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50R0. M. al "ilf iroiOTcs .. ' Malays and Thursday* at North Wnkasboro, N. C. J. CAETER and JUUUS C. HUBBARp Publishers w SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Oae Year S1.50 Six Months - — -75 'i.Four Months 50 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Bstered at the post office at North Wilkee- boBO. N. C-TYs second cliws matter under Act ■OEO, IS. v^., as se oi March 4, 187d. MONDAY, OCT. 17, 1938 A large golf ball isn’t the answer to our game. What we need is larger cups. —Iphilpdelphia Inquirer. It can hardly be said as yet that the stock market is right on the up and up, but nearly every day it is on the up and down and up.—Washington Post Apple Week The International Apple Association has set aside the week of October 31 to November 5 as “Apple Week.’’ Of course, the purpose of the event is to publicize the fruit which is so famil iar in this section and to bring about in creased consumption. The matter is of vital concern to a great many people in this section, where apples are grown extensively for the commercial market. During the past ten years growers of other products, and especially oranges, lemons and grapefruit, have by adver tising and publicizing their fruit taken the big end of the fruit market. In fact they have progressed so rapidly that the apple grower must work fast and leave ■no stone unturned in efforts to get back the “apple’s share of the national gtomach”. It is now an accepted tact that or ange juice is beneficial for babies and there is hardLv a baby to be found at the age of six months which has not taken some juice from Florida or Cali fornia oranges. That is one mere in stance of publicizing the merits of fruit. Apples are healthful and delicious food. But the merits of apples have not been publicized and as a result the Am erican people are losing consciousness of the value of apples in the diet. Apple Week would be a good occa sion for Wilkes people to observe. Ev ery home should make it a point to con sume a bushel of apples during the week. The benefits from the increased market of apples will remain right here in Wilkes county. Civilization has become so complex that whatever helps the people of your community helps you. So, regardle.ss of w'hether or not you have grown any ap ples or have any to sell, why not have a hand in helping the apple market by eating a bushel during “.Apple Week”? ^ Rural Electrification A survey recently made revealed that 80 per cent of rural homes in North Carolina which have electricity are lo cated in a third of the counties. It w'as interesting to note that Wilkes county was one df the top third. We are pleased at the progress that has been made in building electric lines in Wilkes county. It show.s a progre.s- sive spirit on the part of the people and a cooperation on the part :f the Duke Power company. The people have real ly “gone after” electricity and in thick ly settled communities they assisted in surveys and in obtaining pledges of prospective customers in numbers suffi cient to justify the company in going ahead with plans for building lines, which represent a big investment. It is earnestly hoped that other li, can be constructed soon. There rem.iin several good communities w'here people live without advantages of electricity, and it is safe to predict that they will co -operate fully in their requests to the company for additional lines and ex tensions. North Carolina counties in the “top third” in rural electrification progress are: lamance, 'Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Guilford, Harnett, Henderson, Iredell, Johnston, Lincolnton, Mecklen burg, Nash, Orange, Randolph, Robe- •OD, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutl^ord, The International Manai^ment Con gress recently held in 'Washington of fered a new “creed of management which, in view of the demands olf labor and criticism of business, expresses striking sentiments. The creed as for mulated by Lewis H. Brown, president of the Johns-Manville Company, reads: “We W'ho are responsible for the man agement of industry in supplying the needs of the public for goods and serv ices and who recognize our obligations to stockholders .and employees, believe, “That we should constantly seek to provide better values at lower costs so that more of our people can enjoy more of the world’s goods, “That We should srive to develop the efficiency of industry so as to earn a fair return for the investing public and pro vide the highest possible reward for the productivity of labor, “That we should stimulate the genius of science and utilize the methods of re search to improve old products and cre ate new ones so as to continuously pro vide new fields of employment for the present and coming generations, “That management should encourage fair trade practices in business, which, whether effected by competition or co operation, will be so shaped as to be for the best interest of our customers and of society as a whole, “That it is management’s duty to be alert to its own short-comings, to the need for improvement, and to new re quirements of society, while always recognizing the responsibility of its trusteeship, “That business in this country has never been what it could be and never what it yet will be, “That Busine.ss, Labor, Government and Agriculture working hand in hand can provide jobs and the opportunity for all to work for security without loss of our liberty and rights as free men.” If every business man in America subscribed to that creed and acted ac cording to its precepts most of our ec onomic troubles would disappear. Saving The Crop Last year the Yadkin swelled to flood stage about this time of the year and de stroyed several thousand bu.shels of corn and a greater amount was dam aged. Last week we' Woticed that some farm- era who have learned a lesson from ex perience were engaged in harvesting corn from the river bottoms. The weath er has been exceedingly dry, and com, .several farmers have said, has dried out more quickly than they have ever seen before. Previous years have taught that the law of averages usually brings heavy rains about this time of the year. This year there may be no flood on the Yad kin, but the farmer who has his corn safely harve.sted will have nothing to fear from that course, flood or no flood. Federal, StatA.fand loc^ eokt*; incurred for aid to th6| needy In AugiiBt, Including ^rnings -pf' nerwona certified aavfn need of re lief i'lnpioyed on work projficts, amounted to $259,100,000, ac cording to figures Issued today by W. C. Spruill, manager, Salis bury Field office of the Social Security Board. Thla preliminary flgurj for August is about 2 1-2 per cent above the revised total for July. According to Mr. Spruill the figures reported by the Board are compiled regularly in collabora tion with other Fedejral agencies and State and local / authorities. The August figure includee a- mounts for the various programs as follows: Public assistance ta the needy aged. to| the needy blind, and to dependent children from Federal, State', and local funds under the Social Security Act, .and other public assistance of these special types, $42,880,- 000; ear,iings of persons certified as in need of relief employed on work projects of the Works Pro gress Admlnlstratiop ($151,000,- 000), Nat’onal Youth Administra tion ($2,225,000), and other Federal agencies ($4,200,000); Civilian Conservation Corps, $20,.1,24,000; subsistence grants under the Farm Security Admin- istrat'on, $1,090,000; general re lief in cash and in kind, by States and localities, $20,365,000. These sums represent substantially all piibli,: aid received by the needy persons ir the continental United States, with tho exception of aid t o transients. Administrative costs are not included. On the basis of reports receiv ed by the Board it was estimated, after allowance for duplications, that In August approximately 6.5 million different households, probably comprising about 20.8 million persons, received public aid of one or more of the types mentioned above. These figures may be compared with the revised estimates for July which indicate that public aid was provided in that month to 6.5 million house holds, comprising about 20.6 mil lion individuals. Barnings on work projects of the Works Progress Admini.«tra- tion were nearly 5 ner cent high er In July than in the preceding month. The amount of obligations incurred for payments to recipi ents of old-age assistance, aid to the tlind. and aid to dependent childi'en increased lo.sa than 1 per cent from July. General relief \ V / 'nmj civiLix/fnow provided by States and localities for August declined about 1 1-2 per cent from the total for the preceding month. Tt was empha sized tha*^ the figures reported in dicate only the amount of aid pro vided and are not necessarily a measure of the extent of need for relief, since in some communities funds may not have been avail able for aid to all persons who were eligible to receive it under Federal, State,, or local programs. According to reports from States cooperating in public as sistance programs under the So cial Security Act, costs of $41,- 922,548 were incurred in August for payments from Federal, State, and local funds to recipients of old-aiTe assistance, .aid to the blind, and aid to dependent chil dren. In August there were 1.- 722,217 recipients of old-age as sistance in 47 States, the Dis trict of Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii, comprising approximate ly 22 per cent of the estimated population aged 65 and over. The .tverage pavment per recipi ent was $19.17 for that month, ran,ging from $5.6o in Mississippi to $22.36 in California. In 37 States, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia, reporting payments J- MOTOR CO. WILLIAMS TELEPHONE S34-J T. H. Williams, Owner Oldsmobile Sales-Serwice Bear Frame Serriee and Wheel Alignment General Auto Repairmf Wrecker Service—Electric and Acetylene Welding USED PARTS—For all makes and models ef cars and trncka jm: -T '' under the program for August, aid was extended to 40,097 blind persons. The average payment for the month was $23.42. In 38 Statei:, the District of Columbia, and Hawaii, aid was provided for August on behalf of 617,902 de pendent children in 250,909 fam ilies. PERMANENTS! of distinction By Expert Hair Stylist OUR PRICES ARE VERY REASONABLE BEAUTY PARLOR Over City Barber Shap IDEAL “RECORDS AND RECORDS” (The Christian Science Monitor) The last few weeks have been quite a galaxy of records established, repre senting new achievements in various branches of human activity. The Q;;een Mary has made the quickest crossing of the Aiantic. Captain Eyston has trav eled faster on land than any one before him. Gliders have broken national and international records for duration of flight, and the series of test matches be tween England and Australia has pro vided a number of surpassing feats on the cricket field. The modern and wide.spread pursuit of records is not invariably a desirable, or an edifying practice; it sometimes de generates into a pointless display of endurance, as in the case of pole-sitters, “marathon” preachers, to mention but a few, or it may display only eccentrici ty. Perhaps, indeed, it is cause for con gratulation that there is not a greater variety of these attempts, considering how widely the term “record” may be stretched, in the fashion celebrated by the limerick that relates how: There was a young fellow named Clover Who bowled fifteen wides in an over. Which has never been done By a parson’s son. On a FYiday in August at Dover. Exploits that advance the bonds of possibility, or that ad to the sum of knowledge, need no defense; while as for records in connections with sport, one may say that they are but the inci- denal outcome of a’rational activity,'^ of for its'own GADDY MOTOR COMPANY, Inc S a I Service Tenth Street NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. October 17, 1938 Dear Friends: Because of the interest you have always shown in each new Chevrolet model introduced, we extend to you a special invitation to come to our showrooms this Saturday, OcHober 22. ' We will have on display for the -first time, the most surprising automobile value we have ever offered—^the new 1939 Chevrolet. You will see the smartest-appearing low price car ever designed . . . a bigger Chevrolet, both in size and everything else that contributes to value! You’ll isee the greatest array of fine car features ever offered on any car, anywhere near its price. So come in—on Saturday! See this wonderful new Chevrolet^the automobile value of the year ... and the cad that will cause car owners everywhere to say—“Chevrolet’s the Choice!” ^^ours very truly, GADDY MOTOR COMPANY W. F. Gaddy, President 4-
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