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persons should be so low es to racketeer among the aged and needy • people is disgusting, to say the least. The poor, and easily misled aged peo* pie have heard of old age pensiom un til their hopes have arisen to remarkable heights. Many think that after they reach the age of 66, or if they have al ready passed that milestone, that a pen sion will be waiting for them or is al ready on the way. In that state of mind they are easily misled by persons who tell them that for a certain amount they will assist them in getting the pension. Anxious to be among those who receive a check monthly they will give the last dol lar that is between them and desperate want to the shyster who promises to help them secure a pension or help “change the laws'* that provide aid so they will get their share. With the desire to be of maximum service to our readers, The Journal-Pa triot again passes on word from the highest authority in the state that no contribution or fee should be paid to anyone. If you as a citizen want to do a favor for your aged neighbors, tell them not to pajr an3rthing to anyone who promis es to help them get a “pension.” The authorities who pass upon applications for old age assistance, we believe, will consider the need of the applicant for funds with which to provide for the bare necessities of life, and that old age as sistance will be put out on that basis and in line with the rules for eligibility. The Average Man We have heard a great deal about the average man, but we have never met him. All the men we know are above or below the average in some particular or other. We are beginning to believe that “there ^in’t no seech animile” as the average man. He exists, if he ex ists, between the pages of the vast vol ume of statistical computations and re ports which we pay the great army of government clerks to figure up every year. The average man, we are told, pays $316.33 a year in taxes. We never hap pened to meet one whose taxes came to that precise figure. The average man is 5 feet 8 1-2 inches tall, wears an 8 1-2 shoe-and a: 6 7-8 hat. We know one or two like that, but they are not average men, because the average man has $473 in the savings bank and 1 3-4 children, and none of our friends has either. The average man, according to statistics, is 43 years old, goes to church eleven Sun days a year, smokes 3,000 cigarettes and 1,200 cigars annually, and eats eggs for breakfast. But as soon as we find a man who i saverage in those respects we discover that he has a taste for sugar in - his beer or else has been divorced three times, or has some other characteristic which takes him out of the average class. Of course, what has just been set down is largely nonsen.se, but is it any more nonsensical than the idea that any indzvidasl, group or government can lay down rules for human conduct and ex pect to .enforce them or have them obeyed? For all such rules must be based upon an average man, and there ^ ig no such thing as the average man. It were, the-mythical average man '■ might be content to let someone else prescribe his life for him; but even that Tobacco Of all classes of “big business,” the tobacco industry is the most consistently profitable, according to a study of busi ness profits recently made by the Twen tieth Century Fund. This is especially curious, because the tobacco industry, which is principally the manufacture of cigarettes, pays the highest percentage of taxes of any industiy. Every pack age of 20 cigarettes, retailing at from ten cents upward, paj^s six cents as a direct sales tax to the Federal govern ment, besides all local, state and Fed eral taxes paid on the manufacturer’s business, property and earnings. The record shows that the 16 largest tobacco companies have fluctuated in net income, but have regularly paid in creasing dividends every year, since be fore the beginning of the depression. One reason for this may be one which the investigators fail to point out. The tobacco companies have been steady and consistent advertisers on a large scale. They have set up a system of distribution which makes their products available to everyone, everywhere, and have earned their profits in fractions of a cent on each unit of sale. They have made their money not swiftly but slow ly and surely. The “little fellow” in business may, and often does, make a higher percent age of profit on his invested capital than big business corporations do. But a well-managed big business, in the long run, will stand up under depression con ditions whichv.the small business often cannot survive. Investors in big business are content to earn five or six percent on their money. Most small businesses try to make a great deal more than that. Florida. Oathqr from 1S66, St. baa tba otd«it Iniild- inea in tbla country, and many for -which CTMt aatlunity'® la claimed hot doulbted. A eori» of acienUats la at work there, realis ing the ahdent Spairfah, French and Boglish stmetnrea, rcAralld- Ing the old city -wall and a»- seamblinc authentic relics of St. AngnsUne’a past. Whw the work is done, ther^ will toe a complete early American town atanding in park, truei to hiatory In erary detail. That will make hiatory come alive for the generations to come. FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY By O. M. DICKSON is doubtful, for soma atatisticiaiis have figured out that the Average man at least one law every dayl tar- in the mountains are t»,^ to the fooit t^walar aeaer attdn>ta to Enough’s enough, though it be honey. No -vise shepherd "will selsct a wolf to guard his sheep. If voting twice for the same isaue or tor the same person is right, there -would toe nothing wrong in saying so by statute. True, bread cast ui>on the waters may be gathered many days! hence, but it is sometimes necessary to have some right now. If the devil can’t get what he wants, he will always compromise. ■While he doesn’t think so, but a drujtk man always plays on a “minor” key. How fortunate is the girl -who Is really beau tiful, but is herself appar ently unconscious of it. Had our pioneers, consult ed the Indians and the beasts of the forests. In stead of a ‘‘land of the free and the home of the brave,’’ America would have been a bowling wilderness. One proof that all people are not ■wise—watch them drive their cars. The height nor the depth of a man’s prayer is not always determined by the length Of it. A Jdule’s a nrale just because he is a— “Cross.’’ However fleet-footed or strong-muscled a person may be, not one single idea has its origin in his hand or his foot. ’The greatest general in the world is he who leads an army along the lines of peace. Some lines of procedure may 'bo expedient, bnt yet not be wise. There should (be| a mighty good reason be fore one should swop a horse that’s true and tried for one that Isn’t. It seems that the more’s done tor ;,ome people the flatter they “alt” on the ground. Though a son be Incli^ jto prod^Uty, he sdMK’M think sertonely before he tramplM tlie ideals of his ancestry nndw his feet. In a process of reasoning, if the medor prem ise is wrong, one of two things mia happen— fallaciona reaeoalng, or s ’wrong conclvslon. Itls tragic for a ip^Son not to aceapt the doctrine of a Iteder when this person sees his leader crucifiedupon the oroae undlspnted saceesB. '^- No 9»nm 'Who possesses an unmllled scep- te^handed him toy his father should fail to jw^ "I’hTSnaWr'te/*^ keep it so, as it goes to his petterHy. RESORT farmenf deiii^t New York is going to have the greateet World’s Fair over hrtd, in 1939. A hundred million per sons from all over the world are expected to attend. But New York itself is a World’s Fair, and ao- cording to its iHerohants Associ ation It Is the vacation resoi^ both Summer and Winter, of in- creaeing millions of A'mbrlcans every year. I have noticed more and more touriscB every Summer in the 40 years with which I have been familiar -with Now York. The city’s Summer climate la far toet- ter than that of many poiralar Summer resorts, and the vacation ist who seeks a change of scene and environment can certainly find more to interest and amuse him than anywhere else in Amer ica. 1 do not know of any other city where the stranger is given s more courteous welcome end such facimiee for seeing the slgbU as he or she gets in Neiw . York. And, curlonrfy enough,'the tour ists who seem to get the biggest “kick” out of a trip to New York are farmers and their familiee. They like to see what happens to the products of their farms when they have reacjied their final market. ART 1400 years ago One of the great events In the world of art was the discovery, in the ancient Church of St. Sophia in Istanbul, that under the plaster of Its walls are the oldest known Christian pictures. Built In the year 537, by the Emperor Justinian, in the city then known as Constantinople, St. Sophia was the chief temple of the Christian faith tor more than 900 years. The Turks captured the city in 1453, converted the church into a Moslem Mosque, and covered the pictures with plaster. Now the Turkish government has disestablished Mohammedan ism as the state religion, declared the old church a national monu ment, and has Intrusted the work of scraping off the plaster and revealing the beautiful an cient Christian art, to an Ameri can commission, the Byzantine Institute, which ha^ a dozen ex perts at work carefully uncover ing the world’s oldest art collec tion. One by one the relics of the early days of civilization and the record of man’s progress In the arts and crafts are coming to light. They all add proof that the upward march of humankind has been very short. Indeed. WOOD prepervalim A few years age a friend of mine found, buried underThe bed of a river in Yucatan, thousands of mahogany logs which had been cut by the early Spanish explor ers, who tried to float them down to the sea for shtpmonl to Cuba or Spain. A great flood had cov ered them with gravel, and there they lay tor more than 800 years. My friend dug them d.p and made a small fortune.- The lumber was still as sound as-wben first cut. ' Now .'they ar^’>»4ning” -gSito the mawhlawd na«ft Maaricetown, N. J. Burled tor bfandreda of years, tte» trunks up to five teat tblok and fifty feet long aro toeing hauled out of mud dovetlmea 30 feet deep. The Wood Is sound and sihellB like freiAIy-eut cedar.;. 0 These logs have been preserved they have been contlnu- nrrou«nsoa.Mnb lifiSF FROM COMMrrrtNt> place to store wood, apparently, is at the bottom of a pond. 0 0 0 BfANNKBB .... much in^roved In some 6,000 miles of travel, by ship, railroad, motor-car, bus and airplane in the past two months, 1 have been struck by the apparent improvMuent In public manners on the part of those whose work brings thmn in direct contact with the public. 1 can remember when clvHUy was the last thing the traveler anywhere in America expected to encounter. Nobody went out of his way to be helpful to those whom he was supposed to serve. Now it is different. I suppose 1 had dealings of one sort or anoth er with two or three thousand ho tel, railroad and steamship em ployees, taxi men and bus driv ers, filling station attendants and vendors of food and drink, post al attaches, policemeh^'and other functionaries. The only one who was not -polite was a Now York taxi driver. The iK>Utest persons, as a class, I would say, are the filling-station attendants. This universal courtesy Is to me a sign that America is growing up. Our young men no longer think that to be courteous is the mark of a “sissy” creek; then down and with the center of said creek to Matilda Sj^ks line; then 61 degrees‘east with the old line 88 pom to two small chestnats, then N»Ui 14 poles to a post oak; thence west 30 poles to a post oak; then north 32 poles to said creek; then up and -with saM creek 10 pdes and 10 1-2 feet; fiien 80 dagnee east 72 poles to a hoDy; thence south 12 poles to a soorwood on a hill side; thence sooth 63 degrees east 42 poles with a marked Irae, cross ing the branch 1-2 rod bmow a spring te a stake; ^en a sonth- east direction 9 poles to a stone; ^en a northeast coarse 11; 1-2 poles to a hickoiw, south 3 poles to a white oak; uen east 172 1-2 poles to the beginning, containing 114 acres, more or less. This the 8th day of July, 1937. B. C. CAUDnX, 8-2-4t-(M) Morts^gw, By Dr. C. W. Moseley, Assignee. Johnston county hog growers have found their cooperative ship ments so profitable that they plan to add sheep and lambs in the series of regular shipments. Mkibm, deceased, this is to notify an persons having claims against said estate to file the satnrwlih the nndersigned at her hbme at Nortii ^kasboro, N, C., Stax Bonte. on‘mr before the 12tb day of July, 1938, or this notice vriU be pleM in of their Hjj^t 'to recover. All persons IndeStM to said estate are likewise Wqaested to make immediate settlement. TTiis 12th d» cl Joly, 1987. MBS. IT R. IKNTON, 8-16-6t (M) Administratrix. 1 ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE ^ North Carolina, Wilkes County. Having qualified as the Admin istratrix of the estate of E. B. * Star Siagle-edfe Blades solve the mystery of good shaves. Hade sfaasa 1880 by the invswtors of the origfaial ■sfetyraxor. Keen, I lasting, oaiform. SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE By -virtue of authority contain ed in a certain Mortgage Deed! executed on the 8th day of Decern-' ber, 1928, by J. L. Bell and wife,] Cora Bell to B. C. Caudill, Mort-| gagee, and by him duly assigned; to Dr. C. W. Moseley, said Mort-' gage Deed being recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for, Wilkes County in Book 149 at page 137, and the stipulations inj said Mortgage Deed not haying j been complied with,.the undersign-! ed assignee of and in said Mort gage Deed will expose to sale at| public auction on August 9, 1937, at 12 o’clock noon at the Court house door in the Town of Wil-J kesboro, for cash, to satisfy ttej indebtedness secured by said! Mortgage Deed, the following de-| scribed real estate: _ ' Adjoining the lands of Curtis Johnson, Jim Combs and othei^ , p^>giTuiing on a pine running | north 68 poles to a -white oak on the bank of the creek, then 60 de- WHTDOn. .. reu . HBT in „ iiftvinm tfm flow oHaOii rf fpggi 4 BWVa,8lk ■MLlteCaimr wad Dl ICIh llwiilui uddefa gavu bar maA VikodBd xcsolta 5 ■»» 1? yw M avolw ’ i STAR BLADES FOR GtM AM ttftH-KEAOy RAZORS Star Blades Sold Locally By HORTON’S CUT-RATE DRUG STORE At Honey-Saviag Prices star* at faddms aotse^ fh« eufly, ara craaJky, Urn and fdgety, year aaiwa ara probMy oat of ordar. hloiet a^ relax them vri& fta Buae medidne that “(fid As vuric* far fids Colorado gv4 Whether your haaa truuhled you for hooza or iia reaziL yo^ find^fixis tea- testeo remedy effectfva. * At Drug ^torea 2Sc aad |1ML Nervine Sold Locally By HORTON’S CUT-RATE DRUG STORE At Meney-Saviag Pifasa grees north 18 poles to a perstm- mon on tto bank of brandi. then ! West 19 degrees soifih 9 poles up , the hollow to a white oak on the J] point of the ridge; then West 40 j poles to a stone in Payton Dow- ' ell’s liner thence west 78 1-2 poles ,| to a stime, then north 86 poles tof.l a red west 48 poles to Bags | branch, then up and with aaSd ,j branch 35 poles to a stake on the north side of a hill at the month of a gully, then with said gully 34 1-2 poles to a stone; then west 26 poles to a stone in the old Une: then south with aaid line, 70 1-2 poles to a post oak; then west 28 poles to a -white oak: then north HAS^ TIMED (jSO MIUH lies to a stake; llien west 40 po^ to a stone; then South 46 poles to a red oak;-then Bouib east 86 poles to on Sloan’s and Service MotiMr. anpni advice of doctors aod hos^ls; do as asy-dto give yoMr~tat» e tMfijr* the Keepb the i mSSou AMisiiRlt dttkWaMad nearly all mMMBily H. dry, NeM to a dry .
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