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X CABTEB 1^ JULIUS C. HUBliURO.
PahHahen
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
the State |1A0 per Tear
I:
; of the State
41-60 per Tear
■atered at the poet office at North WQkee-
wo. N. C.. MM second class matter nnder Act
at March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, MAY 6, 1935
Oar Idea was that Japan had the copyright
t each “precautionary expeditions’’ as Italy is
MW undertaking.—Arkansas Gazette.
Right of Free Speech.
In an address before an assembly of
jDonbers of the Associated Press recently
fiarold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior,
defended the right of free press and free
speech. He said:
“Free economic enterprise, free political
institutions and the free speech of which
’flie free press is part, are one and insep-
nnble. Ordinary man is not so constitut-
«d that he can think or speak for himself
-when he is hopelessly dependent for his
sUily bread upon the tyranny of super
industry or the tyranny of a super-state.”
The interior secretary, however, point
ed out that there is a growing tendency
«m the part of public officials to suppress
the right of free press and the right of
fedividual citizens to speak their minds.
No institution should be so poorly
grounded that it will fear criticism, even
ff that be unfounded or intemperate. The
nstitutions that will withstand criticism
«r the buffetings of an intemperate peo
ple are the ones that really justify their
existence.
Good School Year
This month marks the closing of iiie
1934-35 school term in Wilkes county and
me pause to mention that the schools have
been operated successfully, despite severe
lumdicaps.
The school authorities, including Supt.
C. B. Eller, the board of enducation, and
fte teachers, are to be commended for
administration of school affairs during
4m past term.
Tliis statement is made realizing that
the school system has not been perfect,
fiomans are not perfect and it naturally
follows that anything carried on exclu-
■ively by individuals can only look to pei-
Jection as a goal or limit to which they
CMS strive but never reach.
TTie schools have been operated for a
period of eight months on a very small
a^ropriation. Teachers worked for a
»ere laborer’s wage and funds for trans
portation and other necessary departments
the school budget had to be stretched
to the breaking point. School buildings
ia need of repair, practically all of them
aaowded to over-capacity, and four con-
4emand in their present state were some
cf the handicaps this year—in short, a
oriiool system operated by the state with
county school authorities thrashing out
the problems for the individual counties.
Saving the White Pines
About fifteen years ago this country
was swept by the chestnut blight and
4us species of timber was eradicated by
the disease. There are no live chestnut
Izees in Wilkes county and there will not
be any for this generation.
Chestnut timber has been for several
decades a big source of income for our
people. Although there are yet millions
cf cords of dead chestnut wood in the
mountain forests there will not be any
more when the present supply is exhaust
ed.
Now there is another species of timber
threatened with extinction, that being
.white pine. However, the protecting hand
4xf the federal government is being ex-
t«ded through th§ department of agrt«
~^ture to pteveflt 6his catastrophe.
Research and experiments have shown
that blister rust, or w’hite pine blight,
can be transmitted to pine ti'ees only
through the medium of of cultivated
jjooseberry and currant plants. The dis
ease will not spread from pine to pine but
can go from pine to gooseberry and back
to the pine or vice versa.
Five men are working in the county to
eradicate goosebeiTy and currant plants.’
B they call at your home to dig up your
jjDOsel^n’ies you wnll know why and
dKinld not be offended. It is protection
against white pine timber and white pine
.^'one of the principal ti'ees of our for-
Nnts.
KUt
On Hitursday the wnate defeated the
Day liquor bifl previously passed in the
house and by sune rules of parlfanentary
law clinched the liquor issue for' this ses
sion of the legislature and the subject is
dead for another two years.
No doubt this is good news for the dry
forces, who thought they had the question
well settled by a tremendous majority in
the election on the constitutional amend
ment in 1933. It appeared for a while
that the legislature was going to force
another referendum upon the people to
vote on state liquor controL
Under our democratic form of govern
ment the majority of the people are sup
posed to rule and there is no indication
that a vote of the people would now show
any great change of sentiment from the
results of the 1933 election. We believe
that the legislature acted wisely in not
placing the liquor question before the peo
ple again at this time.
THE BOOK
the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible,"
and which contains four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
RUTH
Now it came to pass in the days when
the judges ruled.
Reading those first words of the book of Ruth
you are tempted to skip to some other part of
the Bible that gives promise pf more pleasant
reading. For the “days when the judges ruled”
were terrible days, days of anarchy and blood
shed, of sag and reaction after a cruel war, of
disorganization and uncensored living.
The story has only four chapters; you can
read it in fifteen minutes. It starts with a
good citizen named Elimelech, a resourceful
man and a loving husband and father. Becau.se
a famine had visited his own country he migrat
ed with his wife, Naomi, who, like Eve, was a
pioneer wife, and his two boys, Mahlon and
Chilion. The new land offered food enough, but
its climate was somehow unkind to the visitors,
for the father died and afterward the sons also,
leaving Naomi and two beautiful young daugh
ters-in-law, Orpha and Ruth. Naomi's only
hope was to return to her own country, but she
urged the girls to stay behind among their
friends and relatives who would look after them
and doubtless provide other husbands. Orpah
consented. Ruth replied in those magnificent
words:
Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return
from following after thee; for whither thou
goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I
will lodge; thy people shall be my people,
and thy God my God;
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will
I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more
also, if ought but death part thee and me.
So Naomi went back to Bethlehem, her old
home town, and the news soon spread about that
she had brought a lovely young widow with her.
They were very poor, and Ruth sp'.-nt her days
following the reapers in the fields. Ruth gleaned,
and Boaz, the most desirable bachelor in Beth
lehem. saw her, and the romance took place as
Naomi, the shrewd old match-maker, had hoped
it would.
Have you by any chance read the genealogy
of Jesus as it is given in the first chapter of
Matthew ? There are four women whose names
will live forever as having passed down through
their veins the blood of our Lord.
First of all, Tamar, whose tragic story is in
the thirty-eighth chapter of Genesis. Rahab,
the harlot, is second. Bathsheba is third, that
brilliant woman who abandoned Uriah the Hit-
tite to become the favorite wife of David and
the mother of Solomon. These are the first
three of the quartet.
And the fourth ancestress of Jesus? She is
Ruth, the maiden of Moab, who said, “Thy peo
ple shall be my people and thy God my God.
Borrowed Comment
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
(The State)
-According to our way of thinking, the great
est progress and development to take place in
this section of the country during the next year
or so will be in Western North Carolina.
With the opening of the great park, and con
struction of the new parkway through the most
beautiful scenery east of the Mississippi river,
the number of tourists and vacationists coming
to Western North Carolina is going to be great
er than ever before in the history of the state.
And. with this influx of tourists, there also
will follow the construction of new hotels and
new summer homes. In addition, there will be
new industries and other business enterprises.
Keep your eyes on Western North Carolina;
you’re going to see some interesting develop-
pients take place .here before long.
Making it more difficult
(Winston-Salem Journal)
There are those who believe it never will be
possible to prevent war entirely. But even
these must admit that the program proposed by
the Philadelphia Record, if put into effect,
would make war mere difficult. There are five
points to this program. Here they are:
1. Prohibit lending of private funds to any
belligerent.
2. Ban sales and shipment of goods of any
sort to any belligerent.
3. Ban sailings of American vessels across
waters in any disputed area.
4. Ban traveling by American citizens into
the belligerent countries except for reasons of
the most urgent necessity.
5. Disavow responsibility, as a nation, for
loss of property, life or liberty by any Ameri
can who disobeys the above prohibitions, and
announce in advance that such isobedience is at
the violator’s own risk. i
With A. Site.
Drop First (kme ial ,
A^pceg&tien ^ Tirite
day’s Engagem0ii 5*6
Home Chair Company’s base
ball team came through with a
6 to 5 victory over the Moun
taineers of A. S. T. C. here Fri
day afternoon after dropping
Thursday’s engagement 9 to 6 in
an erratic manner.
Carmichael hurled the first
game, allowing ten hits. Seven
errors by teammates helped to
ward making nine runs while the
local team was unable to gather
more than six runs out of a com
bination of 13 hits and six errors
by A. S. T. C. players. CTOok led
the hitting for the locals with
three out of four.
Score by innings: R. H. E.
A. S. T. C. 820 001 012—9 10 6
H. Chair 140 010 000—6 13 7
Brown and Rudislll; Carmich
ael and Icenhour.
Friday’s game was more excit
ing and a real treat wai^ furnish
ed backers of the home team
when the winning was
scored in the eighth frame.
Appalachian started the scor
ing when Weaver hit a long
homer over left field fence in
the second. In the third Isenhour
went down at first, \\Tomack hit
and stole second, Harrold hit
and scored Womack, Osborne got
on when Rudisill threw wild to
first, Harrold scored. Crook
walked. Reavis got on on a
fielder’s choice as Crook was
forced at second. Thompson end
ed the frame when he hit out to
first but the local nine had the
lead. A hit by Payne and errors
by Jessup and Cottrell accounted
for two more in the sixth to tie
the score after Appalachian had
scored three in the fourth. A
double play cut short an Appa
lachian rally in the eighth but
not until one run had been
scored, again tieing with the
run made by the locals in the
seventh. Connelly laid down and
ran out the bunt in the eighth
that brought in the winning run.
Crook again led in hitting with
three out of three.
Womack hurled a good game
for the locals and used his six-
feet-four frame to good advant
age in the pinches, although Ap
palachian had a persistent habit
of hitting them were the local
fielders were not and couldn’t
get. Jessup, hurling for Appalach
ian, was relieved in the eighth
by Brown, who came in from
left field.
Box score and summary:
Home Chair
ab r
Harrold cf 3 1
Osborne ss 5
ytddeK class of
’eilSrins Riv9 ,li^ Mbop) iriR:
JproTOt “|lDe-MIiitito of twelro/*.
’ A come^faree in throe achate
the school auditorium. In atl4&
tlon to this play, a high sclb^
cast will present “Winnln’.^Ci^
Gal,’’ a negro farce with six
characters. '
The public has a most cordial
invitation to attend and many
lb
Crook rf
Reavis If
Thompson
Payne 3b ,
Dula 2b ...
Icenhour c
Womack p
Troutman - 2
Connelly 2
TOTAL 31 6 10 27 16
Appalachian
ab r
Lackey lb
Trippany 3b
Holt rf
Rudisill c
Weaver cf
Cottrell S3
Hiatt 2b
Jessup p
Brown if
TOTAL 34 5 9 24 11
Score by Innings
Home Chair 002 002 llx
Appalachian 010 300 010
Summary; errors—Payne, Ru
disill, Cottrell, Jessup; stolen
bases.—Osborne (2), Harrold,
Womack; two-base hits—Holt,
Rudisill, Crook, Isenhour, Dula;
three-base hit—Thompson; Home
run—Weaver; double plays—Os
borne to Dula to Thompson (2>:
left on bases—Appalachian S,
Home Chair 6; struck out by wo-
mack 4, Jessus 0, Brown, 0;
bases on balls off Jessup 1, oft
Womack 1; hit by pitcher, Wo
mack by Jessup, Holt by 'Wo
mack; earned runs, Appalachian
3, Home Chair 4. Umpires, Gen
try and Gllreath; time, l:.i0.
Reims-
Stur£vant
Inc.
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