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THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1937
The Hone I Still With U
Every so often we hear the prediction
made that the horse will vanish from the
American scene in a few years. Most of
the prophets are fond of saying that their
grandchildren will be able to see horses
only in zoological gardens. But right on
the heels of these dire forecasts, there
always pops up some new evidence that
the day of the horse is not yet over.
It is human nature, we suppose, to
imagine that the new must always dis
place the old. Not long ago it was elec
tricity that was going to displace steam.
More recently the belief was current that
internal combustion motors were going to
make steam engines obsolete.
But along comes the United States
Navy with the announcement that -the
two new battleships about to be built
will be powered by steam-engines without
any electric driving mechanism, although
five of Uncle Sam’s capital ships have
electric drives. And in spite of the excite
ment and publicity about Diesel-engined
locomotives on some of the modem
streamlined trains, the newest highspeed
locomotives being built for important
railway systems are steam engines.
Coming back to horses, it is tnie that
there are not as many being used as there
were twenty years ago, but there are
more than there were five years ago. The
highst_couBtCfhorae& on American farms
was in 1918, when the Census enumera
tors found 21 1-2 million. By i931 the
number had dropped to under 13 mil
lion, but the most recent count shows
more than 15 million horses now at work.
New York state has just announced
that its farmers will have to import 19,-
000 horses from the West this year to
provide the motive power they need on
their farms. Good work horses are no
cheaper than they ever were. An average
of ?200 each is about the ruling price in
the East.
Horseshoe makers have just reported a
heavy drop in sales since 1933, but a
good deal of that is accounted for by the
growing practice of fanners of using un
shod horses. Where horses are used only
for field work and their hoofs do not
have to hammer on the hard highway,
horseshoes are unnecessary. Modern con
crete roads full of automobiles have driv
en the horse off the thorough fe.res, but
he is coming back on the plowed fields.
Mounting Tax Figures
(During the past fifteen years the tax
bill in this nation has practically doubled
and indications point to still greater tax
boosts in order that income may balance
with outgo.
In speaking of the tax bill we mean all
takes paid to all governmental units.
The reason for the mounting tax bill
is increasing demands on governments.
Any adult can remember when iill the
government was supposed to do was to
make laws and enforce them and protect
r\e nation from foreign invasion.
Now we expect the government to feed
ind clothe the poor, train the young,
e)— public buildings of almost any de-
si ztion, finance homes, finance home
repairs, help distressed home orvners,
save our money for old age, pay us when
we are not working and many other
things, all of which cost money.
In order to reduce the tax-bill or keep
its constant demands for further sendees
from the government must be curtailed
and people must revive their spirit of self
reliance and independence.
The government can and is doing won
derful things for its people but its people
must learn that things of value cost and
that nothing is free when the final
analysis is made.
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Park Developmrat
One of the outstanding news events
of recent weeks is to the effect that de
velopment of a park easement will get
ander way in Wilkes within the next
ew weeks.
The Bluff park area equals in majestic
grandeur many points of interest that
we have been traveling comparatively
long distances to see.“" Yet that beauti
ful area of majestic ruggedness has be
within the county, all the while.
The old adage about the grass being
greener across the fence is certainly
true. We are prone to rave about seen--
ery one or two days,-or maybe a week's
travel distance from home but miss the
things in our own backyard. The same
is true in relation to other interests.
Some of our people rave about purchas
es they make in Charlotte, Winston-Sa
lem or Greensboro, but do not know that
the same article or its facsimile could
be purchased from a local firm at al
most invariably lower prices and minus
the cost of a hundred miles transporta
tion.
When tourist travel began to boom
about two decades ago, people were ad
monished to “See America First.” Let
us see Wilkes county first, North Caro
lina next, America and then any other
places in the world which we can afford
to see.
With three highways leading to the
Blue Ridge Parkway to the north and
west. North Wilkesboro should be the
gateway in this part of the state and as
such should be properly publicized.
TKB JOMUki^ATlIOT. NQR9V C.
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-FIRESIDE
PHILOSOPHY
Br «. K. DICKSOn
The words that haven’t
said never hurt any one.
It is said that in the country a
nua goes to bed feeling “all in”
and gets up feeling fine; in the city
he goes to bed feeling fine and
gets up feeling “all in.” What’s
5>e difference?
A man has to
^stretch his reli-
*igion who win let
Tlis enemy hit
j^^him twice on
^the same cheek
in the same
\'place.
Jobs and Employers
The following comment in a publica
tion entitled “Realities of Unemploy
ment,” by Harry L. Hopkins, head of
the WPA, is well worth reproduct on:
‘‘We cannot produce more and more goods to
employ our people unless we maintain the pur
chasing power of these same people to buy the
goods produced.
His (the worker’s) job must be as stable as
possible, his hours short enough to let others
also have jobs, and his buying power must be
high.
We must not lose sight of the fact that the
WPA’s job is to create jobs—useful jobs, of
course, but jobs for people who can’t find-’*'5*f.r
That must remain our conoana ahead of any-
fXimy »loo
For the very life of business, the mass of peo
ple must be able to buy, for mass production is
the heart of the system. With all this talk about
taking care of th-e unemployed, what is going to
take care of the unemployed employer? Noth
ing except the consumer’s dollar.
Our aim is to supply to industry .aj many
physically strong, mentally alert, skilled work
ers as we can.
The Federal Government cannot refuse respon
sibility for providing jobs to those whom private
industrj' does not hire ... I am ijure America
will win its fight where other nations have failed.
It will w'n because it has the brains and the
wealth and the leadership.”
Axiomatic —
that a man who
drinks liquor is
opposed to it
It takes a great deal of tact to
tell an honest man that he is dis
honest and g;et him to believe it.
A sentence for “amateur” Eng
lish students to think about in
leisure moments: “'There is no
statute that will interfere with the
status of any man’s stature' how
ever large or small his statue may
be.”
A man’s democracy has lost its
savour when it has to be "resalted”
every two years.
Age within itself makes no
word, or object obsolete.
It might not be out of place to
adopt the slogan of the woman
who, when asked why she threw
the flatiron at her husband, said;
“I have been taught to strike while
the iron’s hot”
If one wants to hear a lie, let
him listen at an habitual smoker,
or a dope fiend say he is qoing to
quit.
To be pitied—the farmer who
hates the town so much, but who
is found on the streets at least
every Saturday watching the ladies
go to the “beauty shop.”
Midgety” Americaniam—not to
be able to see beyond one’s own
yard fence.
It’s hard enough to pay taxes
on the so-called “tangible” prop
erty, much less that tliat one cant
see.
A self-conceited fellow
who (to hear him tell •>•>, is never
wrong, and-'^rybody else is just
a. J’il'e off their base.
One thing psychologists have
never been able to explain—^why,
when large crowds get together,
-jthey seen-to go'“hog kUA’?..
In a fellow's younger days he
thinks, “What a wise-care I am.”
When he gets older he will say:
‘,What a fool I was.”
Many who occupy the front pews
in our earthly synagogues will sit
farther back when the final end
shall come.
Hays-Dockery
Items Of Week
HAYS, Feb. 16.—Mr. Earl Gam
bill, of Winston-Salem, visited the'
home of his father and mother, Mr. | recovery,
and Mrs. W, W. Gambill, over the| —
week-end. | Because of his success
Mr. .Major Hawkins, who
been away,, has moved back to this
community again.
Mr. W. E. Reynolds recently
traded for a new Chevrolet coach,
a 1937 model.
ulr. Coy Prevette, a former ten
ant of Mrs. Mae Myers, moved to
Mr. S. C. Hutchinson’s farm last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Shumate vis
ited in Mr. L. F. Caudill’s home
Sunday afternoon.
'■ *>■ people- of this conuum^ty
were shocked and saddened with
the news of the alleged attemp.ted
suicide of Miss Ethel Brooks,- of
Dehart, last Sundays Miss
Brooks is now a patient rf the
Wilkes Hospital, with a .22 calibre
bullet hole through her body near
her heart. Miss Brooks is a high-
It i.s mo.st always true that the things
that are most difficult for us to do are
the verj’ things, that for our own devel
opment, we should do.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
THE POWER OF JESUS OVER DEATH
I.cssoii for Frbrr.ary 21st. John ll:.T2-44.
Golden Text: .John llJ’i.l.
The Christian standpoint assures us that for
two excellent reasons immortality is a reason
able assumption. First of all, inan’.s spirit Is
Itself an evidence for its own survival. As
John Haynes Holmes tells us, “man Is immort
al because already the signs of immortality are
upon him.” In the second place, we can be as
sured of immortality because of the character
of God who Is a cosmic, creative Spirit after
the manner of Jesus. To deny immortality is
to blacken God’s character, to make Him stup
id, careless, ungenerous, worse than man. His
child. For man, except when he launches such
an anti-social enterprise as war, is eager to
save life, not to destroy it. If this be true of
man, how much more true it is of God! For
Jod is surely above man, and therefore more
anxious to preserve the highest. And that high
est is what we call personality, self, or soul.
Our lft.sson. the wonderful lUh chapter of
John’s gospel, with its record of the raising of
Lazarus, reminds us that to the Christian eter
nal life is a present possession. This truth,
we must ever remember, is taught by the
familiar Golden Text, “I am the resurrection,
and the life.’’ These words are read, appro
priately enough, at funeral services, but they
are meant more for the living than for the
dead. They make it clear that we now, through
the living Christ, can live as immortal beings.
But eternal life, as we find it proclaimed In
the New Testament, and in the Christian teach
ing through the ages, is not a free gift benevo
lently bestowed upon all. You and I must de
serve it. “Lay hold on eternal life,” wrote Paul
to his beloved Timothy Immortality, you see.
Is something to be gresped. We prove our
selves worthy of it. Our thoughts, deeds, pur
poses and fruits must be such as to make ns
fit candidates for the New Jerusalem.
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