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a or prXiinos >y» mmI TlHmdaja al N. C. O. J. QASSBE ut4 410^ G. HUBBABD SUBSCRIPTIOII RATES: Ob« Ye4r $1.60 76 60 12.00 per Year 8^ ifonihe Out «f the State . i^c,“s?y25 ti UtiA 4, 187». oifle* at Nortfa WSIbm- elaat matter onder itt THURSDAY, FEB. 29, 1940 Home Accidenets It is fitting that the press, radio and other agencies of public information should turn much attention to the task of edWating people in the hazard of automo bile/accidents and it is also essential that we should give a thought occasionally to hgime accidents. About the same number of people are killed in accidents about the home each year as die in auto wrecks along the high ways. On Saturday morning a fourteen-year- old boy in Wilkes was happy and enjoying life. Within the space of a few seconds he had accidently stabbed himself with a pocket knife and his life had departed, which show’s how easily and quickly fatal accidents can happen. Elach year hundreds are killed because they fall in bath tubs. Hundreds are kill ed while working on farms. Kicking mules annually take a big toll. Fall ing timber kills workers in the forests. Falls from buildings take many lives. Many falls down stairways in homes prove fatal. Fires take a big toll in human life. Children and aged compose the majority of home accident fatalities but often active people are victims of carelessness. Practically all accidents can be classed as preventable and due diligence on the part of all will reduce the death list. The Helpless Match Fire menaces the preservation of socie ty’s most cherished things; property, jobs and family. When you hold a match in your fingers and the clear flame points toward the ceiling in silent beauty, ;t is hard to believe that with a little help from its allies around the room—cigarettes, waste paper, curtains—it could consume the house in which you are sitting. All these allies seem far from danger ous; but every day a match or cigarette is dropped into waste paper, or bed, and loss, and perhaps death results. Every day a stove with a faulty flue is setting fire to a dwelling. Every day an unscreened fire in the fireplace shoots a spart out into some inflammable object in the room and sets fire to it—maybe in the daytime, may be at night when everyone has retired. Every day brings new evidence of how that peaceful little flame on the match -works with its allies tc w-reak havoc on the whole community. So the next time you watch the tiny flame of a match and tip it down to give it another lease on life, remember that it is helpless only while you hold it in your fingers or when its charred remains are cold. Respect fire for the utility it has to of fer, and respect fire also for the power it has to destroy. Youth Has Its Eyes Open “American young people have confi dence in themselves, place real value in their talents, and have faith in the future of their country.” In these encouraging words, “Scholastic Magazine” announces the results of a sur vey it took recently among more than six thousand representative high school young people throughout the country’. The con clusion should be heartening, but not gen uinely surpr sing to anyone who has ob- serv'ed the American spirit in operation be fore. Some of the answers, indeed, point to a courageousness and belief in the future that we older folk would do well to emu late. For instance, only 10 per cent of those questioned expressed the belief that government jobs should be provided for young people until times improve, and 61 per cent said that if they had trouble find ing jobs they would blame themselves. As a further comment, 90 per cent of the young men and women questioned be lieve that the best cure for unemployment among youth and for young people in jobs they don’t fit is more preparation for specialized jobs. This note of encouragement comes at an apt moment. For with industry once again on the move and already wpm^ng senous Shortages among In* t^^ilyinif before a „ J. Edgar Hoover, jiwtly famed head “G-Men," said; “I have been very much surprised at the absolute lack of protec tive measures in many of our larger indus trial plants. Some of the great plants in the ' coun^ have utilized^ no measure against sabotage or destruction of proper ty.” Commenting on this, the Wall Street Journal observed: “It is disconcerting to find that Mr Hoover can be surprised. It is particularly so when by merely follow ing the news reports he could find that in dustrial companies which took steps against sabotage in a good many instances have been accused of trying to suppress legitimate union activities. And if they dared to defend themselves by mentioning Communists or sabotage, they were smear ed with that devastating appelation, ‘red baiter.’ ” A new and revolutionary principle seem? to have come into effect in this country. Under it, the employer is al ways wrong and the agitator always right. A labor organizer can actually wreck an industry by the strike, sit-down, slow-up or coercive technique used today, and the law will^ protect him. An employer who dares to express to his employes even mild disapproval of such methods may be haul ed up before the National Labor Relations Board and charged with coercing defense less workers. The fact that we need employers to supply labor with jobs and opportunities, is disregarded. So in the fact that invest ed savings of millions of citizens have been responsible for giving the American workmen the best jobs, the highest wages, the best working conditions and the finest standard of living in the world. The surest way to injure labor is to cripple industry. Borrowed Comment OUR SHOCKING ACCIDENT TOLL (Reidsville Review) Accidents in the United States last year amounted to 93,000 deaths and 8,800,000 injuries. Property damage is estimated at $3,300,000,000. All figures are a trifle below those of 1938, the preceding year, but their size is still terrible to contem plate. Traffic accidents on streets and high ways are responsible for a majority of the death and injuries. But don’t be too sure of your own safety just because you do not travel the highways much. Once more the supposed “safety” of the home is disap proved by the record of 32,000 persons killed and 4,700,000 injured in home falls, fires, and other accidents. It would seem that there is nothing cheaper in the United States than human life. We refuse to take a back .seat even for war-torn Europe in the matter of deaths and injuries With sweet peace en folding us, we kill and injure as many in six months as our entire casualty list while we were in the World War. Is it po.ssible that America will ever learn the le.s.son of safety? Must we always remain careless and reckless where human lives are con cerned? Raleigh.—^Vlole^t deaths and seiicme inJnHee are aJ-ways hor rible to a certain degree, but they reach their veak in high'way ac cidents, Judging from records of the Hlghuray Safety DlTlsion. During 1989, for example, of the 8,133 persons killed and in jured on the streets and high ways of North Carolina, 685 »uf- fered fractured skulls, 189 sus tained fractured splnea, 3,258 suf fered severe general shock with contusions and lacerations, 301 bad internal injuries, and 264 suffered from concussion of the brain. Those are violent deatiha in the strictest sense of the word; those are injuries more painful in some Instances than those of the medleival. torture chambers. Of course, lots of the North Carolinians involved in highway accidents last year suffered no pain at all, because they were killed instantly or died without regaining consciousness and nev er knew what had hit them. A majority of them, however, suf fered untold agony and dire tor ture before their ultimate death or recovery. And some will be marked or maimed for life as a result of the accidents in which they were involved last year. The automobile, in other words, is a deadly weapon, es pecially in the hands of an in competent, reckless or drunken driver. It is, in fact, the dead liest weapon now in common use. Confirmation of this statement is to be found in the fact that mo tor vehicle deaths in North Caro lina last year were 50 per cent above all the ibomlcides and sui cides combined. For every person shot down by gun fire in the state last year, two or more pedestrians were mowed down by automobiles. Bul lets are faster than automobiles, but they don't hit as many peo ple. For every suicide in the state last year, there were three motor vehicle fatalities. Stepping on the gas is more deadly than inhaling fl it should not be necessary, and yet it seems, to be, to remind any one who takes the wheel of an automobile that self-preservation is the first law of nature and neg lect of tihe commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is murder. ‘The automobile,” says Ronald Hocutt, Director of the Highway Safety Division, "is a highly po tential deadly weapon, and the sooner drivers recognize this fact and drive accordingly, the sooner will it he safe to ride and walk upon the streets and highways of .North Carolina. PHOTOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS (Oxford Public Ledger) An increasing percentage of one’s knowledge is being obtained through im- pre.ssions of the eye instead of through .sound impressions on the ear. Visual edu cation i.s coming to its own. And with the trend toward visual edu cation there also is developing an increas ed interest in vi.sual entertainment. Pic tures are occupying more importance in one’s work and play. Picture magazines are rising in popularity and newspapers are using an increased number of pictures to catch and to hold reader interest. The radio industry is making a desper ate effort to come into the picture field with television, and some success has been achieved by electrical engineers. How ever, until some of the present handicaps are surmounted, television can hardly be called practical. Camera mani^acturers, endeavoring to capitalize on the interest in pictures, are exploiting their business by placing on the market a wide assortment of cameras, ranging in price fro’!’ half a dollar up ward. As a consequence, more people are making more pictures. Hollywood has taken up the challenge and is producing some of the finest shows ever screened on the silver. The screen version of “Gone With the Wind” i.s be ing acclaimed wherever and whenever it is shown, not only for the fine acting, the fine drama, but also for the fine photo graphy. Photography is finding new uses in li braries, in banks and in other places where photographic copies are of value. Photo graphy is one of the most effective weap ons of police in tracking down criminals, too. There seems to be no end of uses for photography. Out of all thds picture snapping in which this generation is indulging in, either be hind the lense or viewing the work of the iensemen, will come a better record Tor,the future of the life of today. And this gen eration will be the wiser for it,' too. Nazis Approve Red Cross Plan To Assist Poles Berlin. — Germany Monday night approved an American Red Cross plan to relieve distress a- mongst the people in occupied Poland. American Red Cross officials will be permitted to enter the re gion, which is closed to ordinary travel. They may receive mate rials sent from the United States free of duty and will co-operate with the German Red Cross in distribution of these goods. They also will have an oppor tunity to freely observe the man ner in which American contribut- tions to Polish relief are spent. Pitt Boy Is Drowned Greenville, Feb. 26.—Roy Du pree Dixon, seven-year-old son of .Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Dixon, who reside in the Black Jack sec tion of Pitt county, was drowned aibout 2 o’clock this afternoon wihen he accidentally fell in a well in the yard of his home while playing. German Activity Is Noted, Luxembourg Luxemhoiurg, Feb. 26.—Great German transport activity was re ported tonight across the border from this grand duchy. Trains were numerous and long columns of trucks, infantry and cavalry could be seen. There were rei;orts that Field jfarshaj Hermann Goering' and four generals visited the fortifi cations oposite Echternach Satur day. Let the advertiaing etdnmiia at this paper be yoor shopping guide. lobs in some brackets, youth is shown dis- boys cooked a full-course meal as a midt nlaviiur a confidence that will take advan- year examination in a coioking class. The these new opportunities, and that . report tactfully omitted to say whether jMi^trs well for the ftrture of America. they passed.—Christian Science Monitor. A news item says a group of high school WILLIAMS MOTOR CO. imEPHONE SS4-J T. H. WHiUiaa, Owner Oldamobile Sales-Senrice Bear Frame Service and Wheel Alignment General Auto Repalrinc Wrecker Service—^E3eetrie and Acetylene Wddtng USED PARTS—Fw «B m|^ ■ad taoMt at can hH UlRia t Rev. B. V. Rodiganier, ot Tajr- loiwvUle, Iftied hie ^ucuhur pointmeot hkrk Soiii^ and ^ usual preached a fine senhoaT > Rev. 8. L Watts fllled Us regu lar appointments U Dover and Liledovn Saturday and 6nnday. Miss Hassle Wall, a menrber of the school faculty of Newton, vis ited her mother, iMrs. Vick' Wall, over the week-end. Mrs. M. J. Klmbol has a bum on her hand and arm received wihen she fell with her hand in hot water. We hope she will soon be all o. k. again. Mr. Klmbol is not able to he out yet on account of a severely sprained ankle. Mr. J. E. German, who has been in poor health, is much Im proved, we are glad to note. Mr. Earl German is Just recov ering from an attack of flu. We hope he soon gets strong again. Mr. and Mrs. Carl McGee and children, of Kings Creek, were visitors in this community Sun day. ■Mr. and Mrs. Parks Lackey and son, Pearl, and daughter, Virgin ia, all of Hiddenite, visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lackey, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eveleth, of New Jersey, visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward L,ackey, Sunday. Mrs. Eveleth is Mr. Lackey’s sister. Mr.' and Mrs. Sylvan H. Swan son, of Roanoke, Va., are visiting Mr. .Swanson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Swanson, a few days this •^eek. Mr. A. F. Greer is just com pleting the building of a large truck body for Mr. Dick Cashion, of North Wilkeaboro. Mr. Clyde Swanson, who has had a serious operation, is able to be cKut again, his many friends will be glad to know. Mr. Swan son has gone this week to Wil liamson, W. Va., to look after business matters. Mrs. Everett Jarvis, of Wilkes- horo, visited relatives In this community, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Wall, of Kannapolis, visited the home,of Mr. Claud Howell over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Cowles Walker moved into their new home which is just completed last week. Despite the cold weather many peo'ple attended church and Sun day school throughout the coun ty Inst Sunday. Use the advertising columns of this paper as your shoppiau miide. ^eiuS^ Home Woman’s Mis- tinion met last Sunday nigU with Mrs. Bureu Tates. Thirteen members ■were present. A most interesting and profitable prtigihiB was given under the di- reotlon of Mrs. date Bumgarner. A week of prayer program will be given In the cihurch March 3 at 4^en o’clock. The meeting ad journed to meet with Mrs. A. T. Nichols the third Sunday evening in March. Delicious refreshments were served to the guests during : hiMr' 'th«« garner. Mm. O. J. Brookshire, ■ panied by her daughter,‘‘’’| Pearl Bentley, visited with_^ her sister, Mrs. Collie Kilby, last Thnrsdair. Mrs. D. H. Friend 'and Mm. Howard Cannon, of Wlnaton-Sal-’ em, with their tamilles, visited last Sunday evening at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mm. M. P. Bumgarner. They were accom panied also by Mr. Clifton Brown, of High Point. Use the advertising cotunus at | this paper as your shopping guide. ”” * CK THESE CHEC Se- '-«ir$395 Chevrolet daii- Condition— Chevrolrt Coach Only- 1_1937 j4ew Paint, Only- ilet _ $95 ge SedaiB $395 mouth. Only V'r^’"$425 Trunk 1__1937 Good Tires ' ,1933 Chevwiet Coach- Runs Good- $195 YADKIN VALLEY MOTOR CO. SALES FORD SERVICE Ninth Street North Wilkesboro, N. C. PjuSaUMmKRhm SPECIALS LIMBER UP THOSE OLD LEGS... WE’VE GOT TO GET BUSY-IT’S Planting and, of course, we’re going to follow the time-honored custom of hundreds and hundreds of farmers in Wilkes and ad joining counties and use that old-reliable V.-C. Fertilizer —and— Wood’s Field And Garden Seeds again this season! —Fresh Shipment Of Both Just Reeived! — ALSO GRASS SEEDS—NITRATE OF SODA—AGRICULTURAL UME J. G. GREEN PAUL SHOAF Cftmtr **A** lOth Phone 373 North Wilkeaboro, N. C. -i'il
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