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Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
boro. N. C.. as second clasa matter under Act
of March 4, 1879.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935
American Schools
Education, to hear some folks talk
about it, is in a bad way in America.
Miss Virginia Gildersleeve, head of
Barnard College, said the other day
that superficiality and slovenliness pre
vail in most colleges, a lack of thorough
ness and of clear thinking. Right on top
of that the Professor of Education in
the University of North Dakota, Fred
erick Weltzinn, came oat with a survey
of rural education in which he said
that, on the whole it was about as bad
as it could be.
Americans have taken a good deal of
pride, generally, in our system of wide
spread free educational facilities. We
are inclined to boast about the school
privileges which every American child
and youth enjoys. It is rather a slap in
the face, therefore, to be told that the
whole system is inefficient and low-
grade, from the one-room rural schools
to the great universities.
Maybe it would be a good idea to
look into the matter. Most folks take it
for granted that any school is a good
school. But as Professor Weltzinn
points out, thousands of rural commun
ities treat the schoolteacher as some
thing less than human. There is an in
clination to hire not the best teachers
but the cheapest, and to look with con
tempt upon the man or woman who
makes teaching a life-work, because,
as everybody knows, there isn’t any
money in it.
We don’t think that is true generally,
but it is nearly enough true in many
places to make the accusation hurt.
Somehow, with all our pride in our
schools, most of it seems to be for the
buildings rather than for the teaching
that goes on inside of them. We have
not yet reached the stage of civilization
of the European countries, where the
school-teacher is the most honored and
respected citizen of the community.
No Foreign Wars
The spirit in the United States con
gress was commendable in passing the
measure to keep the nation from en
gaging in wars on any but our own
soil. It marks a step in keeping with
public opinion, which is very much a-
gainst this country engaging in war and
more especially any European en
tanglements.
But war i.s more or less a spontane
ous affair and if this nation were to be
treated as it was when we entered the
World War, public opinion could
change overnight. It is too early to for
get that maelstorm of chaos that en
veloped the world and swept the Unit
ed States along in its wake, causing
this great nation to rapidly assemble
an army and rush it to the battlefields
in France and on the western front to
turn back the advancing armies of the
central powers of that age.
But never in the history of this coun
try have people had such a distaste for
war as they do in the present day. The
World War, which seeming threw the
world off economic balance as well as
causing the death of many thousands
of the best specimens of manhood, has
been attributed as the underlying cause
of the five-year depression and this has
caused the wave of public opinion a-
gainst another serious conflict.
Then there is a growing tendency for
education of the masses to the folly of
war and the barbaric methods of set
tling international disputes by means
of wholesale slaughter. The League of
Nations, however, has been just as
much a failure in handling world prob
lems as its opponents in this country
said it would be. Greed, avarice and the
devil himself are the factors that cause
nations to hurl their young men at
each others’ throats while those whose
purses fatten on the spoils are secure
in their rendezvous.
The measure enacted to prohibit ex-
c^ve j»rol^'dtiring^w» will
rWove one of the causes of war and
the,-conscription of wealth along with
selryicea oiflmen should be ano^er
SB JOPIHAldPAIBIOf, NO!
cause for this nation remaining
state of peace. ' ^
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How Much Tax Do You Pay?
-.i* i ' I - -*• ■
If you have an income of around ?!,-
500 per year how much of it goes for
taxes? Unless you have some taxable
property you would say that very little
of it goes for taxes but the truth of the
matter is you do not know just how
much tax you pay because you do not
know how much tax is passed on down
to you in price of the things you buy
with your income.
Ever since taxes were originated peo
ple have had the impression that
wealth could be taxed without making
the little man, or the average man pay,
but the truth of the matter is that he
will pay directly or indirectly, regard
less of where and how the tax is levied.
According to a recent article in the
Chicago Daily News your taxes come to
about $480 per year if your income is
around $2,000.
One hundred and twenty dollars of
this represents taxes included in your
rent—^the landlord pays them and pass
es the cost on to you. Ninety-six dollars
is included in the price of your family’s
food—^the farmer, the processor, the
distributor and retailer pay them, and
they become part of the cost of every
thing in the grocery store. Twenty-four
dollars is included in the clothing, fur
niture and similar items you and your
dependents purchase — here again,
manufacturers, middlemen and retail
ers are all heavily taxed and must pass
their taxes on to the public.
This totals $240. Finally, says Mr.
Manger, other indirect tax burdens that
affect the cost of living are estimated
to take $240 more out of your family’s
$2,080 annual income. On a percent-,
age basis, as a result, you pay almost
twenty per cent of all you earn to gov
ernment.
Too many people have accepted the
fanciful theory that the rich pay all the
taxes while the rest of us get the bene
fits for nothing.
No one escapes taxes—no one ever
will. And the average man, with a small
or medium-sized income, would gain
from retrenchment in tax levies, re
gardless of the guise under which they
may be labeled.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
CHIUST THE S.\VTOVB
Lesson for April 14th. John 3:14-17. Golden
Text: John 3:16.
Luther called our Golden Text the "little
gospel," meaning that it briefly summarizes
the whole glorious message of the Christian
revelation. "For God loved the world so much
that he gave his only Son, so that no one who
believes in Him .should be lost, but that they
should all have eternal life." Here we read the
Good News of a Saviour!
What do we find in this Saviour? First of
all we discover the world's most satisfying
Idea of God. To Jesus God was infinitely good,
merciful, patient. Such a God dignifies and
glorifies life. For it God is good, then life is
good.
Secondly we find in our Saviour the world’s
most satisfyin.g idea of man. What a faith he
had in his fellow men, even the most unprom
ising! Browning accidentally picked up an old
yellow volume from a book stall in Florence,
and was inspired by its cruel tale to write his
greatest poem. Jesus did something more mo
mentous. He took simple fishermen, and many
a soul bruised and beaten in life’s battle, und
made them over Into precious servants of God.
Then, too. we detect in the life and teach
ings of the Saviour the world’s loftiest ideals
of conduct. His ethical principles are the nobl
est we have. "Attempt to reach righteousness
by any way except that of Jesus,” wrote Mat
thew Arnold, “and you will find out your
mistake.’’
We discover also in this Saviour the world’s
most impressive exhibition of unselfish sacri
fice. There is a noble devotion exacted by war.
Yet the soldier, alas, must taint his soul with
evil. The sacrifice of Jesus, by contrast, was
pure as the morning dew, utterly unsullied.
Finally, we win from our Saviour a new
life, life that is eternal, independent of the
flesh, not bounded by the accidents of time
we call birth and death. He it is w;ho brings
life and immortality to light through the ever
lasting gospel.
A phonogpraph blared a jazz tune as the king
of Siam announced his abdication. Well, he can
always say he was driven to it.—Charleston
Mail.
Just to make it a fair fight whyn’t Mussolini
send all those Sicilian Black Hands against the
Ethiopians?—Nashville Tennesseean.
The administration wants the people to use
ttteir influence with congress. We’ve used ours,
and now look at us.—San Diego Union.
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Faculty Play ^ Be _
ed At IQgii Sd^ On
Friday Evenii^
PBBOUSQN» April 8. — Mr.
and Mrs. McCleary," of Greens
boro, Vermont, arrived here Fri
day afternoon from Lakeland,
Fla., and are visiting at the home
of Miss Janie Spicer. They have
been spending the winter in
Florida and ere on their way
back to Vermont. They are neigh
bors of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison
Wilson who are spending some
time with Mrs. Wilson’s aunt.
Miss Spicer.
The faculty play of the Fergu
son school will he presented at
the school building next Friday
night we are advised. The name
of the play is “Deacon Dubbs”
which is a very popular rural
comedy in three acts. A real en
tertainment awaits those who at
tend and a good attendance is
expected.
We regret to learn that our
colored friend, Thomas Zade
Horton, is very sick. Zade has al
ways been a very hard working,
industrious person and we are
hoping for him an early recov
ery.
Mrs. Jim Ferguson, of the
Beaver Creek section was a visi
tor in the Wilkesboros last Sat
urday.
The incessant rains recently
have put our roads in this sec
tion In a very had condition and
some assistance from the state
highway forces would be greatly
appreciated. There are lots of
gravel in the river and creeks,
very accessible, that la doing no
good where it Is, and would bQ
a real standby to the motorist
and truck drivers if placed on
the roads.
Mr. W. H. McGuire has moved
his family to the north side of
the river near old Elkville In
order that he 'might be more ac
cessible to the school.
Quite a number of folks at
tended the Adventist fifth Sun
day S. S. convention at Taber
nacle church near Lenoir last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Reece Miller, of
Laurel Springs, Alleghany coun
ty, spent the week-end with Mrs.
Miller's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Prof fit, of Denny.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Miller,
of Denney, recently returned
from an extended trip to Wash
ington, D. C. and to several
points in Virginia.
It should be a consolation and
a great deal of satisfaction to
any one to reach an advanced
age with a life well spent and
with a reasonable financial suc
cess. Such is the history of our
good friend and neighbor, Lark
in Hall, who resides on a well
kept farm in Elk Creek valley.
In visiting Mr. Hall we tind that
he has most of the modern con
veniences, such as running wat
er, a fair sized dairy herd, a
very creditable flock of brown
Leghorn chickens, all of which
have foperated very imaterially
to his financial independence
and happiness. Mr. Hall has lived
a very quite and unassuming
life with his name seldom ap
pearing in public print, now and
then being called to jury duty,
always with Mrs. Hall assuming
their responsibilities as citizens.
ih A oe^i. 7T^;w«pi»rot
Yort TH|4e and Ue
OSAUanooga
IF Rare late today ot a earehtniil
hemorrhage. ;^
In precarious health for^^ the
last three years, the man who
started carrying newspapers as
an 11-year-oid boy In Knoxville
and became one of the world’s
best known newspaper publish
ers, was stricken suddenly .while
attending a luncheon in a down
town restaurant.
He was rushed to Newell Sani-
' Ochs had com here
to idsitYelatit«»
Chrttattoogg Tiiites, of t^leh' ii^
In Firgt Quarts
Shf^hy’ Ochs* _ -■
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:|t:FUNERAL HOME
Mountain farmers of Graham
county have purchased B.800
pounds of lespedeza seed for de
monstration plantings this sea
son.
NOTICE. In the District Court
of the United States for the Mid
dle District of North Carolina.
United States of America. Libel
ant, vs 25.500 pounds of sugar.
2100 pounds of rye meal, chops
and shorts, SOO pounds of bar
ley malt, 3 .59-galIon barrels of
black molasses. 150 dozen half
gallon glass fruit jars, and 1 25-
ft. rubber hose. lu obedience to
a writ of attachment to me di
rected, in the above entitled
cause, I have seized and taken
into my possession the following
described materials, to wit: 25,-
500 pounds of sugar, 2100
pounds of rye meal, chops and
shorts. 800 pounds of barley
malt, 3 59-gallon barrels of black
molasses, 150 dozen half gallon
glass fruit jars, and 1 25-ft. rub
ber hose. For the cause set forth
in the libel now pending in the
U. S. District Court for the Mid
dle District of North Carolina at
Greensboro. I hereby give notice
to all persons claiming the said
described materials, of knowing
or having anything to say why
the same should not be condemn
ed and forfeited and the pro
ceeds thereof distributed accord
ing to the prayer of the libel,
that they be and appear before
the said Court, to be held in and
for the Middle District of North
Carolina, at the United States
Court Room, tn the city of
Greensboro, on the 16th day of
April, 1935 at 10 o’clock a. m.
if the same shall be a day of
jurisdiction, otherwise on the
next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to Inter
pose o claim for the same, and'
to make their allegations in that
behalf. Wm. T. DOWD, United
States Marshal for the Middle
District of North Carolina.
4-ll-2t
■ Raleigh, AjWi 8.—Norf* Car-
olina’f: st&te'$Hson popalation in
creased by 666 during the-first
quarter of 1835, Jack ' Roach,
head of the penal division, re
ported today.
There were 7,929 prisoners in
various state units January 1
AMBULANCE' SERTICB
PHONES
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WHY AMERICA PREFERS BUDWEISER..
Webster’S dictionary t -
DEFINES IT-
and its taste tells
you why
BUDWEISER must be famous indeed to be
chosen from all American beers for men
tion in Webster’s New International Dic
tionary^ just published. You’ll find it on
page 349.
iHere is just another distinction for the fine
beer that has won medal after medal at
world’s fairs for more than half a century.
Bohemia, in 1903, officially adjudged
BUDWEISER the finest bottled b^ on Earth,
better even than native brews. France, as
early as 1882, conceded BUD'WEISER’s superi
ority. 'The following is from the Paris Gazette t
“Experts reluctantly pronounced the St,
Louis heer superior to any malt liquor
ever drunk upon the continent and all
Paris is now seeking to quaff the Amer-
icon nectar.**
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