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SliBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year 1 J1.60
Six Months .76
Pour Months .60
Out of the State |2.00 per Year
Entered at the poet office at Nortii Wifiteo'.
boro, N. C., u eecood elaea matter .sailer Act
of March A 1879. '
MONDAY, JULY 19, 1937
Something For Nothing
Ten years ago if someone had told us
that 1,000 people in Wilkes county
would try to obtain something for noth
ing we would have retfuted the asser
tion, but that is just what has hap
pened.
We learn from the welfare office that
about 1,000 people are seeking to ap
ply for old age assistance or aid to de
pendent children.
Everybody who knows anything about
the county knows that many people do
need help and that many people should
have assistance, but one thousand peo
ple represents about one person out of
every 40 in the county.
So much talk of old age pensions, the
Townsend plan, etc., during the past
few years has so stirred many of the mis
led aged people that they think old age
pensions for everybody over 65 are here
and that all they have to do is prove
their age. They do not stop to think of
where the money would come from and
are content to believe that there is a
Santa Claus money maker somewhere
who can put out untold millions.
There are others, including many pol
iticians, who say soak the rich to get
money to give away. This make.s popr
ular ballyhoo but unfortunately is im
practical because of the simple fact that
only a very small per cent o>f the people
are rich, that they are being taxed al
most to the limit and that taxing manu
facturing corporations can mean but
one thing and that is increased cost of
living to the laborer and farmer.
As a matter of fact, from one-fourth
to one-third of the money expended for
aid to aged, dependent children and the
blind must be raised by the county,
which has but one way of obtaining sub
stantial revenue, an advalorem tax on
property and the property of the county
consists mainly of homes and real es
tate. This brings this subject close home
or into our hemes.
We hope the worthy and most peedy
cases in Wilkes will be helped and that
the law will prove to be as humanitarian
as it has been proclaimed.
Majority Rule
Some would argue that a democracy
is a form of government wherein a ma
jority of its people may rule as they
please but such is far from the ca.se.
To be a true democracy there must be
just limitations as to how far the ma
jority can legislate and rights of people
whose opinions are not with the majority
must be recognized.
If democracy were only majority rule
let us suppose that some unit of go\'-
ernment consisted of 100 persons and
that fffty-one of those persons decided
to legislate against the other forty-nine.
Suppose taat the 51 decided by majori
ty vote to take all the property belong
ing to the 49. That would be majority
rule, but would it be democracy? Or
suppose that the 51 decided to kill the
49. That would be majority rule, but
would be farthest from democracy.
Far fetched, one may say, and that no
such outlandish things will ever hap
pen. Maybe not, but they serve as il
lustrations to show the vast difference
between majority rule and true democ
racy.
Majority rule combined with limits
beyond which it cannot function create
a state of democracy.
Those in the minority must be accord
ed the sisme rights and protection a»
those in the nihjority, and must hav^
f«l^«gentat^on in matters affecting them
or * state"o!f democracy ceases to exist.
Seven years ago it took an average of
nine weeks. 63 days, for criminal courts
in Wilkes, Yadkin, Davie,vAvery and,
Mitchell counties, which compose the
17th judicial district, for one term.
The spring term of cidminal courts
for all these counties consumed but 19
days (not weeks), and in each county
except Wilkes, where a flu epidemic in
tervened, the docket was cleared.
And where court cost had been a
source of headache to county officials
of all the counties, the spring term oft
criminal courts paid out and left an av
erage of about ?2,000 per county to go
into the county school fund.
K that can be accomplished during
one six-months period, why cannot e
ficFent courts be the rule instead of the
exception?
We could not expect such good results
at every term because sometimes there
are cases which will tie up a court for
days at a time, running costs into the
thousands, but those cases are the ex
ception rather than the rule.
Judges sympathetic to county pi'ob-
lems, diligent work by the solicitor, co
operation from enforcement officers, and
co-operation by the lawyers can bring
about a continuance of efficient courts.
In criminal actions of the type that
compose the majority of cases on a court
docket, some guilty or responsible party
should be ferreted out and taxed with
the cost. This party may be the de
fendant or the prosecuting witness who
indicts because of prejudice, malice or
because he is one of those individuals
who is seeking witness fees.
Veneer Is
lii Modern TweiaUm
More Than a Million
The 4-H clubs present an opportunity
and a service to farm young people which
they are using in increasing numbers.
Read these encouraging figures:
“Four-H club enrollment in 1936 pass
ed the million mark for the first time,
exceeding the 1935 membership by al
most 150,000 boys and girls. Early re
ports indicate the total may pass 1,130>-
000 members.”
Baseball in Bible Days
With baseball season at hand. The Pro
gressive Farmer claims that it is a very
ancient game, going back to Bibb divs:
“In what book was the first baseball
game mentioned?
“The Bible—Eve stole first, Adam stole
second, Gideon rattled the pitchers, Go
liath was put out by David, and the prodi
gal son made a home run.”
Regardless of your opinion of Dizzy
Dean, the champion popperoffer, we
are glad that the junior league in Wilkes
so far has not produced any pitcher who
is trying to imitate the “great one’s”
mouthpiece.
FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY
By 0. M. DICKSON
M-ttCh of the foeUog ‘^asalMt
veneered furniture deter hack to
its early manufaeturtttr days. The
fine eonstruottpn e.ad good glues
used tn, modem fumtture m^dng
are far from whet’ they were
when the first veneered furniture
was made. Veneered furniture to
day win lak longer and serve
,better, under various conditions,
than will solid wood furniture
and poBseeeee many advantages
over solid woods from the stand-
ipplnt of beanty.
Good appearance la eesenUal in
a furniture wood. iMany wodds
that would bo suitaible for furni
ture making do not have the “fi
gure” that is BO pleasing to meet
of us. The beautiful effects made
possible by the proper matching
of figured veneer—effects that
cannot he obtained with the cost
liest solid: wood—are Important
features of veneered furniture,
but the Inherent structural ad
vantages of this type of conetruc-
tdon account for the fact that the
bulk of the finest furniture pro
duced today is veneered. In build
ing a veneered table top, lor in
stance, the maiiufacturer starts
with a “core.” Tests at the U. S.
Forest Products Laboratory. Mad
Ison, Wls., have shown that woods
that make the best cores are light
in weight, that they neither
shrink nor swell excessively with
moisture changes, and that they
are easily glued.
In high-grade veneer construc
tion two layers, oalled “pllee,”
are glued to each, side of the
core. These plies, which are se
lected lor their strength and simi
lar qualities are named “cross-
bands” because they are laid with
their grain at right angles to
that of the core. The lace veneer,
or side that shows, and back ve
neer are glued ever the cross
bands with their grain parallel
wHh that of the core. The cross
bands stabilize the panel, reelat
its tendency to shrink or to swell,
and give it greater strength
gainst splitting. If properly select
ed and glued, the crosehands also
tend to keep tfie panel flat. Thin
plywood panels made entirely of
veneer are usually either three or
live ply
Plywood furniture, in addition
to displaying highly figured cabi
net woods to better advantage
gives a more stable construction
than solid wood. In contrast to
solid wood, crosehanded panels
change size but little with mois
ture changei^ a property that
makeh plywob'd most desirable for
this purpose. In summer, when
the excessive winter dryness of
the air in our heated homes has
given away* to the generous and
varying moisture conditions of
the outside atmosphere, solid
wood swells appreciably, and may
cause considerable annoyance.
Both excessive Fhrlnking and ex
cessive swelling of this nature
are largely done away with by the
use of correct veneer construc
tion.
PLAJHB RE(MPENE3) Tha 400-£oot Cantnl Tow ?o£;
V Mril 1^' Golden CSttk fiitematkmil
l*-~'fQtpo*dttoii wffl tower Widier than
the sanunit of nearby Yaiba Buena .
MO!n)AY,
Etost Cbleago, Ind.,^July
Gate* ewung wide today at
Youngstown Sheet and Tabe
Piayh “Harbor” ^lant, Yaonw'
ing without incidenti the itoc of
the. kige steel mlllf cloadd by
the fl'day-old strike on a^jwvett-
state- front. Cheerful workwe,
iiany with “dookles^’—stoelmen’s
language for--the familiar news-
r«per wimped lunch—streamed
past cQmpiipy^d'nJlrci^W^ltee
into ’the Indiito
which eiDiyl^n more
thaa= 6,000
als said a rhiaally ;t£ro>al day
force of 8.040 Was oa habd.
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lies to the
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the SoperiWr Court ta esoe
MaaBtaetariBg- Ca, A-IttK
ton «nd jerife,i
satiafy idSam^ A.
and two diAwa (llOffOO).,
tereat oa.fltteXIO iriin’17;A ria/
of 1918. toi^
to the araotmt of 84A6,1 will aOB
for cash at noUk anOnon. to the
highest bidder et . the ~
;4oor in KnikesboiP, N. C., on
SidiM
and Service ‘
Be^c and AeaMane WaUfait.
Williams Motor Co.
. T. H. WILLIAMS. Owmt.
t^MSeWaat, N.iWfflnaboie
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^ip Eeddies Bi^ townsmp,
WiUcea eonw. C*,:
Beghinite on A m^e in the old
Moravian fine mid running south
87 degrees east with said One 183
poles to a stake In the Davis line;
thenoe with the Davis line south U
degrees east 97 po)es to the mouth
of the branch; uience up and with
the branch 91 poles to the bridge;
thence with the road south 6 de
grees east 35 poles to the railroad;
thence with the road south 36 de
grees west 18 poles to a stake;
thence south 79 degrees west 10
poles to - a stake on the bank of
the road; thence north 6 degrees
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tyl-amieylato aa aaelgsme) la
blBstien With vsgstlMs sad
■IkaUstrs,' .
Tear diaggK srito hlks fliilNst by
the and by tbs package.
BE wise-alkalize:
Take the loaves and fishes out of all issues and
the “number” of one’s friends will change very
materially.
One doesn’t have to “lie” and lay himself lia
ble for laying plans to supplant his neighbors
while “lying” on the ground and “lying” on him.
A lot of brotherly love
that is dealt out these days
is dealt out by the “sistem.”
There’s the same amount
of sense in crying when one’s
tickled as there is in laugh
ing when one’s hurt.
A cobbler just hasn’t time
to keep his own wife shod if
he keeps all the other folks
in the community shod.
One difference between a
Ford Glass Votes Dividend
Toledo, O., July 13.—The di
rectors of the Llhbey Owens Ford
Glass company voted today a divi
dend of $1.50 a share, payable
September 15 to the stockholder
list of August 31st. The last divl
dend was 75 cents a share.
fellow who takes advice from everybody and the
one who takes it from nobody is that the former
has a head full of “nothing” and the latter has
his head empty of the same thing, so the odds
is the difference.
As a rule, a good man is as eager to get out
from politics as he is reluctant to get into them.
There are but few men who fail to offer their
services when they know that they will not be
called upon to function.
Many men who claim to want jobs would, if
they were to find them, “fall back like dead
men.”
When the preacher says, “Let us stand while
we pray,” nearly everybody will stand. “If he
says, “Let us kneel," most people have rheuma
tism and cannot bow.
One necessary requisite to become an “aerial
songstress” is to be able toi hold one’s breath for
a long time.
Were it not for the law, many a man would be
sent to the guillotine for merely telling the truth
on some of the so-called “higher-ups.”
The chief modem requisite for holding office
is, “Is it politically expedient?"
Even a sbir?:er is willing to share the spoils '
when the battle is won. ^ .
Why isn’t' it just as fair for a lawyer to law
somebody as it is for a teacher to teach some
one all the time?
they want and where they will buy it, saving
the trouble of “shopping around” until j^.
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