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nnMWffMNT^ pouncs Mondayi ■ad'Thvndays at B North Wilkflobor^ N»i C. h OASRR JW41I8 G. SUBSeRIPnON RATES Ooo >_|1.60 Sht Months .76 Four Months .60 Out of the State |2.00 per Year Kiteied at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, N. C., aa aecond class matter under Act of March 4 1879. THURSDAY, AUG. 26, 1937 Reep The Good Work Going One of the most significant news stories The Journal-Patriot has carried recently was a summary of rural elec trification in Wilk'es county, being pro moted by the Duke Power company. Great progress has been made in the past two years and we understand the company has plans for still other lines to communities where only a few years ago electric lines would have been con sidered a wild daydream. Today the workmen are clearing right of way and erecting lines. Electricity is worth much on the farm home. It not only relieves the burden ed housewife of many loathsome duties and furnishes light for the home but it will mean that the farmer will have ample power to operate machinery and to perform various tasks difficult or practically impossible without elec tricity. Rural electrification also means that the once considered luxuries of the city are available on the farm. No more is adequate lighting, refrigeration, radio, washing machines, electric fans, water in the home, bathrooms, etc., confined to the city. Electricity has made it pos sible that the farm be a desirable place on which to live. This subject has a deeper meaning. It means that children will no longer be lured away from the farm home^ by city life because of its conveniences not available on the farm. Our leaders in the past were bom and reared in rural areas. To keep in step with civilization rural areas must be such desirable plac es in which to live that the better pec^ pie will not long for the “greener grass across the fence.” This Musical World The piano makers report the biggest business in many years. Not long ago piano sales had fallen off so that many thought the industry was on its last legs. The radio was killing it, they said. Now it turns out that radio has stimu lated interest in music so that Young America is feeling the urge, as never before, to produce its own music. The whole musical instrument market is ex periencing a boom. Nobody knows how- many aspiring boys and girls are learn ing to toot trumpets and saxophones, play the fiddle or the steel guitar, or do musical tricks with strange instruments, but the total must run into the millions. And that doesn’t take in the budding crooners, torch singers and tap-dancers. Among the most popular programs on the air are the amateur hours, when am bitious musical youngsters strut their stuff. The volume and quality of the talent and near-talent which these af fairs bring into the open is an index of the current enthusiasm for self-made music. There isn’t much wrong with a world that is full of music. ^URNAL-PAtlttl still- 4-H Membership Grows One of the most hopeful signs for the future of agriculture is that the enroll ment in 4-H clubs passed the million mark for the first time, in 1936. Mem bership continues to increase. The young men and women who join the 4-H clubs will be the producers of tomorrow. In their club work, they are instructed in new methods and tech niques that make it possible for the farmer to raise larger crops and earn a ■ greater return. They are given an op portunity to develop qualities of leader ship that will prove invaluable to them in the future—^for example, in the agri cultural movement which.is constantly h size and economic and social ce^ In brief, they are wisel? veen of farming. . . . ' SI ^ I^Sduth’s Opportimity A generation ago farms ^were largely thought of as mines from* which farmers extracted the soil fertility and then moved on to hew. areas. Now ^®y ' are rightly regarded as factories in wWch plant food is manufactqred mto plant and animal products. l*here N..is great hope for the South in this new concep tion, "as The Progressive Farmer points out in the following editorial:— “We have much labor not yet .fully utilized. We have the climate for a quicl( turn-over of crops. We have soils that can be easily cultivated. We can grow legumes easily and so stuff pur land with cheaply produced nitrogen and humus. Furthermore, fertilizers have not advanced in price so much as prices of farm products generally. “For all these reasons it will pay us to continue spending as much for fertili zers as now but double our acreages of soil improving crops. Our warm cli mate is an asset but this warm climate makes moisture disappear rapidly. Hence we need more legumes (1) to get cheap nitrogen and (2) to fill our soils with spongy humus that will hold mois ture in the soil and so enable us to keep right on converting plant food into the plants just as fast as we can find profit able markets for them. And we need to market them both directly in the form of cotton, tobacco, truck crops, etc., and indirectly in the form of milk, butter, eggs, pork, beef, etc. “The farm is not a mine but a factory. Let’s treat it as such.” . T0D!4Y [4^ WAB . . ; . wit&mt There hae never .be«i a ^me, -mhen so many iiei^fo, of idt na-" tions, have been so earnestly try- ins ttrBrwrentVte. Yet as I write this thero are'- two Important wars now In protcross,'and the threat of war Is far mere men acing, aU ov» tine world, than It was on the v^ry eve of the World War cMch j. started. 28 years ago with Germany’s in- rasion of Belgi'um. In Spain the .bloodiest, most bitter war of all tbne hae been raging now for more than a year. Within the lionlted area of ,a single nation, more people have been killed, In proportion to the population aifil the number of troops engaged, tflian In any war in all history. When the whole, true story of the Spanish war is told it will shock the. world. Japan and China are at war. There has been no formal dec laration of war, but whep one nation invades another’s terri tory and is met with armed re sistance, 'that looks like a real war. And the other nations are trying to find ways-to keep from being dragged Into these wars. ^2 THE THCASUtN NNBR i/1 .sz' i' rXXE HATES Bumper Crops Again The largest cqtton crop in six years, the largest wheat crop since 1931 and the largest com crop in five years have combined to bring the agricultural situ ation to the fore again, and to revive in terest in and discussion of crop con- control. In the case >of wheat the esti mate of nearly 900 million bushels will not create a surplus* and cause a serious drop in the price the farmer gets, be cause there have been serious crop failures in several of the great wheat growing countries. Wheat is a world crop whose price is fixed in the interna tional markets according to the still un repealed law of supply and demand. The bqmper crops of the febding- grains, com, oats and barley, foresha dow an increase in live-stock production. The effect of that will not be felt this year, however. The cotton crop is giving the greatest concern. Th;s is another international crop, whose price is fixed in the world market, and the forecast of a large sur plus production above domestic con sumption caused a sudden drop on the New York Cotton Exchange to 10 cents a pound. That revived the demand for the continuance of Federal warehouse loans on cotton, and the President has agreed to’ that in return for a Congres sional promise to take up crop control legislation at the next session. SPAIN democracy In Spain, the underlying cause of the war is a conflict of ideas. It has ibeen breeding' for years, since the Spanish people, led toy part of the army, rose against the King and undertook to set up a republic. Then began a strug gle for control of the govem- iment, between the Communists and the advocates of a less radi cal conceipt of democracy. The Communists got control of the government, and the anti communists started a rebellion. They got sympathy and material aid from other nations which wanted, at any price, to keep Comimunism out of Western Eur ope. The Fascist government of Italy and the Hftler government of Germany, whloh is about the same sort of thing as Fascism, have lent soldiers and equip ment to the revolutionists, while Commiunist Russia is giving similar aid to the Loyalists. EaEch side claims to be fight ing for democracy and tihe rights of man. I cannot see bow any American can reconcile the claims of either to . democracy as nnderatand It, ■ yA muuiy eac- * er, adventnrous young Ameri cans are fighting on the Com munist side, and many have been killed. UOMK rdSfiO UOKBr, HA 4 PetEO CMCKBN .V»1.T HOT sew BiSC JtTS HOm* tUKBirrrsa «A«Hn AfLK SKA/r 5WEET *. SALSITY Pols Ceaiw xmtia v&MATon smea«/ case . . 'LED ONIOHt VtCKieS MAUA/TB 'Un.b f lAMT APPLCSA5S HOHEV » -.'MAb BAS-.?: C INCt.’JEL.I. Vi UM »/XTrB, pkaucp ***c,i« C'^APF CDtOSOxE ruEOAVT JCU. PICKALILIV APPLE Pm. JEPW nWlB PA. BLAOceEWEV P1B JEU.V CAtC£ MAULS CAKA COPPSa MILK. I Amp if vwe umc OMfTTts ittrrUMtj- PLCAse Tfiu. u tified In feeling itself se';ure a- gainst war, in the present stage of civilization. We have not suc ceeded very wellj in bringing up our boys to abhor war. ’Thous ands have gone to Spain to fight for an idea which appeals to them, or for the excitement of fighting. I hear of hundreds of American boys going to China to get in on tJbe war against Japan. The League of Nations has proved ineffective in averting war. It did nothing to stop one of its members, Italy, from gobbling up another member, Etibioopia. What with Italy trying to rebuild the old Roman Em pire, Germany and Japan tiylhg to| gain more territory, Russia seeking to impose its Communist philosophy on the rest of the world, and a dozen smaller na- tioiis ready to fly at each others’ -e&roats. I can’t believe that A- merica wiH'ibe able to stand aloof when serious trouble starts. JMy own personal notion is that the future of the world depends upon the English speaking na-. the western edge, where prairies tions. and that the tighter we giv© way to the plains. Cotton tie the bonds of friendship with | losses occurred in western Texas, the British Empire, the better ■ but elsewhere the crop boomed' off we and tfbe world will be. along with its promise of a rec ord-breaking surplus. FIRST FROSTS ARE REPORTED IN WEST Washington, Aug. 23.—First frosts of the year were reported from parts of eastern Washing ton and Oregon, while the coun try east of the Rockies sweltered in hundred-plus , temperatures, j the United States weather bureau reported after a study of the past | week’s weather summary. Con tinued drought, with added beat, 1 made bad going for cbm in much | of the main crop section, with outright failure of the crop alone HAVE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS Pilled At RED CROSS PHARMACY CASH—CUT RATE rherioi COLDS and \ •FEVER ' first day • Headache, M' minntM Rub-Mv-Tism”—World’a Baal Liniment Liquid. TaUeta. Salve. Nose Drops Oldsmobile Sales and Service Electric* and Acatylanc Walding, Body and Fender Repairinc Radiator Rapairing and GeAral Aa8o**«bile work. Wi^er S^ee IMy or Williams MolorlCo!* T. H. WTT,LIAMS, Owner, V, Mile West. N. Wilkaabara PHONE SS4-J. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CHi»JlLES E. DUNN GOD CONDEMNS INTEMPERANCE Lesson For .August 29th, Leviticus 10:8-11. Golden Text: PrWverbs 20:1. What is the situation in our country today with respect to the liquor problem? The 21st amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th, was ratified by 36 states in 1933. Since then seven^ additional states have formally gone wet. Only five are now officially dry, Kansas, 'Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and these permit the salft^ of beer. In the three years from 1934 through 1936 the national consumption of hard liquor increased nearly 200 per cent, and the con sumption of 'beer rose 20 per cent, not count ing bootleg production. The one bright spot in this dismal picture is tibe large number of dry counties and localities. About 600 of the 3,300 counties In the coun try are genuinely dry. Alabama, for instance, went wet last April, but more , than two- thirds of its counties are still dry. The dry forces realize it is wiser to stress education in temperance than to champion prohibition. One of the most deplorable features of the return of liqupr to Its former power and pres tige is the appearance of the woman's saloon with its cocktail hour. Captivating with its neon lifted portals, modernistic tables, and high-priced orchestras, promoted -by enticing publicity, and patronized by sophisticated young ladles seeking the glamour of artificial excitement, this new type of grill Is worse than Its sqnalid and inelegant predecessor. ' Need we wonder that our crime record Is the worst In the world? “90 per cent of crime,” declared Judge Carrol, of Minneapolis, In a recent’ address, "is due directly or indlre«tly to liquor.” And think of the* ever-increaring slaughter on our highways' 1936 registered an 8 per cwit increase ov«r 1985 in lihe num ber of drinking drivers involved In fatal accl- „ .dents. TVnly, as onr Golden Text warns no, “WIno means moekatr, Uqnor means Ing: there Is no sense in reeling under'arink.’' CHINA outside aid Japan’s excuse for occupying China Is the danger of the spread of Communism from Russia into China. Back of that, however, is Japan’s desire to find room foi its surplus population, and its need of the resources of Chinese territory. This war, too, /has been breed ing for years. It is giving the rest of the world even more concern than the affair in Spain. The Chinese outnumber the Japa nese more than five to one, but they are 'badly organized and have not the fighting resources of the Japs. Some European na tions and our own country have been '.helping China reorganize her finances and obtain foreign credits. ’Their fear is that Rus sia may take a hand against Ja pan, which ■would give Germany a chance to attack Russia from the other side, and that would start another European war. Germany wants to crush Com munism, but she wants more to obtain land and resources for her excess population, and Russia has those. » . ♦ * • AMERICA protector We are probably physically safe from the present wars or any other which might develop from them. No enemy is, likely to ir/ to invade the United States. But we are under a pledge, first expressed in the Monroe Doctrine and reaffirmed as lately as 1936, to protect the nations of South America against conquest by a foreign power. It has been proposed in Wash ington that We lend a lew naval vessels to Brazil. Brazil wants them to train seamen for its new navy, which is being .built in A- merlcan sbi’pyards; for Brazil is afraid of Germany. Germany has been planting settlers In Brazil for a long time. With an .irea larger than the United States and barely a third ol onr popu lation, Brazil is an immense un tapped reservoir of wealth. It would '’servo Germany^ need lor expansion 'better than did the Alrican oolonieis she lost in the Wiorld'War. It would be no trick at all lor Germany to take Bra sil, II . . . But this country Is oMigated to prerent Germany from selzlog Brazil. 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