>piTie-jnTTMIAL»PATBIQff HO&TH
I know tho prldo nnd lore ot
koine ot the nTerngo American
tnnaer. I know lomethlntr of what
wta In my father’s mind as he
saw me leave the fam and go to
the city. Something hums deep
In my heart. I was one of taoso
fann boys who listened to the
lure of city life and so left my
father alone^ on the farm.
Frankly, something ot regret
fills my Inner conscience: almost
shame, because, as I saw our old
farm home in the years- of my
boyhood and then, after father
and mother were lorced to leave
It because I had left before them,
the knowledge of what has hap
pened to the old homo Is noth
ing to be proud of.
Father never used the term
cow,” “my house,” or “my
y home.’’ To him it was always
“our home.” The house with
three dimensions — length,
breadth, and height—after it was
built by Daddy and our neigh
bors—acquired its fourth dimen
sions. It then became our home.
That fourth dimension was its
sentiment: the spirit of family
life and friendliness: that attach
ment that grew out of our gar
den and our farm.
What father loved he would
fight for and he knew it was only
through sentiment that his house . , .,
■became his home—next came love ^isbin pole.
no work to do? Drswolng of rich-
ea isn’t in our catendar.
Natwe’s Smile
Nature’s smile may make our
efforts frultfnlj her frown may
undo the of our plans, but
w^ are not entirely helpless.
“When fish are bltln’ in the
crick It eurely makes a feller sick
to work a-makln’ hay from grass,
when he would rather fish for
bass,” says Neighbor Green.
“There ain’t no pleesure that I
like as much as watchln’ fishes
strike; when they are full of vim
and fight and wake up with an
appetite for angleworms and flat-
heads. The thing to do Is not wait
till corn plowin’s through; but
take a pole and can of bait and
go down where the fishes wait*
and find a seat upon the bank
and drop your hook for fish to
yank. When bass are waitin’ to
be caught, it seems to me a fel
ler ought not let his plowin’ in
terfere, but when corks bob and
disappear there ain’t no place p.a
good as to ibe sittia’ by the crick.
“The weeds can grow in my
corn field, and take some bush-
DOWN ON THE FARM—TWO—
els off the yield, good hayin’
weather may not last, but years
keep goin’ by so fast that if I
don’t take time fer fun, first
thin’ I know my race’ll be run.
SMinutc.BI
aid Injhinn Ptctki
HETTY GREEN
She Resold Her Morning Paper and Spent
Hours in the July Sun Sorting Rags, To
Increase Her Fortune of ^^5,000,000
At one Ume Hetty 6reen was the envelolws that came address-
«he richest woman In America. At ed to her through the mails, and
her death, she was worth at least
$66,000,000, possibly $100,000,-
000. Yet almost any scrubwoman
wears finer clothes than Hetty ^
Green wore, eats a better dinner,
wrote her messages on the back
of these envelopes. That relieved
her of the necessity of signing her
own name.
A friend of mine, Boyden
and sleeps in a better bed.
Her Income was $5 a minute,
or $300 an hour; yet she would
buy a -morning newspaper for two
cents, read It, and then have it
sold again.
On cold winter days, she often
padded herself with newspapers
to keep warm. She bought a cou
to him. for he knew that without
love there was no poetry, no
music no homes. He knew that
only love could vitalize the in
tellect to the point of creating a
home.
Mothey and I make our home
our castle. We try to demon
strate to the world that our farm
’i primarily our home and that
we are proud of Doth. We believe
that we will hav© go.ne a long
way towards winning the fight
of agriculture for equality of
consideration: equality of protec
tion with industry, business and
labor: and we shall have gone a
long way towards winning the re
spect of our city friends and cus
tomers and shall have gained con
fidence In ourselves once we have
added the fourth dimension. -
Forced To Wort
Dreaming of riches can bring
Mother and me no happiness at
all. To the average man on the
land, riches come only through a
streak of good fortune which
means, in the end, family dissen
sion, trouble, and an acute nostal
gia for the good old Jays. Re-
meonber that the man who gains
a fortune and then loses it says:
“Like birds, your friends fly a-
way, when the ration.s fail.’’
Daydreaming is the endless
elaboration of that entertair.ing
problem which we toilers amrng
the crops worry little about. It
does, however, add variety to our
labor: it warms the arteries and
the brain cells: it sometimes
thaws out bad dispositions, aches,
miseries and melancholy. But the
hang-over that accompanies the
stimulant for us is, happily
enough, in June and very mild
indeed about August, when prices
begin to fall.
To he wealthless and money
less is indeed a tragedy, but it Is
not the worst kind of poverty.
One may have an empty purse
and yet be rich by possessing
health and a beautiful family. If
such a man has no money, but
has a chance to earn a livelihood
on his land by the help of his chil
dren and his God, getting out to
his fields or Iive.stcck as the sun
rises above the horizon, his brain
must be filled'with hope.
The so-called material wealth
of this earth has been built up
most often through the genius of
poor men with th© help of their
wives, sons and daughters, who
have remained poor, going out at
sunrise with their hoys to the
fields and creating such, as it
were, having “made the many
rich.”
TTie boys and I thank God
every morning when we get up
that we have something to do
each day which must be done
We are forced to work. We try
to do our level beat, which makes
us cheerful and content vlrtuea
the idle boy or girl, man or wom
an never know. What would we
do tomorrow if we knew wehad
,11 railroads outright—bought
Hard 'vork is all right in eteek. and barrel-
place, but if I wear out in this
chase for dollars, git the rheuma-
tiz, T may have all the wealth
there is and not -be happy. So
tnere is ana not -oe nappy, oo ^ indulged
my plan is to have a good time Pniiman b(
while I can. A-sittin’ here with
my fishin’ pole is rest fer body
and ter soul, it helps to keep my
temper sweet, and then at night
with fish to eat, a-sizzlin’ in the
fryin’ pan. I’m surely a happy
soul. And my Susie’s thankful
Checking Farms
In Soil Program
The work of checking compli
ance on some 130,000 North Car
olina farms which are cooperat
ing in the agricultural conserva
tion program got under way this
month.
Information gathered in the
check will be used to determine
the amount ot soil-building and
diversion payment each grower is
to get. said K. A. Patten, stats
com.pliance supervisor at State
College.
Forms have been furnished
from Washington on which, will
be set down the acreages of de
pleting and conserving crops and
the areas on, which soil-ibuildlng
practices are being conducted.
Since farmers have until Oc
tober 31 to plant certain conserv
ing crops and start soil-building
practices under the 1937 pro
gram. the task ot checking com
pliance cannot be fully completed
until after that date, Patten
pointed out.
In GO counties, aerial photo
graphs being made this summer,
or taken previously, will be used
to determine the acreages ot
different fields on individual
farms.
The supervisor will take the
pictures to the farm and identify,
with the help of the farmer, the
different fields and the crops
growing on them.
-Acreage can be checked with
an accuracy within one per cent
when the photographs are used.
This method is also faster and
more economical than measuring
with tapes, Patten stated.
North Carolina farmers earned
more than $12,000,000 under the
program la.st year with some
115,000 farms cooperating.
demonstrated at the 1939 Golden
Gate International Exposition
and she owned bonds of almost
every railroad in the country; yet
when she was taking a train
in
A process whereby minerals can apout rrom one cneap luugiug
be extracted from the sea will be pouge to another. Frequently she
5it. tViP Onlrlpn . a __i„ «« «
the luxury of a Pullman berth,
but sat up all night in the day
coach.
Once she invited her friends to
meet her at the Parker House in
Boston for a dinner party. Every
one expected it to b© quit© an af
fair. Ladies apqieared in their
evening wraps, and the gentlemen
wore dinner coats But after her
guests had arrived, Hetty led
them out of the hotel and walked
them a long distance to a cheap
boarding house and treated them
to a twenty-five cent dinner.
Sometlimes when she was in
Boston, she ate at a restaurant
in Pie Alley—a place where one
could get a plate of beans for
three cents and a small wedge of
pie for two cents. Her income
then was more than eight cents
every second. That meant she
would have had to eat fO’ur piec
es of pie every second just to
keep up with her income.
When she was seventy-eight
years old, a newspaper reporter
asked her the secret of her good
health. She said that she ate a
tenderloin steak, fried potatoes,
a cup of tea and some milk every
morning for breakfast and then
chewed baked onions all day to
kill the germs that were in the
steak and the milk. Unfortunate
ly, she didn’t say what she chew
ed to kill the germs in the on
ions.
On a sizzling hot day in 1893,
Hetty Green crawled up into the
attic of a warehouse that she had
inherited from her father. The
July snn boiled down upon the
iron roof and made the attic just
a trifle less hot than the out
skirts ot Hades. Yet Hetty Green
worked in that devastating heat
for hours. . . . Doing what? . . .
Sorting white rags from colored
ones because the junk man paid
a cent a pound more for white
rags!
She had to spend most ot her
time in Wall Street looking after
her investments. That was dan
gerous, and she knew it. She rea
lized that it she rented an apart
ment in New York City, or owned
even one stick of furniture in the
state, the tax collector would
swoop down upon her and take
$30,000 from her every year. So,
to dodge tax collectors, she drift
ed about from one cheap lodging
Sparkes, is the co-author of a
biography called Hetty Green, A
Woman Who Loved Money. > He
told me that Hetty Green used to
keep several inillion dollars on
deposit at the Chemical National
Bank in New York, and so she
made herself at home there. She
left her trunks and suitcases in
the bank, and she kept her old
dresses and dusty rubbers in the
vault. She brought an old one-
Statute Directs
,„Serviuits To Show
Their CertiRcates
ThA General Assuably of 1^37
passed and ratified the toHowl^
law, In tbe intareot .. pofile
health and l9 fi|^
the spread of venereal dKeaeei;
The General AseemblT ot'Nortt
Carolina do enact: ' f
Section 1. *Phat bereafter id!
domestic servants who khall
sent themselves for employing,
shall furnish their employer with
a certificate from a pracUcln*
physician or the porbllc health of
ficer of the county in which they
reside, certifying that they have
been' examined within twd weeks
prior to the time of said presen
tation of said certificate, that
they are free from all Contagious,
infectious or communicable di
seases and showing the non-’ex-
istence of any venereal disease
which might he transmitted. Such
certificate shall be accompanied
by the original report from a
laboratory approved by the State
Board of Health for making such
tests showing that the Wasser-
mann or any other approved tests
tramp. On© day the bank fired
him, and Hetty Green felt so
sorry for him that she spent al-
- — most a week of her time getting
horse buggy to the bank, took him another job.
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the wheels off, and had It stored
on the second floor; and when
she gave up her apartment In Ho
boken, she stored her furniture
in the bank.
Yet, in many ways, she had
kindly heart. For example, there so th»,t Hetty would think they
was a porter at the bank, an old
fellow who washed windows and
ran errands and looked like
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stopped for only one night in a
place, so that even her best
friends didn’t know where she
was hiding half the© time. She
lived under assumed names,
dressed in rags, and carried so
little baggage that suspicious
landladies often made her pay tor
her night’s lodging in advance.
As she grew older, a miracle
happened. A friend persuaded her
to spend $300 for beauty treat
ments. Each treatment was guar
anteed to make her look one year
younger.
Always fearing that some crook
would forge her signature to a
check, she never signed her name
unless she had to. iShe saved all
General Evangeline Booth
Atlanta, Ga.. July . .—Ernest I.
Pugmire, Territorial Commander of
the Salvation Army in the South,
announces that General Evan
geline Booth of London, world
leader of the Salvation Army, will
come to Atlanta October 1 for a
four-day visit, during which she
will deliver a public address at the
aew City Auditorium.
Commander Booth will speak in
only three cities during her stay in
the United States, Atlanta, New
York and Chicago, and two cities
in Canada, Winnipeg and Toronto,
Commander Pugmire states.
Commander Booth’s visit to At
lanta, It is said, will be the occa-
lion ot a great gathering of more
ban 2,000 Salvation Army dele-
fates from the South, including the
officers of every Army unit In
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North and
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, MtsBisBlppi, Texas, Okla
homa and tbe District of Columbia,
tbe States comprising the Army’s
Eouthem Territorial District. At
lanta Is Territorial headquarters
tor tbe South. Besides the public
iddress at the Auditorium Com-
nander Booth during her four-day
rlsit will participate in a number
>{ other Army and Civic functions.
Preston S. Arkwright, president
)f the Georgia Power Company and
Chairman of the Salvation Army’s
Advisory Board in Atlanta,'' has
been named to head a eommlttes
for the reception of General Booth.
She died at the age of eighty-
one from a stroke of paralysis,
and the nurses who cared for her
during her last Illness were not
permitted to wear their white uni
forms. ’They wore street dresses
were ordinary servants—for the
old lady could not have died
peacefully had she suspected that
they were expensive, trained nurs
es.
of tWs nature are nafattre. — -
testa to have *eeu made vrithlu of the conBtIoo of thrtr
two weoirt of the time ot the
presentatloB ot each certlflcatM;
'rtld such certificate shall'also af-
firmatlTely state the nou-eulst-
enee of ituheronlosis In the
tlona state. ^ *
Bectlon S. 'Hut all dqmertle
swTimto employed shaU be eaaae-
Ined at. le^ ones each year aad
as oftrti as the Muployer may
qulre^ aad -upon euamlniitfa>rt''ibaU
'forairts to the eiSloyP all of tUo
>^th, as Is set out In seetloa
one hereoL a
SeeUon S. All laws and claassa
of Idws Is conflict with this Act
«Hr» Hereby r^ipled.
a»«tionA. That this Aet shaU fl
he In fuff force and atfe«$ from
tead-eftec^^lta ntttleatimu.«_
In the General AssemUr re«A
Chinee times the ratified, thla Xtnd^
day of Marsh, 1VI7. :
TO TAX PAYERS
Pay Your Town Taxes During the Remainder of
This Month and Save
EXTRA PENALH AND
ADVERTISING COSTS
Property will be advertised for taxes durmg the
month of August amd sold in September.
Levies will be made on personal property and
wages will he garnisheed for unpaid personal
taxes.
PAY NOW AND SAVE!
I.H.McNEILL,Jr.,
TAX COLLECTOR FOR THE TOWN
OF NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
■•9
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ADMINISTRATRIX’S NIOTCB
North Carolina, Wilkes C^ty-
Having qualified as the Admin
istratrix of the esUte of E.
Minton, deceased, this is to notify
all persons having claims agaiMt
said^^te to file the same with
the undersigned at her no®® “
North WUkesbOTO, N.^ C-, Star
Konte, or before the 12th day
1938, or this notice wUl
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said esUte are likewise requested
to make Immediate settlement.
8-16-61. (M> Adumistratiu.
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WELL.TOMORROWS
OUR WEDDiNo ANWVFRSARy-
NOW I HOPE /VlOrntR CCrtlPPVS^
MER CURiOSTTY A8f^» OUS
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MOTHER YOU MUST ACT LIKE
A GROWN UP • NOT GOING TO BE
COAXED INTO OPfNBtG THIS PRESENT^
UNTIL tomorrow , ^
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