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:,:x>. J. CAKTEB^and JUllUS C. HUBBABP
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Six Months
75
Four Months
60
Out of the State ..
$2.00 per Year
Batered at the pest office at North WOkea*
bera N. as second claia matter under Act
of March 4, 1879.
MONDAY*, MARCH 27, 1939
The American Game
This year marts the 100th anniversary
of the game of baseball, long considered
the national pastime of the American peo
ple.
The game, one of the cleanest offered as
a recreation program in the world, is dis
tinctly American. The game was invent-
-ed by an American and was ao well laid
out that there have been but few changes.
The principal changes have come about
through use of better equipment and high
ly trained players.
On this 100th anniversary of baseball it
would be a good move if every community
would strive to organize and maintain a
team for its boys and young men this sum
mer. A team properly conducted will
mean an asset to the community from both
physical and moral standpoints.
The success and popularity of baseball
are due to those who kept the game out
of the slums of crookendess and gambling
and placed into the game a stritmg sense
of duty to keep it free of suspicion.
Thus a spectator knows when he sees a
game of big time baseball that he is look
ing upon a crew of men who are striving
to win and who are not touched by the
tainted tenacles of gambler’s money.
Professional baseball is highly organ
ized and rigidly governed to assure that
the game will go straight and that the
teams shall be equally favored by the
rules of the game.
It is the one game in which individual
initiative counts for all its worth. There
is little or no chance to gain the top and
the spotlight of favor by crookedness. The
game as it has been conducted for decades
has won the respect of the public and such
respect has made it profitable to the
game’s promoters.
Unlike many sports, the game offers a
chance for comeback to veterans who are
sometimes for years handicapped for va
rious reasons.
Years ago James Emery Fox, now slug
ging first baseman of the Boston Red Sox,
was home run king and lacked only two of
reaching Babe Ruth’s record of sixty in
one season. Then he hit a slump which
was due in part to sinus infection. In oth
er sport.s such a setback would have meant
his exit from any place near the top. But
he worked hard, he trained well, he con
centrated on the game in an effort to re
move his weaknesses. Last year, he led
in hitt ng percentage, was second in home
runs with 50, batted in the mtet runs and
was voted the most valuable player in the
league. Because he had the determination
to come back, and the "'id t-' work, he
succeeded.
Another example, somewhat pitiful in
some respects, was also on the Boston
team.
Eiffht years ago, Robert Moses (Lefty)
Grove, was king of the league in pitch
ing. He won 31 games and lost only four,
proving to be almost invincible against any
team and when he was defeated it was
news to put in sports headlines. He had
little control, but his blinding speed was
so great that one or two runners on bases
because off balls worried him little. It was
' highly probable that with two or three on
he could whip that lanky arm in quick
arcs and literally throw the ball past the
batter.
Bad tonsils and other infections set up
BOireness in that once invincible arm and
during one whold season he was a grouch
who had lost his power. But he was not
through, and he set about developing con
trol and curve to take the place of that
opce-so-great speed. He began to pitch
hill new brand of offerings with such suc-
ceOB that he regained the top place in
,eahied runs allowed, winning that honor
for seven years, including 1938 when he
^ 88 years of age. As his control and
l eilrYe improved, his sp^d came back and
T today hA PJorida itt ' spring
tninWr tiwwiar them over with all,the
speea of'hwp^et. He is 39*^ars old
and still growing strong bejeapSB - hr had
what it takes to be a man. ?= &
Wesley Cheek Ferrell, GuUford county.
Jlofe jwent to the major league as ip pitch
er and for years won in ^e nei*hl|orho^
of 20 gamei'"^per sea*^n. He had the
strength of youth.^ The g^d of ^he game
took the zip out «>£ his pitches and he was
afflicted with a sore arm.'^ He did
quit. He did not give up;
the old master, he concentrated on curro
and control with good succes^-The h^^
on the Ferrell farm near Guilford C^Io^
has been literally bombarded, with ba^-
balls where Wesley threw them for hours
at a diagram the size of the place over the
plate and between a batter’s knees and his
shoulders. Because he would not quit
and because he worked hard he went back
toward; the top, and although he did not
do so well in 1S88, reports from spring
training indicate that Wesley Ferrell will
be plenty helpful to the champion Yankees
this season.
The game is full of such examples .of
determined manhojod. It deserves the re
spect which it has gained and is holding
so well.
for
‘a little
plant last year.
LespedezaGrowth
Can Be Improved
Men With Wings
Nobody knows how long ago men first
tried to emulate the birds, but the dream
pf flying must have come to many in the
esrlicst dawn of huinan consciousness.
Among the ancient legends that have
come down from the earliest times are
mythical stories of men who devised arti
ficial wings and flew with them. The
Biblical concept of angels as man-like be
ings with wings is almost as old as human
thought. The angels of ancient Scripture
are superior to earth-tied humans,
man, as we are told, was created
lower than the angels”.
With the inauguration of the regular
trans-Atlantic flying service the cl max
has been reached of man’s age-old dream
of flight.
In the words of the old hymn; “There,
thei -, on eagle’s wings we soar”. Those
of us, that is, wh(o are fortunate enffugh
to take the 18-hour passage from New
York to England in the great new “Yan
kee Clipper”, the largest and finest pas
senger aircraft ever built.
Carrying 74 passengers and a crew of
ten, there is every reason to expect this
great ship of the air to perform as its de
signers and engineers expect it to. Much
longer flights, and many of them have
been made acro.ss the Pacific and are be
ing made almost with the regularity of
railroad schedules.
But the Pacific, as its name implies, is a
much milder stretch of water than the
North Atlantic. Extraordinary precau
tions, we are told, have been taken to
guard against the unstable air conditions
over the sea which Englishmen still refer
to as the “Western Ocean”, though it is
east of any point from which we in Am
erica view it.
Boin American and British aviation
companies are ready to launch mpre cross-
Atlantic flying boats before the coming
summer is over.
The new ships of the air are smaller
than the Santa Maria, the ffagship of the
little fleet in which Columbus made the
first trans-Atlantic crossing 436 years ago. .were both applied.
But he took four months whereas the new
’’Yankee Clipper’’ will literally enable its
passengers to eat breakfast in America
and dine the same day in England. And
that seems to us to be something wonder
ful.
New $800,000 Banding Be.^
bf Pl^iinfaa^
Work' b Starf fn May ,
ybeanMetf
Chei^
Elidn, llw«h 20.—FqIIoto^ _
cenf«renc«^, bere today of offictidiiL Prof. C,. B. yVilUamsf head of
nf thn rai.tlwwi aardoomy of iha
cotapaiiy aiid Elkin town
Thormond Chatham, preaMent of
the company^ aafiboatceddrat nm
firm’s Wiaaton-Salem plant would]
be (miolidated withs the >^!2dn'
phm^'The action is sabject to
ratification stockholders at a
meeting to be held March 28, he
said.
Plan .New Building
A |noo,000 building- to boose
the finishing plant, now at Win
ston-Salem, is to be constructed
west of the present Elkin plant,
it was stated. Preliminary work
on the new structure is expected
to start early in May.
The move, if ratified, will af
fect approximately 650 employed
of .the Winston-Salem plant. It is
estimated that it will add around
2.000 persons to Elkin’s popula
tion, and will boost the weekly
payroll to $35,000. Approximate
ly 1,200 persons now are employed
Wy the company in its EHkin unit.
The new building at the Elkin
plant will be about twice the size
of the present one at Winston-
Salem, having a floor space of
145.000 square feet.
Enlarge Storage Space
Plans are also being made to
construct a new warehouse, with
a floor area of 50,000 square feet,
at the Elkin plant
A number of years ago the en
tire plant was situated at Elkin.
Tnen the finishing and shipping
depai'tments wei’e transferred to
Winston-Salem.
The company’s plant at Elkin
is situated on an elevation in the
eastern section of the town, over
looking Main Street.
In addition to suitings and
blankets, the company has been
malnng automobile upholstery
materials in increasing quantity.
State Coltege, rtcOiQiottdB scy-
beun meal as a nouMe of organic
in mbrad, fertilizers. Ss
|i;6Mb cut that it fa cheaper titian
hiuy' dther standhzd Aourees of
this most necessary p:^ of fertir
Hsei? fonr^ilas.
In answer to^hdmeroM ques
tions about the value and compar
ative cost of soybean meal, I^f.
WflUama issued the following in a
stiktement:
"During the past month a good
ly number of- inquiries have come
to me with reference to the value
of soybean meal as a source of
organic nitrogen in mixed fertili
zers. From the information which
is available, this material is an
excellent source, standing in ex
cellence with such standard car
riers as cottonseed meal, fish scrap
and dried blood.
“■From quotations which I se
cured, the nitrogen contained
soybean meal, retailing at $27
ton, cost 16 cents a pound while
the nitrogen derived from cotton
seed meal at $29 a ton cost 21c
a pound.
‘‘A considerable tonnage of soy
beans have been crushed by the
cotton oil mills of the State this
year, making available their fine
source of organic nitrogen for use
by North Carolina farmers. At
present prices, so far as our infor
mation goes, soybean meal is the
cheapest source of organic nitro
gen and cottonseed meal is nebet.
Dried Mood and fish scrap are
more expensive carriers of this
essential plant food.
“Soybean meal has been tried
out as a source of part of the ni-
torgen in the fertilizer mixture on
In Counts^ Jail
^
‘Wdnt Jefferson. —: B n o e h
iorch, of Fleetwood, whp wiur:
and[^4wrlouBly ■ wounded Ho*
an 1iskaow]V;.party/or purtfeu^
iUisrt time use, baa recovered
froni^'liie ^’"severe . pistol shot
Uroi^ds and 1* now Hvliig wfith
Fred Dre«, 'one of hie mlg&boru.^
During the past week' Sheriff
Bd Miller t^k him to the couh-:
ty.Jail to see Wnde Blackburn,
who Ir being held for. sbootfhg
th(^ 8B-yean-old man,
Cbureh recognized 'iffiackhum
as he had seen him u few days
before the ehooting occurred, at
the home of Niley IfcNeili where
Church went to get a haircut.
Sheriff Miller said.
Sheriff quoted Church as bar
ing asked 'Blackburn why he shot
him and said the escaped convict
declared that he wasn’t the man.
No new arrests have been made
but Sheriff Miller, says he can
convict Blackburn with the evi
dence be now has. The case will
probably be tried next month.
Sheriff is of the opinion that rob
bery was the motive involved in
the shooting.
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BANKRUPTCIES
Wilkes Florist
Bfankruptcies among American
farmers numbered 1,799.. in the
1937-38 fiscal year, a decrease of
27 per cent under the same period
a year previous.
Opposite Liberty Theatre
Phone 200
many of the leading crops grown
in the State, such as cotton, to
bacco and small grains, and its
use has given excellent results’’.
Reading the ads. get you mot
for lee money. Try it!
SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
_ ESTA'I’E
Additions were made to the Elkin j North Carolina, Wilkes County.
Experiments in Rowan county
Have proven that lespedeza needs.
lime and superphosphate when it
is grown on poor land, reports
Enos €. Blair, agronomist of the
State! College Extension Service.
‘‘It is true that the lespedeza
have a reputation for ‘bringing
back’ land too poor to grow crops
with pi-ofit, or land that has been
abandoned because of low fertili
ty, but a little fertilizer will in
crease greatly the value of the
crop”, Blair stated.
In Rowan county, Korean les
pedeza was seeded on poor land
without fertilizer treatment for
two years. The plants reached a
height of more than two inches
only where row crops had been
fertilized previously. This growth
was limited to a narrow band
right where the fertilizer was
placed in the previous year. Most
of the lespedeza died when about
two inches high.
When the land was treated with
lime and superphosphate, there
was a marked increase in growth.
On untreated plots Korean had
reached a height of one to three
inches; with lime alone, four to 13
inches: and nine to 17 inches
where lime and superphosphate
In the Superior Court
In the matter of W. D. Halfacre,
Adminietrator of the estate of
J. A. Johnston, with the will
annexod.
By virtue of authority con
tained in a certain order of the
Superior court of Wilkes county,
signed on March 6, 1939, and un
der the will of the late J. A.
Johnston, made and entered in
the above-entitled matter, the un
dersigned will, on April 10, 1939,
it being Monday, at 12 o’clock.
Noon, at the courthouse door in /-v i
.‘ifSVSl for smoking pleasure at its best—Camels
highest bidder, for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate;
Beginning at a white oak on a
branch, S. P. Smithey’s line, and
runs up said branch south 1114
degrees east 32 poles to a maple
at the forks of said branch; then
south 60 degrees east up the east
prong of said branch 66 poles to
a white oak on the south side of
the public road; then south about
southeast crossing
Kobe and common lespedeza
grew four to six inches on un-
Parkway Important
The economy bloc in the national con
gresa, intent upon reducing |government
spending, seeks to wipe from the appro
priations bill funds for continuing con
struction on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Reductions in government spending, it
is agreed, are essential toward restoring
confidence of business, but such reduc
tions should mean economy instead of
waste.
Failure to complete the Parkway, per
haps the major project in the south, would
constitute an enormous waste instead of
economy.
The government can do a great service
by appropriating enough money to carry
Parkway construction on at a rapid pace
until it is finished. All worthwhile proj
ects, including the Parkway at the top of
the list, should be completed in view’ of
the fact that great sums have already
been spent.
The government can best curtail spend
ing by not beginning other cortly projects.
To drop major projects which are well un
iter ^ay aad hatf comptot^'; would
tragic wasted ^,:-.1^i ^
treated plots, six to eight inches
with lime, nine to 11 inches with
superphosphate, and eight to 16
inches with both lime and super
phosphate. Se.ricea showed the
same trend in growth with ferti
lization. It reached a height of
20 to 30 inches with lime, 26 inch
es with superphosphate, and 30 to
40 inches with both lime and su
perphosphate, icompared with 16
inches on untreated plots.
The rate of application was
from one to three tons of lime and
500 pounds of superphosphate per
acre.
35 degrees
Yeargin’s creek at the mouth of
a small branch, in all 100 poles to
a bend in the road, leading to the
Yeargin’s church: then with the
said road 74 poles to a pine on
the west side of said road; then
west 100 poles to a chestnut on
the south side of Yeargin’s creek;
then horth 58 degrees west U6
poles to a pine on the north side
of the public road and near the
road leading from the same to
Sarah Gray’s; then with the me-
anderings of said road; in all 136
poles to a stake on the. east side
of said road; then east 20 poles
to the beginning, containing fifty-
nine acres, more or less. It is
estimaW to be 75 acres or more
in this tract.
This 7th day of March, 1939.
W. D. HALFACRE,
Administrator of the estate of J.
A. Johnston, deceased. 4-3-4tM
PEARSON BROS., as usu
al, is headquarters for all
kinds 0 f seeds. Farmers,
friends, come in and
!/
WILLIAMS
Benno A. Schoch has returned
to Can Francisco after traveling
through 18 Latin American na
tions for a year in the interests of
the California World’s Fair.
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NAGGING BACKACHE
Disc^rdert.ti Rulncv Acnon. Oon i Neglect It!
Modern life with its hnrrv ud
worry, irregnlar bnbiti!, Impropei^t-
Ukg and di^klnr, exposure, oontnaion,
lehofnot, kMps di^ora
Lbnty, boepltnli
effects are dtstnrblnff
to the ' kidneys . and
oftsottsaes people snffer wltbont ksoir-
tag that dtaurde^ ''
tbs trooble.
I kidney setian may
ent beadnebe; disstaasa, aettina W
nights, swemha, poflineas under the
eyes — n feellna of nervons anxiety
and loss of strength and energy. Other
signs of kidw
or bister'die- rdZ aZASON DOAfTS
tnrbuee ainy .. ABE rAMO*Ja
“AB eree *he eenann
After c(^ fever Md st^r flls
£t fin kidfieA si% ovsrtnsd and tm
be burning,
seniity or too araims
froqaent urlns- eawt '
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In snd esses «end iA
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