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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1935
JpanuU.
Th« state practically erery other European
atate now borders on is hostility.—^Arkansas
Ctaaette.
Wbat Europe needs is a set of teething
“••Inta” to take its mind off other crises.—
Sotroit Free Press.
A Public Servant
The Journal-Patriot joins with the
consensus of public opinion throughout
this section in congratulating The
Wilkes Hospital on the forward step it
is making in the erecting of a new;
modern and fireproof hospital build-
ing.
Since its establishment here The
Wilkes Hospital has been of inestim
able service to the people of Wilkes
and adjoining counties and it goes
without saying that the facilities to be
added by the erection of a new and
modern building will make it possible
to render an even more valuable .serv
ice.
The forward step the institution is
making denotes confidence in the peo
ple it is to serve and confidence in its
own ability to serve the people in sup
plying an apparent heed.
Working and Eating
The human race has come a long way
since primitive times when it was the
custom to kill off the old and disabled
of both sexes, to drown superfluous
babies like so many kittens, and in gen
eral to compel everybody to shift for
himself regardless of his needs. It was
nobody’s business whether a man starv
ed to death or not, in the bad old days.
The modern world has been coming,
through the past thou.sand years, to a
more humane view of the responsibili
ties of society to its unfortunates. The
parable of the Good Samaritan, and the
other teachings of Jesus Christ, have
been a tremendous influence, even up
on a world which falls far short of the
Christian ideal in other matters. There
is a far broader recognition of the duty
of everybody to give a helping hand to
the sufferers from disease or accident,
to those who for any reason other than
their ov.m shiftlessness find themselves
lacking in the necessaries of life, food
and shelter.
The Bible, in addition to the teach
ings about the good Samaritan, has a
statement by Saint Paul in the Second
Epistle to the Thessalonians^as follows:
"This we commanded you, that if any
would not work, neither should he eat.”
We can hear almost any day from
various parts of the country accounts of
people on relief who refused work
when it was offered, preferring to live
at public expense rather than to labor
for a living. •
In this great land of plenty no one
should be allowed to starve, but no
body who is offered work and refuses
a, should be allowed the respect of hon-
ifst and hard working people. Such in-
'dividuals are of the lowest type and
liave sold theii* birthright to anything
that approaches respect. They should
be looked upon as objects of charity
»and shiftless beggars and allowed on
ly the very barest of necessities until
they can have an honest attitude to
ward earning what they receive.
The end of direct relief and the in
stitution of the public works program
should do much to clear up a number
of shiftless items of expense called hu
mans. Every man sh_puld have a job
mho will work and we honestly hope
all people employed in the works
program will have to earn every cent
fliey receive. If they must earn what
they get they will have the benefit of
the respect of a nation’s people and the
eouotiy will have the' benefits of their
Mbar.
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Ubs has had the same throne and the
the same hat tor 25 years.—Ohio State
"wwAPonw
“Wear a poppy.” This request will
be^m^e of of us on Poppy Day,
* Saturday, May 25th, and who ^hder-
standlng^he significance^of the^ little
r^d flower, can refuse? ^ '
' The poppy is the flower that gave
‘^ the only touch of life and beauty to the
World War battle fields and cemet^r-.
iei It is the flower of the war dead,
those gallant yoUng men . who gav
their lives in the country’s service, and
we are asked to wear it in their mem-
^ory.
When obtaining our poppy, we are
asked, top, to make a contribution for
the welfare of the disabled World War
eterans, the widows and the children
left fatherless by the war. None of us
with a dime to our names and a touch
of human kindness in our hearts can
refuse this request, either. We can on
ly honor tb® dead, but those living vic
tims of thb war are still with us. We
can still:help them.
The Poppy Day requests will be
made to us by the women of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary; the wives, moth
ers, sisters and daughters of men who
served in the war. They have had the
poppies made for us by needy and dis
abled veterans, providing employment
for hundreds unable to do other work.
They, will take the contributions we
make and, with understanding and
sympathy, turn every penny to the
service of war disabled and depend
ents. I
Yes, we will “wear a poppy” proudly
and gladly. We have not forgotten and
we are not ungrateful. For one day
this blood-red symbol of highest patri
otic sacrifice will be given to help
through the coming year those who are
living a life of suffering and sacrifice
because of service to the nation.
THIS WEffi IN
Borrowed Comment
THE DIME LETTERS
(Oxford Ledger)
The American people are great gamb
lers, if in a small way. It is the old spirit of
wanting something for nothing, but it never
holds good when carried to final analysis. In
fact, the gambler never wins, though he may
occasionally find himself ahead of the game.
The latest evidence of the gambling nature
of our people is in the flood of "send a dime”
chain letters which is sweeping the country.
Though Uncle Sam has ruled them unlawful,
the letters continue to circulate, carrying their
messages of “faith, hope and charity.”
If you have any dimes which you are in
clined to send to some person whose name
tops a list mailed to you, in the hopes that
you yourself will share conteuts of prosperity
balloon, which is about to burst under the
pressure of public disgust, our suggestion is
put them where you know they will dp some
good.
If Senator Long regards himself as a na
tional ap-^Pt he may be exaggerating by only
two letters.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Add similes:
Manchester (N.
As militanf
H.) Union.
as a pacifist.-
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
THK LORIV.S SUPPER
“Lesson for -May 26th. Matt. 26:17-.30. Gold
en Text: 1 Corln. 11:24.
The first fact to bear in mind about” the
Lord’s Supper is that it is a feast of com
memoration. Inspired by the precious words of
the Saviour, "This do-in remembrance of me,”
the Holy Communion is a celebration of re
membrance. As such it performs a most use
ful .service, for it is very easy, in the midst
of the hustle and bustle of our crowded days,
to lose sight of Jesus.
Dr. James Moffatt once said that American
ministers preach as though nothing happened
before last Saturday. Because of the tyranny
of the amazing developments of today, we fall
to recall that there was a long yesterday in
which Jesus and His influence played a very
conspicious part. The Lord’s Supper compels
us to mske amends for this lapse, of merooryr'
For It retnltlds us forcibly of Christ, prompting
Us to think of Him as a real Person, at once
our Example and our Hope.
Secondly, the Supper is a feast of thanks
giving, Early in the Christian era the common
name for the sacrament was the "Eucharist,”
meaning “act of giving thanks.” You will re-
mertrber that Jesus and His disciples gathered
in the Upper Room to observe the passover,
that ancient rite celebrating the deliverance
from the angel of death in Egypt. Obviously
the passover was a joyous feast, and the Holy
Communion, Its successor, Is also a festival of
gratitude.
Finally, the Lord’s Supper Is a communion,
or fellowship, a testimony to the unity of God’s
people, for almost all Christians observe this
gracious rite. It is their supreme act of wor
ship. Th© 231 millions of Roman Catholics,
the 144 millions of Greek Orthodox adherents,
and the 207 millions associated with the Prot
estant bodies bold this sacrament in the high
est esteem.
Wellington, May 20 lAUt^
caater)-—The Preeldont ttte
United? Statee, whoever .’rhe may
be, seldom hears the truth. Some
resent paving the
ir^tk'told to them ft the fsets do
not m in with their Ideas 4>r th*
policies which they ure trying to
pmt Into effect. Other pi^ldents
have atitxen earnestly to learn
the truth but havo been^so sur
rounded with “yee men’’'’^tnd hd-
vlMrs who have their own axes
to'grind that they have fat)e4^tQ
get a true picture of the state of
the public mlpd. ' ' ''
In some sneh language as has
Jnat been:’Set dohin, PrhiUdelit
RooseveU*a sincere weJUwlshers
are seeking to explain his recent
expressions of distrust of the
patriotism and sincerity of busi
ness organizations which have
disapproved some of the meas
ures which be is urging upon
Congress, and some of the ex
periments which have been made
by Government in the past two
years.
“Everybody except the Presi
dent knows that NRA is as dead
as Prohibition,” is an expression
commonly heard here. It is com
mon knowledge that the Codes
have proved unworkable, except
perhaps in the case of a very few
basic industries concerned with
natural resources.
Publishers Oppose Codes
The latest group to denounce
the codes are the newspaper pub
lishers of the nation. First the
dailies, operating under their
own Code, then the country pap
ers and printing shops, under an
other Code, declared in their an
nual conventions that they could
not go along unless drastic
changes were made, changes
which. In effect, would nullify
the Codes.
One Federal Court after an
other has declared one Code
after another unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court has decided
in the “hot oil” case that Con
gress has no power to delegate
legislative authority, and that
decision knocked one of the main
props out from under the whole
Code system. Enough intimatinns
have been given from the Su
preme bench to lead to the be
lief that when its decision comes
down, in two or three weeks, in
the Schechter chicken-butcher
case, it will be to deny the rignt
of Congress to exercise any con
trol whatever over any business
condNicteu entirely within a
state.
The Clark Resolution
The Senate had taken notice of
all such things, and its leaders
had twice served notice on the
President that they would not go
along with him on the two-year
extension of NRA, which he had
asked for. They helped him
“save face” by adopting the
Clark resolution, extending the |
NRA for nine months after it ex
pires by law on June 16, with all
price-fixing provisions and con
trol of intra-state commerce elim
inated.
Senator Bennett Clark of Mis
souri, son of the late Speaker
Champ Clark, is as shrewd a
politician as was his distinguish
ed father. He told the Presi
dent of viiblic sentiment In re
gard to NRA.
Th© adoption will amount to
the disintegration of NRA, for
there will not be time, in the
ten months allowed under the
Clark resolution, tc revise any
material number of Codes, and
therefore most of them will just
“peter out,’’ as Prohibition en
forcement did.
I’l'.UIct Early Adjoumiiient
All the political prophets look
for similar compromises on the
rest of the Administration’s pro
gram, and for adjournment of
Congress by early July. There
will be plenty more agitation for
immediate payment of the veter
ans’ bonus, backed by the strong
est “pressure bloc” in the nation.
The best bet is that nothing will
come of it this session.
The House probably will pass
the bill for revision of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Adminis
tration in much the form in
whieh it is handed to them, but
it is likely to strike some pretty
difficult snags Ip the Senate.
That is the case, also, with
the Administration’s banking
bill, which the Houss has'pass
ed about as it was drafted by Mr.
Eccles, Governor of the Federal
Reserve Board. In the Senate,
however, it is facing the power
ful opposition of Senator Class
of Virginia, Secretary «f the
Treasury In the Wilson Adminis
tration.
Lined up with Senator Glass is
Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia,
who heads up also the Senate
opposition to the AAA. Senators
Byrd and Glass are both farm
ers, Mr. Byrd being the largest
applegrower in the east, with a
10,000-acre orchard, and Sena
tor Class having one of the fin
est dairy farms in America.
Work Relief Takes Shape
Work-relief plans are taking
shape. It Is thought that per
haps half of the 4 billion dollar
npprop^tion may be spent wfthr
in a ywr. Harry Hopkins, relief
administrator, turns out to be
column jSohtbs^ikol Ha baads
the Works Relief^ Admlolatra-
tion, while Baoretary Ickaa Is
-chairman of the .Allotment com
mittee and ftrank_ €i. Walkar
heads tke division^of Airpliea-
UMM akd Information. The na
tion la ta ba divided (nto ^220
”amQic7inent areas” and - tlid!
funds' apportioned among ~tlic
areas, rather than hjfh ^9^0
slpiial districts or states,
^^Washiagton is gay witli %j^iig
foliage nnd flowers, and there is
a note of lightness in much of
the cu^ent goselp. i *4
Most intereetlng Speenlatlonj
anuttiKL^wkiaaiatcsi «awiiir -jfi.
the momeht^le ifhetlter>9r«d(ft^
Rooaerelt will wear a fas when
he reriewa the parade pt the
Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, “the play
boys of Free-masonry,” when
they meet here In June. He has
a right to—^he Is a Rhrlner him
self.
Item# of Northern
Alexander County
personal Items /)mmg People Of
Conummity Are Gleaned By
Correepondeat
Mrs. T. H. Coffey, Sr., of
Blowing Rock, spent Sunday
with her sister,. Mrs. H. S. Deal.
Mrs. Bill Sherrill returned to
her home in Granite Falls Satur
day after spending some time
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Deal.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Broyhill
and family, of Pores Knob, spent
Sunday with Mrs. Broyhill’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lowe.
Miss Edna Earp, .daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Earp, is in
Davis Hospital. She is to be
operated on today (Monday) for
golter.
Mrs. John Hall, of Wilkesboro,
and Mrs. John Yates, of Ashe
county, spent several days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. Payten
Russell and Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
Deal. ,
Friends and relatives of ‘Aunt’
Caroline Lowe will give her a
birthday dinner the first Sunday
in June.
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Don’t bay a Car or Truck nntfl yon havo
invesil^ted the Oiryder and Plymonth,
Cars or International Tm^
IMor Senriee Steif'
WILEY BROOKS
PhMie 335
PAUL BILLINGS
North WQkesboro, N. C.
Marriage Licenses
Licenses to wed were issued
from the Wilkes register of
deeds’ office during the past
week as follows:
Ma^ 18—Burs Wiles, North
Wilkesboro route 1, and Carrie
Poe, Millers Creek; Burr Clark
Pendry, Hays, and Lora Alice
Johnson, Dehart.
May 21—Clifton '^eatley and
Grace Holbrook, both of Hays;
Ernest Myers and Gene York,
both of Benham.
He who looses money, looses
much—he who looses a friend,
looses more—but he who looses
courage, looses all.
Butner To Have Cha»e
Kiwanis Program I^day
M. G. Butner will be In charge '
of the program tor Friday noon’s U
meeting of the North Wilkesboro
Kiwanis Club. W. E. Jones was
first announced a s progranx
chairman for the day but ex
changed dates with Mr. Bntner
because of the fact that he is
away attending the Internation
al Kiwanis convention in San An
tonio, Texas.
A net p.ofit of $38 a hea«|
over feed cost is reported by C.
A. Brown of Cleveland, Rowan
county, who has fed and sold one
lot of 50 steers.
Thirty Million Miles
of Ford Econoi
More miles. Foster miles. Greater economy ... that
is the story oi the Ford V-8. There are conclusive fig
ures from owners to show thed it is the most economical
Ford cor ever builL
A porticulaily interesting cmd complete report of
fofftg comes frmn a natkmol fleet owner who has owned
854 Ford cars which have run more than thirty million
miles in businssB use.
175 were Model T Fords which were run 5J117J175
tnilag. 599 were Model A Ford cars which were nm
24J141.632 miles. 80 are Ford V- 8 cars which have been
nm 2.982,888 miles,
Thla owner’s cost records show that Ford V-8 cars
cost 12% less to operate'then the Model A Fords and
31% less than the Model T Fmrds. And they covered
more miles per monthl The monlbiyov«rage for the
Model T Fords wos 1509 miles... .Tor the Model A
Fords. 1866 miles.... And 2571 miles iw the Ford V-8.
Eodi year the Fmd car ghree you more in value and
peifermonoe ond costs you less to operate.