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N.C. IT CAtnat trnijmm c. BomABo. fCMCSIPnON BATBS: llM Stit* State JfiMwnYmt lASycrTaar W^mi at Bm port Atttea at Navft WlOnt- Nl M. CX. at aoew Ibnb 4, icn. ;, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1986 On CcHutniction Assured Anuduncement that bids will be re- edrbd on the first link of the great scenic ^ parkway in North Carolina is definite as surance that this gigantic works project is to be constructed. ^ The .scenic highway, when first pro posed, captivated the imagination of the people to such an extent that there was a gmieral feeling that it was too good to be true, but this project is definitely on the ^y toward construction. The parkway will bring into its own a scenic region that has suffered from lack of advertising and publicity. The Blue Ridge mountains of Wilkes, Alleghany, Ahhe and Watauga counties furnish rug ged mountain scenery which we insist is not surpassed in eastern America. Of local interest is the fact that North Wilk^boro will have three direct routes of travel from the east and south into the parkway, these being highways 60, 16 and 18. The New Sanitorium The recent legislature authorized the expenditure of $250,000 for the construc tion of a tuberculosis sanitorium in west ern North Carolina, and it has been learn ed since that federal funds may be used to swell the total to be expended to near half a million dollars. It is perfectly natural for any county or community to seek public institutions, but we are insisting that no better place c^d be found for such an institution than the Brushy Mountains or some of the other foothill elevations in Wilkes coun ty. The committee in charge of the loca tion of this institution should be told about the climate and natural qualifica tions of this section for the great institu tion. We do not claim to be experts on climate and the degrees of curative power m cli matic variations but we do know how re freshing the air and sunshine are on our mountains. It is our public duty to suf fering humanity to let the locating com mittee know what we have. The sani torium should, of course, be located where climate and other natural conditions are most suited for recuperation and cure of tubercular patients. L The Only Solution During 1934, the automobile caused the deaths of 24.7 persons out of each 100,000 of our population. I Each 100,000 cars in use killed 130.4 people. Every time 10,000,000 gallons of gaso line were consumed, 20.1 persons died. There are three different ways of look ing at the automobile accident problem— and any one of them should be sufficient ly impressive to make the public think, and think seriously. The problem would be bad enough if it were no greater than in previous years, but statistics show that it is steadily becoming more acute. In 1931, for example, automobile registra tions were 3 per.^cent greater than in 1984, and gasoline consumption about one per cent greater—but 1931 at^omobile deaths were 8 per cent under 1934. This year, with automobile registration and gas consumption on the up-grade, it isn’t pleasant to speculate on what the death toll will be—unless that prmortion of the motoring public which is reckless, incom petent and plain discourteous is forced to diange its ways*. A glance at the records shows that the 80-called “unavoidable” accident is so rare as to be practically non-extinct. All but a handful of accidents are caused by one ;'of two things—^mechanically defective •cars, or a defect in the person behind the wheel. And of those two, the last is in finitely more impwiant—93.9 per cent of ■ the cars involved in accidents last year were in i^)parently good condition, st The time has passed when appeals to the reckless driver to improve his ways are sufficient. He has refused—and the force of coinioa, badmd by modem,, livs^ enforced laws, presents ^e problem. Fj^pcUiig A Not only President Roosevelt and rydtt- hitod men of his athnduhs^iAtion, but peo ple throughout the ooonti^ ^re thinking stout a substitute for thSfNfttioiml Re covery Aet, whi^ was dec&red unconsti tutional by the United States Supreme courG*’" ^ n.«. ™i d«.bt th. was unconstitutional when it was e«am-eoIored streak ot thunder Usl^ but in the haste to frt something’ wmrking to save people frcan s^ destruc tion, too much attention could not be given to legal aq>ects antT qualifications. One Racer Mseis Spaadway; 0 Four !?■- Indienspolis, May *4—^WUd- [iMt mtee OgMaviCd tj-OBmrtrtv SfM> Xtw ^ J 'THMrtiy, Mtty fl|' As ' the date neared fqr the Suprepie court to hand down a decition, it was generally feared by supporters of NRA that it was docuned in its present form. The unani mous opinion of the nine justices -who pass on law indicates that there could be no little doubt but that it was unamsti- tutional. The principal factors of the national re covery act were the codes of fair compe tition by which aU industries were bound and outstanding in code provisions were minimum working hours and wages. At first glance it appears, that little hope is held for creating an adequate substitute that will fulfill the needs and still be within the bounds of the constitution. As a last resort there is always the pos sibility of amending the constitution and that is being suggested. There can be little doubt but that an amendment giv ing congress the poWer to reflate indus try along the Uneg provided in the NRA would pass with a tremendous majority of laboring people favoring it. It has been intimated that such an junendment could be ratified in record time. In the mean time, congress could draw up some kind of a substitute that would do much to ward holding the gains made by the NRA and keeping industry from committing suicide by way of throat-cutting com petition, sweatshop wages, child labor, long working hours and other things that we now consider as belon^ng to a past age and having no place in our advanced civilization. An act that would only affect industry classed as wholly interstate commerce would be insufficient and inadequate in that it would not provide equality and would not cover enough ground to be of any great benefit. Voluntary obedience to NRA codes is very popular at this time and a large per cent of the industrial leaders and employ ers throughout the nation have signified their willingness to continue with NRA code standards. President Roosevelt aptly said that 90 per cent of the business firms of the country were fair but the other 10 per cent can cause a lot of trouble to the 90 per cent if they insist on lowering wages, speeding up production and in other ways resorting to unfair methods. Again the general public may be called on in a sense of patriotism and public duty to support and patronize firms and individuals who continue to deal fairly and on a high plane. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible,” and which contains four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON MARY STANDS FIRM Doubtless the family had to practice self-de nial in order that Jesus might have time for study. Doubtless his mother, Mary, was often disturbed by His dreamy absorption in ideas. His apparent lark of interest in what they should eat, what they should dr^k and wherewithal they should be clothed, though after Joseph’s death He took up the burden of family support and carried it nobly until the younger children were old enough to stand alone. It was not merely as the “carpenter’s son” but as “the car penter” that He was known. There were tim-s when she was troubled about Him; times when she wondered whether He could be quite right in His mind; times, like that awful day of . His visit to Nazareth, when her spirit must have beqn rent asunder by fear of the forces which we#e arr^iyed against Him and a tragic premonition of w4tet these would finally accomplish against her beloVed Son. Yet troubled, and even doubting, she did not sur render. Of those who stood firm at the end, a large proportion were women, and she leads them all. Hanging there in agony upon the cross. He gave His last thought to her future safety and comfort. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother . . . When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by. whom he loved, h~e saith unto his mother, Woman behold thy son. Then' saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple (John) took her unto his own home. We are not given the record of her later years, but they must have been beautiful in faith and self-sacrifice; for the devotion of those members of the early church grew ^constantly more tender and their reverence more exalted. Only a beautiful spirit could have inspired such adoration. She -is noUer, beyond comparison, than any of the other women of the Bible, and the women on the whole, stmid higher in the splendor of their faith than tiie men. Not one- unworthy woman appears in the trigedy of ths crucifixion. Not she with traitorous Idss her Saviour stung;. Not she denied Hhn .with unholy tongue;"^ She when aposHes shrank could danger braver— ^Lart at the cross and earliest at the grave. and lightning, today won^fihe fastest SOO-raile antomoMle raoe 'ever staged on the. Indianapolis speedway, as . death again put its gruesome stamp on the fiS-yesr> rold spectacle. Odmlag. out ot the treaaberons northwest turn of the t V4-mIle brick, gated oval only IS Mi mln- utei^afto^ the green tlaig sent SI mighty littie thunder i^wagoas roaring away in brilliant aUBrtilae before a record shattering arowd. of 165,000, S4-ymr-old Clar Weatherly, of Ciueianatt, lost control of a black raMr th'at al ready had cost the life of Johnny Hannon, of Morristown, Pa., In the practice runs. The somber bullet, traveling at least 110 miles an hour, smashed against the retaining wall, ca romed dowq the track, then rocketed through a wooden fence, leaping end over end onto the grass Infield In full view of the thousands that packed the north ern end ot the mile-long grand stand lining the stretch. Weatherly, who only a few days ago begged Leon ..Duray, owner of the car, for a chance to drive after the car had been re built following Hannon’s death, was tossed clear with his me chanic, another youngster, 24- year-old Ed Bradburn, - of Los Angeles. Weatherly, a big good- looking kid, making bis first start here after years of dirt track driving, died there on the grass from a fractured skull and other terrible injuries. Bradburn suffered a fracture of at least two vertebrae in the middle of his spine, and is in a critical condition. The death ot Weatherly brought the toll for the 1935 tournament of the doomed to four, for W. H. Stubblefield and his mechanic, Leo Whittaker, both of Los Angeles, died the same day Hammond did, eight days ago, in a qualifying run smash-up. Ittdier PasAed •- Lttthef Gxeene, l^ye«r-oI^' sow of Clinard and Nannle^lmmona Greene, of DMifi^p,^ed on May 27. ITie funeral service wee held at the family cemetery on. ‘reeeday, Mey IS,' with Rev. Leri Greene in charge. ^ * In addition* to hia* parente, there ere three brothers end ^ree eictera enrriviag: Mrs. Ora Smite, Deep Gap; Chilo Greene, Stony Fork; Mrs. Cora Smith, Deep Gap; Mrs. Flora Giertie. Braeat and Araold Greene, of Stony Fork. m- ICKES SAYS PWA FUND HAS BEEN HONESTLY SPENT (With Your Old Battery) M. C. Rhymer, Age 71, Claimed by Death Resident of Lewis Fork Town ship Socenmbed Wednesday; Funeral Friday New York. Mar 86.—toepite countlese otwtadM and tremen dous polNical preaenre, tha,pnl^ lie works administration weii held by Secretary Ickes today to have spent its first |S,800,060,- 000 efficiently, honestly and im partially. In an article entitled “Pork barrel or PWAT'> published in the Review of Reviews, the inter ior secretary sai^ the PWA was as efficient “as private business’’ and Its results came “as close to perfection as is humanly poa- Bible.” Don't boy a Our. or Track until you hart inrestifated the Qirysier and Plyntooth, Cars or Intmiational Track. Miir Service Store WILEY BROOKS Phone 335 PAUL BILLINGS North Wilkesboro, N. C. DIRTY DEAL Wheeling, W. Va.—A wedding was scheduled to^be performed in the soft coal mining region near here recently. As the minister ask ed,‘"Will yen take this man for your lawful wedded husband?” the girl'looked at him and then said, “No I won’t. I never saw him be fore with his face washed. He looks like a stranger and I know I couldn’t love him.” Digging of the early Irish po tato crop of Beaufort county be gan on May 27. The crop is ad vanced two weeks but has suf fered from lack of moisure. NOTICE! Pay your electric light biQ before the 10th of each month. 5 percent will be added after the 10th. Southern Public Utilities Co. — PHONE 420 — M. C. Rhymer, resident of Lewis Fork township, passed away Wednesday. Funeral serv ice was held Friday at Mount Pleasant church with Rev. Levi Greene in charge. He was 71 years of age, a son ot the late Eli and Christian | Hodges Rhymer, of Watauga | county. He is survived by five children: Mrs. Carrie Blevins, Scarborough, W. Va.; W. G. Rhy mer, Purlear: Albert Rhymer,' Summit; Mrs. W. A. Bauguess, Fairplains, and J. J. Rhymer, I Corner Creek, Va. Three Swept to Death In Colorado Floods Colorado Springs, Colo.. May 30.—Floods, roaring down deep mountain canyons early tonight swept three persons to their deaths, marooned scores of fam ilies in low lying districts ot the town, and rushed onwayd to play .havoc with villages east of here. V. Clneno, of Colorado Springs, was swept to his death when he rode his horse into the stream to rescue persons stranded in high ways. A man and a woman, un identified, were drowned when the flood carried them from the top of their coupe on which they had sought refuge. State Has Cfdlected Large Amount In Gasoline Tax A grand total of S126,719>616 in gasoline taxes have been collected by North Carolina since this form of motor vehicle levy first went into effect in 1921, according to John M. .Brown, president of the Winston-^lem Automobile club. Reiiu- Sturdivant Inc. THE FUNERAL HOME lil{ • ■ * II LICENSED E^5BALIO»S AMBULANCE LAUNDERED “All aboard for the land of the free this summer . . . 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