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«t th» pMt «tfe« at Nwh WOkM> M. L M mtmia daa vttar ndto Act 4» imu : MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1986 It Yet With Ut The three per cent sales tax, conced ed obnoxious by the greater majority of people, is yet with us in North Car olina as a means of raising revenue. We realize that revenue must be raised and that a popular tax for any would be a tax on the other man. As much ai we know that the state must have its revenue for schools, roads and to pay interest and capital we cannot help but feel a keen sense of disap pointment in the legislature and admin istration raising what was tejrmed as an emergency two years ago when it was introduced for the first time to the taxpaying people of North Carolina. By raising the sales tax we mean the removing of exemptions, which consist ed mainly of staple foods products and fertilise. Here is what our neighbor. The El kin Tribune, says about raising or low ering taxes: The effort to reduce the sales tax to two per cent failed of adoption. That is the historr of anch legislation. The tendency is to climb in stead of going into reverse, and the climbing In this case was when the exemptions were removed. The tax on gasoline has been climb ing from the start and somebody will die of heart failure when it takes a backward turn. It will be even so with the sales tax, because Its extraction is painless, and because those least able to bear it, while in the majority, are not organized to fight it. The sales tax is beneficial in that it raises revenue and from all the people, which should give them a sense of con stitutional ownership and part in the government but it is basically wrong in that the burden is not evenly dis tributed according to ability to pay, a principle on which all successful taxes should be levied. It is true that the wealthy can buy more and it is also true that it takes just as many eats of some kind or other to keep a poor man alive as it does the millionaire and it takes just as many clothes to keep him from freezing. Teachers’ Salaries Unless all signs fail the present legis lature will raise salaries of teachers from 20 to 25 per cent. This is an ac cord with the popular demand on the part of public spirited citizens who would like to see standards of educa tion raised. Schools cannot advance beyond the character and ability of the teachers. Although there are other important factors, teachers are the backbone of the system of public education in North Carolina. When conditions improved to some extent and salaries were boosted some what in industry there were many teachers who forsake the schoolrooms for better positions where they could work 12 months in the year instead of eight and at a larger figure. Since industry is looking for people with ability and efficiency some of the best teachers were lost to the schools and this hurt the schools of the state. In this city two teachers resigned to ac cept better positions. Teaching is a profession but this does not mean that a teacher is sworn to the schoolroom and that he or she must work for starvation wages. At the pres ent teachers’ salaries a teacher with de pendents is not able to make enough in eight months to live on decently for 12 months and it is hard for a teacher to find employment during the four months’ vacation. The boost of 20 or 26 per cent in pay is going to be well received. ^ . , Prof. C. B. Eller, county superinten dent of schools, states that the salary checks he mails out each month are the most welcome mail that goes out from hia office and if the checks are larger next year the extent of gratification will be greater on the part of the teach- A teacher must wear good clothes all the time, attend teachers’ meetings and is naturally expected to subscribe to lots of magazines, buy books and in various other ways keep up with the times and keep himself well informed. Teaching is a costly profession and a : part of a teacher’s earnings must be Repent continually in preparation. Nnndbmr F«nm InereMe | It k intowating to' study ^the akprifi- ’ canee the prelimiia^ report pf the farm .cfmsus, showing that the number of far^ in the couii^ has increased" 642 during the past five yearn. . Accord ing to the census tWe are 6^667 farms hi the county this year, as compared to 6,125 in 1980. ' The mere fact that the number of farms has increased is interesting, es pecially when there has been an in crease of more than 100 per year in our county. No doubt the depression has had something to do with the increased number of farms. We have had no con certed back-to-the-farm movement in this vicinity and yet we have had many people move into Wilkes, some of them former residents, from other sections of the state and particularly the larger cities. And also there is a growing tendency and desire for people, even those who are “well off” in material wealth, in cities to seek the noted “security” of farm ownership and to have something to “fall back on” should they fail utter ly in business endeavor. The more or less surprising element m the trend is that many who are seek ing the farm are making at least some measure of success in their efforts to eke out an existence, although many of the farm families have had little or no previous experience. The family rear ed in the city faces hardships not an ticipated when it moves to the soil without knowledge of farming. To farm successfully takes an outlay of capital larger than many small bus iness firms. Not one farmer out of 100 is able to start out with an adequate farm and all of its necessary equip ment. He gathers his possessions by labor and barter and if he lives long enough aud his farm is not foreclosed he has some chance of getting ready to farm before he answers the celestial summons. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible, and which conUins four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON JOHN THE BAPnST If one were to seek out the most unselfish hero of history it would be difficult to name an other worthy to stand even as close second to John the BapUst. He inaugurated a great movement which he might very easily have uti lized for his own use: just how great it was we can imagine from the fact that St. Paul, coming to Ephesus a full quarter of a century after the crucifixion of Jesus, found a little group of men who were still disciples of John and knew hardly anyihing about Jesus. We find the same situa tion existing in far-away Alexandria, and we know the potency of John’s name from the fact that Jesus used it in the last week of His earthly life for His own protection. The priests. His hecklers and baiters, were silent when He spoke it, fearing the people “for all held John as a prophet.” - Go back to the very beginnings of the Gospel: how did it start? By the preaching of John. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; As it is written in the prophets. Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare the way before thee. The voice of one crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his path straight. John made his camp by the banks of Jordan, clothed himself in skins and eating locusts and wild honey; and there he began to announce the coming of the kingdom of heaven and to call upon men to depart from sin. How did he know that the kingdom of heaven was At hand? Who told him to proclaim the dawn of a new day? John’s success was almost instantaneous. Crowds went out from the city to attend his meetings; he became a sort of fashionable fad, attracting not only the leaders of the smart set but a sufficient number of thoughtful and im portant people so that even the Pharisees began to give respectful attention. One day an impressive committee went down the long winding road from Jerusalem to Jordan, and after putting up at the most reputable tavern in the vicinity and removing the traces of their travel they waited on John in solemn array ^ asked him to declare whether he was the Christ, and, if not. what honorbale title they might con fer upon hint. And he confessed, and denied not; but con fessed, I am not the Chrsit. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered. No. He had his chance to claim the great place for himself and he refused. He was only a “voice crying in the wilderness,” he said, the forerun ner of a Greater One to follow. Huey Long alleges there is a plot to thwart his share-the-wealth scheme. As far as we know, there always has been a plot, ever since the first man made the first nickel.—Boston Transcript. The longest year imaginable would be the one before the (0th anniversary under the Townsend plan.—Lonisville Times. first grftdd; Britt, Steelsuiii, B. 0. Waddell? Clsrk Davta. M- irta Brooks, Lenore Uvtngstoa, Aaitta.tLee Perkins, BUsstotl^ Pki^, Boonfe ‘ Anderspn. Bettir Mcl«an, Blotse’ Psrdde, Sara Katar, Webster, Evelyn Steele, Ea- gene Staley. Second.grade: Rioberd Reiner Clyde Warren, Ray Wllee, Ralph Jonee, ^bby.« Smoak , - Joyce Brooks, Ellen ’ Combs,’^ Praneea Miller, Betty Unney, Ona Mathis, Maxine Rbape, Etta May Brookt, Douglas Dettori Virginia HcDnf- fle, WUlie'yJoe -Pierce. Third grade: Mery Neil Mor rison,, Louise Anderson, Jewel Howard, Nancy Lee Tates,' Vio* toria Roupe, Louis Dnla, Stusrt Blevins, 6. E. Miller, Billy Crsft, Robert Dennis, Lee Mayberry. Fourth grade: Sara Brooks, Gladys Howell, Nell Hubbard, Marjorie Miller, Ruth Moseley, Barbara Ogllvie, Norma Smoak, Presley Blevins, Rufus Moseley. Fifth grade: Joye Miller, Fran ces Willard. Sixth grade: Helen Roberts, Elizabeth Eller, Rebecca Gentry, Fred Michael. Seventh grade: Lorle Wright, Peggy Somers, Margaret Miller, Charlotte Harvell, Ernestine Mitchell, Baxter Davis. Eighth grade: George Ogllvie, Hazel Elarp, Beryl Pennell, Con stance Smithey, Willie Mae Teve- paugh. Ninth grade: T. G. Foster, Horace Minton, Madge Jen nings. Tenth grade: Willie Hamby, Don Michael, Marjorie Blevins, Lorene Guthrie, Annie Lee Jen nings. Eleventh grade: Carrlne Broy- hlll, Bonnie Bumgarner, Helen Bumgarner, Floeta Church, Mo- zelle Davis, Annie Lo Ferguson. fax MMay SMlUuUB Ms- RftSUftMMT mViiri tmifM.' LOCAL BOYS AND GIRLS ON STAGE AT UBERTY COMPUANCE OFFICER PLACED AT COLLEGE North Carolina will have its own compliance officer this year to adjust controversial matters arising from the operation of the adjustment contracts. Dean I. O. Schani) has announced that Percy Bloxam has been located at State college by the AAA and that all matters relating to com pliance with contracts will be handled by him. This means that farmers who may have difficulty in securing rental and benefit payments on their contracts should take up the matter with their local farm agents,' who in turn will trans mit the information to the exten sion specialists in charge of the commodity concerned. These com modity men will then handle the matter with Washington through Mr. Bloxam. A large east of North Wilkes- boro boys and girls, from 6 to 16, will appear on the stage of the Liberty Theatre Thursday and Friday evening in “North Wilkesboro’a School Day Frol ics” a peppy comedy of singing, dancing, instrumental numbers and novelties. The cast will be selected to day by William Carr and Miss Dolly Dawn, stars of the screen, radio and stage world, who will produce the stage treat. An nouncement of its members will be made later. Today, tomorrow and Wednes day the professional stars will direct rehearsals for the young sters to have them ready for the public presentation. In addition to vocal and instrumental solos, duets and ensembles, there will be ‘ specialty dancing numberh by groups from Mrs. Richard Fin ley’s dancing classes. “School Days” has been break ing records in other theatres where Mr. Carr and Miss Dawn have apiteared and indications The Book & Gift Shop ME22ANINE FLOOR—RHODES DAY FURNITURE CO. Suggests the Following Titles From Our Lending Shelf: OOME AND GET IT —By Edna Perber THE ELEVENTH HOUR —By 3, S. Fletcher LOST HORIZON —By James Hilton SOUTH MOON UNDER —By Marjorie K. Bawlings RO.MANCE ON A CRUISE —By ^laysie Oreig SKIN DEEP —By M. C. Phillips Rates: 10c for 3 days; 2c each additional day. Join the knitting class in our yam comer under direction of Mrs. W. W. Fennell. Buy the beautiful Bemat yams here and get free jnstractions on your knitting. 75 WANTED 75 Boys and Girls Between the Ages of 6 and 16 at the LIBERTY THEATRE TO TAKE PAKT IN THE (( SCHOOL DAY FROUCS” Thursday and Friday, April 4^ Any child between the ages of 6 and 16 who has talent for the stage... if you sing, dance, recite or play musical instruments, this is your chance to' display your talents on the stage. This may be your great opportunity. Any child wishing to join the North Wilkesboro Sdiool Frolics, report in person at the Liberty Theatre on Monday, April 1, at 4 p. m., for instructions. Here is a chance every boy and girl has been look ing for! NOTE—It is not necessary to sing, dance or do a specialty ... a number of boys and girls are needed just to speak lines as piui; of the big show Don’t forget. .. Tuesday, April 2nd, at 4 P. M. ure that they will have large au diences present to watch North Wilkesboro youngsters “do their staff.” The preaentatlon will be shown with a feature picture, depicts the last day of school with the various members of the large cast saying pieces, singing and doing other novelties. Mr. Carr will appear as the school master. Card of Tliaiiks We wish to express to our many friends our sincere appre ciation for the many acta of kindness and sympathy shown us during, the ilisess' and .death of our wife and mother. CHAS. A. SINK AND FAMILY. Read Journal-Patriot ads. Indigestion Indigestion is a more or less general term which covers a multitude of sins. It is usual for the patient who suffers discomfort aft er eating to diagnose his case as “indigestion.” Per haps there is too much acid in the gastric secretion. Perhaps there isn’t enough. It may-f'be ■ that • deficient muscular action permits a sluggish, slow movement of the food. It is quite pos sibly that the difficulty is in the small intestine, but regardless of the condition it is to the patient “indi gestion.” Perhaps it is as well, for after all it isn’t so much the character of the trouble that is important. It is the' cause. Other people have eaten the same kind of food, in the same quantities, prepared in the same kitchen and under the same conditions. They didn’t suffer. Why? CAUSE—There must be a cause within the body. It is the CHIROPRACTOR’S business to locate and correct it. It is for this reason that so many people vrtio formerly suffered from in digestion have such splendid things to say about Chiropractic. Practically any of the following diseases will respond to Chiro practic treatment: Stomach 'iVouble, Lumbago, Rheumatism, ^atica. Paralysis, Neuritis, Diabetes, Female Trouble, Colds and Catarrh, Heart Trouble, Nervous Diseases, Liver Trouble, Kid ney Trouble, Bright’s Disease, Low Blood Pressure, Appendicitis, Constipation, Dizziness, Asthma, Gastric Ulcer, Anemia, Arthritis. DR. E. S. COOPER CHIROPRACTO R-N ERVE SPECIALIST OFFICE HOURS—10-12; 2-5; 6:30-7:30 Telephone 205-R Office Second Floor Gilreath’s Shoe Shop A iSi a Why Risk a Badly Worn Rdof ? Y OU 9ntt know whn a badly worn tod win qidBf a Icdk. yon do know liak dia kak nny ba uoKly. r Check iqi on any doobtfol roofi, ind get oar money ■cvfaig pekea on Carey Koofinga or to rqdace tiiem. We can mpflj right roof tor rof hoBding, laq^ or Wilkesboro Mk. Co.
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