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MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1936
TOO LATE?
•' hi h)o. late!” Ah, nothing is too late—
■» learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles
his grand “Aedipus,” and Simonides
Sere off the prize of verse from his compeers
When each had numbered more than fourscore
years.
And Tbeophratus at fourscore and ten
Had begun his “Characters of Men.”
Chancer at Woodstock, with the nightingales.
At sizty wrote the “Canterbury Tales."
Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last,
Completed “Faust” when eighty years were past.
What then, shall we sit idly down and say,
The night hath come; it is no long^er day?
For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress.
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
' —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Conception of Enormity
Leave it to the statisticians to figure
out something for you. It has been cal
culated that the annual tax bill of the
American people is 12 billion dollars,
counting all taxes paid the federal,
state, county and municipal govern
ments
The Los Angeles Times figures it out
that it would take a week of steady
counting to count a million and at the
same rate 19 years and three months to
count a billion one at a time. To count
12 billion, the amount of the tax bill,
would consume around 218 years.
rures and statistics merely go
FuT totaPIBat taxes
Second Primary
With the Democrats of North Caro-
ttoa looking toward a second primary
whkh has been called for Satmday^
July 4th, the thoughts of many people, ^
who, no doubt, are greatly interested in
the outeonae of same, must naturally go
back to the proposal made by . Ralph
McDonald, one of *the ^ gubernatorial
aspirants, only a few days prior to the
first primary which took place on June
5th.
At that time Mr. McDonald made the
proposition to both Mr. Hoey and Mr.
Graham that the high'man in the first
primary take the plum. Notwithstand
ing the fact that headquarters of both
Mr. Hoey and Mr. Graham claimed its
candidate would be high man in the
5rst primary, the proposal was refused.
And then came the vote showing Mr.
Hoey topping Mr. McDonald by only
about 4,000 votes. Had the proposition
been accepted by Hoey leaders, it
would have all been over and the first
victory won, all of which would have re
sulted in no second primary as the can-
lidates for lieutenant governor and sec
retary of state would hardly have put
the state to the expense of holding the
second primary.
Mr. McDonald’s proposition was clear-
cut. He would have stood by his state
ment. Had it been accepted, Mr. Hoey
would have been the nominee today.
Now it must all be done over, and even
the most partisan followers of either
candidate looks fearfully to the vote of
July 4th, as politics is so uncertain and
treacherous.
JOUBKAL^PATB10T>
ive risen to in the pas
Bruce*
Barton
Field For Work
Wilkes County Council of Social
Agencies, made up of representatives of
■ civic organizations and institutions deal
ing with public life, has a great field of
labor—Wilkes county.
In what might be termed the initial
meeting held last week a glimpse of
what the council may amount to could
be foreseen. If a survey of social and
civic problems is made it will be quite
an achievement in that it should edu
cate the public on just what points of
civic activity and social behavior our
people are lacking.
Some of the things suggested that the
council can lend its influence and ef
forts to are a municipal playground, a
public library, helping to correct juve
nile delinquency, and many other activi
ties of like nature.
Thirty organizations working togeth
er could easily work up and carry out
projects of major interest, while it
would be quite difficult for one organi
zation to make such rapid headway.
CHANGE SCENES, SUCKER-SORE
These few lines are written in the quiet of
an office from which every one but the janitor
has departed. Presently I shall take a train to a
:ertain secret destination where I am to be
joined by one of my partners. Our destination
is Canada. We are going to eat and sleep and
Years ago a noted circus press agent intro
duced me to the crude phrase, “suckeivsore.” He
said that th? fr^ks in the side show lead a
highly nervous life. The fat woman, for in
stance, sits all day on her platform while the
:ustomers ( suckers) parade by and emit com
ments like this: “Say, Joe, look at that doll
baby. How’d you like to have a stomach like
that?" and “Jim, dear, just look at that fat
woman. Isn’t she terrible?”
The sword swallower, the midgets, the snake
charmer, and the Siamese Twins all must .sit
silent under*a barrage of similar jocosity. Theirs
not to make reply, theirs not to reason why;
they just have to sit and take it.
About once a month they explode. If some
thing isn’t done about it they jump off their
stands and begin to bite the customers. Their
nerves are shot: they are sucker-sore. The
management sends them away for a few days’
rest, ahd they’re ready then for another ordeal.
Every once in a while every man gets so tired
that he begins to be a nuisance even to those he
loves most. He annoys his wife and children;
he is in danger of alienating the very people
who have favored him with their business and
are responsible for his li\'ing. He is sucker-
sore. That is the time to pack the old bag and
sneak off for a few days.
Carelessness Kills
A hundred thousand lives in this
country were lost last year on account
of carelessness, according to recent sta
tistics given out. Of this number 36,-
900 were killed some way or other by
automobiles.
That leaves 64,000 who were killed
in other kinds of accidents caused by
carelessness on someone’s part. Acci
dents, regardless of whether they are
classed as unavoidable, can be attribut
ed to someone’s carelessness at some
time or other. Perhaps a person loses
his life because of negligence on the
part of someone months ago in that they
failed to do their duty in construction of
some building or product. It is not in
every case that the cause or negligence
la open for accidents. A person neglects
a scratch and in a few days he is planted
t:^beneath so many feet of earth, he slips
“ on a piece of aoap. and cracks his head
OIttlw &ith jjub. he*8earches for medicine
tork and gets hold of the wrong
Kittle, a disinfectant solution is left
Km be traced but in every instance
there is a cause. ....
Accidents occur on the highways, in
the boSe/in tbe office, in fart any place
“raleSy in reach and a baby « Poison-
are only a few short atones
f Me , The toll of
lives by carele^ess should be
I reminder to be caref^.
I4e-Ail Vets»^
Jv1
WMhingtoD.-^A hill io giv«
benefite to the taalHei of war
veterans and otiier persans kill
ed or injured In Florida during
the hurricane of 19S6 was pass
ed by the Senate today,j It now
am hack to the Hovse for con-
^sideration of minors wnendments.
Lewiston,^ Me.,
E)Ighty-on« A^ap^ld George _
of FarBlnfton FaHs, who went to -
France at *2 with 0«Ben4 John;
J. Pershing, Joined otbe^ World;
war veterans eonvertlnr Ix>i
bonds Into cash today. Piper
listed in 1S92 and served ^nntUi
Julyi 1*19. . -
its
Is Jen 4!ilsdiK%o
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NEWS ITEM: New York legislature reduces gasoline tax 1c per gal
lon. Beginning July 1, 19S6, the state gaaoline tax will be 8e per
gallon, a aaving to taxpayers of approximately $15,00(MX)0.
KNOX, LANDON
GET TOGETHER
Cow Munches Bonus
Check; »6tove Gets
Canilidates Sleet In Topeka With
Other GOP Kingpins To
Map Campaign
Topeka, Kas., June 16.—Gov.
Alf M. Liandon and his Republi
can running mate. Col. Frank
Knox, met under a blazing sun
today, spoke confidently to a
cheering crowd, and then got
down to campaign details—^from
finesse to finance—with the key
men of their party.
In 99-degree weather, the
presidential and vice presidenti
al nominees shook hands on the
limestone steps of the Kansas
Capitol as they embarked on
what Landon called “a real part
nership.’’
“Well, Colonel, you look in
good fighting trim. Welcome to
the campaign,” liandon told Knox
with a nod of his head.
“I am happy to be here in
yj- ■nnwwed*’’itfiUZi,— **weTe
going to let the truth be known
about the vital issues of this cam
paign you have made a fine start
with that telegram to the conven-'
tion,’’ , ,»! 1 - •— t I
Flnall.v, in the quiet of the
buff-brick Kansas executive man- j
Sion, with their after-luncheon
cigars lighted, Landon and Knox
and their 17 conferees began to
map the strategy which may spell
victory or defeat In November.
Ranged around the two men
were such kingpins as John D.
M. Hamilton, the new Republi
can chairman, who will speed by
plane tomorrow to New York to
discuss fund raising. Henry P. j
Fletcher, the retiring chairman,
was at hand to relate his own ex- ^
pcrience. |
Two World war. veterans, Al
bert Nichols of Sims, and Mark
Timmons of Piedmont, S. C., have
their bonus worries all right, but
it’s not about how they’ll spend
it.
A neighbor’s cow took care of
that for Nichols by eating the
check, Nichols reports. It was
relatively paltry but pleasantly
palatable.
Timmons saw his check and
bonds for $767 go up in smoke
within 12 hours after getting
them. Timmons left the bonds in
side a newspaper he had been
reading.
Mrs. Timmons used the paper
to start the kitchen stove.
For Independeuce Insure
LIFE
No man can feel independent unless his
and PROPERTY, his home, buildings and car are
fully insured.
The companies we represent are RELIABLE and
settle claims QUICKLY and HONESTLY.
I’acmers of the Mount Pleasant
section in Nash county recently
recently ordered 12 queens and
two three-pound crlonles of bees
from the AlamanC's Bee Com
pany of Graham,
North Wilkesboro 1
Insurance Agency.
J. B. WILLIAMS
Let US handle TOUR Insurance]
North Wilkesboro Phone 76
MORE THAN 800,i
NEW 1956 CHEVROLETS
have been sold
TRUCK DRIVER ;
KILLED BY TRAIN
^ THAT 35TH MILE-STONE
A gentleman with whom I had a luncheon en
gagement was a few minutes late. "You will
have to excuse me,” he said, “this is my thirty-
fifth birthday. I have always said that when
I was thirty-five I would have a complete phys
ical examination. I have been at it more than
two hours.”
Thirty-five is one of the big mile-stones. I
remember a series of articles our old friend
John Siddall published years ago. He had Irvin
Ck)bb write on Looking Both Ways at Forty. 1
wrote on How It Feels to Be Thirty-two. Ring
Lardner did the best piece in the series and called
it “General Symptoms of Being Thirty-five.
Though I cannot quote them verbatim, some of
Ring’s sentences linger in my memory. For ex
ample:
“The subject is awakened in the middle of
the night by the ringing of a fire bell. Sniffs
but does not smell smoke. Figures it is not his
house and rolls over and goes to sleep ag;ain.”
Also, “Our patient buys a copy of a national
magazine and reads the first installment of an
jxciting new serial story. At the end of the
installment the villain holds the beautiful
heroine in his horrid grasp. Patient forgets to
buy next month’s issue.”
Another big mile-stone comes at forty-five.^
Mo' young person reads the obitna^ipage of
s newspaper. But along about forty-five a man
suddenly discovers that page, and for the rest
of his life is a regular consumer of it
On my thirty-fifth birthday I took out some
additional life insurance, and was pleased to
have the doctors render such a good report I
cast up my accounts and fonnd a bit of a bal
ance in the bank. I said to myself: "Now I am
pretty well fixed. I propose never to be worried
>r hurried again.” AU of my really serious wor
ries have happened since date. .
Hickory, June 16. — Injuries
suffered when a truck he was |
driving was struck by Southern j
passenger Train No. 12 on a j
grade crossing here last evening |
proved fatal to Raleigh Rhine-
hardt of Hickory, who died last
night in a local hospital. |
Rhinehardt was hauling a load
of gravel for a road construction
company when the east-bound
train demolished the truck as he
was” attempting to cross the
tracks on Eighth street.
Witnesses said he apparently
tailed to see the approaching lo
comotive because of box cars on
a side track.
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