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Islered at the post office at North Wilkea-
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934
Crime and Education
“Three billion dollars for education
in this countrj' is an enormous expendi
ture,” is the opinion many voice upon
learning what education is costing
yearly but read the following compari
son by The Charlotte Observer:
The ^Indifferents to education -will always
put their finger on its costs—they think it is
enormously high.
And it is rather stiff—$3,000,000,000 in
round numbers.
Considering how rapidly this cost bis been
pyramiding, it would seem to be rather alarm
ing on its face. But in fairness it ought to be
borne in mind, at the same time, that the
American public has only become education-
minded within the relatively recent past.
It started almost from rero once it did set
itself to advance the cause of public educa
tion.
But what education costs is hardly to be
fairly appraised as an absolute issue. It must
be taken in its relative environment. How
much do other things cost at the same time?
When we consider what crime is costing
the taxpayers of this country, their education-
ftl bill impressively shrinks.
It amounts to only about one-fourth of the
crime costs that are annually imposed upon
Assuming that these figures are ap
proximate but give us some idea of the
situation, we find that crime id costing
us around $12,000,000,000 yearly. If
three billion is a lot of money for edu
cation then what are we to call 12 bil
lion for crime? In the language of a
moving picture producer we might
call it “stupenduous, collosal, tremen-
duous, awe inspiring and unparalleled.”
A Country Doctor
Ten thousand people tried to crowd into
a hall that holds only three thousand, the
other night in New York, to see—what?
A marvel of science, a freak of nature, a
great musician or a famous explorer?
Nothing like that drew that great
throng to Carnegie Hall. Nothing but a
country doctor!
The greatest medical specialists of
America, the heads of the great hospitals
and medical schools, and thousands of or
dinary folk turned out to see a simple
unpretentious, untravelled rural prac
titioner from Canada. It was such a trib
ute as few country doctors ever get, but
which most of therm, we think, deserve.
Dr. Dafoe sprang to unexpected fame
because of the Dionne quintuplets. To his
skill and devotion the whole medical pro
fession attributes the survival of those
five little French-Canadian sisters, the
only set of quintuplets that is knowm to
have lived more than a few hours after
birth. Now’ six months old, they are
strong and healthy as any noi-mal infants
of that age, due to Dr. Dafoe’s intelligent
care.
Not every country doctor has a chance
to prove his skill by bringing up quintup
lets, but the country towns and villages of
'' America and Canada contain thousands of
medical men who are just as devoted, just
as self-sacrificing, just as able, on the
average, as Dafoe. We are glad to see this
homage paid to him, since he has shown
no signs of swelling of the head, because
to us it seems a deserved tribute to the
country general practitioner, who too sel
dom gets public credit for what he does
for his community.
We venture that, deep down in their
heaids, the great specialists who went to
tiia meeting in Carnegie Hah envied this
country doctor. If he is like other country
doctors we kn,ow he occupies a place in
the life and the hearts of his community
that no city practitioner, how’ever skillful,
can hope to attain. They make more mon-
-iy uut 1^.?® the more important and
valuabls consideraiiofls of life. The good
country doctor occupiea a position of se
curity ahd contentment which the great
est may envy . He deserves and generally
has the respect and the love of his people
to a degree that few men in any calling
ever command. It makes little difference
to him whether his patients can pay their
.-.bills promptly or not; no difference inso-
fai as his duty to them in time of illne.ss
or accident goes. They come to him with
their troubles and their secrets, and often
it is his wise advice and counsel, far more
than his medicines, that helps to keep
them going.
We do not believe that any scheme of
'i*;- “socialized” medicine will ever become so
3 iiseftd as the “humanized” influence of the
individualistic country doctor.
should pause to think M Chrlstmal in
its true light, and realize, tiiat the
world needs Christmas with its .happi
ness, joys, friendships and loves.
It is the one season of the year when
we turn our thoughts to goodwill and
friendship. It is that season when we
try to show friends and relatives that
we appreciate them by giving them-
gifts and sending greetings of happi
ness.
The world needs just such a holiday
seasqn and when obseiwed rfghtfuljb^
it is as the Prince Of Peace himself
would approve. Not in ribaldry and
riotous conduct but in friendship and
happiness.
We are not attempting to preach a
sermon on Christmas but a word in
regard to its observance cannot be
amiss. We are not telling anybody to
wear a long face this Christmas or to
shun all forms of recreation. This would
not be thinking rightly of God’s great
est gift to the world.
But, Christmas is not the time when
crime and degredation are permissable
just because it is a holiday season. Our
behavior to fellow human beings
should be farthest from that idea. It
should be with the utmost friendship
and good will.
Just why anybody takes the happiest
season of the year for committing
crime and getting in jail is beyond the
conception of a humane personality.
And here’s a warning to celebrants
of Christmas: handle your fireworks
carefully. You would enjoy Christmas
just as well without them but if you
must make a noise with explosives,
please be careful that you do not harm
yourself or someone else.
Unless history fails to repeat itself
there will be fatalities on the high
ways. Remember the danger of crowd
ed traffic at the holiday season and
drive carefully. May the joy of this
Christmas in this locality not be mar
red by bereavement over those who
have been killed or injured.
The Book
tbe first line of which reads*
“The Holy Bible," and which
contains four yrcat treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
A MISU\l>ER.STOOD BOOK
There remains the last book in the Bible, the
book of Revelation. It is a much abused book.
The first thing necessary is to forget most that
you have heard about it. It is not a program
of coming events. It has in it nothing about
the next presidential election in the United
States. Its chief character is Nero. Indeed,
the book is so simple it is hard to make read
ers believe its true explanation.
Remember, first, that in the interval be
tween the Old and the New Testaments
apocalyptic literature became enormously popu
lar. There was a flood of books with dragons
and grotesque animals representing peoples or
nations or events. The Jewish imagination re
vealed in thi.s style, which is illustrated in a
part of Daniel, a very late book of the Macca-
baeaii period, and much more dramatically in
Revelation, At one time it seemed that all
other literature in the Christian church might
be drowned out by the flood of this florid ma
terial.
Just after Paul and Peter were killed, John,
the apostle, was banished to the island of Pat-
mos. He was not yet the aged apostle of love:
he was a hot-headed “son of thunder’’ and
he wanted to write letters of encouragement
to the churches in Asia Minor. The letters are
in the opening chapters of Revelation. But
John wanted to say something else and to say
it in a way that would not get the people who
had the letter in their possession Into trouble.
So he adopted the popular cryptic form which
makes up the balance of the book. It should
be studied through an opera-glass and not a
microscope. There is no use asking what is
the meaning of every hair on the tail of each
fantastic beast. But the three ideas are plain
as a pike staff. Those ideas are:
First: Do not be afraid of the persecutions
that originate in Jerusalem. That city will
soon be in trouble with Rome and not able to
persecute Christians.
Second: Do not be afraid of the emperor of
the mighty city on the seven hills that now is
ruling the world; that city has trouble of its
own coming, and it Is not far off.
Third: Hold to your faith, for it will sur
vive. Jesus,Christ is greater than Nero, and
His religion will last longer than the Roman
government.
How amazingly his great dream came true!
The Roman Empire fell, and the one power
that could avail to save it, not from the pagans
but to the future through the pagans, was not
the political or judicial power of Rome or the
culture of Athens. That which saved civiliza
tion when Jerusalem was destroyed and Rome
sacked by the vandals was nothing more or
less than the Church of Christ.
A purse-snatcher wearing a beard is operat
ing in and around Alameda, California. This
wouldn’t be Santa Clans getting It back, would
it?—Richmond Tlmes-Dispatch. '
A Ford V-8 car took first
^^ce, while otherFord y-8s
placed in five of the next nine
positions. Six were among the
first ten place winners.
The race was over 26 circuits
of a course largely on mouutsin-
otta roads in the Oavea section of
Rio de Janeiro, a total’of 173.S
miles. r-Brazillan, Italian u>d
Argentine drivers of 18 makc^ of
cars competed, 4 4 cars partici
pating. .
A Ford V-8 finished first in 3
hoars, 56 minutes, 22.9 Seconds,
at an average speed of 44.7896
miles an hour. Second place win
ner was a car of American make,
6 minutes, 20.3 seconds later.
Two Italian cars were in third
and fourth places, followed by
Ford V-8’s in fifth, .^siztb, sev
enth and eighth positions. A
German car was ninth and an
other Ford V-8 tenth. Of the
nine Ford cars starting, six fin
ished in the first ten.
oars triiunphed recentlk i# the
yiSM90tai^ road race held tyat
My de'^M^ir#^ considered’to be
the 'most Important raoS-of ,^^lts
kind- ever hd# in South Anldrl-
ca.'
DllUnger Bribed Jailor?
Chicago, Dec. 19.—Reports
that John Dilllnger used a bribe
as well as a wooden gun in his
sensational break from the
Crown Point. Ind., jail evoked a
flood of conflicting opinions
from officials today. “I think
it’s a proved fact that Dillinger
bought his way out of jail,’’ At
torney General Philip Lutz, Jr.,
of Indiana, declared at Cleveland
after being apprised of informa
tion to the effect that the out
law paved his way to freedom
with $11,000. “That wooden gun
was just part of the stage play.”
World IVar Profits
Washington, Deo, 20.—^The
WJorld War brought a net profit
of $228,731,000 to the du Pont
de Nemours Co., Wilmington,
Del., Senate munitions investi
gators showed today. In three
years the concern that made
much of the powder that
sent bullets winging across
No Man’s Land on the western
front had gross sales of more
than a billion dollars.
State> Ranks Third
Raleigh, Dec. 19.—^North Car
olina nosed out Iowa this after
noon and took third place in
the value of farm crops, accord
ing to figures of the department
of agriculture which gave the
state $266,449,000 for 1934.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Wilkes Coun
ty.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a
certain mortgage deed executed
by L. .F. Caudill and wife to the
undersigned mortgagee to se
cure the payment of a certain
note, the terras of which have
not been complied with, after
due demand for payment thereof,
the undersigned will offer for
sale to the highest bidder for
cash, on the 12th day of Jan
uary, 1935, at the court house
door, in Wilkesboro, N. C., at
12 o’clock noon, the following
described real estate, to-wit:
Beginning at a chestnut in W.
A. Holbrook heir’s line near the
head of Camp branch running
west with said line to a stake
south 30 poles to a stake, east 31
poles to a stake, south 55 poles
to a stake, west 78 poles to a
stake, south 30 poles to a stake
in J. O. Billing’s line, east with
said line 109 poles to a white
oak, east 15 poles to a small
branch, then down said same
branch 30 poles more or less to
a persimon tree near the gum
spring, then east to the line
known as the Eli Blackburn line,
north with said line to a chest
nut oak on the mountain side,
then north east to the Pain and
Deamer line, north 20 poles
more or less to a red and white
oak corner, west 40 poles more
or less to the beginning. Con
taining 65 acres more or less.
This 10th day of Dec., 1934.
F. D. FORESTER & COMPANY,
1-3-4' Mortgagee.
W. H. irfcElwee, Attorney.
'WaalilBfto^ Dm.
(test Rooeevelt determined ^ to
day to withhold ail MBt
plans until C^agnm
coavenes, aal, simnltatteowiy.
them irero lie wonld seek
a p^&ol(i8iml: advantagji by de
livering hfs.^ first mtoeaKo in
NOYK® OP SALE OF^AJID*'’
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Sturdivaiit
Inc.
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Wilkesboro, N. C.
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UndM and by virtue, of the
power.^bf bale contained in^. a
certain Deed of Trust executed
OB the 6th -'day of December,
1939, to’^J. F. Jordan, Trdetee,
said Deed of Trust being to se
cure tbe payment of a certain
note, and default having been
-made in the payment thereof.
79ie underelltned Trustee, will of
fer for sale, at pnbllc auction to
the bigheet bidder for cash on
the 6th day of January, 1985, at
1 o’clock p. m. at the Courthouse
door in Wilkesboro, North Caro
lina. the following . described
land to wK;
Lying and being in Wilkesboro
township, Wilkes county, North
Carolina, and more particnlarly
defined and described as follows:
Beginning on tbe fence post 24
feet North of the center of the
concrete highway in Wilkesboro,
N. C. It being the old corner be
tween Barber and Milton Mc
Neill, running south 77 degrees,
52 minutes west 104.4 feet to a
stake, Mrs. S. J. Prevette’s South
Bast corner; thence north 10
degrees 06, West '173.6 feet
along the line of Prevette to a
stnke; thence north 78 degrees
41 minutes east 124.5 feet along
Dr. J. H. McNeill’s line, (now
Mrs. John R. Jpnes’ line,) to a
stake at a wild cherry tree;
thence along the old McNeill
Barber line south 3 degrees 35
minutes east 173.5 feet to the
beginning, containing 19,771
square feet more or less and be
ing a part of the Rev. Milton Mc
Neill old home place in the town
of Wilkesboro, N. C.
For further description see
Book 169, page 93, Register of
Deeds office, Wilkes County.
This 6th day of Dee., 1934.
J. F. JORDAN.
12-3 l-4t. Trustee.
Trivette and McDuffie, Attys.
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NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
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