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mmi ’t^mnda.y at jlqt^JWlikeaboto^ N. C. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: OBe Tear $1.60 Six M«xtkg 76 P»ur MoBtks 60 Out of tfce State $2.00 per Year w pocilisi ' ^ mi J1IUU6 C. HVBBABD PaUic^m btered «t tke p«st office at Nortk Wilkes- kanv N. C., as secctid class matter tmder Act of Hareh 4, 18T9. THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1939 Crimes Of Violence No less than 85 persons have been ex ecuted by the state otf North Caarolina in the past five years. It is intere.sting to note that only seven states in the union have a larger number of executions for the period. It Is something for the good people of North Carolina to turn over in their minds. It is a gruesome record and one which does not look good. The record would look better if we were getting anywhere in the fight against crime. But the fact remains that crimes of ■violence continue in all parts of the state and that death row at the penitentiary is kept full ■with condemned on the -waiting list. But even the record of executions is not deterring criminals. The continued record of capital crimes and the ghastly number of executions has led some to believe that capital punish ment should be abolished while others take a directly opposite viewpoint, advo cating a return to the old method of pub lic hangings in the counties where the crimes were committed. Summing up the entire question, it must be admitted that society is failing to whol ly take its full responsibility in training and guiding youth along the straight way. Young people, and especially children whose lives are more tender in the forma tive stage, should be reminded daily that the “straight and narrow” is the only right way through life, and that even a small sowing of wild oats may lead to a bounti ful and disastrous harv'est. “Postalizing” The Railroads The plan put forward by John A. Hast ings, a former New York state senator, for “postalizing” railroad transportation, is said to be receiving consideration among railroad men and in Washington. The ideas, briefly, is to charge a flat rate for a pa.ssenger fare over a distance of. say, a thousand miles, twice as much for 2,000 miles, etc. Mr. Hastings’ idea is that it would pay the railroads to carry full loads of passengers between Jlew York and Chicago, or Chicago and Denver or Denver and San Francisco, for a dollar Jik head. The same rate would appply to ]^tt^engers who got on and off anywhere 'along the line. If it pays to carry a letter anywhere for three cents, whether to the next town or the other end of the continent, why can’t the same idea work with passeng ers? They are easier to handle than let ters, because they load and unload them selves and don’t have to be .stamped and postmarked. The railroads have already discovered that reduced passenger fares increase revenues. They made more money while the two-cents-a-mile rate wa.s in effect than they have made since it was raLsed -to 2% cents. They have leanied that the cost of hauling pas-sengers does not de pend directly on the number of miles traveled. If the train is going through, it can carry excess passengers without any appreciable extra cost. Without going into figures, it seems to .. us there is something in the Hastings’ idea. It would at least enable men looking for a job or going to a new one to travel farth- -er and cheaper. ........... apdl speak JBhgli^ Insofar as that is tr^, it the fact so many children come l^^pm homes where the correct use of words is not understood or observed, and they find it difficult to learn a new way of speak- Children are especially sensitive to the accusation of being "stuck up” with which they are often met by their familiar out- of-school associates when they pronounce words differently from the common usage of their environments, or use the correct word among people who consistently use the -wrong word. ' Now the same charge is being made aagainst great universities, notably Harv ard and Trinity, that they do not turn out graduates proficient enough to read and write their mother-tongue correctly. This is a serious matter, especially for those who have to make their own way in the world. As between two candidates for a job or for promotion, the choice will always go to the one who speaks better English, all else being equal. Too many youngsters of both sexes get through their school years still addicted to such misuses of language as the classic example: “If I had of knew what I’d ought to have knowed I’d never of did what I done”. The early schools gave first attention to the “Three R’s—Reading, ’Riting and ’Rithmetic”. The schoolmasters of those older davs recognized that a child who went forth into the world solidly ground ed in those elements of education carried with him the keys to unlock every other door of knowledge through which he might seek to enter. Two widespread influences are at work today to improve the language of the masses of the people. They are the talk ing pictures and the radio. But any last ing knowledge of the elements of educa tion mu.st begin in the lowest grades of the schools. One of the worse things than can hap pen is to be always on the lookout for worse things to happen. No mother-in-law thinks that the moth er-in-law jokes were aimed at her kind of mother-in-laws. Sunday School Lesson By REV. CID»JILES E. DUNN Peter Delivered From Prison PULL TOGETHER ^ (Elditorial in La Verita of Waterbury, Cone.) 2Iot for years have the times been so blflpe for all parties in our national society * 46 get together in a genuine effort to co- {'operate for the national welfare. Un- isdstakably, the people of America want co-operation. Unmistakably, tfce na- |*^on needs such co-operation. So we saj to i^oatry, to labor, to agri- to govennienL^to conaomens, to ^ woric togeHi^’. tfi, Rfi as Old American editoBi. Lesson For This Week: Acts 12:5-17 Golden Text: Acts 12:5 Few passages in the Bible are more graphic than this story of the release of P eter from prison. The minutene.ss of de tail suggests that the narrative rests on the testimony of an eye-witness. And how human the characters seem! There are rulers in power today who re mind us strongly of him. Rhoda, the servant-maid, w.'io became so excited when Peter knocked at the gate of Mary’s home that she forgot to open it, is extremely lifelike. And so is Peter. Note how astonished he was by the whole performance. He hardly knew whether he was asleep or awake. It was some time before he really grasped the situation and knew for certain that he was a free man once more. It all seemed too good to be true. The story reflects the Bible conviction that each man has’l.is guardian angel who interposes in his behalf at critical mo ments. “For he .shall give his angels charge over thee”, writes the psalmist. But do angels mean anything to our machine civilization? Does the modem man see them, or pray to them? To be sure. We sing about them at Christmas time, but do they not drop out of our lives at other seasons? Even Peter was skept ical. For he “wist not that 5t was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision”. Yet angels still ’live on, and sing o’er this weary world of ours. He of the child like faith, whose heart is open and whose feelings are expectant, can experience the touch lof an angelic hand, and hear the sweet music of an angelic voice. We do not need to think of Peter’s rescue by an angel as a bit of folk lore. All of us can recall similar surprising providentiai deliverances. We have been saved, in some mysteri ous way, by messengers of God. And so we continue to sing, wift cionftdencfr, - ring on, >our faithful ■wont bM not (iMp Mia yet. ‘ ' thin* alxmt it la iu» can Mter . the Ih^t w*' 'DPlow fs hot that mAh- 1 not iaher^tiie loai atZ^MU'Be hst deeelT- edipMltter forntcatoia, ndr Uol- aters, Bor adnltercraa, nor nate, soy ahhaes. themaelTea (With manklha, nor thievee, nor covetoua, nor dninkarda, nor-iiM- elera, nor extortlodm ahidl In herit the kingdom of Ood.*’ la it no^ strange.that, in the face of ^Ood's word men and women wilt confinne to drink and engage in the assoeiatihg evlla that go with drink? Men and Women, boys and girls, for the sake of happi- I nesa, friends, aocletjr and high I Heaven. Juit! "Look not thet! , upon the wine when it is ‘ red. , when it glveth his colour in the ' cup, when it moveth Itself aright. I At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.’’ Prov. 23:31-32. Sincerely, S. I. WATTS, Boomer, N. C. CITlEr Hot* ndlM |Mr doOijr, niora ptafiurc p«r trip—thtt’i wh*t Orarhontid'i big ftr* ttductlon* mean to /on! Saiapfa tteOMeO On*-Way fares BUB TBRMnfAL M. C. Wobdie, Agt. Telephone 216 Sample Reduced OM-Way Fares CaaideB...„ $ 2.65 WasUiwtoii,D.C...$ i.7^ Morganton 95 Statoerfile M Boone — -75 AtlaaU 96.25 Knozvflle 3 J5 Miaad. 1246 Wi|iston-Salem.. 1.20 Tampa 19.80 BW Extra BaTtnaa On Rouad Trine Sir Kingsley Wood, British air minister, operates an automatic ar moured fire positicu in a Tolworth, England, aircraft plant. The units are being installed on fighting plai:es. PUBLIC PULSE Tliis is a coinmn open to the nublic for free exprt'esion. The Jonmal-Patrlot does not sn- snme any responsibility . for srtleles printed under this heading, and neither endomee nor condemns Uiem. Please be as brief ns possible. ALCOHOL DISASTROUS Editor Journal-Patriot: Will you give me space in your column to say a few words about thfi wrong use of alcohol. Now I will admit tliat alcohol has its place in the world and if used for its intended purpose, it always proves its merit. For instance, if you have a little snake that you hate to soe decay just drop it in a bottle of alcohol and you wMll be surprised to see how long you can keep him. But alcohol, in whiskey, bear or wine, taken in the stomach has proved to he very injurious to health. Medical science studied hy the most competent physicians in the world tell us that even the drinking of beer causes many forms of dlsea.se. Doctors, not preachers, tell us that many a man dies in early life because of the poisoning effect of alcohol on the kidneys and heart. When a person drinks alcohol in beer, whiskey or wine his brain is numbed, his heart taxed, the del icate mucous lining of the stom ach Is Inflamed and every nerve and faculty of the body is affect ed. Puthermore, they tell us that 30 per cent of ail who ever drink become slaves to this awful dea- mon and that 50 per cent of all insanity in the United States is caused by the use of alcohol. Why then will men, women and chil dren. who are well and could stay well and happy, enslave them selves and dethrone their reason, destroy their bodies and loose their souls by drinking this poi son and then there are .so many innocent who must suffer because others drink. Many a wife has been neglected and many a child has gone hungry and without ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE All persons are hereby notified that the undersigned has qualified as administrator of the estate of Q. G. Poster, deceased. All persons having claims against the said estate are re quested to file same at once. If not filed within twelve months from date of this notice, same will be plead in bar of their right to recover. All persons owing the estate of U. G. Foster, deceased, are re quested to make settlement im mediately. This Jan. 31, 1939. I. F. FOSTER, Administrator of the estate of U. G. Foster, dec’d. 3-9-6t(T) ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE THE ADS. ARE YOUR MONEY-SAVING FRIENDSl Having qualified as administra tor of the estate of Bussell Hor-i ton, late of Wilkes county, N. C., ’ this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against the estate to present them to the undersigued at North Wilkesboro, N. C., on or before the 1st day of February, 1940, or this noi:iee will be plead in bar of their recovery. 'All per sons indebted to the estate will please make immediate settle ment. This Felauary 1, 1989. JOHNSON SANDERS, Administrator of the estate of Russell Horton, dec. 3-9-6t(T) EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of the e.state of James Lee ’Turner, deceased, this is to notify all per sons having claims against the es tate to present them to the under signed executor duly verified on or before Hie 9th day of February, 1940, or this notice will be plead in bar of the payment of same. All persons indAt^ to the estate will ple_se make immediate pay ment to the undersigned executor at North 'Wilkeflboro, N. C. ITiiB 9th day of Febrnary, 1989. ETTA TURNER, Executor of the estate of James Lee Turner, dec’d. 3-16-6t(T) ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE aving tor of the estate of A. G. Eller, late of Wilkes county, N. C., this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the said decea.sed to present them to the undersiggied at North Wilkes boro, N. C., on or before the 1st day of February, 1940, or this no tice will be plead in bar of recov ery. All persons indebted to the estate will please make immediate settlement. “^is February 1, 1939. JOHNSON SANDERS, Administrator of the estate of A. G. Eller, dec’d. 3-9-6t(T) Noing Like It Before BABY Bargains r||irf^^ Bargains RAISE FRYERS! First Class Day-Old Cockerels $3.00 Per 100 They grow into fast money, quick profit, many weighing 1% lb. at six weeks of age. We have thousands to offer each week. We have only room for about twenty thous and ,we need the balance of our room for pullets. That is why we are offering these chicks at give-away prices. First Come—First Served! RUSH YOUR ORDER NOW. NO ORDER TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL Write us for our 1939 sixteen-page catalog. It io full of information, it tells 70a how to make money from LEGHORNS. We have them for sale at all ages. Champion Poultry Farm CHAMPION, N. C. clothing all because of a drinking husband and father. Many a poor mail who wanted to be honest has been turned down by the business world .because business just can not trust a drinking man. And this is not all. Even unborn chil dren are made to suffer because of alcohol. Doctors tell us that when a proapectlve mother takes alcohol in her stomach that in ten minutes the poison begins to go into her blood and into the blood of the unborn child. Thus laying the foundation for suffer ing before it is born into the world. Strong drink is a menace to society, a wrecker of homes and life. Henry Grady said: “Don’t trust it. It is powerful, aggress ive and universal in its attack. Tonight it enters a lovely home to strike the roses from a wom an’s cheek; Tomorrow it challeng es this republic In the halls of Congress. It Is the spoiler of men, the terror of women, the clond that shadows the face of children the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls to judgement unprepared than all the pestelence that have wasted life since God sent the plagues to Eteypt and all the wars that have iheen fought since Joshua stood beyond Jordan.’’ Evangeline Booth truly said that 1 nk has drained more blood, inng more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more peo ple into bankrriptcy, armed more vUlians, slain more children, snapped more wedding rlngo, de filed more Innocence, blinded more eyes, twisted more limbs, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored mere womanboodi )>nken sk>i4 lusuti, Uyes. ditiwir^bjiw to otber potsoaed LOW COST LEADER or A enSAT LINE or rORDS! At lower prices than last year’s Ford V-8, the 1939 Ford V-8 is bigger than before, better-looking, better riding, and still quieter. 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