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The^Jrarnal* Patriot ; INDEPENDENT IN POUTia PdbHahed Mondajt and Thursdaya at North Wilkosboro, N. C. D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD. PnWiaher* SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.60 Six Months — *76 Four Months 60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Entered at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act of March 4, 1879. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936 Youth and Crime It is an increasingly deplorable fact that young men and young women are responsible for so many criminal cases being on court dockets in Wilkes county and all over North Carolina. Twenty years ago court dockets were light compared to what they are now. Records show, for instance, that there was seldom a larceny charge. Now a great per cent of the cases are young men and young women indicted for stealing something or for receiving stolen goods. A suiwey of the defendants would no doubt show that a very large per cent of them have gone to school but little and invariably not regular in attendance in church or Sunday school and take no interest in affairs calculated to be for the good of their respective communi ties. The National Youth Administration begins a youth guidance program and if it is carried out accordng to outlined plans it will be a herculean task for somebody. Information should be gath ered as to why so many young people in Wilkes county drop out of school before they have acquired a reasonable knowl edge of the fundamental subjects of education. If such information could be gather ed it would no doubt disclose indiffer ence on the part of parents concerning the future of their children. The Winston-Salem Journal makes the following comment on juvenile de linquency: On the authority of J. Eldgar Hoover, chief of investigation, one-nfth of the crimes committed in this country are by persons under voting ige. Set that -sentence off by itself. Ponder U. Sig- lificance lies here. Adult .America has no cause for patting it.self m the back, when it considers what the above datement means. .Adult .America is largely re sponsible for juvenile America’s crime for its delinquency. It should do something very definite about it. There are, of course, reform schools, welfare departments and probation officers. But quite a few confirmed penitentiary inmates claim that reformatorie.s often serve to train and polish off a youthful criminal. But these aren’t sufficient. All the hoy.s and girls who run on the street can’t be shut up in reform schools. All the youngsters who are surrounded by bad environmental contacts can’t be placed under probation officers. The welfare folk may be watching the wrong boy or girl in many instances The little shaver who has been absorbing devilment unnoticed instead of the marked delinquent, may prove to be the Dil- linger or Baby Face Nelson of the community. So what? Uncle Sam has an idea that the sage who .said an idle mind was the devil’s work shop had hold on the tail of a right idea. Out at Louisville. Ky., he is co-operating with the Jefferson county juvenile court in providing a workshop for delinquent youngsters. An enterprise of this type puts the boys on orobation to work and should serve to keep them out of mischief, while at the same time training them for lives of u.sefulness. But how about the boy who has escaped the watchful eye of the probation officer, the youngster who lives in a community where there are no probation officers ? Society might not do a bad day’s work if it made an effort, to extend the idea providing vocational training and recreational centers in every com munity. Let the child have fun but let it be a sanely directed, carefully supervised fuit Let the youngster be doing something, but make certain that something is worthwhile and augurs well for his future. Educate the Adult The casualty insurance indnstry, said Henry Swift Ives in a recent address, is tah'ng an increasing interest in accident prevention, especially highway acci dents. It has long realized that it is more desirable to prevent accidents than to merely indemnify victims and their Yxeira—and today it is asking public co operation in seeking to reduce Ameri ca’s nnd tf^fWeMary death and ' Ths ionl of acodent prevention work; ' Tr i? i .-- , V ' ■■ that will produce feaults is education, is necessary that law enforcement agen cies, especially oiur traffic parols, be improved, and that laws’governing'njo- tor vehicle operation be brought up to date. But the reckless or ignorant driv er will continue to endanger lives in spite of the best efforts of legislatures, judges and police officers—unless the force of public opinion is enlisted to make him mend his ways, or keep off the highways. Proof of what safety education can accomplish is found in the magnificent record produced by safety instruction in the public schools. This work was started some fourteen years ago, and was inaugurated by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, representative of the leading casualty insurance companies. During those 14 years, there has been a 196 per cent in crease in traffic fatalities to adults— and a 2 per cent decrease in traffic fa talities to children of school age or un der. According to Mr. Ives, if the trend in the case of children had been the same as in the case of adults, 53-800 more young lives would have been snif fed out. Now it is time we educate the adults. Jupiter, we learn, has not one moon, but ten. We are trying to visualize a choir of Kate Smiths helping the same over the mountains. —Newark (Ohio) Advocate. Bruce* BARTON PLENTY AMERICAN VITALITY Once I had an interview with Lloyd George, when he still was the Grand Old Man who had saved the empire. A year or two later he was just a neglected ex-poliiician (great nations are not .so grateful). He spoke of prohibition and said it never would succeed in hhigland because the climate is so disagreeable that the English workman must have his daily grog to keep go ing. “But in your marvelous country, where the sun shines and there is so much sparkle in the air and such boundless vitality in the people— ah. there anything is possible.” , Well, as it turned out, anything is not pos sible, even in our marvelous country. Prohibi tion was not possible and probably will not be until there has come a vast change in the make-up of human nature. But what Lloyd George .said about our almost boundless vitality is true. Into the making of Amer ica has been poured the best blood of the most ad venturous members of all peoples. Any idea that over, the frontiers all Bruce Barton the opportunities are cro.s.sed, is nonsense. I write these brave words, having talked re cently with a young Englishman, now in business among us, who tells me he never really knew the thrill of opportunity until be landed on these shore.s. I write also as a record and a reminder. If we have another depre.ssion I want this niece to l>e around where I can read it and re member that in the darkest hours of 1932 I de cided that a certain great .American indu.strj- was hopeles-sly over-built and never would come back. Being very wise and f.ar-sighted, I sold out my stock at the bottom. Every time I look at the current high quota tions 1 think: 'This is the price you paid, my lad, for your silly notion that the vitality of America was all used up. SPEAK MAN, THE TRUTH Maybe Mr. Kipling was unfair to an unknown contractor when he penned these lints: The architect and builder kid -ed Cheops on his pyramid “Ready next week, sir, have no fears,” And this went on for thirty years. Contractors are not often dishonest. Their real fault is a certain excess of tender-hearted ness. Tney hate to disappoint the mar: who is paying for the work. A friend, now engaged in fixing over a house, spoke feelingly along these lines no later than yesterday. “We were held up for two weeks waiting for on particular piece of material,” he exclaimed. “First they told us it had been ship ped ten days before. Then they, said it was coming down on a special truck. Day after day it was to be on the job tomorrow. Finally we discovered that it was lost somewhere in a freight yard. ‘‘If they had given us the straight facts at the beginning we could have gone on with some other parts of the work. But workmen were idle, and my blood pressure was around 400, all because some one just didn’t have the guts to tell me the truth.” Some politicians and statesmen act as if they were all ex-contractors. The first rule of states manship seems to be “never tell the voter any thing unpleasant. Give him the old shampoo.” This kidding is old stuff, and with the younger generation it does not sit well. For these young sters are a new thing under the sun—they tell the truth. Pleasant or unpleasant, they blurt it out ^ \f^n they take chg^e of the wcaiii, may be more often But th^ may an «id to the aay«yation loid nuiiauee igf ' Sept, 16—Messrs. L M. Colesuav and Harrison Sdather cele^^ thdr 40tl^ Mrthday Sunday at the home of Mr. Sobth- er. An elaborate dinner was spread at noon. Several of their friends gathered for the occasion and a general good time was re ported. , Mrs. Spurgeon Johnsra remains quite ill at the home of her father, Mr. Sunny Chambers. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Chambers j and Mrs. Boyce Myers were guests I of Mr. and Mrs. Vender Triplett J Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson' and two sons, Frank and Allen, of Call, and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hemric and two daughters. Fay and Claudette, of Union Grove, were guests of Mesdames Johnson’s and Hemric’s parents, Mr. and I Mrs. B. H. Roberts, during the week-end. Mrs. J. D. Jarvis, who has been in declining health for some time, doesn’t show much improvement, j Her many friends are wishing.her a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Wellborn and children and Mr. T. R. Rob erts were in North Wilkesboro on business Monday. ’i^iBlayMOANIMfr JT«T teft lM COUNTS nua. Bulletin Tells How To Figure Farm Crop Cost Farmers who wish to figure their production costs more ac curately will be helped by a bul letin just issued by the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Station. The bulletin, prepared by R. E. L. Greene, research assistant in farm management, shows how costs were figured for various crops on representative North Carolina farms. It also shows how a grower may determine the amount of fertilizer he can profitably apply to his crops to increase the yield. Beyond a certain point, addition al fertilizer will cost more than the extra yield is worth. Experiment station bulletin No. 305, “Cost of Producing Farm Products in North Caro lina,” may be obtained free by writing the agricultural editor at State College, Raleigh. DEMOCRATS BEHIND THE REPUBLICANS IN CAMPAIGN SPENDING The Democratic National com mittee has .spent $1,520,668 this year to return President Roose velt to the White House and still ha.s $372,000 in the campaign , coffers for the drive down the (stretch to the November elections. ( A report filed this week wi^h tion following the distribution of | tor. A certain degree of uncer- ! the clerk of the House by committee showed expenditures FLOOD LEAVES 700 HOMELESS IN TEXAS San Angelo, Tex., Sept. 17.— .■Wore than 700 persons were homeless here tonight as the worst flood in the city’s history ^wept over the business and resi dential sections. The entire city of 26,000 popu lation was without water supply an a 50-foot rise in the north Concho River put the pumping plant out of commission. Power lines were down and the city was in darkness. There was no reported loss of life, but nine persons were ma rooned in trees and in grave danger. Three hundred residences were swept into the river, water covered another 200 houses, and a swift current ranging from 12 to 25 feet deep was rushing through part of the business sec tion. !of $1,008,840 for June, July, and ■August in addition to previous I disbursements this year of $511,- jsis. I The Republican report filed j this week also showed expendi tures this year of $2,544,919, and about a hail million dollars on hand to aid Gov. Alf M. Landon In hlB effort to move from To peka to Washington. Contributions to the Demo cratic cause in June, July, and August totaled $1,081,768, as compared with $2,050,311 col lected by the Republican com mittee during the same period. bonus funds to the veterans has practically died away and is no longrer an important business fac- tainty arising from the national political campaign is unavoidable, the, magazine says. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK New York.—The natural forces of recovery have demonstrated their strength and have a mo mentum which may reasonably be I expected to carry the country into new high ground, says “Banking,” I the publication of the American (Bankers association, in its August issue. The momentary stimula- “A Camel_and ever^hing’s 0:K.! V't ^ What, No Life Insurance! What a tragedy for a widowed mother with children,- without money for their education and future. Honor and respect fails for a man who fails to protect his family and have Life Insurance. Keep the insurance you have on your property, and fear not FIRE which has no pity. North Wilkesboro Insurance Aerency J. B. WILLIAMS Let US handle YOUR Insurance VALUABLE REAL ESTATE CLOSE IN FOR SALE Having had inquiries for real estate which I own adjoining Highways Nos. 60 and 16 just West of North Wilkesboro and being compelled to be away from home all the time except Saturdays, I am placing this-property with J. G. Hackett to sell. He will be glad to show you any part of it and price same to you. This is undoubtedly the most desirable section for homes and is just outside the corporate limits, with rural electo- fication, phone lines and convenience of city life. NO TOWN TAXES. School facilities excellent. A large portion of this property is laid off into lots and streets. Some of this property can be sold by the acre or parcel. Buy yourself a home site now while you can take choice. . ' , r DIVERSIFY YOUR CROPS Haml^fmey y(^PLY butiness principles to Farming. First find ess pnn wtidt kind of crops yow iaiRji^ wi best produce . . . tl^ r^’se ntpre than one yMialy of crop* on your land, this is the way to insure yourself against failure. Hogs, cattle, sheep, and poultry are monay makers if REGOUm NOW We WeU ome^ Y oii r B.a»44Ba>- B:uai.aeaa. ‘I
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