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One Year — ?1*50
Six Months
Four Months -
Out ef the State ?2.00 per Year
Entered at the post office at North Wilk^
boro, N.iC., as second class nmtter under Act
of MarcK"4, 187®.
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938
Agricultural Fair
Is is indeed refreshing to look through
the premium list for the Great North
western Fair to be held here in Septem
ber and note the substantial prizes of
fered for products of farms, orchards
and homes.
The fair last year was a howling suc
cess from the standpnoint of amusement
but came in for a little criticism because
of the lack of a great display of exhibits
in some classes, although exhibits were
of a high degree of excellence in many
departments.
This year the association has put out
a premium list second to none for fairs
of the magnitude of the one here and
should really place the Northwestern
Fair -on the map as far as exhibits are
concerned.
Particular attention was given to the
horticulture department, since fruit
growing is one of the leading industries
in the county. The prizes offered, in
cluding the grand prizes of $100 cash
for best orchard display, should really
attract some fine exhibits and when it
comes to apple exhibits Wilkes county
is not to be excelled.
The home department has also been
emphasized and no doubt the home
demonstration clubs throughout the
county will take an active interest. An
other place where larger premiums were
needed and where the fair association
has taken care of the matter was in the
livestock department, where some
worthwhile premiums are offered. Poul
try premiums were also increased.
We belie\e that the fair is making a
wise move in offering substantial cash
prizes which should really result in
bringing in the best products for exhi
bition. A fair should be a boost for ag
riculture, above all things, and the last
ing benefits of a fair emanate from the
exhibit hall. The action in increasing
premiums for the fair will meet with
the' approval of the many public spirit
ed people of the county who wish to see
the county continue its progress in ag
riculture, horticulture and home mak
ing.
Good Bye, Cobblestones!
The city of North Wilkesboro is to be
congratulated in that it is to be rid of
cobblestone pavement on Sixth and
Ninth streets.
We think it is a wise move to spend
highway maintenance money on those
two important arteries of travel over
which highways 18 and 268 enter the
city.
The cobblestones had obcome obnox
ious in several ways. They were placed
on the hills to avoid slick pavement but
had worn sl'ck and had become even
worse than concrete. The bituminous
surface to be applied will be much bet
ter in that respect.
'The cracks between the stones were
a gathering place for dust and each
passing car in dry weather scattered its
proportionate share of the dust.
But worse than either of the two
faults above mentioned is the noise of
traffic on cobblestones. With cars pass
ing it is impossible to sit on a front
porch of a house facing the streets and
carry on conversation. Sleep is out of
the question to persons not accustomed
to the noise.
Covering the cobblestones with pave
ment is a public improvement long past
due and the city is fortunate in receiv
ing this appropriation of highway main
tenance money.
The old idea of romance: The coun
try boy goes to the city, marries his em-
' ployer’s daughter, enslaves same hun
dreds of his fellow humans, gets rich,
and leaves a public library to his home
town. The new idea of romance: To
imdo. some otf the mischief done by the
. ... ..
The tax bill and the piAhc debt a^,
eoh^nue to mount in* this counb^ aa”.
long as pejople continue to demand mow
and more from th^ paternalistic foy-
emment. " -«•
If tiie government is to take over and
care for dependent aged and depaadent
children, if it is to pay old age pensions,
if it is to pay when we are out of work,
if it is to pay direct. relief or furnish
jobs, if it is to pay for improving pur
lands, if it is to pay us for not growing
crops or for not working, if it is to in
sure mortgages, if it is to loan us money
at very low interest rates—all these
things and many more in addition to
regular functions of government—then
we are going to pay the bill and “don’t
let anyone tell you differently.”
If we want balanced budgets, if we
want economical government, if we want
to call a halt to the steady increase in
taxes, we, as American people, must re
solve and determine to quit ^poking at
our governments at perpetual Santa
Clauses who get everything from some
mysterious source and distribute it free
ly, relieving us of responsibilities.
Due to the fact that our government
has not been collecting as much in taxes
as has been spent has been partially re
sponsible lor the psychology of “some
thing for nothing” that has been creep
ing upon millions who once tackled
the^r own problems and worked out
their own solutions.
We cannot have lower taxes and de
mand and obtain m|ore government help
and the quicker we get that fact packed
away in our grey matter the better off
all of us will be.
The more a man is educated, the
more it is necessary, for the welfare of
the State, to instruct him how to make
a proper use of his talents. Education
is like a double edged sword. It may be
turned to dangerous usages if it is not
properly handled.—Tu Ting Fang.
One of the funny things about the
stock market is that every time one man
buys another sells, and both think they
are astute.
Borrowed Comment
“THE GENERAL WELFARE”
(Statesville Daily)
In his baccalaureate address at the
University of North Carolina commence
ment Judge John J. Parker told the
nearly six hundred graduates that “the
nation looks to the universities of Am
erica for leadership in the preservation
of democracy.” And by democracy he
means more than a mere form olf gov
ernment.
And then there was this significant
pronouncement: “There is nothing in
the principle of the fundamental rights
of the individual or in the constitution
which forbids the proper extension of
government powers in furtherance of
the general welfare.”
That can only mean that Judge Park
er holds to the theory that the funda
mental law should not be tied to tradi
tion, but that it should recognize
changing conditions and be applied ac
cordingly, yet in extending government
al powers in furtherance of the general
welfare, the proper course should be
followed.
It will be remembered that Judge
Parker is not now a member of the high
est tribunal of the land simply through
failure of the Senate to ratify his ap
pointment, and by the narrow margin
of two votes. Liberals in the Senate
thought he was not liberal enough.
It is reasonable to suppose that had
Judge Parker been on the Supreme
Court bench his liberal leanings would
have prompted him to interpret the con
stitution liberally, just as the man who
gained the place to which he was en
titled has persisted in interpreting it
conservatively — too conservatively,
many think. For after all the constitu
tion, in its final relationship, means that
it is what five men on the Supreme Court
bench uonstrue it to mean, and nar
rowed down in five-to-four decisions—
means what one man thinks it means.
It is important, then, if fundamental
law is to be applied in the interest of
the general welfare, those who have the
final say concerning its purpose and ap
plication should have a comprehensive
appreciation of what constitutes the
general welfare. Measured by that
yardstick. Judge Parker’s failure* to
make the graae is one of the nation’s
politieal errors,' and, those who were in
^realise
m
No two human beings , haro
made, or eVer will make, eMCtly
the same journey In life. The
same eyente may oocur, batrtheir
sequence and combination cannot
be the same. Every'' hun^ life
should be a nnlqneK;i^ipefle^i^
The wise men of W t^l^pant
East felt,' just as men of sden^
now feel, that a rational explana
tion must be sought and found for
the beginning of things; foirthe
heart of man has’ always creVed
an explanation of uldmato reali
ties.
Even modern men who dig
their llvellhooa from out the land
is looking for some explanation.
But he finds creative force pre-
vadlng In all matters, living and
dead. Such is as extensive as
space and time. New worlds are
coming into existence; others are
dying. The machinery of the out
doors is automatic, which is not
unsatisfying to only great men
Cul Into
rJitpanete Beetio'
gh.—North .dpi'oUna Cpif:
»t fifti TO'0lr AIH
Lice, isn4 - •^bw^cal
mites lower the vitality, of laying
birds and decrease egg produc
tion ^ ppuHry fiSii^/'W^^ c.
F. poultry
sppelaJist at Btuta. College.
,^nien lice are found on the
hhdtes of'the birds, the parasites
may be eradicated hy dusting
with sodium' fluoride. Pinches of
dust should he applied to the
vent fluff, on the hack near the
oil glands, under each wing, and
on the neck.
Or the birds may he dipped in
slightly warm water to which has
I>een added an ounce of sodium
fhioride for each gallon of water.
Or nicotine sulphate may be ap-1
plied to I he r^rch poles.
'hn M":
tito pyMhspwkid' daifUtgei^^'%
ihe .ZsyDhtteslrh^te^i!sis$ty■'i>^^
planw'of*T^PtAp|W.6^.'^“-
; Th* hotftes wilt l^i&trhcted to
th^ tnp* l^ua
fg^> In, £s«t>' 1hepJ.g^jL
whjit/of thh.' pangiie they vtlff
travel for as far aa half a mUe to.
falMnto' the little‘grueh^:4kck^ts.
that will be placed on thk lawns
and in the gardens from >WiI-
mington to Ashevin«. h
Red mites stay in the poultry
unsatisfying to on.y ^ i house. At night they crawl up on
of science. Those who possess the,
intellects of giants, yet still have
the hearts of children. Such chil
dren as Peggy and John who cling
to that which is endowed with a
to tnat wnicn ' ed onethird or more
human shape and have been giv- -rp„«nte n
tho birds and suck blood. To
eradicate mites, treat the perch
poles and pole supports with used
motor oil to which has been ad’d-
kerosene.
en the warmth of living flesh.
Wny is it, that a man cannot
possibly conceal himself or ap
pear either bitter or worse than
he is, not lor long: for the sec
ret will leak out at every move
ment. There is no style, no art,
no lie, that can long cover up
what a man is.
It discloses itself in every word
he says, every field • he plants,
every line he writes—whether he
will or not—and gets Itself soon
scattered over every hill. This
may be clear enough to many
men; but long ago it came to me
as a kind of discovery. I was fish
ing in the starry sky between the
handles of a “Georgia stock.” I
wanted it to make me laugh and
end my fear.
When you can laugh at your
self is the beginning of peace—
and you cannot imagine the com
fort you will then feel.
Wishing: To Be Known
The sense of wishing to be
known only for what one really
is is like putting on an old lazy,
comf(Trtab!e pair of overalls. I am
then no longer afraid of anybody
or anything. I can say to myself,
"Here, I am—just so ugly, dull,
poor, rich (?), interesting, amus
ing, ridiculous—take me or leave
•me.” '
Have vou thought of how beau
tiful it is to be doing only what
lies within your own capacities
and is part of your own nature.
It will be like a great burden
rolled off your back when you
eomo to want to appear nothing
that you are not, to take out of
life only what is truly your own,
and within you.
T once knew an old man with a
white beard who allowed me to
tip-toe my bear feet along his
garden paths. He wore usually, a
kind of a skullcap and smoked
a corr-cob pipe. I can see him yet.
moving about his work, some
times humming a tune, and
bending over with a kind of love
to the care of his plants, or I
think of him sitting at evening
in his home-made willow chair
in his own doorwav looking out
across his fields to the quiet notes
of a nearby lake.
I never knew anyone who could
sit so still for so long a time:
and as he sat. a great look of
p.ac.e was always on his face,
(iootlness Of T/iving
Old Mr. Thompson made poor
siiough living hy selling flowers,
aster and pansy plants, and m
spring such garden plants as
strawberries, tomatoes, cabbages,
and potatoes. He kept seve^l
hives of bees and 100 hens. He
trained a grape-vine upon the
sunny side of his house. He had
his flowers growing in old-fash
ioned rock beds with narrow
walks between. In late summer
when the hollyhocks, asters, and
zinnias had grown tall, you would
see him almost hidden among
them. His benignant countenace
springing out of a mass of hloom^
At first, being only a boy I
guess, I was afraid of him; hut
as time passed I began to lihe to
stop off on my way from “going
to mill” just to go into his gar
den or fields to find him. He ex
ercised a strange fascination that
I could not understand. He would
often pick a sprig of some flow
er to plant, pinch it between his
thumb and finger, smell of it
himself, end then put it in my
hand or coat button-hole, if I
happened to be wearing one.
He would often speak with me
In pure English—being an Eng
lishman—yet quite often he then
lapse into some jther language,
not one word of which I could
understand.
But there was something In
the voice of Mr. Thompson—
something rich; beautiful, com
forting—that made me like to
listen to him. And one sentence
or motto he said over so many
times that one day quite to his
astoBishisent 1 .J^d It before he
Itad time. * ''
ifTlw reotfitiv #
lie ebotemp:
Gas tar nr creosote may be used
in place of the motor oil and
kerosene mixture.
Tropical mites remain on the
birds’ bodies as lice do, and they
may be eradicated by treating by
treating the perch poles with
nicotine sulphate, with the ap
plications being repeated every
three or four days.
Or thp birds may be dipped in
a slightly warm solution made up
of two ounces of flowers of sul
phur, and one ounce of laundry
soap to each gallon of water. Ruf
fle the feathers so the solution
will reach all parts of the birds’
skin.
A mixture of one part mercuri
al ointment and two parts vase
line may be used also. Apply a
lump about ths size of a garden
pea to the skin below the vent
and another lump to the base of
the tail near the oil gland.
Cotton seed dusting demon
strations held in .Tohnston coun
ty by assistant agent R. M. Hold
er during the month of April re
sulted in many cotton growers
adopting this method of protect
ing their seed from plant disease.
The North Carolina school sya-^
tern transports 276,000 pupils' to
and from school on each school
day.
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