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^THE JOURNALJ»AftB^ NO! 0 IN POUTO - lliidaji Mid TknndaTi IrI » Norfk Wnkwboroh N. C Ik. J, CJjriBB aa JUliuS CL HUBBABD. ' ^ .t BUBSCBimON MATSBi %U*r •Mh* Btata ^.MMrTMt IM «C fh* State ^.MptrT«ur AAned al tiie port «ffk« «k Nota WlIhM- m '• k«». N- C~ M mc«mI dMi'natter vader Act 'M Malta 4, ISTt. . - ' THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1985 :i 'It meat g«ee mneh higher it’ll have to he dellrered in an armored truck.—Ohio State Joamal. The way the Versailles treaty' is disappear- Ing, you’d think it was written on Ice.—Bos- ■ton Transcript. It seems to be Senator Borah’s idea that he can so organize the Republican party that it will not be necessary lOr him to desert it.—St. Joseph N^ws-Press. On Sharing Wealth’ Smart politicians who amass a large following among simple minded people pop up every few years with some scheme to. share the wealth of the coun try equally among all the inhabitants and to eliminate what they call “big business” in favor of the little man. But let us look into the matter and try to ferret out an accurate picture of what kind of economic chaos would result if the wealth were shared. Let us consider the use of a billion dollar concern, and there are some , in this country worth well over that fi gure. Let us suppose that these great companies were divided up and that we each received a considerable sum of ownership in each one. The entire system would collapse; there would be no great head to the company who would have a big share of stock and who would share greatly in the earn ings. There would not be the desire to expand and to serve for profit. As a result our proportionate share of the companies would soon be worth less than nothing whe.’’. industry plunged into lethargy. Should all the currency in this coun try be evenly divided today it would be only a question of so many days un til wealth would flow back to those who have initiative and ability to carry on and prosper. Americanism Defined During the past five years we have heard much talk about Americanism, rugged individualism and liberty. All of which leads us -to start a discussion on the subject of “Americanism.” In order to get a foundation for our subject We must consider the founda tion of America and why the country was settled. At the time settlers sought America as a new country European nations were in,a turmoil of political and church animosity. The first explorers set out to find gold and these excurs ions met with disappointment. They re turned to their native countries to tell of limitless lands that were almost un- habitated. Hence the more daring people of Eur ope set out to America for the purpose of colonization in a land where they might set up their own government ac cording to their own religious, political and economic beliefs. Naturally it can be supposed that only the courageous, brave and fearless people migrated to a land inhabited only by savages and wild beasts. As a result of the migration America was colonized and out of the colonies sprang a nation that has progressed more in 200 years than the remainder of the world did in 6,000. . And when we think of Americanism we think- of a country where freedom is the watchword and where people are free, to govern their own lives in a democratic manner. There has never been a more resourceful peoplj than Americans because this country had its start from many classes of people who were characterized by individual in- iatiative. Regardless of, how far indus try and commerce may be regulated it wifl still be the initiative on the part of each of the 120 million people that will write the derMny of the country. 'And the sifl^icant part is that each American ^1 writes his own. , . . ,'g ... . The price of human progress is lives: There is no MC^ng that sion. Every step forward in inanlnK8*s efforts to conquer* Jus environment has been at the cost of countless toll of^ life. .But are we^ then, to cea^ all effort to go^, forward because in the attempt men have^: died and many of those who follow in their footsteps will also die? !v Our thought turns in that direction be cause of the two accidents in which fdUi prominent hi the public eye were kill«i last week. The automobile crash m which “Junior” Durkin, one of the b^t-beloved of the younger scr^ stars, was killed along with “Jackie” Coogan’s father, while Jackie himself had a narrow escape from death. Also the airpLine crash in which Senator Bronson Cutting, of New Mexico, lost his life. These accidents will doubt less start timid souls to demanding ab surd restrictions upon motoring and fly ing. Just so, in the early days of steam navi gation and of railroading, sentimental movements were launched against those “newfangled” methods of transportation. In the first issue of the New York Herald, published 100 years ago, on May 6, 1835, the explosion of a boiler in a Hudson river steamboat, killing and injuring many pas sengers, was front page news. In a hun dred years the safeguards placed about travel by ship and railroad have reduced the risk to a minimum, in spite of occa sional tragic wrecks on land and sea. So, in time, will safeguards be devised to make motor travel and air travel just as safe. That is all that can ever be ex pected; absolute safety, either in travel or sitting still at home, has never been achieved by humanity. The great majority of human beings recognize the hazards of life as risks to be accepted, discounted as far as possible but not to be avoided from senseless fear of possible danger. We do not think that the price we have paid for progress has been too high. Modern life is, at least, free from most of the hazards and terrors which surrounded primitive man on every hand. We think most folk would prefer to trust their lives to the inventions today than to live under the shadow of death by the claws of the cave-bear or the fangs of the saber-toothed tiger, as mankind lived in what was only yesterday, as time is measured by the great chronograph of God. Tlie Price of 1^rogrefil3Sll!i%t|Q tlifaWACI in human WUjK 111 WAdJ Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN BAPTISM Lesson For May 19th. Acts 8:26-39. GoIdei\ Text, Matt. 28:19 The first point to bear in mind about baptism is that it is a sacrament, a word derived from the Latin “sacramentum,” meaning “oath.” Bap tism is therefore an oath or pledge of allegiance. When an adult is baptized he thereby registers iis personal dedication to Christ and the Chris tian church. When an infant is presented for baptism his parents record this dedication for (lim, with the full i^xpectation that the child him self will ratify it when he reaches the age of dis- ;retion. • Secondly, baptism signifies entrance into the church. It is the rite of initiation into the Be loved Community. When an adult receives bap tism he at once, by this symbolic act, enrolls him self as a full member of the Christian society. When a little child is christened through the placing of water on its head, it is immediately taken under the care of the church. • Now there are many who feel that little ones should not be baptized, but only those old enough to understand the meaning of the sacra ment. The various Baptist churches hold this view. There is something to be said for this posi tion. On the other hand it is plain that we do not act this way with respect to either the family or the nation. We do not wait until the child is grown up before acknowledpng him as a full member of the family. Nor do we wait until manhood before he is recognised as a citizen. Even though the child is neither a bread-winner nor a voter, yet he is, by right of birth, a preci ous. integral part of both the family and the nation. Even so, every baby enjoys, as a spiritual birthright, the privileges of membership in God's family. Infant baptism is th^'recogrnition that the child, as well as the parent, is heir to the covenanted mercies of God dispensed through His church. It’s been almost a couple of weeks now since Jim Farley has Invented a new stamp.—Grand Rapids Press. A new treaty in Europe Is like a new toy for the children, and lasts about as long.— Nashville Tennessean. If you don’t believe there la human grati tude, listen to the way a radio-studio audience applauds a poor performance because It’s free. —Toledo Blade. The Democrata are foxy. If their schemes’ don’t work. Republicans will come back and have the mess to clean up.—Richmond News- Leadw , - ' — - ■ OCT fW THE OPSat Washington*-May^f. (Ai^ eMtir)—^The great gamd tioc; which Is altAya going on heBtai the hceneii In WaaRInr- ton, is being played more and more in the open now,^ as f:.the llnaa begin to form foip-the eieo- tloa battle of 19«. There is « great ito^l mora ,franki»as on the part of tha players, more open admieaion that they arc concerned with their own reelec-i tion as mnch as they are with’ solving the perplexing problems of the nation in the most effec tive way. • This is eapedalty notable'^ In the Senate, one-third ot j*whoee membein cpme up for re-etecUeii next year, and another third in 19SS. It Is not yet so marked a- mong members of the House of Representatives, all of whose^ terms expire next year; hut- in' the lower house, also, many members who have been counted as loyal supporters of the Ad ministration are beginning to echo the remark of one eminent Senator, who expressed a grow ing feeling when he said; “Roose- Is going to need us next year quite as much as we need him. We don’t have to cling so tight to his coattails as In the past.’’ Every Fellow For Himself The reason for this state of affairs Is that Senators and Rep resentatives are hearing from back home, and the message they get is that there is a grow ing coolness among the people toward some of the New Deal measures. How extensive and how serious this Is, none of them Is quite sure. There are a good many Congress districts and sev eral states in which a switch of only a few thousand votes from one side to the other would make a decided difference in the political complexion of the next Congress. There is not much doubt in Washington, so far, that Presi dent Roosevelt will be re-elected. All the odds are in his favor. But it would be entirely possible for the President to be re-elect ed by the power of the electoral votes of the larger states, even though he carried each of them by a narrow margin, and still leave a large batch of Congress men and Senators of his own party out on a limb. That is what is worrying the boys on Capitol Hill. They want to save their own skins, and so they are showing th^r independ ence by balking at such parts of the President’s program as they think might not set well with the folks back home. It Is not quite fair to regard this as a coward ly and selfish attitude. Some of orders from the White House, them have never relished taking having independent ideas of their own and feeling that it is their function, rather than that of the Executive, to draft and enact legislation. They went along with the President, not only for the sake of party har mony but because there didn’t seem to be any other way to get started tojvard the goal of eco nomic recovery. As long as there was a practically unanimous sen timent throughout the nation, that was the sound and politic thing for them to do. Now, how ever, they feel that public senti ment is not so one-sided^ The Chamber's Objections The attitude of some members of the President’s own party in opposition to some parts of bis program was strengthened by the representations made by the delegates to the annual conven tion of the Chamber of Com merce of the United Statea. This organization is composed of practically all of the cham bers of commerce and boards of trade in the United States. It is, therefore, a representative cross- section of the average business men of the nation. Therefore, when its convention adopted resolutions asking for the post ponement of the Social Security plan, the ending of NRA, oppos- }ng the President’s plan for regu lation of public utilities and sup pression of holding companies, against the plan for Federal con trol of bank credit, the proposed strengthening of AAA and the Wagner industrial relations bill, the Chamber’s utterances were taken seriously. Administration supporters pub licly tried to “laugh them off.” The President himself expressed disbelief that business men gen erally felt the way the ' conven tion did; but there is no deny ing that tUs'. first important or ganized expression of disagree ment with the New Deal has had a serious effect, although natur ally it does not represent unan imity on the part of business in terests. Another Meeting Almost at the same time that the Chamber of Commerce waa meeting, there was another meet ing of even greater significance being held In the White' House. This was between the President and a group of Demoeratle Sena tors. who served notice on the Executive that they would not go along with Mm on all of th» iegislation tvUcb hef» hM ear> as “mn8t.’*» Thot# who at^his ineetlw report ttnt the’ attitude of these r^alcitAnt ^nators was very defiaiH. Therefortf,^;dMcaus6. of aU that lias just been set down, what may fairly he expected between now and the ^adjournment;., of CongnM.tBj; tew eompromisa. measam, wfeloh will not tnit; anybody, mueh, and the sheiNnjg of several Items which the Ad ministration earnestly wants. Cdnfreas. to'^defluitely mnch less Ipteretiied In social reforms; than Is the White i^use. It IS; definitely much more inflation- miadsd than the President. Mr.^ Boomv^ is bent uponyiflMtcMBg ih^j^^yement toward currency inflation, bat to avert it he will have to accept the verdict of Congress on some of his reform plans. It’s 'anybody’s guess, this week, when Congress will ad journ. * Standard Oil Com] profess to know wkat took v,Pr - at he TIRES Tl^ O THIS . # -£:l %rm.i |itpiEs.$3.95m (With Your Old Battery) To Fnmiah Company Roaa Mai , P* A monthly publication for mo tor tourists, highway’‘^maps.„and a special service which will give motorists a variety of touring information,' are the outstanding features of this year’s campaign to aid motor tourists, the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey annonced yesterday. More than four and one half million road maps will be distributed this year and millions of copies of Es so Tours and Detours will be given away to motorists, com pany officials said. The initial issue of Esso Tours and Detours will appear in May and will show motorists attrac tive trips they can make and will point out detours and provide pertinent information regarding roads, highway construction and points of scenic and historical interest. The Esso Touring Service, with offices in New York, Wash ington and New Orleans, will answer touring requests, pro vide motor routeh and answer a variety of injuirles on various phases of motor touring. Last year these bureaus answered up wards of 120,000 Inquiries. This year the Esso Touriqg Service will provide postage pre paid touring request cards, ob tainable at all Esso stations and dealers, which the motorist baa only to fill out and mail to re ceive complete touring informa tion gratis. '' Don’t boy a Car or Track until yon have inTeatigated the duryder and Plymonth, Cars or Internatimial Trade Mitor Seiirice Store WILEY BROOKS Phone 335 PAUL BILLINGS North linikeshoro, N. C. WEBB CRITICIZES ~ LEGAUZED LIQUOR Asheville, May 13.—Federal District Judge E. Yates Webb, co-author of the Eighteenth Amendment to the federal Con stitution cannot see legalized control as the best plan for stamping out bootleggers, he told a grand jury here today. Yates, in his .opening charge before the May term of district criminal court, urged stricter en forcement of both federal and state laws against illicit liquor traffic. “I am Opposed to our state selling liquor. Just because a bootlegger sells it,” he said. “I am *not willing for my state to enter into competition with boot leggers. Quito is the capital of Equa- dor, is situated on a very high plateau and is surrounded by volcanoes. RUSSIA ENTERS 18TH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE Moscow, Russia, May 2.—Rus sia in her 18th year of Soviet rule and socialite domination is still a problematical paradox to the world. Emminent sociologists and ' ethnologists proclaim the fact that the Utopian epic still an infinite ’ dream and chaos reigns supreme as the counter czar of all Russians. ‘f’i BIG PAY OPPORTUNITY Large institution will train men at home to qualify as installation and service experts in Electric Refrigeration and Air Condition ing. Prefer men mechanically in clined with fair education now employed. Must be willing to de vote spare time to learning bus iness. Write, giving age, phone, present occupation. U'nLITIES ENGINEKIING INSTITUTE 404 N. Wells St., CUcafifo, ID. if-.-., / Important Notice To Subscribers We have received a fine response from the cards recently mailed sub scribers whose subscriptions had expired, but some yet remain past due. The postal regulations require all newspaper subscriptions to be paid in advance, and this is the reason why we are now making an effort to get our mailing list in condition to meet this government requirement. To those who hav^verlooked sending in their renewal, may we add this earnest request for you to do so at once. We sincerely wish you to continue to be a regular reader of our semi-weekly newspaper, the sub scription price of which is the lowest of any semi-weekly newspaper in the state, we believe. Right now while you are reading this issue, won’t you look at the label which carries the date your subscription expired, then sit down and send us a check or a dollar bill We will greatly appreciate your renewal at this time, which will en able you to continue to receive our newspaper twice a week. 1 ' / : Yours very truly, PUBLISBED MONDAYS’AND THUMDAtS NINTH STREET! NORTH WILKESBORO, N. 4.