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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Qoe Year
Six MontLs
Four Months
11.50
. .76
.60
Out of the State ^.00 per Year
Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
bno, N. C., as second class matter under Act
of Mardi 4, 1879.
MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1985
R. R. Clark
R. R. Clark, veteran Statesville editor
and commentator, has written his last
piece of copy and passed to the reward for
one of the state’s best editorial writers.
Mr. Clark spent severe decades in writ
ing editorial comment and many readers
throughout this state watched for his
writings and perused them with interest.
Many friends who never met him are sad
dened with the thought that no longer
may they be strengthened with what he
wrote, but can be consoled by the advice
and comment he gave freely throughout
his long career.
Auto Owners Agreeable
With taxes on automobiles and driving
privileges on the upward trend for sev
eral years, North Carolina automobile
owners welcome the news that for the
first time in history there is a reduction
in the automobile tax.
When automobile owners go to buy
their state license plates this year they
will find that the license tax has been re
duced substantially.
Although the 1935 legi.slature only pro
vided for a decrease in the price of plates
from 55 to 40 cents per hundredweight,
this reduction is going to be appreciated.
'The reduction is not as much as many
hoped for and fought for, but it is cer
tainly remarkable that a tax has been re
duced instead of raised.
We predict that auto ownei-s will buy
plates more rapidly and v/ith less grumt^
ling due to the reduced price and many
cars that had not been placed on the high
ways during the first half of the year
will get started earlier, consuming gaso
line and raising the revenue from that
source to a point that wi J probably make
up the difference in the price of license
plates.
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An Accredited School
It is gratifying to the citizens of North
Wilkesboro to know that their high school
is still on the list of accredited schools in
the Southern Association.
Membership in the association is quite
an asset to any school. One thing the
membership stands for is that any gradu
ate of an accredited school may enter any
college without taking an entrance ex
amination. There are many other advant
ages aside from the prestige that mem
bership affords.
A list of accredited schools this year
reveals that many cities in the state that
are much larger than North Wilkesboro
do not have schools in the association.
These facts speak well for North Wilkes
boro and show that the efforts to main
tain a high standard school have not been
in vain.
Another indication that the school is
living up to the standards of membership
is showm by the fact that during recent
years there has not been a student grad
uating from the school who failed in col
lege. On the other hand, many former
North Wilkesboro students are making
honor rolls in higher institutions of learn
ing.
A requirement that is keeping many
schools off the accredited list in larger
cities is teacher load. The Southern As
sociation requires that its member schools
not have over a certain number of stu-
doits per. teacher. North Wilkesboro city
schools met this requirement as well as
the length of ter^, which is a net 175
• days of school work.
One of the Jgre&t faults of the public
* school Bystef^hi Norih Carolina today is
too much teafcer load. Si ice the schools
are the motm eipensive item bf the state,
much econAiy has been practiced but by
astof I
teadier load . in t^ inter-
the sdiod system has been
Students in sdiool need the
of attention from the teachers
‘am ^ more
&imot'fiVe'ii(Kh one ar
dividual attention, hdp and advice as he*’
or she needs and must have to get most
out of school. '
Borrowed Comment
RELIEF JOBS
(Cleveland Star)
Further approval of WPA projects is withheld
because enough have been approved to absorb
all available labor on relief rolls. It might be
that more projects will be approved after those
now under way are completed. Indications are
that the government is truly tapering off its re
lief as President Roosevelt indicated in his At
lanta speech would be done.
Contractors who were awarded contracts are
asked to give preference to workers from the
relief rolls, but they are not compelled to employ
able-bodied men who refuse to do a full day’s
work, hence this class of labor has been dropped.
Unemployables, that is those who are sick,
aged or incapacitated for any reason, are no
longer a charge upon the federal government,
but the responsibility of the community in
which they live. This is as it should be. The
government cannot indefinitely furnish employ
ment to able bodied men and women, neither
can it continue to support the unemployables.
Individuals who have been more fortunately
blessed with this world’s goods should readopt
a charitable spirit for in charity the giver is
more blessed than the receiver.
Parley to Map New Deal Future.—Headline.
Don't you mean Farley ?—Indianapolis News.
If the trucks on our highways get much big
ger—it won’t make much difference if they do
beat the trains to railroad crossings.-
-Life.
Bruce-
BARTON
THIEVES UPON US
Many years ago Seneca the philosopher said:
“There is nothing we can properly call our own
but our time, yet always somebody is cheating
us out of it. If a man borrow.s money there
mu.st be bonds and securities, an.' -t is reasonable
to expect him to pay it back. If we are robbed
of our clothes there are laws for the punishment
of the thief, but he that helps himself to my
time thinks that he ow-es me nothing for it,
though he has taken something that even grati
tude cannot repay.”
Poor Seneca. You can
just see him getting up
early to put in some good
licks on one of his books,
only to have a chance ac
quaintance burst in with
the merry quip: "Was just
passing by and thought
I’d drop in for a chat.”
He grew rich and had
plenty of servants, but
this, he discovered, in
volved time out for sad
stories from his wife on why she just couldn’t
get on with the cook. More possessions meant
more papers to sign; added income meant add
ed worry—and all at the expense of time.
When the Emperor Nero, who had been his
pupil, grew jealous of Seneca’s popularity and
sent him orders to end his life, the philosopher
received the message stoically. He gathered his
friends around and said that, since he was de
prived of the privilege of distributing his pos
sessions among them, he would leave them the
only thing remaining to him—the pattern of his
life. Possibly the pangs of death were somewhat
assuaged by the thought that he was going
where he could have plenty of time.
Doctors charge for their time. Lawyers
charge so much for theirs that nobody goes to
see a lawyer if he can help it. But the rest of
us are more or less at the mercy of time-thieves.
Busy people, since Seneca’s day and even be
fore, have protested that “there ought to be a
law.” But so far nothing has been done.
Bruce Barton
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Mr. Henderson Thanks.
f Wilkesboro
Citizens Of
Editor The Journal-Patriot:
Will you allow me space in the
public pulse column of your pap
er to express my thanks to the
citliens and tax-payers of Wil
kesboro for their fine spirit of
co-operation while I served the
town as Tax Collector and City
Clerk for the past few months. I
also desire to express my thanks
to the Board ^wlth which I serv
ed. These men gave unselfishly
of their time and ability to pro
mote good government and the
upbuilding of Wilkesboro.
Sincerely,
J. R. HENDERSON.
Wilkesboro, N. C.
December 12, 1935.
SINS ARE PERPLEXING
General Evangeline Booth, has issued a decla
ration of war against sin, to continue until De
cember 31, 1936, though why this particular
closing date is selected she does not explain.
The campaign is not to be a local or haphazard
affair. Miss Booth asks Salvation Armies in all
countries to co-operate, and she names specifi
cally the following forces that are to be attacked:
Greed, hypocrisy, immorality, gambling, blas
phemy, malice, hatred, murder, theft, cant, jeal
ousy, cowardice, fashion, pride, conceit self-
consciousness, and lying.
These Bad Actors have been a part of the hu
man drama practically from the beginning. The
proposal to tear them out by their roots from
the human spirit, all within the space of twelve
months,' is a magnificent testimony to the cour
age of Miss Booth, but success is problematical.
Perplexing questions arise immediately. Who
shall define precisely what is and what is not a
sin? “Pride and fashion,” for example, are
these necessarily sinful? Pride frequently is a
powerful influence in keeping people on ^the
straight and narrow; fashion is one of the most
inveterate enemies of unemployment. Many sins
are merely virtues overgrown and distorted.
Greed may be exaggerated thrift; the line be
tween devotion and jealousy is often slender, as
is the division between self-respect and conceit.
Sin probably will take mnch of a beating
from organized wars, announced by manifests.
Its only reidl foe. however, is the slow eybhititni ^
of the individual conseience. Burns said: "Thine
own rejMach alone do fhnr.” Men who adopt
‘thiS'iqoMq.sometiiiMa do fh^iga that hart them*
arifeo, hot oft^ hurt oSmc pm-
A Statement
Editor The Journal-Patriot:
Wie desire to render a report
to the citizens and taxpayers of
Wilkesboro of our official actions
while in charge of the affairs of
the town for the past three and
half months and we want to ask
you to allow us to do this
through the public pulse column
of your paper.
When we took over the affairs
of Wilkesboro we received one
thousand three hundred twenty-
three dollars and seventy-seven
cents ($1,323.77) from the “Old
Hoard,” this being the sum they
had on hand. While we were in
charge we paid three bonds of
one thousand dollars ($1,000.00)
each, or a total of three thousand
dollars ($.3,000,000). These
bonds and other bonds of the
town had been in default for
several years, no outstanding
bonds having been retired by the
"Old Board” for several years. In
addition to retiring the three one
thousand dollaf bonds, (3-$l>-
000.00) we paid four hundred
forty doliars ($440.00) interest
on bonds that were outstanding
when we took charge of the af
fairs of the town. We also pur
chased and paid for around two
hundred dollars ($200.00) worth
of water meters and extra con
nections for new water consum
ers. A much needed community
Building was procured by the
Board in co-operation with the
Woman’s Club of Wilkesboro.
This building as you know Is now
under construction. We paid all
current bills as they were render
ed and left no bills that we made
for the “Old Board’’ to pay. The
tax rate for last year was one
dollar and sixty-five celts
($1 .66). We reduced the rate to
one dollar and twenty-five cents
($1.25), and we feel confident
that we could have reduced It to
one dollar ($1.00) next year if
we had 'seen permitted to con
tinue to administer the govern
ment of the town.
We do not think it amiss to
express to the citizens and tax
payers of Wilkesboro our thanks
for their fine spirit of co-opera
tion during our tenure, without
which our administration would
have been a failure. We also de
sire to publicly state that Mr. J.
R. Henderson, was an able and
diligent Tax Collector and City
Clerk, performing his duties in a
fair and conscientious manner,
during our administration. We
also wish to commend Mr. Arley
Foster, Chief of Police, for the
fair and Impartial manner that
he performed the duties of his
office. He was an alert, sober
and diligent public official and
our best wishes go with him as
he goes Into other work.
Very sincerely,
J. F. JORDAN.
C. T. DOUOHTON,
C. A. LOWE,
Wm. A. STROUD,
W. E. SMITHEY.
Wilkesboro. N C.
December 12, 1935.
JUST AAOUMD-AIOA
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NOTICE
By virtue of power of sale con
tained in a deed of trust executed
by Wintield Nichols to S. P.
Mitchell, trustee, for J. R. Finley,
executor of estate of J. T. Finley,
deceased, dated February 9lh,
1929, recorded in the office of
Register of Deeds of Wilkes coun
ty, in Book 151, page 226. on
February 9th, 1929, said deed of
trust being for purchase money of
the lands described therein and
in this notice, and default having
been made in tho payment of
said debt;
The undersigned trustee will,
on Monday, January 6th, 1936,
at two o’clock p. m., at the court
house door in Wilkesboro, sell to
the highest bidder for cash ah
public auction the following de
scribed lands, as described in said
deed of trust:
Lots Nos. 1, 2, 39 and 40. in
Block “J” on a plat of land for
merly owned by J. T. Finley es
tate, known as Finley Park Ex
tension, as surveyed and platted
by Samuel P. Mitchell, register
ed engineer, plat of which Is on
record In Wilkes county, regis
ter of deeds office In Wilkesboro,
N. C.. Book 67, page 539, to
which said plat ireferenoe is
hereby made for a more perfect
and complete description by
metes and bounds.
This the 6th day of December,
1935.
S. P. MITCHELL. Trustee.
By C. O. GILRBATH, Attorney.
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Bflardee Hoff
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COSTLIER TOBACCOS
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NOTICE
This is to give notice that my
daughter, Della Brown, sixteen
years of age, has left home and
I hereby forbid anyone keeping
her. She weighs about 120,
height four feet, nine Inches, has
brown hair and blue eyes.
MAR’TIN BROWM,
Hays, N. C.
Dec. 16, 1935. It-pd.
Gift
St^gestions
Cheney Ties $1.00
Pajamas $1.50, $1.98
Hosiery, per box - 50c
Shirts - $1.60, $1.98
Gladstone Bags $5.95
Stetson Hats. $5, $6.50
PAYNE
Clothing Co.
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