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The Journal - Patriot INDKPKNDKNT IN POLITICS ■ ■ ■i Publi*h*d Mondays and Thttrsdaya at ^ North Witkoaboro. N. C D. 3. CABTBt nid JULIUS C. HUBBARD. Pabliabm SUBSCR^»TION RATES 0»e Year _|1.50 ‘l|k Months .76 Tobt Months .60 ©Bt of the State |2.M per Year ■ataced at the peat office at North Wilkaa- hora, N. C., aa aecHu] class matter osder Act of March 4. ItTt. THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1937 Crazy Money People who ;.re interested in the effects of inflation, an ever present danjjer now adays, would jo well to read an article in the cun'ent magazine “Commentator” by Lowell Thomas, of radio fame. Reciting the story of inflation as he saw it in Germany, he recounts how a million German marks at the end of the World war were worth $10,000, how later they were worth only $150 and how they then continued to fall and fall. “One day I passed by a factory at about ten in the morning and saw a crowd of poorly dressed women waiting outside the gate,” he continues. “I learned that these women’s husbands were about to be paid their week’s wages at ten-thirty and they were waiting to get the money. At the hour the women surged into the gate. Then one came rushing forth, a sheaf of money clutched in her hand, and ran, ran desperately down the street. Another came forth, clutching her money, and ran; another, another, a whole crowd of women running madly. Why? Because prices at the stores changed at noon, and these women were rushing to spend the week’s wages while it still would buy something. After twelve o’clock it might bu.v only half, or a fifth, or a tenth, of what it would buy before twelve.” Inflation, Thomas points out, is caused by the demand for “printing press mon ey”—a demand now made in several bills pending before Gongi'ess. .And then he adds: “Balancing the budget looks like one of the lab' rs of Hercules. So there’s a siren lure sweeter than ever m its beguiling simplicity—print money to pay.” When, and if, the government starts that system of paying its debts, Ger many’s experiences could easily be dupli- Twenty Bureaus For One Job In a plea for reorganization and consoli dation of Federal bui-caus, Senator Byrd of Virginia, receiuly pointed out some astonishing in.stances of duplication and overlapping. For e.xample, at least 21 agencies have been created to deal with lending govern ment funds, and five similar agencies are now in liquidation. At least 3 agencies have been concern ed with insuring deposits and loans. At least 10 agencies have been conceni- ed with government construction. At least 9 agencies have been concern ed with credit and finance. At least 12 agencies have been con cerned with home and community plan ning. At least 10 agencies have been con cerned with wild life conservation. Sc it goes, down a long list. Every one of the purposes for which these agencies have been created may be beneficial and legitimate—but certainly there can be no excuse for setting up 20 bureaus to do one bureau’s job. Nor can there be any excuse for permitting bureaus to grow unchecked and to eat up tax funds in unimaginable quantities. Senator Byrd also points out that one bureau has 13 addresses in Washington alone. Untold millions of public dollars are thrown away annually through duplica tion. Congress can have no excuse for failure to adopt at once a reorganization plan such as the President recently pro posed. At The Source An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. How many times we have heard that expression and how many instances we have learned its truth! , It is just as true in regard to the liquor problem as in disease. If a child can be taught and trained in the way of temperance, he will need no Keely cures to break him of liquor habits. He will not need to be reconstructed after his body is ruined by the ravages of al cohol. Here is a thought borrowed from The Charlotte Observer: 'The place to settle the question of temper ance in North Carolina is not in the halls of the Legislature reverberant with forensic fol-de-rols. That place is in the homes and in the schools of the State. Authoritative influences in this field is still confined to the firesides and to the class-rooms —to any institutional forum in which youthhood is foregathered for instruction and direction and impression. Perhaps, that’s one of our main troubles—we ha've been defaulting at the intake and depend ing upon the political authority to govern at the spigot. Such is sorry citizenship. The time to handle the liquor problem is be fore and not after the iniquity takes hold. If the homes of the State and the schools of the State and the churches of the State were con centrating upon the youthhood of the State in ed ucational influence and power and aggressive ness, the adulthood of the problem would vanish. Reduce the demand for liquor and the supply will diminish. Unscrupulous peo ple will make and sell it as long as there is a demand for the product at prices that will net a monetary profit. Drunken Drivers Here is an excellent thought from the Port Umpqua, Oregon, Courier: “If the Courier man were a judge in courts dis pensing sentence upon drunken auto driv ers, there would only be first offenders. Regardless of race, color, creed or allevi ating circumstances, the person who has so little consideration for the lives of in nocent people as to drink intoxicants be fore or after placing himself behind the steering wheel ol an automobile should never be allowed to repeat the perform ance. Revocation of licenses would be fatal and final. Driving a car is a privilege— not a right.” It is impossible to prove exactly what percentage of automobile accidents are zaused by drunken driving, for the rea son that in many cases where liquor plays a part, arresting officers and prosecutors are unable afterw'ai-ds to produce suffi cient evidence for a conviction. But all the best estimates say that alcohol is the defi nitive factor in a much higher proportion of mishaps than is genei’ally realized. Fur thermore, an accident in which a drunk is involved is more likely to be serious than one involving sober drivers. Drunken drivers arc often released aft er paying rehitively small fines. Some juries are notoriously derelict in their :liily in bringing in convictions. 'Ihe drunken driver should never be al lowed to p!iy a fine and he should bo de nied the right to use the public streets and highways. If such a program were carried out thi'oughout the country, one of the gravest menaces to life would be greatly minimized. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN THE NEW COMMANDMENT Li-.s-oii for February :28th. Joint (ioUlen Tc\t: John 13:34. Henry Drummond is he.st known tor his fam ous address. “Tho Greatest Thing in the World." '‘Contemplate the love of Christ." he says, ‘‘and you will love. Stand before that mir ror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way.” nut what, exactly, is this love of Christ? We can agree that it is much more than an emotion. To be sure, it has its sentimental side, hut lundamentally it is an ethical im perative. a moral attitude. It Is forgetfulness of self, an absorption in the needs of others, a sacrifice of one’s own desires that one’s neigh bors may be benefited. To be loving, in the Christian sense, is to escape from what a mo dern writer calls “the mundane egg of our lelf-consciousness and self-esteem.” Perhaps the best synonym for love is ‘‘mutu ality.’’ This demands reciprocal cooperation by those who are free to be partners and equal sharers in the fruits of their labors. Such love, when given the right of way, can remove age long injustices and soften bittei social tensions. There can be no doubt that we live in an un mutual social order where love faces frustra tion in its every forward step toward a more reasonable and durable economy. What is need ed is something more thorough-going and real istic than conventional charity, or a philan thropy that solidifies tho status quo. Society insists upon nothing short of justice. Note that Jesus, in our inspiring Golden Text, commands his disciples to love one an other as he has loved them. Study, in detail, the day by day intercourse between the Master and the twelve men Into whose hands he en trusted the task of building his Church. See how patient and affectionate he was not only in v.cat he did for them but in what he al lowed them to do for him! FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY The ‘‘uncommonlst” kind sense is common sense. There Is at least one difference between a thief and a robber— The former will steal sneaklngly, while the latter will rob you while you ufo looking at him. Among the commendable things that can be said about “tltes” and “shorts” are: they fin a niche that nothing else c»u fin. Brery child should have a right to think ■■V' that it has tho best daddy in the world. Many a girl has swopped her virtue to just one ‘night- ride.’’ Apparently, markers by the side of our highways had as well say: Speed yourself in to health, long life and happi ness,’’ as to say: “Sharp Curve— Ten Men Killed Here!” The greatest heroines this side of the “pearly gate”—the good women who keep the home-fires burning. Totally unfair—for a man who chews, drinks, and smokes, to object to his wife’s haring just a few cosmetics to clear the at mosphere. There’s no person so strong that he can’t lie down. It’s not the amount of water that a person displaces when be is baptized that saves him; It is the condition of his “system’’ be fore he goes in, and how he takes care of it after he gets out. There’s’ one thing to which we are all heirs, but do not possess ■that is time that has passed. It’s one thing to launch your boat, but another to land it. A good leader says “come” in stead of “go”. One advantage in one’s pad dling his own canoe—he can choose his own time to do so. Quarrels lose interest when both parties talk at the same time. The coral polyp and the fabled “tortoise’’ are used to typify what patience and perseverance will do. Newark, N. J., Feb. 19.—Two laundresses were under arrest to day on: a charge of a male cus tomer that they washed bis shirts too thoroughly. The complaint was a matter of unusual shrinkage. His 14 shirts came out of a washing machine in good shape, the plaintiff conceded. But six hours later he remembered some thing else he had sent to the laundry—$1,250 in one of the shirt pockets. The laundresses looked in the machine, said they found $550. Tho other, it seems, came out In the wash. aioD, whl^ goes right to tiie seat of the trouble to aid nature to Tells How Farmers Got Vetch To Grow A couple of tablespoons of mo lasses ■will make beans brown. soothe and heal the Inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm Is loosened and expelled. - Bven If other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulaloa and to refund your S lf you an not satisfied with from the very first bottle, let Creomulston right now. (Adv.) ‘If vetch won’t grow on your farm, it may be that the soil needs to he inoculated,” said E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State Col- lege. In the fail of 19.35, he said, a number of Iloke coimty farmers told H. L. Meacham, the new farm agent, they could not get vetch to grow on their land. Mcacliam examined the soil and decided it needed inoculation with soil containing the bacteria which help the plants get nitrogen. .After selecting a six-acre field for an experiment, he went to a farm 25 miles away and got six bu.shels of soil from a field where etch had been grown successfully. For each acre to be planted he mixed a bushel of Abruzzi rye with a bushel of this soil and added 20 pounds of vetch seed, then drilled the mixture into the fiela. No fertilizer was used! The in oculation carried by the soil was successful on the light sjandy field where commercial cultures had al ways failed, Blair stated. Last year the vetch and rye was harvested with a binder and then threshed. The yield was 66 bush els of rye and 900 pounds of vetch seed worth $222. Then the farmer who owned the field, Archie Howard, sowed cow- peas on the field and cut more than a ton of hay from each acre. This was valued at $20 a ton, bringing the total value of the crops of that field to $342, or $57 per acre. The experiment impressed oth er farmers, and last fall they sowed 3,000 pounds of vetch seed and in oculated it with soil. The vetch is now doing fine, Blaid said. Drinkers Rex Denton and Glen Moss, of Paiia, HI., were going to settle tho argument once and for all. Which one of them could drink more chocolate milk? It turned out that Denton could. He gulped 17 bottles in less than five min utes. Moss quit at 13. Ads. get attention—and resnlta! Oldsmobile Sales and Service Electric and Acetylene Weldiiigt Body and Fender Repairingt Radiator Repairing and General Automobile Work. Wrecker Service Day or Night. Williams Motor Co. T. B. WILI.IAMS. Owner. Mile West. N. WiHtoeboro PHONB SS4J. 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