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>lWTINP0UnC8 NbHriied Jloadaya and Tkorsdays at North WffltMboro, N. C. ^ J. CASTES aad JVl^S & HUBBABD, Pabliahm SUBSCRIPTION RA.TBS: ■One Year _ :Sx M(H)th8 '{bur Months $1.60 . .75 . .60 Ont of the State $2.00 per Year * ' EntHed st tJie post office st North Wilkes- koro, N. C., as aeco»d class matter under Act e Mardi 4, 1879. MONDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1935 Bjo best answer to Hoover is: Why didn’t yoaf—^Tampa Tribnne. “Hell is full of professional reformers,” de- ■clares a minister. We regret to hear this. We had been hoping there was room for more.— nomaston (Ga.) Times. f War Outlook Bad Readers of this and all newspapers have followed with interest the developments -of warlike atmosphere in Europe and are hoping that this country can remain free from European squabbles. Italy’s conquest of E!thiopia is going fonraird despite the League of Nations and the peace plan drawn up by Great Britain and France proposing to give Italy more than half of Ethic^ia proved to be wholly unsatisfactory. These develop ments stirred the spirit of nationalism in Burc^ and fanned the flames of desire for war. Observers look upon the situa tion with much cooicem. Good Work Noticed While many kicks and counter-kicks about the state highway system are often voiced, and not always without cause, we do not feel that we should pass up saying a good word for the state highway forces about the prompt and efficient way in which snow was removed from the hard surfaced highways. Judging by the little traveling we have been doing and by reports from others w’ho have been on the highways more ex tensively during the past week, the highway forces lost not time in clearing the highways of snow as soon as it had settled on the surface. By doing the job promptly, they were able to do a better job before the srow had been packed into slipper>’ ice by motor vehicles. Even if it was their duty to get the snow off and get it off quickly, the job was worth noticing because it placed the highways in safe condition for travel and no doubt prevented many accidents. New Year Resolutions On Wednesday of this week we w’iil,, start another calendar year. What the new year has in store \ve do not know, but We delict in taking this (qjportunity to wish one and all a happy and prosper ous new’ year. As fai- as time is concerned, the new year is a cean slate upon which each one of us may wi'ite just about what we wish during the 366 days of the year 1936. Some may be victims of circumstance over which they have little or no control, but it is within the power of each to take advantage of wdiat opportunities the new year affords and to write on the clean slate of time only those things wdiidi are honorable and which will build, rather than tear down, the attributes of charac ter. Any day or any week is a new* oK>or- tunity, but New Year’s day seems to have added significance because it is a time when we change dates one year. It is a starting point for a new period of time, and as such we think of it as bein^ more Significant as a starting point for new en deavors and reforms. Many do not need to make new resolu tions for 1936 because they did not use the ones made for 1935. Others, how ever, perhaps with more will-power and a more deeply rooted desire to carry out the resolutions they made, realized the am bitions resolved and are ready to take on more conquests in the new year. Often we have knpwn people to resolve on New Year's Day to quit some habit - that they consid^ed detrimental. Some succeeded vdiile^thers failed after a brief tigse. ah itM desire that is accountable persmi who really wants ^and sincerrty worics to that acc(«npliah his goal, pio- not aim at the supmnatunl impoiflMe. Fji||[erpriiitiing Everybod^^? The ^vement fmr the recording df ev erybodyh ftngeriMrints seems to be gaining moenentom. several commonities vol*'^ ' Untary organisations have been formed to encourage parents to have their diOdrea’s 4ngerprints Jiecorded—end, incidentidly, their own. Many mnnidpaiitiee now ' re quire the fingerprinting of every applicant for a public job. Sometimes, when these fingerprints are sent to Washington for comparison with those of persons of known criminal records, strange discover ies are made. CrooksTjf varying degrees have thus been detected in their efforts to get on the public payroll in positions of trust. The larg^t collection of fingerprints anywhere in the world is in the depart ment of justice in Washington. An even larger file may soon have to be establishel to identify persons claiming benefits un der the new sociid security aci.. There does not seem to be any good argument against keeping a fingerprint record for identification purposes. Criminals and their lawyers are about the only serious obj 0ctoi*s Recently several "missing” men were located by means of their fingerprint rec ords, and the identity of sever^ persons killed in accidents were established by the same means. The department of justice has opened its files to those who wish to place their ovm tog^rints on record, and the number availing themselves of this privilege is steadily growing. Bruce- BARTOH MRS. president, UNUKELY A woman who had obtained a job as co-pilot on an air-mail liner resig^ned because she cjuld not enter the Pilot’s Union and so was not per mitted to fly passengers in bad weather. This caused Amelia Earhart to suggest the raising of a fund to “break down the barriers against women in aviation.” Miss Earhart has done much herself to bieak down such barriers, but it will take a long time to destroy the prejudice inherited through many generations in which men have managed trtuisporta- tion. No women drove chariots through the streets of Rome or com manded galleons on the Mediterranean. No Indian squaw captained a canoe; no dark-eyed maiden earn ed a living as a g^>ndolier, and even in modem taxi cabs not more than one driver in a thousand is a woman. These are sad historical facts, but I do not blame the self-reliant maidens of the present from being rebellious toward them. But there is an even sadder fact, which is this—the real despots who keep women out of the top posi tions arc not the men but the women them selves. A leading feminist refused to have a woman doctor when her children were bom. "I like women,” she said, “and I battle for them. But when I am sick I don’t want one fussing around me.” Another woman, .successful in business, re fused an interview to a woman bond salesman. “I work hard for my money,” she exclaimed. “Do you think I want to let a woman invest it?” An organization which proposes to elect a woman President of the United States asks me to write in favor of their movement, but I answer that it will do no good. “The men will not put up much of a fight.” I say, “but you never will be successful. No woman will be President be cause the women will vote against her.” For some million.s of years wives have turned to husbands in emergencies and cried: “What shall I do?” Some day doubtless (his habit will pass away—in just about as many million years as it has taken the h.abit to be formed. Bruce Barton Case b Success LEAP FAITH IS GREATER THAN HOPE "Billy Sunday is dead—but he had something worth more than nwney or fame or the splendor of kings. If you are a very sophisticated per son you may have thought him an emotional clown, but one who knew him ever could doubt that he believed what he preached. He was as sure of the existence of God and of Heaven as he was of his own presence on earth. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and St. Peter were as real to him in their angelic robes as were the people who appeared physically before his eyes. He WM sure also of Ws own salvation; he knew he would go to Heaven. Compared with the brain of Robert G. Inger- soll, the brain of “Billy” Sunday hay have been an inferior instrument of thought, but what would Ingersoll have given for “Billy’s” unques tioning faith I Ingersoll achieved fame as the grreat agnostic because his intellectual honesty would not permit him to affirm what be could not prove. But yearningly, almost pathetically, he hoped; and once, at his brother’s grave, be gave this tragic utterance to that hope: Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the underlying dead there comes no word, but in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.” Ingersoll wanted to believe; “Billy” Sunday believed. Whiciv was the 'more fortunate? If it were poasiblV to implant in every.heart the certainty that /spy" poseessed, ft wonld be the grea^ that could be oantend iqKm Tha Ported Jonas family,Itv- ing in a rentad farm hoase under conditions of axtrama povarty; wanted a home to call Its own. ^ To gratify that wish, Jones lo cated an abandoned old shack in a nearby community, which he found he could buy with a little, help. The shack was a picture, of complete dilapidation. The win dows and doors were gone, the porch had rotted away, the root sagged and leaked and honey suckle had taken the yard. There was no sign of a fence on the premises. To such a place Jones proposed to move with a wife In poor health and a brood of small children. These clrcumstancos were re ported by the wife of a country doctor to Selina H. Hlndle, home management supervisor tor the rural resttlement division of the Resettlement Administration in Amelia County, Virginia. “Wpien I visited the family,” wrote Miss Hlndle, ‘T found Porter looking at the desolate old house. As I stood there and heard him express his desire for a home that he could call his own and point out the poBsibllities In the shack it he could get a little help, I caught the feeling that here was a man worthy of rehabilita tion. “After necessary arrangements had been made, the owner allow ed Porter |25 to repair the house. With this he bought windows and doors and put building paper on the walls. He arranged to heat the living room with a stove made from an oil barrel. “Ho worked for lumber with which to rebuild the porch and fix the roof. The entire family went to work clearing away the honeysuckle and beneath it they found some lily bulbs which were to add much to the appearance of the place later. “The family has raised about 150 pullets for winter layers and has gone to the woods and made pickets for a chicken yard fence. Mrs. Jontjs’ health is better than It has been for several years. The children are happy. Charles, who didn’t do so well in school, asked to be allowed to go to a CCC camp so he could apply his earn ings to buying the home. He was under weight so he had his fath er get him a tonic. Before long I had a card from him saying he weighed enough to get in the camp. He is now in camp and happy to be helping In this way. ‘One d^y this fall I met Port er on the road and he said, ‘I have a chance to sell my old car for 250. I don’t need the car and that ISO will build my ben house.’ This family will not be hun gry this winter. There is plenty of canned food, stored Irish po tatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, tur nips, carrots and cabbage, corn and wheat in the bin and throe fat hogs for the winter meat. Mo lasses will take the place of su gar to a great extent and two cows will supply them with plen ty of milk and butter. “A small acreage of tobacco well attended this year provided funds with which Porter was able to pay back his rehabllltatioh loan and enlarge his poultry flock. The family will be able to finance themselves through the winter and possibly next sum mer. “In this case, we feel rehabi- Itation'has helped a worthy fam ily to again become self-sustain ing.” Christmaa Home-Comin; At the Carheim The annual holiday home-com ing of the S. Q. Myers family was celebrated at the Carlheim hotel in Lenoir on Christmas day as usual. Mr. and Mrs. S. Q. Myers, well known host and hostess of the Carlheim, began to scatter the holiday spirit among their guests early on Christmas eve, and the first section of the family group arrived Christmas eve. In this party was Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Crosby and their two attractive daughters, Sara and Anita, the former being at home on her va cation from King^mith College, Washington, D. C. Their home is in Chester, S. C. Others arriving Christmas day from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. W. fl. Myers, of the Hotel Caldwell, Morganton, and two daughters, Mary Louise and Sara Quincy; Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Myers and their little daughter, Martha, of the Albemarle Hotel Albemarle, and Mrs. Norma Cheatham, of Washington, D. C., and her daughter. Miss Norma, an Arlington Hall student. Others making up the complete circle of 18 included Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Pitts and son, Pltsy, Jr., of Le noir. |$'waw,son,jump!^ Beat IP^YOU Adjaatin|r Contneto Aid Soil Improvwnmt In 1936 the agricultural ad justment progn^ms will retire close to 600,000 acres of land from the production of cotton, tobacco, com, wheat, rye, pea nuts and Irish potatoes in North Carolina. ’This will give the farmers a good opportunity to Improve their land with soil-building le gumes, said E. C. Blair, exten sion agronomist at State College. A great many farmers have been content, year after year, to cultivate large areas of poor land and secure distressingly poor yields when they could double or even treble their pro duction by adopting a better system of farm management. For Instance, Blair pointed out, the average corn yield per acre in this state In 1934 was only 20 bushels. Abhoat fariuer can iaoroue thla'rioiJ ^ 3.0‘ttnhhels by.^ploir* ins .1^4^ -hhh good crop of le- gutittoi Blair added, while farm- era .who have been turning under tognmes regularly for several y^re think nothing of making ‘60 bushels of corn to the acre. The avreage North Carolina yield of cotton In 1934 was 316 pounds to the acre. But there are records of more than 600 pounds of lint per acre raised by growers who are consistent users of legumes. The crop adjustment contracts are designed to stimulate the growing of legumes by providing that land retired from the culti vation of basic crops may be planted to farm-improvement crops. Such crops may be for soil- improvement or eroeion preven tion, pasturage, fallow, or they may be young forest trees. iagntaniy- ke .to amount ot lund DMihtdljr uaad on the fa|m for th^ PWr^io^ Btelt- IMl 'V RlWi/ oir JJ 2ND ' The now and old boarda ot di rectors of the North WnkasJxjro- Klwanls ctob,wiU,h>ld » uitotjne at Eo&l Wljles on Thuigd^^ January 2, at 7 p. m. Chairmen of all the commit tees are etpedally urged,to havo- reports ready.for the meetiag. C(UJ>S FE^ Limid-Tableta tat day Balve-Noee HEADACHES Drops in mtadea y^otel HAPPY NEW YEAR! An age-old greeting, but one that ever car ries good cheer and good wishes among friends all over the world, and now we wish to join in shouting it to all our patrons and acquaintances with the greatest of aincerity. The New Year is just ahead of us and we hope that it will bring you continued Hap piness and greater Prosperity, a year filled to overflowing with good fortune. May we take this means of expressip:-Our gratitude for your generous patronage 4“r- ing 1935. We appreciate your co-operatiMi to the fullest degree, all ^ more determined than ever to proyite you with the very best electr^l aert^ .Jioa- sible in the future. It is-always.a genuine pleasure to be of service to our patrons,and every will receive our most prompt attottiou. ' SURRY COUNTY MAN KILLED BY - EXPOSURE Mount Airy, Dec. 26—Amle Norman, 26, was found dead near the Low Gap highway a short distance from Ladonia chanh and 18 miles northwest of this city about 10:30 a. m. today. He was beUuyed to have died from r a prohfbto opthM^ M. G. BUTNER, Manager North Wilkesboro Brandi «ELBOTBICaTY IS CHBAP ^USB Vt
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