty county and town boards that are still solidly Republican. It is from local units that any national party derives 11 s strength. The roots of the Re publican party are still pretty deep in the soil. It was only the upper branches, including a good many dead limbs, that were killed in the Democratic land slides of 1932 and 1934. In the inner circle of forward- looking Republican leadership there are few tears being shed over the defeat of Senator Reed in Pennsylvania and of several other members of the “Old Guard,” elsewhere. Their loss simplifies the job of reorganiz ing the party. lioohing For I^-aders Where the leadership will be lodged it is too early to predict. At the moment the “white hope’’ of the Republicans is Arthur H. Vaiidenberg of Grand Rapids, Michigan, just re-elected to the Senate. In the party ranks this newspaper editor has made a name for himself. He was the party’s candidate for President Pro Tern when the Senate of the 73rd Congrens was organized, and is chairman of the legisla tive committee of the Senate minority. He is distinctly a Lib- i eral in his political outlook, and he has the geographical advant age of hailing from the Middle West. The fact that Republican lead ers are pinning their faith on Senator Vaiidenberg is sufficient indication of their realization that the party must throw the “die-hards” and the Eastern “big business’’ interests over board if it hopes to survive as an effective Opposition party. And such examination of the per sonnel of the new Congress as has been possible thus far indi cates that there will be plenty of Radical proposals for Liberals, by whatever party name they call themselves, to oppose. Stronger Blocs lyooni The indications are that there will be stronger “blocs" than have ever been seen on Capitol Hill, urging inflation of the cur rency, government control of credit and banking, wild uni versal pension schemes (there are expected to be 10 million signatures on the petition tor the adoption of the Townsend plan for giving everybody over 60 a pensionof $200 a month) immediate payment of the vet erans’ bonus, tax schemes of the "soak-the-rlch’’ variety, and, of course, projects for vastly great er Government spending than have yet been dreamed of. The President’s major task, political wiseacres predict, will be to control this tendency to run wild on the part of Congress. Reports credited here are that he would like to see Representa tive Sam Rayburn of Texas in the Speaker’s chair vacated by the death of Speaker Rainey. Mr. Rayburn is regarded as a strong character and a sound politician. He was the President’s right arm in getting the Stock Exchange Control bill and the Securities Act through the last Congress. But back-slapping Joe Byrns of Tennessee has a lot of members pledged to himself. It looks like a scrap. This and That News The latest "trial balloon,” sent up by the Administration te. aou^ out public BfKtliiient,. vkifj the* project for a ^ ' Wake Forest, Nov. 21.—R. O. Poplin, Jr., of Ronda is included in the 103 students on the mid- semester honor roll at Wake Forest College. This distinction denotes work averaging between 90 and 100 per cent perfect. Poplin, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Poplin, is a senior, and will receive his degree this spring. To Give Acconntini^ Jouett Shouse, president of the much - discussed Liberty League, stated yesterday that that organization would make regular reports to congress on contributions and expenditures. The Liberty League is antl-New Deal. %■ r% a?;- "MODEL T FORD^SEDAN ji-- 'Z. V : 1929 FORD COACH __.J_ - - * - DODGE SEDAN . ‘ I ■ ■ ■ & ? FAST 4 DODGE SEDAN _ .. 1929 MODEL .. - 1930 MODEL A FORD 'TOURING $19.00 $149.00 .$9.00 .$89-00 FORD ROADSTER $99.00 $149.00 1930 MODEL A FORD COACH $199.00 1928 MODEL A FORD TRUCK $ 99.00 1931 MODEL CHEVROLET $199.00 CHRYSLER 65 SEDAN $199-00 Two Demonstration Plymouths at Reduced Prices Motor Service Stores WILEY BROOKS—PAUL BILLINGS Ninth Street North Wilkesboro. N. C. ROYAL REUNION IS ATTENDED BY MANY Elkin.—The reunion of the Royall family on November 4 was well attended. Many inter esting facts regarding the family were brought out by the speak ers, Dr. M. A. Royall of this city, and J. A. J. Royall, of Thurmond. At this meeting an organiza tion was perfected to plan for the annual reunion. The 1935 re union will be held on the first Sunday in September, at Center church in Yadkin county. J. A. J. Royall was elected secretary of the Surry, Wilkes and Alleghany members of the family and the Yadkin county secretary is Vlrge Swaim, of Boonvlllc. A bountiful dinner was served picnic style at noon. Rev. Frank Weatherman offered the Invoca tion. A sermon by Rev. ' George W. Miles and special music by the Elkin Valley choir wer^ fea tures of the day’s program. The United States chemical in dustries represented an inrest- ment of $2,000,000,000 Ih 1914 and $10,000,000,000 in 1933. Abshers The Place To Save Money on Fall Topcoats Suits Hats and many other items you need this season of the year. SUITS... Serges, Tweeds, Homespuns $14.95 $19.95 $24.95 TOPCOATS... Beautiful Patterns in All Sizes $14.95 $19.95 $24.95 Materials and workmanship considered, these prices cannot be equaled in North Wilkesboro Hanes Underwear.... The Suit Store Mm SUEDE JACKETS You’ll keep warm in one of these . . . They are made of good heavy material. - Come in and ask about prices. " I a*' w I i
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