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^ iNDETBMDBNT IN POLRIGS
Mmidays and Thimdays at
North Wfflcesborok N. C.
n. J. CABTEK and JULIUS C. HUBBARD,
Pabliaben
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
IB tha State
Ost of the State
—11.00 per Year
—$1-60 per Tear
Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
boto. N. C.. as second class matter under Act
of March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935
Need Tennis Courts
North Wilkesboro, without a Y. M. C.
A. or municipal playground, is badly
in need of tennis courts for public use.
Followers of this game are advocating
the establishment of a few courts on
the fairgrounds or some other likely lo
cation.
Tennis is truly a fine game. It is
clean and offers the best of exercise for
men, women, boys and girls.
It is quite probable that the relief
administration would furnish labor in
making the courts and labor is the
principal cost. The cost of materials
would be neglible.
During the summer people will have
much leisure time, especially those who
work only eight hours per day. How
they spend this leisure time determines
to a great extent what kind of people
they are. Using at least a part of the
time in clean recreation is beneficial
in more ways than one.
Welcome B. Y. P. U.
On Friday and Saturday the regional
Baptist Young Peoples’ Union convention
will be held in this city. Several hundred
delegates will gather here, representatives
of churches in the west central region of
■North Carolina.
'The young people who will gather hei'e
are the future leaders in their denomina
tion, future leaders in church, in civic
and economic life. North Wilkesboro
should welcome the young people and treat
them in such a way that they will be fa
vorably impressed with our city.
No doubt the young people of the
Brushy Mountain Association, who made
the standard of excellent with their or
ganization, will do their part toward mak
ing the convention a success and the visit
of the delegates delightful. Representa
tives of B. Y. P. U.’s in churches of other
associations nearby will also join in creat
ing an atmosphere of goodwill and cour
tesy. Basically we are a hospitable peo
ple, and let us show' it!
Courts and Costs
Now that the laws of North Carolina
provide a total of 12 weeks of court for
Wilkes county the way should be found to
handle the courts so that the costs to the
county can be lowered.
The e.xtra four weeks of court will cost
the county a pretty sum of money, but
this should be gained in inducing costs
by not having so many cases docketed and
fewer cases continued with witness fees
and other costs continually mounting.
Wilkes county, considering its area and
population, is by no means a criminal
center and a study of the charges made
to defendants on the docket will show' a
comparatively small number of felonies.
Misdemeanors of the most common type
make up nine-tenths of the criminal
docket.
This can be attributed in part to lack
of inferior courts with jurisdiction to dis
pose of some of the cases and an unwil
lingness on the part of many magistrates
to shoulder the responsibility and duty of
disposing of cases by acquittal, dismissal,
or punishment as the facts may war
rant.
If the criminal docket was kept as near
ly clear as practical, court costs would not
be so great and this method of dealing
out swift justice should have its effect
upon the would-be criminals.
The way the docket has been congested
during the past few years throws little
fear into the criminal or wilful lawbreak
er. He gets out on bond and there is
some probability of all the witnesses dying
before his case can be reached. Possibly
several years have elapsed since the of
fense when the case comes to trial and the
solicitor finds it exceedingly hard to se
cure a conviction with a hasty resume of
testimony from witnesses whose memory
might not be as good as if would if the
' case had taken place only a few months
days ago. T^ of cases shortly after
they originate would have many advant*
over the present system.
"5T-
UfeOf Tke NRA r V
Unless congress extends the National
Recovery Act in some form it will die a
natural death in June.
People have had the opportunity to
study this experiment and opinion is di
vided yet. Sincere leaders in politi^l
and economic life take widely separated
stands on the NBA and indications at
present point to the conclusion that con
gress will modify the measure and yet
retain some of its main features.
Senator Borah is contending that the
NRA monopolizes and for this reason he
is opposed to extension of the measure..
The American Federation of Labor wants
it continued, principally for protection of
workers.
It seems that a compromise is possible
and that Borah and his following can be
satisfied as well as labor. Arthur Bris
bane, noted editorial writer, suggests
maintaining minimum wages and hours
and letting business work out its own
salvation.
The worst of the depression saw wages
going dow'n and working hours growing
longer w'hile unemployment increased and
purchasing power decreased. Competition
in industry had gone to the point where
it was “cut to survive” and every w'age cut
resulted in generally low'ered purchasing
power. Establishment of a minimum
W'age was probably the greatest benefit of
the advent of the NRA and this feature
may be retained.
The NRA, however, cannot be called a
miracle worker, because there are still
many unemployed, but it served a won
derful purpose in the year it was inducted
in giving a better and mol's promising
prospect to the laborer. The need of many
of its features is still with us, but it is
quite possible that a very different NRA
will come out of the present congress and
yet one that will fit the needs without
putting very many strings on business.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
THE HEAVENLY FATHER
Lesson for April 7th; John 14:8-24; Golden
Text, Psalm 103:13
The lessons for our second quarter deal with
a number of the central teachings of the Chris
tian faith. The first of these is the doctrine
that God is Father. Jesus put new meaning into
this glorious truth. Perhaps the best way to
prove this is to say that he made God an abso
lutely trustworthy channel of unfailing grace
and power for all men. He found a local, tribal
deity in the religion of his fathers, a God who
limits His parental control to one particular peo
ple and place. By his example and teachings
he made it clear that the Father is without
frontiers in His out-reach, for He embraces
within His providential care the poor, the des
pised, the ignorant, and the misunderstood of
every land. He found also, in the Jewish tra
dition in which he was nurtured, a God of phy
sical might and vengeance, and it was his privi
lege to place a moral meaning at the heart of
God.
To many today this conception of divine fath
erhood is incredible. “How can God be father.”
they cry, “when the world is so saturated with
disaster and pain?” Our trouble, as Dean
Wicks, of Princeton, says, is that we wrongly
assume that God be personal, everything else,
too, should also be personal. And Dr. Wicks
well expresses the Christian idea of God by
comparing Him to the high-minded editor of a
newspaper whose influence is altogether good.
On the top floor is the editorial staff, the men
who control that paper and see that its policies
are beneficent. They, in turn, are dominated by
the editor-in-chief, who has consecrated himself,
with complete devotion, to the service of the
journal and all its employes. Tragic accidents
happen in that building on occasion, but the
dominant force there is the noble personality of
this editor. Even so the universe, at times,
reeks with woe. but God’s paternal love is
pregnant at its heart.
Borrowed Comment
THE MONEY, HOWEVER, IS GONE
(Reidsville Review)
We see where a gentleman has been convicted
in Milwaukee of using the mails to defraud. He
goes to prison, if the sentence is not reversed,
for fifteen years but this does not return the
$2,000,000 he is alleged to have collected from
suckers who wanted to get rich quick.
Readers of the Review are fairly familiar with
what returns money will bring when invested,
whether in bonds or in business. When a smart
man comes along to offer ten per cent every two
weeks it ought to be plain that, if he is so
smart, he wouldn’t need 'other people's funds.
He would have plenty of hlg own.
The r.^xt time yoU hear of a scheme to get
rich in a hurry without doing any work and
without taking any risk, be wise for once and
hold on to your cash.
The price of seats on the New York stock ex
change slumps another $3,000. Now that there
is nothing much to do with them but sit in them,
nobody seems to want them.—Chicago Daily
News.
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F. NORTH WILKE^RO, N. C.
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THUBSDAY.^APiaL 4, 1985:
‘ Rhodes-Day Stora
Piioea Reduced On
Of Bedroom Pumlture For
Event This ^
This la “Bedroom " Week” at
Rhodes-Day Furniture Company’s
store here, according to a mes
sage portrayed ft an advertise
ment on the first page of section
two In this newspaper.
The store has a complete stock
o7"bedroom furniture with suites
to suit the taste of the most dis
criminating. In order to provide
ample opportunity for all to at
tractively furnish their bedrooms
at low cost prices have been
marked down for the event this
week and many attractive offers
are made by the company.
Bedroom, suites are offered
this week as low as $28.50 and
on convenient terms with only a
small down payment required.
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Traveling Lethal Gas
Death Cell Is Proposed
Ralei.gli, April 2.—The North
Carolina House of Representa
tives today prepared an era of
Roman holidays for the folks
back homo.
If a bill of Representative
Peterson, of Mitchell, as amend
ed by Representative Page of
Bladen, which passed second
reading, is enacted, future execu
tions in the state will out-Bar-
num Barnum. Condemned felons,
under the bill, would be gassed
to death instead of electrocuted.
But that isn’t all.
The Page amendment provides
that the gas chamber, built ac
cording to the best prevailing
and architectural practice, be
mounted on a truck and hauled
to the county where the original
crime was committed. There, all
and sundry may watch the vic
tim breathe himself to death and
maybe profit thereby.
Generally Lauded
The bill itself, introduced by a
Republican who is a doctor and
should know about such things,
was generally lauded in debate
as humane and “certain.’’
Strangely enough to many ob
servers, the measure developed
practically no opposition.
What quarrels the House had
were with its amendments, the
first of which, also by Page,
would have substituted public
hangings for death by gas. This
amendment was overwhelmingly
defeated.
Another amendment by Repre
sentative Ray, of Macon, provid
ing that the bill not apply to
felons already condemned to the
chair, was adopted. The bill
would have passed its third read
ing today and gone to the Sen
ate had not Representative Cher
ry objected to the Page amend
ment calling for the peripapetic
lethal chamber as nullifying the
bill.
After the amendment had
been passed the House recon
sidered its vote and, on motion
of Representative Bowie of Ashe,
carried the bill over until to
morrow.
Page, meanwhile, withdrew his
amendment to rewrite it so It
wouldn't gum the works if
adopted.
The Senate, waiting for the
revenue bill to be reported out
of Its finance committee, scam
pered over and around its cal
endar and finally lit on a local
bill as something to wrangle a-
boul. This bill, by Senator Cor
ey, of Pitt, was designed to re
peal the absentee ballot law in
his county.
Chatham Blanketeers
Will Meet Guilford
A contemporary claims that the average span
of human life has lengthened. It looked that
way for a while, but we think the automobile
ha staken up ail the slack.—Yakima (Wash.)
Republic'.
Elkin, April 3.—The Chatham
Blanketeers will be host to the
strong Guilford College Quakers
here in a two-game series Fri
day and Saturday, in what should
be real first class baseball.
The Blanketeers showed up
well In the two game with Duke
University Blue Devils and will
be in first class condition when
the Quakers invade the local
park Friday and Saturday.
Coach John Anderson will
bring to Elkin a first class col
lege baseball club, and the
Quakers are rated as the out
standing team in the Little Six
Conference.
The Quakers are undefeated
thus far this season, winning
five games without a defeat, and
critics have rated Guilford to
have the best team to represent
the Quaker institution in many
years.
Cow Is Suspected Of Being
Cause Of 200 Sore Throats
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Income Taxes Pick Up
Continuing to achieve gains of
decidedly gratifying character,
Charles H. Robertson, collector
of internal revenue in North
Carolina, and his associates ob
tained $208,507,452.52 in the
nine months ending March 31,
1935, constituting the first three
quarters of the present fiscal
year.
Dcm visits Fort Bragg
Fayetteville, March 29.—Stop
ping at Pope field for refueling
of his plane. Secretary of War
George H. Deni this morning
told Gen. Manus McCloskey that
he was convinced that Fort
Bragg needs additonal buildings
and stated that he would do
everything possible to tee that
they are provided.
Two Die In Crash
Chicago, April 1.—Two men
were killed Sunday when their
airplane crashed in a field a
short distance west of the air-
p o r t in suburban Elmhurst.
Sheriff Arthur Bennett, of Du
page county, said he had identi
fied the pair as Cloude Morin,
Chicago, and John Abbi.tt, a
Chicago used car dealer.
Closing Out All
Tires In Stock
Prices on tires have been so unsettled in North Wilkes
boro during the past several months that we have de
cided to close out our entire stock at prices that will
not only move them quickly but enable automobile and
truck owners of this section of the state to purchase
their tire needs at lowest figures ... our stock is fresh
and complete ... and includes a wide range of sizes ...
and positively every tire in stock is to go at this unus
ually large discount for cash.
-Tms For Passenger Cars
-Tires For Trucks
PER
CENT
OFF
For Cash
Baldwlnsville, N. Y., April 2.
—Search for a single co'w, su
spected of harboring the strep
tococci causing an epidemic of
200 cases of septic sore throat
in this village of 3,800 popula-,
tlon, was pressed today as state
health department doctors push
ed their investigation.
Fisherman's Lack
Miami, Fla., April 2.—Fresh
dent Roosevelt reported “veq!;
little luck” today In
Long island,, in. the
group.
All Standard Brands Are Induded To Be
Sold At This Spedal Discount
Never again will you have the opportunity to
buy the best tires on the market at such low
prices as we are quoting during this close-out
sale . . . first come first served . .. don’t let
the other fellow get ahead of you during this
great money-saving event.
SALES
Ninth Street
SERVICE
'North Wilkesboro, N. C