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Pabkt . ^jn»BNi^^ IN pouncs ^ l^bUshcd INlidays and Tfrandaya at „ WOkesboro, N.'a —4- —^ o. I. CARTER xmi JULIUS C HUBBARD. PvhUahen SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Year Six Months Four Mon^s Out of the State $1.50 .75 .50 $2.00 per Year Sotered mi the poet office at North Wilkes- bwo, N. C.. aa eecond class matter onder Act of March 4. 1879. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1935 Secondary Roads Probably the most beneficial improve ments from the works progerss adminis tration in this part of the state will be better secondary roads. , • The nian who lives on a hardsurfaced highway is fortunate in that he can drive his cai* or truck any time during the year but in Wilkes county there ai'e thousands of people who live at least ten miles from a good state highway and not all the dirt roads can be traveled in all kinds of weather. When these people do travel they pay their seven cents per gallon on ’ gasoline into the road funds just the same as the man on the side of the highway. Their automobile license tags cost just as much. The progi'am to better the farm-to- market roads is just what is needed for these people. Nothing helps a community economically as much as does a good all weather road. A farmer can get his pro ducts to market when he wants to and at his own convenience and at the time it will mean an advantage to him. He will take greater pride in his community, knowing that he does not live in an “out- of-way” place. The Food Dollar It is encouraging news that the United States Department of Agriculture is be ginning to concentrate on efforts to re duce the cost of distribution of food pro ducts. A great deal of effort has been spent, aimed at getting higher prices for the growers and producers of food, and too little attention has been given in the past to serious efforts to reduce the spread between what the producer gets and what the consumer pays. A recent report in Washington indicates that farmers are now getting a higher proportion of the food dollar spent by the consumer than at any time in recent years. According to these Federal statis tics, in June, 1932, the farmer got only about 31 cents out of each dollar spent by the consumer for the ten basic food stuffs. In August, 1935, the fanner’s share of the food dollar was 45 cents. The ten foods included in these computations are: Beef, pork, poultry, butter, peas, potatoes, flour, bread, eggs and milk. Retail picres of pork and eggs have gone up recently, but the prices of dairy products and potatoes have gone dovvTi. Distribution costs have been steadily rising for nearly 20 years. In May, 1917, the processors, ditsributors and other han dlers of food received only about one- third of each dollar spent by consumers, as against more than two-thirds in 1932. But since 1932 the tendency of distribu tion costs has been downward. There seems to be some ground for hope that the cost of living to the buyers of foods may be reduced, without cutting down unduly the prices received by pro ducers. This can only be accomplished by cutting distribution costs. The effort of the Government toward that end is cer tainly highly commendable. School Athletics Although we have never advocated athletics in schools to the point where the regular functions of the school system would be pushed in tht background, we are of the opinion that athletics is a great asset to any school. Aside from the physical training it af fords the participants, there are other benefits, and not least among these is the upbuilding of a school spirit and pride in the institution. Good teams in the major sports help to build a name and reputation for a school along with efficiency in the class rooms. Although it is the regular teams and stars in the variuos sports that accomplish this' beu^ we wish to call more particu-, . lar. attention to physical .^odocation, in which pnirtieaDy all df students should participate. Hiis phase of athletics has its ^ value everywhere but more especWly in^to\#^ and cities. The average country ’ youth works on ; the^ farm dwing vac^ion^ months and even after school hours dufc- ing the term. His muscles i^ould be well hardened and his physical being should be in the pink of conditoin at all times. It is not so with the average youth in towns and cities. He need^physical work, whether it be on some kind of manual labor job or on the playgrounds. Exercises of the proMr kind to build a healthy and strong boay that can resist disease is of equal importance to training of the intel lect. We hope that no high school in the county this year will neglect athletics and at the same time we trust that athletics will not interefere with regular school work. We have known many good school athletes who were also good scholars, even the best in the class. This goes to show that if the student and teacher does his or her part that both the physical and in tellectual phases of school life can be car ried on in unison and with cooridnation. Indicating Improvement Notwithstanding all the pros and cons of this pre-political campaign year, it must be admitted that thera is quite much "improvement in business conditions, na- •tionally si>eaking, showing up at this time. We ai-e not going to try to give credit for the improvement to anyone but will cite some of the things that undeniably show an upward swing of the economic pendulum. In New York City Tuesday night up wards of a hundred thousand people paid almost a million dollai-s to see a prize fight, which was not even in the cham pionship class. These people had money and were willing to spend this enormous sum to see one boxing match between two men. These attendance and gate receipts fi gures correspond with those of the Demp- sey-Sharkey battle before the depre^ssion and the Dempsey-Firpo battle in 1923. On Sunday around 45,000 people paid to see a baseball game in Boston, a game that did not even decide anything in the way of baseball championship because both terms were virtually out of the race for the league pennant and the world se ries. This throng of people had money to spend on a baseball game. We do not attempt to say what all this portends but we do know that people are spending again for something other than necessities. Whether it will lead to boom days of 1926-29 with wild spending and speculation we do not know, but we wish to cite some things to show that there is a spending era on the way. Frequently we read of such news items these days as manufacturers taking ord ers to be filled January 1 or later. Im provement of this nature is sure to lead to increased employment, whihch is one of the crying needs of this age. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN FUBUC PUIBE Thia Is • ooIaiBa open to pobUc for fno exproMlOB. . J^oonuiLPotrioC does. ,-boC aa> nme ««y reopoiipftillty tat attld«B{} pHa(ea9mder headiac. aad aet^r oadMMa mar cMdonau tbmm, Pleaoi’be M brief e» poeri^ PRAISES LEC^RE BY R.- DON LAWS Mr, Editor: The lecture bjr Mr. R. Don Lavs at the court hohae thla aft ernoon on “Man’a Footprints On the Sands of Tlme”\^was fall of suggestive truths. His entire lee« tare is snported by history, yet the dlagraphio picture he drew made It all new. Mr. Laws held the large audience spellboand tor one hour - and live ailnutes. He is a man of kindly nature, desti tute of malice, and strongly emo tional, yet under sufficient pro- vocatidns can be aroused to se vere denunciations. We find Mr. Laws to be a wonderful speaker as well as a writer. He showed from the beginning that he was master of his subject. His entire lecture was free from sectarian ism or politics. He used a chart with diagrams plainly showing the history of man from the'ear liest dawn until the present time; his method is of the simplest, there is nothing ornate in his language, his words being those of every day speech, rhetoric and flights of fancy are not thought of, a child can plainly understand him. In his speech today he gave infidelity many hard knocks, showing plainly that all remote sections of the earth, including some large cities where Jesus Christ was not supreme, human life is worthless and corruption and disaster prevails. His speech from beginning to end was a stone wall between the church and infidelity. He is cap able of broad generosity and ex tends to others the same unre served candor which he demands for his self. Not many men of this generation are better equipp ed on ancient and modern his tory. Prom early age it has been the ambition of his life to un solve the problems of mortal life and human destiny as far aS his tory would permit, and being lo cated in a rural section free from the noise and clamor of city life and with the advantage of one of the best -private libraries in the state and with the advantage of a fine brain, such conditions are most favorable for noble and enduring achievements. Having passed the meridian of his life, h 18 lecture will grow more popular as time moves on. We trust it will be many years before It can be truthfully said that R. Don Laws is growing old GEO. E. BLEVINS. Springfield, N. C. Marriage Licenses Licenses to wed have been is sued during the past several days by Old Wiles, register of deeds, to the following; James R. Pierce, Champion, and Virginia Bumgarner, Wllkesboro route 1; Lon Miller and Ruth Shatley, both of North Wllkesboro; Os car Dancy and Irene Johnson, both of Hays. > ' you sit back and let Essolene power and Essolube ease sweep you over the cool countryside..and the car never makes a sound to interfere with the voice you like to hear best in the world.* JOHN r.esson For September 29th; 3rd John; Golden Text 3 John 11. Of all the apostles John was close.st to the heart of the Master. He stood with him in the julgment hall; he was present at the Cross, when he received from the dying Saviour the care of Mary; he came first to the sepulchre on that glorious day of resurrection, outrunning Peter; and he recognized the Lord first at the Sea of Tiberias. Later he was a sturdy pillar of the little church at Jerusalem. Later still this master-fisherman, according to a long e.s- tablished tradition, carried on a prolonged min istry in the city of Ephesus, from where it is supposed he was banished for his faith to lonely Patmos, there to write the picturesque flaming book of Revelation. Then, apparently, he was allowed to return to Ephesus, where he died in extreme old age. The poet Browning, in his famous “Death in the Desert.” accepts this tradition certifying to the apostle’s great age, and imagines him awakened ^rom a deep trance to deliver a last inspired message before his death. There is a beautiful story of John’s farewell to his Ephesian brothers. Too old to walk, he was carried in the arms of his disciples into the midst of their assembly, where he repeated again and again this saying, “Little children, love one another.” When asked why he said this, and nothing else, he replied, “Because this is our Lord’s command, and it you fulfil this nothing else is needed.” The third epistle of John, chosen for our les son, was wrritten to his friend Gains, evidently a man of means and position, given to hospitali ty. This brief letter gives an interesting in sight into the state of the church at the begin ning of the second century. The 11th yersey chosen as the Golden Text, is a ainiple admonition to follow-“that which is good.** ... . AERO TYPE €SS0 • Essolene • Essolube • fSSO MOTOR OIL The recognized leader Guarantees smoother Hie oil of premium The lowest-consump- among premium mo- performance than any quality yet always sold tion, highest-perform- tor fuels, adapted other regular-price at regular |Nrice. 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