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N.C. JULIUS a BUBBAKDt ie in desei*^ editorial; SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Honths of the State 11.50 - .75 _ .50 12.00 per Year Xnt«*d at tha'ipoet office at North Wilkea- . M. C., as second daaa matter under Act JIaidjd 187|. MONDAY, toTEMBIER 9,1985 All nations are busy preparing for war which a'ono of them wants.—JacxaonTiUe Journal. 'Well, anyhow, France hasn’t got round to the point where men on relief work are strik ing.—Indlanaij^Us^News. Japanese bullets imperiled the liTee of Ameri cans at a Chinese missionary school and Secre tary Hull may tender an apology because they ■were In the way.—Indianapolis Star. ^ Stanley High thinks there won’t be any third party next year. Towever, there seems to be some revival of belief that there will be a sec ond party.—Omaha World-Herald. The British government has ordered a bevy of American chorus girls out of its country. They were probably suspected of trying to get hack i»art of the war debt.—Detroit Free Press. Representatiye Citizens When the North Carolina Grange meets in convention in North Wilkes- boro on September 25, 2o and 27, it will bring to this city approximately 500 delegates representing the best type of rural citizenship in the state. And when We assemble 500 of the best type of rural people we are very close to getting the very best people, of the commonwealth together. It is in deed a great honor and a great opportu nity for North Wilkesboro and Wilkes ^ county. The Grange is a co-operative fraterni ty of the farming class of people. We cannot sav that its members are in the wealthy class, yet most of them are what we would colloquially therm “well-to- do.” People who, in most cases, own and take pride in owning their homes, who are of good character, who take an i^tive interest in schools, churches and their government. This is the type of people who really make up the back bone of the country, who hold together its moral and religious structure and who work untiringly for the best inter ests of their communities. We have great respect for the indus trialist who operates an honest busi ness and gives employment to hundreds and thousands; we respect the states men who continually try to build up their country with constructive ideas; we look with favor on good bankers who safeguard the savings of our people; we admire the teachers and professors who toil to spread knowledge and un derstanding in the world; we are grate ful for the scientists, physicians and surgeons who spend their lives in work and research in trying to make this world easier to live in; we have respect for the average business man, who, Ibough working for a profit, furnishes services indispensible to the world. Yet the better class of rural people who live in comparative obscurity, working year in and year out in their ow^ communities for their homes, their schools and churches are hard to excel as representative citizens of their coun ty, state and nation. That is the type of people we will have in our midst during the"* Grange convention late this month. The con vention will open the door to an oppor tunity never before presented to our people to advertise our town and county as the “garden spot” of the state in such qualifications as hospitality, courtesy and kind treatment. It ■will be the duty of people of the Wilkesboros and vicinity to entertain theee people in their homes, furnish them lodging and one meal each day. We feel that it is unnecessary to urge our people to do this because they will respond with the usual Wilkes county hospitality and goodwill that will write L-'ah indelible impression upon 600 good people from all corners of the state. To The Rescue Publicity about the Red Cross is most rally used during the annual roll altera hut such tion rendered in Florida I^®week ]Sention any time. A hurricane swept over a'great part of Florida, bringing death to about 800 people and acute suffering to thousands of others. The Red Cross, always ready on a moment’s notice, stepped inland relieved the suffering, furnished cloth- injf and lodging for those left destitute and in many other ways helped the un fortunate. * The one American institution which stands as a model for the whole world is the American Red Cross. The peculair function of Red Cross is to bring aid to sufferers from physical disasters. The disaster may be due to the incidence of war, or the calamities such as are un usually termed “acts of God.” In the popular mind, perhaps the relief'serv ice of the Red Cross in war stands out as typifying its work. But the greatest service of the Red Cross is to suffering humanity in times of peace. One has but to look at its record in recent years. The long .arm of the Red Cross reached out to help the victims of more than one Mississippi flood, of the droughts which ravaged Arkansas and adjacent states five years ago, the unfortunates render ed homeless by hurricanes in the South and in Porto Rico, among others. Now it is adding to its laurels by its prompt and intelligent work in the flood-swept regions of New York State. There is no delay about Red Cross aid in times of emergency. No red tape has to be cut. No politicians or other self-seekers have a finger in the pie. No breath of scandal has ever impugned either the motives of the Red Cross Ad ministration or the integrity of those who handle its funds. Its money comes from voluntary contributions by millions of American citizens. Its organization is kept alive and flourishing by the vol untary labors of tens of thousands of devoted men and women—mainly wom en. It has at its calh trained, efficient medical and nursing talent, and able administrators competent to take charge of any situation.' It cooperates with all Government agencies but is under the control of none of them. THE BOOK the first line of which reads, “Tlie Holy Bible,” and which contains four great treasures. By BRUCE BARTON wrtleia» iMadlUli, and ■mat cABdeiima as brief aa poaaible. diaiL-flim THE CRH ICISMS OF VOLTAIRE AND PAINE The newspapers of New York and London, of Pairs and Rome, to say nothing of the univer sities in those and other countries, would char ter ships to rush scholars and photographers and telegraphers to that place if any new book by a disciple of Jesus were found. They would run telegraphic lines and establish radio stsa- tions at the top of Mount Ararat or the heart of the desert of Sahara. As fast as the book could be photographed and translated, it would be printed on the front page of every newspaper in the world and broadcast from the principal radio stations. It would appear In book form almost overnight, and would outsell all the best sellers. In the eighteenth century, that vitrollc geni us, Voltaire, spoke of the Bible as a short lived book: The Scripture was his jest-book, whence be drew Bon mots to gall the Christian and the Jew. He said that within a hundred years it would pass from common use. Not many people read Voltaire today, but his house has been packed with Bibles as the depot of a Bible society. Thomas Paine, a.much abused man, said some good th^gs which ought to be remember ed to bis credit, but in closing the first part of his Age of Reason he left this foolish sum mary of what he thought he had accomprlished: I have now gone through the Bible, as a man would go through a wood with an axe, and felled trees. Here they lie, and the priests may replant them, but they will never make them grow. Despite efforts have been made to replant Paine’s writings and give them again the in fluence which they were supposed once to have had. But if the Bible sells one single copy less for anything Payne ever wrote about or against it, the sales reports do not show ft. It a modern American author writes a book which has a moderately good sale in this coun try, and a London publisher takes over the edi tion and sells it In England, the author thinks well of his efforts. ^If bis book is translated into German or French or Spanish or Italian or Rus sian or Scandinavian, be has reason to be proud. He is not likely to do more than this, and he may well congratulate himself if his novel or text-book or scientillc treatise appears in a balf-dosen tongues. But the Bible’ is ex tant in full, from the first verse of Qenesis to the end of Revelatton, In one hundred and eight languagee. Many other languages and dialects do not fustify as yst'the entire translation. Nsw alphahjts had to be made; fonts of type bad to be cast; diffleuU sounds bad to b« classified; grammars and dictionaries had to be vnfitrtii so as yet t% many dialects and mixed languages^ only the New TestaiMBt and som«liertions ENDORSES ARTICLE BY MR. WILES Mr. Editor: The article kjt Mr. Wiles on the: local rituation in Wilkes cotmty was timely and I amn': to eon- gyatnlate him for his >>urage in exposing official wrongs office holders in the cmnftbooas that bo^gad last fall the voters to elect them to a salary that was already fixed and they knew this fact for they were the candidates dt the dominant party in Wilkes whose nomination is equivalent to election. But within a month aft er taking the oath of their of fices the sheriff, and register of deeds, and the clerk of superior court joined hands in having a bill drawn and passed in the Legisla ture by Rep.resentative Bryjm and Senator Williams of Yadkin, in which law these county offici als were granted $600.00 each per year for “extra clerk hire" being nothing less than a raise of $600.00 per year of the salary of these men, and costing the tax payers of this county $L80 per year. In my opinion this “Bill” was only smoke screen to hide the real raid on the treasury of the county in the form of ratifying tax sales for the benefit of Sher iff Somers as tijisAct was thrown in the legislative mill at about the same time. Prior to the enactment of this last bill relating to tax sales the law specifically stipu lated that fees collected by the sheriff should go into the genertd county fund. The record will show that Sheriff Somers has never paid any land sales fees into the county since he has been sheriff and that he had collected approxi- jnataly $16,000 tax sales fees be fore this law was passed empow ering him to retain such fees. There are around 1,900 advertised land sales for this year on which the sheriff will receive approxi mately $3,700 in addition to his salary, which is a right tidy sum itself. It has been argued that the county loses nothing by the sher iff receiving these fees. Let us analyze a typical case and see: There are more than a dozen in stances where the tax due the county was less than fifty cents it is charged and the sheriff sold for tlie tax, receiving $1.90 net for his fee and the county getting the tax certificate worth fifty cents or less. In other words the sheriff when settling with the county puts in these tax sales certificates as cash. Before this legislation was pass ed oui tax rate was Eighty Cents. It is one dollar now, although ex sheriff P. E. Brown assured the tax payers that had assembled in mass meeting to protest, it that “the cost to the average taxpayer would not amount to the price of a package of cigarettes” but mod estly admitting that it might cost him more as he was considerably a large property owner. In the light of the increase from eighty cents to one dollar in the tax rate, I now ask him if he was correct in his assertion. We certainly have not received any additional benefits from the raise, but it seems that three county officials will receive around $7,000 in “ex tra clerk hire and fees” that the voters had no idea they would ask for when they elected them to of fice last fall. Under the law they will receive like amounts next year and right Arwi COUWTYfAia lit ff \\ \er\ (is . ACirves Dr. IClM NESVINB "DULihdvtorhr Mjn IiCas OUvtr VHYDOm YOU , TRY m . After nor* Bum thrMmonthfi ■infiSedtig from a aarvouB ail- BMBl Ifiae QUvar uaad Dt. MUm Nenina which five her aaefa ipWid rwulta tibat aba wrote ■i an cnthuaiaetio letter. If yon tuff or from •Iferoea* If you M atoofca efart at middau uaitat, tkra «aAy, are eraaiky^ Mue ana ffdyety, your lureea are proteMy out of order. * etakt relax Bum wiffi ffia ffMw medictne that tin woch* for this Colondo - IVtwther your “Nervesr have troubled you for houae or for yoaiiL-youTl findodiia ~thae« ieeted ronedy effective. At Drag Storo*_25e and fUn, the Old are printed. r" ri.-v; r ■ A - r on until these Acts passed by Rep resentative Bryan and Senator Williams are repealed. The performance in selecting Mr. Eller’s successor as register of deeds caps the climax in a long line of official stupidity; and takes the prize for sheer effron tery to the rank and file of the Republican party in WilkM coun ty. I do not believe that parallel to this action could be found near er than Mexico. Just think of an important public office being fill ed by two members of Commis sioners and behind closed doors where they “very graciously” handed it over to another office holder for the past seven years much like the order of s'lccession of “the 'crown prince.” It would have been much more apj'ropriate to have transacted this ' business in open meeting and after the Re publican Executive Committee of the county had been called to gether for an open discussion of this important matter. The Re- four-year adjustment contract so publicans in this section of the | far. , County are getting disgMted with | Randolph Guernsey breeders the high-handed way tWngs are. a car of 2$ cows, heifers being run by the court ho^. clique and will register their dis approval in next June Primary. I also took notice to Mr. John Holloway of Traphill, letter of ridicule of Mr. C. W. Wiles, in which he no doubt takes' special pride, but this is not answering anything why our taxes were raised. It understand that Mr. Holloway is on the county pay roll at the court house at the present time. My advice to him would be when writing to be original and not cite without quotation one of the worlds greatest orators. Yours very truly. C. H. DAY. Elkin, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. Over 400 Warren county tobac co growers have signed th® new for $2,000 net. ADMIMSTRATOR’S NOTICK Having qualified as adminis trator of the estate of Mrs. J. W, Walker, deceased, late of Wilkes County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons baring claims against the estate of the said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at West Side Station, High Point, North Caro lina, on or before the 3rd day of August, 1936, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recov ery. All persons Indebted to said estate will please make imme diate settlement. This the 3rd day of Augnst. 1935. M. G. WALKER, Administrator of Mrs. J. W. Walker, deceased. 9-9-6t 4 HOBO. 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