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nn>EPENi>BMT IN poutkIb PaUighed ItondayB and Thursdays at Norfli Wilkesboro, N. C. B. i. CARTER and JUUUS C. HUBBARD, PnUUhera SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Id the State Out of the State $1.00 per Year $l-60 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes- Itoro. N. C.. as second class matter under Act Of March 4, 1879. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1935 One menibc'- of Congress, a poll discloses, used to be a radio announcer. He not only came to no good end, but he also picked a ter rible way of getting there.—Boston Evening Transcript. The Government’s Proposal Probably the most interesting news in years appeared Thursday when the gov ernment’s proporal to buy vast areas of Wilkes lands was explained. Although we were able to give only a brief sketch of the plan, we believe that we told enough to excite the interest of the people to the point where they will in vestigate the possibilities of the govern ment’s proposal to buy a vast area of land between highways 60 and 16. Some of the possibilities of the proposed forest reserve were outlined and further study will show that the possibilities are indeed fai*- reaching. This is the first time the federal gov- emment has proposed anything on a large scale in Wilkes county and we should look into it closely and see just what it con tains. Wilkes is a timber growing county and great parts of the county are on steep slopes that are not suitable for cultiva tion. Many of these slopes were cleared when they should have been left for for est. This practice resulted in a great loss of natural resources through erosion. Now the government plans to buy and take over a great part of this type of land for reforestation work. In addition, an op portunity is given for a part of our people to buy homes and farms from the gov ernment and develop their newly acquired property under supervision of government officials who should know ho^'V best to handle a small farm. At this stage of the game we are sug gesting that the property owmers in the area suggested for government buying get in touch with J. M. Pleasants, the field agent here, and learn more fully just what is proposed. Shortage of Livestock One of the most imperative needs of North Carolina farms is more and better horses and mules with whkh to do farm work. In order to impress this need we quote the following from the University of North Carolina News Letter: “North Carolina continues to rank near the bottom among the states in livestock. She probably was last in 1934 in per cent of total farm income derived from live stock and livestock products. There are never more than two or three states that rank below North Carolina in this par ticular. “According to information recently re leased by the United States department of agriculture. North Carolina ranks 19th among the states in total value of all .major forms of livestock on farms in 1935. This covers horses, mules, cattle, hogs, and sheep. Remember that North Carolina ranks third in number of farms, so that when reduced to a per farm basis this state ranks near the bottom in all livestock per farm. North Carolina ranks 12th in total value of horses and mules in 1935, the amount being $45,000,000. It is interesting to note that from 1933 to 1935 the value of horses and mules in North Carolina increased from $29,000,- 000 to $45,000,000. In only four states w'ere there larger per cent increase in the value of mules and horses. On the other hand, the value of all cattle, .hogs and sheep increased from $18,000,000 to $20,- 000,000. “’fhere arc only four states in the union in which the per farm values of all cattle, hogs and sheep are below North Carolina. Our per fann value of these animals in 1935 is estimated as $71. The only states below North Carolina are South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. We are tied wdth Georgia.” Not only are we short m number of horses and mules, but we find that the number of cattle is badly off and we are buying from other states. Every farm home in North Carolina needs enough milk cows to keep the family well sup plied with milk and butter. Dairy prod ucts are the first essentials toward mak ing the farm self-sustaining and the im provement to the farm caused by keeping livestock is a valuable py-product. and discussed for decades in North Caro lina and in the nation. Practically every thing that has been done has left the status of liqour just about where it was a quarter of a century ago. Truly the question of liquor control and temperance is one of the biggest and most important that faces society and civilization, re gardless of how one thinks about liquor laws and prohibition. The State, Raleigh publication edited by Carl Goerch, says in an editorial, that what is needed is a change in attitude to ward liquor and drinking. The editorial is w'ell worth reproducing in full: “What North Carolina needs much more than a change in liquor laws is a change in the present attitude toward li quor. “To be perfectly frank about it—^we’re never going to get rid of whiskey. It has been here since time immemorial, and it’s going to be here when Gabriel unhitches his trumpet and blows his Judgment-day blast thereon. A lot of folks won’t admit that fact, but it’s true, nevertheless. This being so, the problem which con fronts us is not whether we shall have li quor or not have liquor: it consists in the main of how best to handle liquor. “There used to be a time when no self- specting young man would permit himself to get drunk. To be seen in public in an intoxicated condition was considered a lasting disgrace. Nowadays, it is consid ered smart. “There also used to be a time when peo ple were able to entertain themselves without the assistance of liquor. It is very seldom you go visiting today, how ever, that you aren’t offered a drink. “Twenty or twenty-five years ago there was a lot of drinking going on, but nobody considered it smart to take a drink. And therein lies the big problem which con fronts us today in dealing with the liquor situation. Whenever you can bring about a change in attitude and sentiment so that a person won’t think he is doing something cute, clever and smart when he or she is taking a drink of liquor, then you will have solved the major difficulty with respect to dealing with liquor.” Solving of the liquor problem will lie in the attitude people assume toward drink ing liquor. Just as long as drinking is considered smart will be jUst as long as drinking continues on the increase.” THE BOOK the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible,” and which contains four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON Any doubts as to whether the New York State Athletic commission could be louder and funnier have been removed by its naming James J. Braddoch as No. 1 heavyweight con tender. That’s colossal.—Memphis Commercial- Appeal. TOMORROW i . . national asset greatest modem PAUL’S SPIRIT iMARCHES ON What sort of man was Paul who endured so much and triumphed so abundantly? He was nervous, aggressive, self-assertive, proud—a lit tle man apparently, with weak eyes or some oth er physical infirmity. Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I pearched the gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despi.sed not, nor rejected, but re ceived me as an angel of God, even as Jesus Christ. ... if it had been possible ye would have plucked out you. own eyes, and given them to me. Le.ss eloquent than Apollos, he admits frank ly that his bodily pre.«ence \v?,.s unimpre.ssive and testifies to some “thorn iu the flesh” that was a con.stant source of suffering and humilia tion. He delighted in words of power, which re cur in his letters again and again. Like Oliver Wendell Holmes, also a .small man. he admired athletics, and his writings abound with refer ences to games and contests, to fighting the good fight, and to winning the prize. What would the message of Jesus have be come without Paul's mi.ssionary journeys and or ganizing ability? (Wc can only guess the answer, but this much we know—that after about 1,50 A. D., Christianity nearly ceased to convert Jews and lias made no notable progress in t.iat direction .since. The church in Jerusalem began to dwindle and finaHy faded out. But the churches which Paul planted, and the enormous momentum which his tirele.s.s energy provoked, carried forward until even the Imperial City itself was compelled to bow its proud head. Tho.se who affirm that Paul created Christianity do him poor service, for we know how indignantly he would h.ave de nied it. Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you. but Crispus and Gaius; Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. Paul did not create Christianity, but he was the one man whose vision extended it far beyond the borders of its original home and who in terpreted it in terms of world conquest. He would not be .satisfied until he had seen Rome, and after that he would take the journey which he was forever talking about, “my journey into Spain,” He never did make that journey. Nero blotted out the life that had achieved so mightily and that still had its unwearied spirit the de sire for so much. But the soul of Paul went marching on. It carried into Spain and beyond Spain: it leaped the Atlantic anu encricled the globe. POET . . . America’s poet died the other day. His name was Edwin Arlington Rob inson. When I call him ‘greatest’ I mean just that. His poetry was not cheap jingles to -appeal to the uncultured ear, but the ex pression of the deepest emotions of the human soul couched in the highest literary form. Most folk never heard of him. He shunned publicity. But a new volume of Robinson’s poetry was sure to sell from 50,000 copies upward. Robinson had a bard struggle in his younger days. At best, his poetry never brought him any important income. But he had the good luck to attract the at tention of Theodore Roosevelt, when “Teddy” was President, and Col. Roosevelt saw to it that the young poet was given a Job in the New York Custom House, that paid him enough to live on while he was writing his poetry. Somehow, this country is not doing as much to aid able poets and authors as we used to do. England has always seen to it ^ that men who could produce real | literature did not starve. Macau- j lay, the great poet and historian, was given a five-year job in In dia at $50,000 a year. Our own j Washington Irving was saved | from poverty by being appointed j Minister to Spain. Bret Harte, pioneer of western verse, wasl consul-general at Glasgow for many years. 1 think the New Deal would do well to round up all the young, struggling poeta, painters and authors who show promise and provide for their economic security while they are proving their talent. Vash.,I>C. De^.of Merioi-s- An uTufeweeretary SA'js ■ftiatfiie bwjnper crop of cancKj eg^s will cause la»^ demands -for RELIEF IT! Crelief of tummy ache^ w Hie \^ar’S firsp parade, taken yesterday P.M. at Ihe &rner of Main and S+afit S+s. It will be followed by a tKtly qor^eous one on nf(t~ Sunday. Get out early . dont mis* it"! Dfp+ of Rwltryi rourtti Asst, announces ttwe deveiopmenl* of Colored-e^q- layinj'hens,+lius saving ^ Hiousainds of moHiers wko dye*eaicK year. P.ETORW Akikiuaus J 1 M Mr. A Mrs. Seldomcjo, Somawher^ U.5.A., Mn. John Q. Citizen says tViaf taster Lilly blossoms w ampll-fyers .'Hio.t- broadcast ttc beautiful Spiritcf'tsie Easter Season. +heip in-henfion of aHCndinq Church on Easter Day 'who disappeared immediatfely after Cbri»thias_, iS reported ho have been Seen back in His old bsur>t-s. (MM-D old mines News from the Philippines is that the new high price of gold has started a mining boom there, and this year's production is likely to be greater than that of Alaska. The Denver mint reports that more than $15,000,000 of newly-mined gold has been turn ed in there out of old workings in the first three months of this year, more than double last year’s figures. On the southeast ern slopes of the Appalachian range, I hear, some of the old gold mines are being worked again. I think that gold is going to go higher. Belgium has already put the price «P. France, Hol land, Switzerland and Italy, I believe, will soon follow. The best way to get rich qukk these days is to go and find your.self a gold mine. a number of capitalists have been exploring the possibilities of a huge tide-power develop ment in Passamaquoddy Bay, which branches off Fundy. I hear from Washington that there is a good chance that some of the President’s new work-re lief fund will be devoted to hooking up the tides of ’Quoddy to electrical generators. I hope the thing works; I see no rea son why it shouldn’t. The ’Quoddy power develop ment will be one more step in Man’s unceasing effort to con quer Nature and harness the forces of the universe. By and by we may succeed in making this earth a perfect .place to live in. FISHING let’s go The troui season is open. Be fore you read this I shall be get ting out my wading boots to look for leaks, oiling my reel, over hauling my fly-book—I still have trout flies that were tied by my father more than sixty years ago and some that, I think, his fath er tied—and preparing to wade into the river that runs through my farm to try my luck. The old split-bamboo rod that was my father’s came to grief a cou ple of seasons ago, but I have a silk-wrapped steel rod that has done me good service for twenty years. I own both sides of the Wil liams River for about three-quar ters of a mile, but my neighbors get more fish out of It than I ever do. I don’t care; they’re wel come. I have it posted, but that doesn’t keep poachers off. I get just as much fun and fresh air if I never get a trout. 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GADDY -S7 • ■ 1 i i fishing with worms off the bridge have got big strings of trout while I haven’t had a strike! W. S. Patterson of Stony Point, Alexander county, has some pine woods where 5,000 trees stand on the acre. He plans to thin part of this acreage to 500 trees per acre. The trees are about 40 years old. ] J t ■ \ i “0” STREET NORTH WILKEBBORO, N. C.
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