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DfDEPBNDSm' mt iKi- ’C Nortl^ ftt D.^. CARTER and JULn|8 C. HUBBARD. PaWriun ^SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year ,.r-:— ^1.60 .76 JO $2.00 per Year Six M(»ths Four Months Out of the State _ f. Bnt«i«d at the post office at North Wilkea- boxo, N. U.. as aewnd class matter ^ader Act dTlivrdi 4, 1879. THURSDAY, OCTrOREK 24,1936 ' Our idea of an easy mark is a man who will let a gypsy talk him out of his money. Worse Than War A picture in the Charlotte Observer last Sunday inspires this editorial. It showed a likeness of Flanders Field. There were two markers. The one on the left said “1776 to 1935, Americans killed ip all wars of our history, 244,357.” The one on the right bore this inscription, “1920 to 1935, Americans killed in auto mobile accidents, 388,936.” Beneath the illustration was the follow ing comment: “Death on the highways— More persons have been killed in automo bile accidents in the United States in the last 15 years than died in the six major wars of the nation’s history. What’s to be done about this appalling loss of life? You and you can help solve the problem by resolving to drive carefully.” There, automobile drivers and pedes trians, are the cold facts that tell a bloody story of death and suffering. Last year in North Carolina almost one thousand lives were lost in accidents and this year’s total may pass the thousand mark. What makes these figures more appalling is that the number is constantly on the in crease. People are greatly alarmed over the propects of another war and this attitude for peace is one of the brightest things of the present era. But we cannot recon cile this attitude with the continued dis regard for the dangers that lurk along the highways of America, where in 15 years more people have met violent deaths than in the six wars of our nation’s history. it •rHE JOURNAL-PATRIOT^ S^djpiiig FwtniFiipamm. ■X- Not To Be Neglected The period set aside as “Fire Preven tion Week” has passed, but it should be remembered that if fire prevention is to prove a highly beneficial practice, precau tion should be taken at dl times-. With this purpose in mind we reproduce the fol lowing advice from a syndicated article: A short time ago a guest in a western hotel was enjoying a last smoke in bed before going to sleep. Result: A fire which destroyed the hotel, a grocery store, a shoe store, a clothing store and a res taurant, for a total loss of $50,000. WTiether the smoker escaped with his life is not reported. In a hundred similar in stances, however, he hasn’t. About the same time a housewife in New England left her ironing without dis connecting the electric iron. Result: De struction of a home valued at $15,000. These are two incidents out of many. And they indicate a very significant fact: The smallest, most minor fires, under “favorable” circumstances, can become serious ones. As a rule, a cigarette fire is noticed before it has gotten out of con trol and is easily extinguished. But very often the exception to the rule appears— and a conflagration follows. The famous incident' of Mrs. O’Leary’s kicking cow, which is supposed to have started the great Chicago fire, may be fiction—but the message involved is well worth while. A cow kicking over a stove could have started such a disastrous fire, whether it did or not. At least eighty per cent of fires can be prevented if the simplest precautions are taken. Ordinary care with smoking ma terials and inflammable liquids wrill do away with two of the worst causes of fire. Regular inspection of heating plants and electric wiring wdll do away writh oth- os. Periodic cleaning of attics and base ments to dispose of piles of rags and waste—prime sources of internal combus- tion fires—^will do away with still another. So wiH the cutting of grass and weeds in UDO^ fields, whi^ present an especially BotSt danger during dry periods. Y«ir hoax and other property, unless MWttreaA from the average, con- seriiHu flpa haiBUrds that_cM te ]uiddy^.aDd easily * dumnated., A close study of the fum census fig- urea we publiahed in this newspaper Hm-^. day sltould of val^ to those wfaol^ ^ are inter»t^ faitning indn^ in " Wilkes county tod the’^gwieral welfare of ^ rural people. it is signiflauit» we thiuki, that of sqme crops^ paiidcularly wheat, '\ecrdu»* ed around 1,800 acres in five years, while the yield in bushds remained about the some. At the present trend we predict that acreage in 1940 will be about the same as today with a large increase in yield. *nie entire census reveals that farmers of Wilkes county are paying more atten tion to improving the soil from which they grow their crops. We have seen many farms in Wilkes county which have many cultivated acres that prove to be a losing proposition each year because no attention is given to building up the soil. Elach year this class of farmers put out crops and in most in stances cultivate them well. Each year the soil grows thinner by having some thing remSved by crops and erosion. No thought is given to putting into the soil more than is taken out. Little effort is made to hold what soil there is and pre vent the ravages of erosion. At last many of the more intelligent and enterprising farmers are wakipg up to the fact that a good soil is essential and that good soils, once created, must be closely guarded. By proper care, management and judg ment, a good soil can be kept and at the same time bumper crops can be harvest ed. It is to this end that the county agent. State College, the extension service and the United States department of agricul- tur are working. A farmer who grows less than 15 bushels of wheat per acre will lose if he counts his own labor at anything near what it is worth. By using proper meth ods of soil improvement he can grow on five acres what he did on ten at ten bush els per acre. He can grow lespedeza, ro tate his crops, terrace his land, keep cows and improve his soil as a by-product, spend some for commercial fertilizer. These measures, coupled with good man agement, hard work and the practice of thrift and economy will build his farm to the point where every crop yields a profit. Very few- soils in Wilkes county are so bad that there is no hope of fertility. Yet the selection of portions of farms to be cultivated is the pi-oblem that calls for more good judgment than any other one thing. Thousands of acres have been cleared and washed away that should still be growing forests. There is plenty of land that is not too steep for all to cul tivate, while the steeper slopes should be in woods or in well terraced pastures. Much progress is being made in farm ing. It is the basic industry and one that will come into its own as one of profit and satisfaction to those who persevere and are willing to learn. on Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN HOW, BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST Lesson for October 27th; Daniel 5:1-31. Golden Text: Proverbs 20:1. Belshazzar’s profane banquet, with its dis graceful carousing, prompts a few reflections on the menace of alcohol. Carefully compiled evidence demonstrates clearly to the unbiased mind that even a moderate use of alcohol in creases the death rate. The records of life in surance companies in this respect are very rfe- vealing. One of the best American companies carefully divides its policyholders, according to their habits in the use of alcohol, into the ''our following groups: Group 1, total abstainers; Group 2, moderate users; Group 3, regular beer drinkers; and Group 4, regular spirit drinkers. Its mortality tables show that in Group 2 the death rate is 11 per cent above that of Group 1, while Group 3 shows a 31 per cent increase, and Group 4 an 83 per cent increase over the total abstainers’ rate. These findings are in line with laboratory and clinical evidence proving that alcohol, even in moderate quantities, produces definite ill-effects such as lowering one’s resistance to diserue, in creasing thrt chances of accident, and lessening one’s mental and physical efficiency, besides ex erting a degenerative effect upon the vital oi^ gans. There is a popular impression that liquor of low alcoholic content, such at 2.75 beer, is innocuous. On the contrary, tests made under rigid scientific control show conclusively that al cohol, even though in such a dilute^ form is still a poison. Fortunately our people as a whole realize the sobering facts about booze, for the statistics of the government’s bureau of internal revenue in dicate that though our population, in recent years, has increased more than one-fifth, the amount of liquor consumed, both hard and soft, has dropped. And this decline is absolute, not relative. And despite the bootleggers it seems safe to say that we are a bit sd>erer. as a na,^ tion, than we were in those mythical '^^rood iM days.” - ■ ■ “ Wqshl]igtoB,*^Qetob!^ 81 (Ai^ tooa^r)—-^ot^i^ since tile Joariiment of Congress' has stir red up se-mnoh. reel interset In Washington as the tact that Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Chief of the White House- Beeretariat, has so far recovered from his tong Illness that be was able to give an extended Interview on politto at the Na^ Hospital the otw day. Col. Hmie haa been tor more than 20 years Mr. Roossv^fS closest frimid and chief polittei^,, mentor.'' Those' who are most fa miliar with the President’s rise from State Assemblyman to the White House, give Col. Howe much credit for the politiiml strategy by which those steps were achieved. For more than a year Col. Howe has been so iU that he had to stay under an oxygen tent in his bed at the White House. He was lately removed to the Naval Hospital and Is still a very sick man, but he talked about poli tics the other day in a way that indicates that his mind is func tioning along political lines as clearly as ever. Campaign of Policies Col. Howe’s view is that the Presidential campaign of 1936 will be fought on questions of policies rather than of personali ties. The real issue, as he sees it, will be whether the efforts of the Administration to protect the liberties and the rights of “the little fellows’’ have been wise and effective. The vateran political adviser to the President believes that the mass of voters is taking a great er interest in Government than ever before, and that the Issues of the next campaign will be de termined by the people rather than by political leaders. He gave it as his opinion that the Opposition is a little too eager and somewhat premature in its efforts to determine the issues far in advance of the cam paign. Borah and Teddy Of almost equal interest was the exchange of views between Senator Borah of Idaho and Col. Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Senator Borah suggested that the main issue of the Republican campaign next year might well be based upon the “Trust Bust ing’’ policy for which President Theodore Roosevelt stood s o firmly. To this, “Young Teddy" took exception. Without questioning the importance of the anti-mo nopoly issue of his distinguished father, he did not agree that it would be the major issue of the campaign. He thought the Re publicans , could get farther by attacking waste and extrava gance under the present Admin istration. Senator Borah is, as always, bit of an enigma. Every poll of Republican voters that has been taken on Presidential preferenc es continues to show the veteran statesmen from Idaho away in the lead. Yet there is a very de cided belief in all political quart- " VWW, \ «ooo; r SbodV 1 toNoet. ©ic*. I-1 ers that he will not be the Re publican nominee. Whatever he has to say about the party plat form, however, will have a great deal of influence. Much the same is true of for mer President Hoover. Whether or not Mr. Hoover desires a re nomination, \evldence accumu lates that he^ is setting up a propaganda machine for the pur pose of spreading his own views on issues and candidates before the people. Hoover in OWo The latest bit of gossip about Mr. Hoover’s political activities is that he is working with party leaders in Ohio, including his Postmaster General, Walter F. Brown of Toledo, and ex-Senator Simeon Fees, who was the Repub lican Chairman in the 1932 cam paign. The purpose is said to be that of sending a hand-picked Ohio delegation to the Conven tion next year, or of former blit ready to er If the should arise. Xew Cobs The latest igtration to nient into cl people is “Consumers’ pose of public to ey. .Mrs. Missouri The offici Council, by Wa to the Problei giving advice, the pi and fi XOTICE OF SALE .Xorth Carolina, Wilkes Coun- In the Superior Court. Under and by vlrtuu of the pow er of sale contained in a certain Order in the case of ,Mrs. Lena B. Prevette, Administratrix of the Estate of J. M. Prevette, deceas ed, against Mrs. Lena E. Pre vette, widow, Keith Prevette, et al.. appointing the undersigned Commissioner and authorizing and empowering the undersigned commissioner to sell the lands herein after described in ordei to create assets fur the estate of J. M. Prevette, deceased, the undersigned Commissioner will therefore expose to sale at pub lic auction to the highest bidder, for cash, at the courthouse door in Wilkesboro, N. C., on Mon day, the 28th day of October. 1935, at 12 o’clock noon, the following described tract of real estate, to-wit: Beginning on a Sourwood on the South bank of Big Hunting Creek and running south 3 de grees west 137 1-2 poles to a stone and small oak in Romulus Cass’ line thence south 71 de grees west 3 poles to'a post oak, R. M. Myers’ corner; thence south 88 degrees west 76 poles to a sycamore; thence south 4 degrees west 27 1-2 poles to a stone, Lewis Nlchelson’s corner in the Wilkes and Iredell county line; thence north 88 degrees west with said county line 66 1-2 poles to a stone, L. C. Mj’ers’ corner in county line; thence north 4 degrees east 154 1-2 poles to an oak stamp on the bank of Big Hunting Creek; thence down and with the mean ders of said creek as' follows: South 75 degrees east 13 poles South 70 degrees east 12 poles, north 24 degrees east 24 poles, north 62 1-2 degrees east 5 1-2 poles, north 87 1-2 degrees east 12 poles, east 12 poles, south 84 degrees east 28 poles, south 68 degrees east 9 poles, north 61 de grees east 4 poles, north 38 de grees east 3 1-2 poles, south 81 1-2 degrees east -^14 -poles, south 71 degrees east 44 po|^ to the point of hsgtoolu*^ TliiB the 28th 'daj^ Sept^, - CommiisloBer, tensibly In fav- Ivernor Cooper, Ig to Mr. Hoov- irable moment er Division t of the Admln- the Govern- touch ■with the ahlishment of a Ision,’’ the pnr- to aid the buying ore for its mon- Newell Blair of the bead of it. ! is the Directors’ urpose, announced Hamilton Advisee ent on Consumer to devise ways of t personal and group timulate interest in s of the consumer lys and means to in- [er and more economi ction of useful goods and betterment of the American standard of living. 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