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■> I- *■ ‘^ INDMMDHMT in polricb >iH«JP^»|iii 111 III 'iwvi.- PtfUWMd IfonAuv 1^ Thiiradajs 4it North’ fnitelmro, N, C. -- i D. J. CAItTEa ud JULIUS C. HUMARD. rmUUkan SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Yoor $1.S« itfiV ' of he State |e,lf per Year Batared at the post office at Nerth WUkes- boMt N. C-> as second class msttez uatler Act 4, 1878. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1936 THE JOURNAb-PATRIOT, NORTH Wn^nSBBOBO, N. C; "MMMMI. I UPM,. ■ —IIPM. Ilii it: You can’t keep both your yourself and your business in a liquid condition.—St. Louis Star- Times. Harry Hopkins declaims the relief program ■will be met better this -winter than ever before. For whom, Harry, the party or the unemployed? Chica^ Daily News. Feeding The Birds At this season of the year lovers of 'wild life are given grounds for fear that birds, particularly partridges, will not find enough food for sustenance. Birds depend upon seeds and such bits of grain as the farmer may have left in the fields for their food and dur ing the severe cold weather and in snow the source of their food is covered up or froven. Cracked corn or smaller grain make.'s excellent food for birds. 1935 Dividend Year Business was much better in 1935 than in 1934—but did profits follow the trend? Answer to that depends on what business you are interested in. A tabulation .shows that some indus tries made remarkable profit records, measured by the dividends they paid. Steel dividends ro.so 100 per cent; mail order houses, 165 per cent: coppers, 148 per cent. Only two industries showed drops, tobaccos and railroad equipment, which went back 3 per cent ^ and 40 per cent respectively., ' "■ TtligS’~^tviaETn!s“rose 1 per cent; banks and in.surance, 7 per cent; rail roads, 3 per cent; foods, 2 per cent; chain store.s, 1 per cent; motors, 42 per cent; oils, 2 per cent. Average increase in indu.strial dividends was 10 p’ir cent. Breakdown Of Laws We still have hopes that the drivers' license law in North Carolina may help to curb the appalling toll of automobile accidents, but the information contained in the following editorial from the Greensboro Daily News does not carrj’ an optimi.stic feeling: The wholesale dehorsenien'—or i.s it de wheel ing?—of the drunken drivers on North Carolina highways as a result of the enforcement of the new drivers’ license law recounted in stories in most of the state’s newspapers and accompanied by a great fanfare of judges’ charges to grand juries and lectures to courtroom audience.s was due for a fly in the ointment somewhere. And the newspaper boys at Raleigh seemed to have found it. They have learned from the highway safety- division that a number of revocations of licenses for drunken driving have had to be rescinded because the warrants have been changed—by per mission of the judges of course—to charge crimes of lesser degree, crimes that do not carry with them mandatory loss of license. The Daily News holds that with proper en forcement the drivers’ license law may be a great force for good in promoting highway safe ty. But if it is to be allows to cover drunken driving in .some instances and not in others, then in addition to the failure to administer justice in particular ca.ses a general disrespect for the whole law will be engendered. There is no attempt here to .say that in a few cass there might not be evidence sufficient to re duce tfie charge from drunken driving in the warant. But if it is just another way of per mitting the extension of the leniency of the court to “good fellows”, then the judges are all wet in their grand jury castigations of a mere ora torical menace to life and limb on the highways. If a person is driving drunk, then that is what he should be charged with in black and white. If a law is to accomplish results equal justice must be meted out in its enforce ment or it begins to disintegrate and break down. One reason why prohi bition was a failure was the lax and lethargic manner in which its enforce ment was approached and no doubt be cause some of the so-called “good fel lows” were allowed to get by. If the license law is not enforede in discriminately and impartially it will be- cosM a mere football on the statute books to be kicked about and disre- Bwded. ' ■ ^ Covdity F£rm Plaimiiig Many farmers from various sections ■of Wilkes counfy gathered at the court-’ house in Wilkesboro last week to dis cuss county farm' planning. In other words, to ascertain what the county has been doing in the way of farming and help to mould sentiment for correcting whatever faults there may have been. Records show that about 37,000 acres of com produced an average of 24 bush els of grain per acre. Although this is more than twice the average srield of a quarter century ago, it is still too low for a county like Wilkes where the cli mate is ideal and where there are good .soils that respond wonderfully to ef forts for improvement. The county does not grow enough corn to supply its own needs. We do not need to grow more acres but to in crease the average yield. There is al ready too much land cleared and only the choice fi-ilds should be cultivated, allowing the steeper slopes to be refor ested or sodded for grazing. It is possible, after all, to give Mr. Hoover credit for business recovery. If he hadn’t made so poor a campaign in 1932 Mr. Roosevelt might not have won.—Louis'ville Times. Marriage license clerks complain that tht girls aren’t availing themselves of leap year. Perhaps they’re waiting to make sure 1936 is constitutional.—Kansas City Star. Bruce Barton BRUC8 BARTON LIBERALS, PAIN IN NECK All my life I have been hoping to meet some one who mould give a satisfactory definition of a “liberal." I read regularly the two most in fluential “liberal” magazines in the country, and in every issue they tell me everything that has been done wrong that week, both at home and abroad. , Far from "liberal” in their characterization of those of whom they happen to disapprove, they make very clear all the things they are against, but I have been trying for years to find out what they are for. What sort of social set-up do they think would work? Aside from venting their jeal ousy and wrath on all who have happened to get along in the world, what other program do they have ? By what rule or circumstance do people happen to get themselves cla.ssified a.s “liberal” or “reactionary”? .•V certain famous senator, who.se gymnastic.s I have watched for thirty years, has been on all sides of most question.s except tho.se which in volve votes in his home state. On those ques tions —silver juggling, potato control. Townsend plan, or whatever, you always know where to find him. Yet he is a “statesman” and a gre.at “liberal.” I simetimes wonder if professional liberalism is so much a matter of thought as of torpid livers and unfortunate financial experience. People whose livers are active, and whose af fairs progress, believe in the country and want to see it go ahead. This is an exaggeration, of course; not a fair statement. But the mental snootine.ss of pro fessional “liberals” has long given me a pain. I wLsh I knew why they are, what they want, and what evidence they have that things would be better if they were given what they want. ■ * * • PITY OFTEN NOT WANTED .\ cultivated young woman who holds a re sponsible busine.ss position in New York is a member of one of the old families. Her two sis ters are Social Registcrites in a conservative eastern city, and spend much time shaking their heads and pitying their young;er sister. “Poor child.” they murmur. “She must be at the of fice every morning at nine. Sometimes the com pany sends her out on long trips. She travels alone in trains; she even Hies. We urge her to come back and live ■with us, but she is so stub born that she can’t bear to admit she had made a mistake.” On her side, the young lady says: “I have a thrilling time, but my poor sisters, what a dull life they lead—bridge and luncheons and more bridge and dinners and symphony concerts. It would drive me crazy. I pity them.” This land of ours is full of city people pitying country dwellers; country people pitying the hemmed-in residents of the city; bachelors pity ing the fathers of big families, and fathers won dering how bachelors can think that they get anything out of life at all. A rich old manufacturer went to pay a last call on the night-watchman of his factory. The two had started as boys on the bench together but while the one grew rich the other loved li quor and irresponsibility too well. The rich man cleared his throat to utter a few words of con dolence. The dying man raised a warning hand: “None of your sympathy,” he cried. “You mean all right, but I don’t need it I’ve had a hole lot more fun out of living than you ever will have. Pity that expresses itself in helpful action is a noble thing. But too mneh so-called pity is nothing but an emotional cocktail wherewith a somewhat complacrat indi^vidoal drinks a toast to what he &ncies is his own superior Judgment or taste! ON EFHCIENTLT •3T. Pifot Dtes, ^^SlMkenb Ceu^l Prison, Raleigh, day.—^Bd Jenkins, a povsrtnlly bnllt man weighing 850 j^unda despite months ot confinement in a penitentiary cell, died today, the second victim of North Cero- llna’s new lethal gas execution, and In death refuted statements of many that the new form of death Is Inhumane. The strong tmctile mill work er, convicted ot^ shooting Paul Collins, a fellow mill employee at a plant at Bessemer, N. C., to death last July 4th, died seven minutes and thirty seconds after the poisonous vapors rushed up ward from the acid container perched beneath the oak chair In which he was strapped. He was unconscious approxi mately 20 seconds after the cya nide pellets were dropped Into the container of sulphuric acid. Dr. George Coleman, prison physi cian, said Jenkins’ heart action stopped 60 seconds after the re leasing of the pellets. A week ago Allen Foster, a Birmingham, Fla., negro died aft er 11 minutes iu the gas cham ber. The negro, less powerfully built than Jenkins, was conscious approximately four minutes. The execution caused state-wide com ment because of the length of time the prisoner was conscious and caused many witnesses to say that electrocutions were less painful. Jenkins marched into the death chamber, holding his head high and smiling at witnesses, at 10:37 a. m. The prisoner remained mute while death chamber attaches strapped his arms and legs. J. Winder Bryan, assistant warden, asked the' condemned man If he wished to be blind folded. Jenkins shook his head. While prison authorities sealed the cell he eyed the witnesses as if looking for a familiar face. As the deadly fumes swirled . ~^deat£i diaIr badk againat tha J^bu liai fHiair, and balf^IoMd hl« eyea. Thro«~ adcoada sftat«f.„W breathed thh brnegrey fnmM. Nine aeeonda after bridged the lethal gaa? reaplratltwildi^^ ^ and heart action stopped 'td'aw" ’ ends later. . ’ ‘ -■?^' He inhaled four times be was nnconscions. Jenkins ap parently died peacefully. -f; Those who witnessed the ex^ cation last week and who saw Jenkins die today agreed that death by lethal gas la more bn- mane than by electricity.'' Dr. W. C. Davison, dean of the Duke medical school, ^Durham, and Dr. F. M. Hanes, professor ot practice of medicine of Dnke University, said they "believe that this man died painlessly and that the method of execution was humane.’’ Oscar Pitts, acting director of the state penal division, who wit nessed the execution, which was his first, said: “It was not a pleasant thing, but I think Jenkins died Instan taneously. I don’t think he suf fered.” Jenkins w.ire a pair of white shorts. He had asked that his head not be shaved. The body was taken by the undertaker 20 minutes after he was pronounced dead. It ■was sent to Jenklna’ wife at Bessemer City who did not visit him while he was in prison. 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Landon, asserting new deal mismanagement and waste are “delaying the return of pros perity,” said tonight that the country “really needs is better housekeeping.” Outlining his views on nation al problems for the first time since mention of his name as a Republican presidential possibil- ityy, the man hailed by his pro ponents as the “Kansas budget balancer,” declared: “The clinching proof ot the new deal’s failure Is that almost as many persons are out ot work today as there were when it first set up shop in 1933. ... A na tion will survive to correct its po litical mistakes. Rut if an un sound financial program is coupl ed with them, the nation faces destruction.” Governor Landon addressed a banquet climaxing the annual Kansas Day celebration — this year the diamond anniversary of Kansas’ admission to the Union. His prepared address confined Itself strictly to national prob lems without reference to person alities or candidates for 1936. Governor Landon warned of ‘powerful forces trying to con vince our people that the consti tution is not their charter of hu man liberties” and charged the works progress administration was “organized so that relief might be handled in familiar ‘pork barrel’ fashion.’’ Note of Correction In the obituary of Dr. S. L. Perkins published Thursday It was erroneously slated that Dr. Perkins was a son of Dr. David Perkins. He was the grandson of Dr. Daniel Perkins, well known practitioner of his day, and son of Mr. David Perkins. Been Able Stick Mt Since I Put Them YE5 SIR-ONE OF THE ^ FIRST REQUIREMEHTS MONTVIEW DAIRY demand I CtBAHUlMiSS ' FROM BBSINbll ' TO END.' FIRESTONE GROVNO GRIP TIRES GIVE GREATEST TRACTION EVER RROWR Farmers, rural mail carriers, tank wagon operators, truck owners and others who must drive on unimproved roads and through mud and snow’ report Ground Grip tires the best investment they ever made. 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