Hie Jonnial • Patriot
INDKPENBSNT IN POLFTICa
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North Wilfcetboro, N. C
O. J. CAKTER and JULIUS a HUBBARD
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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1940
eipant and spectator in many sports and
otner pastimes.
Intellectual Interests: The educated person
has mental resources for the use ol leis
ure.
Character: The«educated person gives re-
sponsibile direction to his own life.
Borrowed Comment
New Registration
In our opinion the Wilkes county board
of elections was right in ordering a new
registration of voters in Wilkes county.
Practically all who have had opportuni
ty to examine some of the registration
books for the various precincts will concur
in this opinion.
Many of the books are in bad shape and
cluttered up with names which do not have
any b'isines.s being on there. Some have
died and others have moved away.
Many names on some of the books are
almost impossible to make out and check
ing voters with the registration books in
some of the larger precincts has been a big
task.
The county board of elections was faced
with the task of deciding between a new
regfistration or transcription of the old
books into a book for each party.
Copying the old books would have been
a big job for somebody and would have
called for a lot of work and expense. If
that had been done it would not have been
satisfactory’ because mistakes which could
lead to serious squabbles would have
been made in spite of all precautions.
We hope that the voters will register for
the primary and election and vote accord
ing to the dictates of their own minds.
Skilled Workers
It is estimated that there are more than
ten million jobless people in the United
States.
The figures are reliable. The unem
ployment problem is perhaps the greatest
economic headache the country ha.s.
But it is hard to believe that there are
that many jobless when you try to find j
somebody to do a job for you.
When you want someone to work you
w’ant someone who can do the exact job
you want done. You want .someone who
can do the job thoroughly and satisfac
torily.
You want someone who knows how to
do the work and who can finish the task-
in a reasonable length of time.
Perhaps you don’t find that type of per-
.son. More than likely the one you do em
ploy doesn’t halfway know how to do the
job'and cares little about putting out good,
conscientious work.
At least half of the unemployed do not
care enough for a job to apply themselves
and try to make good when they do secure
work.
Nobody, unle.ss it might be the govern
ment, is going to pay you much for a job
half done and a task incorrectly complet
ed.
The best advice for youth seeking work
is to apply yourself to whatever task you
have and persist until it is .sati.sfactorily
completed.
If some individual or firm employs you
they expect to make a profit on your la
bor. If they cannot make a profit on it
there is no object in their hiring you.
The person who can do a job well, who
know’s his job and conscientiously applip
himself to whatever task is assigned will
not be jobless over a long period of time.
The Educated Man
Some people who have a string of de
grees after their names are called educat
ed. Some who do not have any degrees
but have been inside colege walls have
about the same opinion of themselves.
The Educational Policies Commission, of
W^ashington, D. C., has set up some stand-
ard.s for the educated man. They are list
ed here ahd should serve as an excellent
yardstick;
The Inquiring Mind: The educated person
has an appetite for learning.
Speech: The educated person can speak
the mother tongue clearly.
Reading: The educated person writes the
mother tongue ejfectively.
Number: The educated person solves his
problems of counting and calculating.
Sight and Hearing: The educated person
is skilled in listening and observing.
Health Knowledge: The educated person
understands the basic facts concerning
' health and disease.
Health Habits: The educated person pro
tects his own health and that of his de-
pendents.
■ FnbUe Health: The educated person works
ta inwtffr* haaJtii of the community.
educated person is parti-
MODERN DAVIDS AND THEIR
ABSALOMS
(Charlotte Observer)
The father of John Dillinger, who was
rated as Public Enemy No. 1, before the
bullets of the G-men mowed him down,
goes on the air even at this belated hour
to try to take his part of the blame for
what happened to his boy.
It’s a fatherly fashion, of course—a par
ental fashion.
To detfend one’s own offspring even to
the bitter last, to make some forthright ef
fort to condone their shortcomings and
make excuses for their moral lapses, is in
nately an attitude of responsible father
hood and motherhood.
History is enriched by such touching
stories emphatic of the love in the heart of
parents for their children, how that at any
cost or pain or sacrifice they will follow
them to the last harrowing end in an ex
hibition of affection worthy of the angels
of God.
This phase, however, of the episode in
which the father of Dillinger undertakes to
defend his boy before the American pub
lic is not the angle of the case that at the
moment we w’ould make emphatic.
On the contrary, it is Mr. Dillinger’.s
frank and undoubtedly true confession and
understanding of his own responsibility
that the life of his boy was turned into a
career of blaxing criminal delinquency.
He is trying to make the point that if he,
the father, had spent less tme at the busi
ness of trying to make a living for his fam
ily and giving so much of his energies and
attention to the material wellbeing of his
children instead of lending his lad the
friendly, kindly, instructive friendline.«s
and companionship he needed when com
ing along, it all might have been different
with John.
And so it might, indeed.
Here, of course, is the beginning of the
criminal slants of many another American
boy—^the neglect he suffers at the hands
of his father in those things so vital to the
development of character.
Every boy wants companionship in his
youth and is going to find it somewhere.
If he fails to find ft in the environs and
circumstances of his ow(n family, if his
father is too busy with other affairs or even
in giving companionship to others outside
of his own dome.stic circle, then the ignor
ed boy or girl will .seek it somewhere else
and often they are not e.specially choicy
about where they locate it.
Here is a fact that belongs to the com
munity as it belongs to the individual
homes and parenthood.
We bu.sy ourselves to provide the handi
capped boys of the city with improved
physical environments and institutions,
give them the Y. M. C. A. and other agen
cies in which to play and swim and enjoy
the wholesome and upbuilding influences
and varied apparatus for recreation, but
even after all of this has been turned over
to them, boys need something else.
They need the friendly hand of some
body in these institutions to encourage and
to stimulate them: they need the guiding
and directing influence of leaders who un
derstand youthful problems and have an
insight into the psychologies of youthful
life.
They need a PERSON as well as an in-
■stitution who can sympathize and under
stand and in whose association there is
moral inspiratior.
It miay be that many another John Dil
linger is in the making in this country, even
in the .sort of good and simple home from
which this notorious criminal emerged—
boys who are being left alone by the good
citizens of their neighborhood, left alone,
by the kindly societies and institutions and
churches q|f their city, and who, because
they are .simply being left alone and ig
nored and neglected, are setting out slow
ly, undramatically, but surely and inevi
tably toward the career of crime which
ended with Dillinger when the law shot
him down.
Father Dillinger, now nearing the age
of 80, is obviously, from the pathetic tones
of his appeal in his bioadcast, still sorely
stricken in his conscience for whatever
part of his own lack of attention and com
panionship accounts for in the tragedy of
his boy’s life.
He realizes now that the greatest re
sponsibility which ever came to his own
life was fearfully muffed and that, no
matter what else he may have achieved
during the whole of his long career, the
most vital and important task was either
sorrily done or not done at all—^that of
helping to rear his boy in the ways of hon
or and integrity.
Tens of thousands of other fathers in
this country are repeating that tragic fol
ly.
We wonder how’ many of them live right
here in Charlotte, Dillinger and David
fathers who W’ill likewise weep at length
in utter bitterness and anguish over the
misspent lives of their Johns and Ab-
saloms!
The blessed work of helping the world
forward happily does not wait to be done
by perfect men. -^^orifb'Eliotj
Are the people of this notion
becoming plain, ordinary pan
handlers—ibeggars from govern
ment? Individuals, towns, cities
and states have their hands but
for Federal alms.
By accepting these alms, they
are gradually giving up Individu
al, civic and states rights and
building a Federal overlordship
that will make them mere pawns
of government.
We like to talk about our de
mocracy and pity the people of
countries where Itberty has been
crushed, when we ourselves age
giving up our freedom for a mess
of Federal “handouts” that are
mortgaging our future for gene
rations to come.
Civic organizations have be
come beggars, great industries
have become beggars, cities and
states have become beggars at
the public trough. Then after ac
cepting puiblic charity and inject
ing government into their local
and personal affairs, they cry be
cause goverrment in business is
being so rapidly extended that it
is wiping out free enterprise.
Don’t blame anybody but your
self when you feel the jaws of of
ficialism close on you, if you have
countenanced or accepted Federal
alms for projects which would
hav3 been handled by courageous,
intelligent and self-respecting
citizens in the past.
This country hasn’t changed
fundamentally in spile of all the
theoretical prattle to the con
trary; opportunities are still
countless for young and old.
What has changed in our back
bone .•'nd our pride. We are be
coming a nation of “sissies” who
cry for help at the slightest pro
vocation and want to be coddled
as incompetents.
By our actions we are admitt
ing that we are no longer capable
of self government or private
management of our own affairs.
We are as'king for political dic
tatorship and we will have no
one but ourselves to blame if we
et it.
Rvery time there is some
tough nut to crack, we now beg
for Federal funds to care for the
problems o r losses involved,
which, in most cases, are due to
our own laziness, greed or neg
lect. We want the Federal govern
ment to do our Irrigating; ve
want the government to> contrm.
our crops; we want the gioverh-
ment to build our dams; we want
the government to build our hous
es; we want the government to
carry our insurance; we want the
government to loan us money;
we want the government to build
our schools, bridges, parks, etc.
and do everything that we as free
men and women used to take
then we cry our eyes out about
Anyone with a tbtinblaful jot-
bralna knows that when you bo^
row money, the lender gets In t^
driver’B seat. When yon become
a beggar, the giver controls your
actions. When you ibeg or borrow"
from the government, yon give up
your birthright as a free citizen.
-you begin to exist for the gov
ernment, rather than the govern
ment existing for you.
This Is the position of the
people of the United States to
day. They have begged and bor
rowed themselves well on the
road toward national bankruptcy
and political dictatorship.
There can be no compromise
with the totalitarian philosophy
-you either accept it and be
come public wards, or you kick
out the totalitarian philosophy
and remain free.
If you think the end toward
which we are racing is exagger
ated, just look around your own
community and see how much
Federal charity it has accepted.
Government can hand out no
money which it does not take
from the citizens. Money taken
in taxes means that much less for
the man or woman who has to
sweat and earn and save and pay
the taxes.
Don’t kid yourself with the i
idea that the fundamental virtues 1
of working and saving have
changed for either government or
individuals. You can’t spend your
self prosperous.—Industrial News j
Review.
SHOW>IA\SHIP j
M. E. HoIIowell, assistant farm !
ageint in Cumberland County, j
says Nolan Talbot of Fayetteville, i
Route 1, is being acclaimed for j
the showmanship prize he won
at the Rocky Mount Fat Stock j
Show.
WORKSTOCK
J. B. Gourlay, assistant Harnett
county farm agent, helped N. H.
Perry of Erwin select a register
ed jack, which will be used to
brood workstock for 4 6 farmers
who own mares.
TICKETS NOW ON
SALE FOR
“GONE WI’TH
THE WIND”
WILKES FINEST
Liberty
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NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the pow
er of sale contained in a certain
Deed of ’Trust, dated May 26, 1932,
b/ S. E. Walker and wife Nancy
V/alker and Sarah Walker to the
undersigm^d trustee, and default
having been made in the payment
thereof. The undersigned IVus-
tee, ■will offer for sale to the high
est bidder on the 26th day of April
1940, at ,12 o’clock M. in front of
the courthouse door in Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, the following de
scribed real estate;
Beginning on a sycamore on the
bank of Roaring River, running
East crossing the river three times
l.iO poles to a. red oak on the bank
of said river thence North 90
poles to a red oak to T. M. Holla-
ways corner; thence North 1 de
gree East to a stake Sarah Wal
ker’s and Columbus Walkers cor
ner thence South with an agreed
line between J. W. Holloway
and Sarah Walker; thence .West 31
poles with an agpreed line be
tween J. W. Hollaway and Sarah
Walker to a stake on the bank of
the public road, thence South with
the old line 32 poles to a stake on
the bank of the public road, thence
East 37 poles to a cherry tree;
thence South 65 degrees West 68
poles to a sycamore on the bank of
Roaring River thence up and ■vnth
the river 68 poles to the beginn
ing. containing 65 acres, more or
ImSi
This the 26 day of March. 1940.
F. PAUL ,WILES,
Trustee
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crop.
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J. G. GREEN
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PAUL SHOAF
North WUkeaboro, N. C.