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XNDfS^CaiDfiNT m POUTIC8
Mhlialiod Moadaya wad Tli^sdaya at
^ North WilkMboro, N. C.
D. J. CABTSB and A7LIUS C. HUBBABD
Pnbliahart
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $1.50
Six Months 76
Four Months 60
Oat of the State $2.00 per Year
Entered at the poet office at North Wilkea*
bore. N, C., ai secaod dui oiatter nnder Att
of 4, 187».
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940
Servant Of All
Many persons think of banking as the
representative of “big business,” and say
that it exists primarily to serve large inter
ests and wealthy people.
No criticism could have less justifica
tion. There are some 45,000,000 savings
depositors, and the average deposit is less
tha(t $600. More than 90 per cent of all
savings accounts are insured in full by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
which means that they are accounts $5,-
000 or less. The services of banking are
therefore primarily for the people of small
and moderate means.
In the field of bank loans, a similar sit-
ua,tion obtains. There are some 169,000
manufacturing plants in this country, plu.s
. 117.000 wholesalers, 1,700,000 indepen
dent retailers, 29,000 hotels, etc. It is ob
vious that relatively few of these busi
nesses are large in any sense of the word.
They are small and middle-sized—and
they are involved in the great bulk of
banking transactions. It is a .significant
fact that a great deal of present-day bank
advertsing and other promoting effort is
aimed at the prospective small borrower—
the man who has a legitimate use for a
comparatively few dollars.
If banking existed just to serve big busi
ness, there would be few banks—there
aren’t enough big businesses to keep
-—America’s 15,000 banks going. Banking
is the servant of all the people, not the
few.
Inspection Of Autos
The Forest Prime Evil
ft thoroughly with water or
dirt.'.-', .1 - 4-
Motorists are also rMponsible for
ous forest fires. A cigarette butt cast irthn
a fleeting car may supply the tinjf flame
that will spread until it haa" devasted
thousands of acres of splendid woodland.
Most of the states have laws desired to
prevent this, but policemen and fire war
dens cari’t be everywhere at once to see
that the law is enforced. The public must
cooperate.
Let’s all work to save our forests this
year. It takes centuries to replace great
trees—and only seconds to destroy them.
Don’t forget that.
Borrowed Comment
THOSE TAX DOLLARS
(Statesville Landmark)
As one writer puts it:^ “It’s a discom
forting thought that one out of every five
dollars earned by the sweat and toil of
average Americans everywhere goes auto
matically to government.”
And so it is. But considering the de
mands made upon government and the
ever-widening service it renders, this tre
mendous toll is not surprising, and were it
not for the waste that comes from injudi
cious and inefficient political administra
tion it would not be disturbing.
It pinches like the dickens to rip off one
from every five dollars earned and hand it
to government, and the process has pro
duced a lot of griping, but until the tax
payer is wiling to get along with less gov
ernment service, there is little prospect
that the toll will be lessened. The better
bet is that it will be increased.
Bu^this one-out-of-five proportion would
not be high if the taxpayer got full value
for his money—no tax is high if the payer
gets value received, and conversely no tax
is low if its accumulation is squandered.
It is well then to give more thought to
how the dollar is used than to how many
are collected; to determine what propor
tion is being waited and what steps are to
be taken to eliminate the waste.
There would be no economy in abolish
ing the police force and substituting private
protection of lives and property; no eco
nomy in adopting the private school in lieu
of public instruction. Every taxpayer
would be in a heck of a mess if he traveled
only on the roads built with private funds.
All these things would cost many times
more than they are costing now—even
counting the wa.ste.
There is plenty of rea.son why the tax
payer .should be concerned with mounting
taxes, but his interest should be mainly in
whether the dollar he contributes is wisely
.spent. That and a careful examination of
the services that government offers and
which he has come to demand, should en
gage hi.s thought.
Pointing out that six North Carolinians
narrowly escaped asphyxiation la.st week
when they were overcome by carbon mon
oxide fume.s from a broken exhaust pipe,
Ronald Hocutt, Director of the High .vay
Safety Division, stressed this week tlu im
portance of periodic inspection of all mo
tor vehicles.
“.Many people who visit their denti.st
twice a year and have themselves checked
over by their physician at least once a year
never think of having a mechanic look at
their automobile until something goes
■wrong with rt.' Hocutt said, ‘A et more
than fifty persons were killed and .several
hundred injured in this state last year be
cause their vehicles were not in good me
chanical condition.
•‘A loose tie rod. defective lights or
brake.s, a leaking exhaust, or faulty .steer
ing mechanism—any of the.se things can
caii.se injury or death on the highway. Un-
von have your car (>r truck inspected
at lea.st twice a year, any one of these
things can g. wrong with the vehicle yon
drive, and .vo'.i will lind it o.(t (}n!v attiv
is too late—after you or snuieone else has
l>een injured or killed.”
In this connection, Hocutt added that
the movement by the Nort'n Carolina -Ju
nior Chamber of ( ommerce for conrpul-
scry semi-annual inspection of all motor
vehicles in North Carolina is deserving of
the serious consideration oi every motorist
in the state.
“A majority of the states have inspec
tion laws, and the need for .such a law in
this .state is apparent,” he declared.
THE DRIVE ON NARCOTICS
In a Penn-'vlvania forest there is a fire
prevention sign which consi.sts of a huge
reproduction of a match, with the follow
ing words: “Thi.s is the fore.st prime evil.”
That terse slogan speaks volumes. For
destruction to our priceless forests is one
of the most tragic phases of the fire prob
lem. .A.nyone who has traveled in timber
country has seen the wastelands, covered
with black stumps, which fire leaves be-
y,,ind ^the ruin where once were stately
trees, busy communities of wild life, and
beautiful recreation areas.
It will not be long now until the dan
gerous fore.st season is upon u.s. Good
weather brings mounting hazards. Trees
and underbrush dr\' to the point where
they are virtually explosive. One touch, of
flame may be sufficient to cause a holo
caust. And death and disaster follow.
The primarj' causes of forest fires are
well known. ‘Inexperienced and careless
campers are among the worst offenders.
Evew man and woman who goes vacation
ing to the woods should keep this everlast-
tarfy in mind: Never leave a camp fire
a stogie spark remains alive. Douse
(Baltimore News-Po.rt)
Tli'.‘ (Tin:hr J imiu.stry of making, .smug-
.gliiig ami peddling narcotic.s i.s condemn
ed and combated by all enlightened peo
ple. Severe laws are passed against it, a
corps of State and Federal detectives spe
cialize in re.straining it, educational cam-
pagins are undertaken to prevent and lim
it addiction, public funds and in.stitutions
arc e.stablished to rescue its victims.
We have made some headway in this
crusade. Better progre.ss seems probable.
But there is another criminal industry,
(liiite as depraved and dangerous as the
dope traffic, but much more subtle, that
demands nowadays equal .social concern
ami aggre.ssive action to de.stroy: the print-
in.g ami distribution of obscene literature.
Narcotics and pornographia are clo.sely
associated in their ultimate results. Both
j lead directly to crime, both attack the in-
. dividual’s and society’s moral fiber. Both
j are complete denials of phy.sical and men-
1 la! virtue.
But while we are quick to recognize the
havoc worked u|)On mind and body by nar
cotics, wc are curiously indifferent to the
! extent and effect of filthy publications.
I We permit the most prurient and de-
' bauched books, magazines and pictures t(.
bo openly displayed and sold. We hear
with amused tolerance, or at most polite
displeasure, the salacious innuendoes that
have vitiated so much of the: screen and
.^age. Only when obscenity goes the
length of complete and unabashed licen
tiousness do we protest.
It is high time, and past high time, that
we as a decent people recognize this
printed slime for the deadly danger that
it is, and take severe measures to clean it
Bjr JOHirB, WEATHEOBMAN
The reaults of the met weeks,
ptimafy elections In Wtaconsia
has done much toward inflnene-
Inx current opinion in high-Dem
ocratic and Republican circle^
here. A peculiar situation has
arisen regarding the opinions now
expressed by those advocating a
third term for Prealdent Roose
velt and by those opposed to it.
Both sides hall the Wisconsin re
sults M a vlcstory from their re
spective points of view. The more
conservative backers of presiden
tial aspirants. Senators Robert
Taft and Arthur Vandenburg, a-
mong high ranking Republicans
are coming very decidedly aroiund
to the "viewing with alarm” way
of thinking with regards to the
up-and-coming progress toward
the Republican nomination now
being made by young District At
torney Tbomas E. Dewey, of New
York.
Enthusic .ilc backers of a third
term for Roosevelt jubilantly
point, to the 134 delegates to the
Democratic Convention n o 'w
pledged to the President, even
though he did not so much as
have to nod bis head nor give his
formal consent to acquire them.
13S delegates have been named
thus far and Vice President Gar
ner captured 2 of the 24 delegates
'coming from Wisconsin. Now
pledged to Mr. Roosevelt are the
eight New Hampshire delegates,
10 from Maine and 86 from New
York, with the promise of eight
more.
The foes of the, third term are
inclined to lightly dismiss the
President’s signal success in win
ning delegates in state primaries
with an unconcerned shrug. They
contend that they have conceded
all along that the President could
have the nomination for the ask
ing, but point to the results of
the primaries in New Hampshire
and Wisconsin as indications that
the Pre.sident has lost his tre
mendous vote-getting with the
electorate as a whole and could
not win the election in November
were he nominated. They say
that, after all, it was votes from
both parties which have twice
swept Roosevelt into office, and
that the Democratic vote alone is
far short of enough to do the
trick again.
As to the New Hampshire pri
mary. anti-third termers point
out that even though Mr. Roose
velt did win the eight delegates to
the convention from that state
he polled only one-fourth of the
number of votes received by that
.state’s G.O.P. favorite-son candi
date. Senator Styles Bridges,
i.ooking at the Wisconsin re.= ults
they make much of the fact lliat
the Republican vote, plus the an
ti-third term vote, cast for Vice
President Garner was in excess of
jlOo.lMHt votes above tlie Roose
velt total. Foes of the third term
are now pointing to these facts
nd adding them np to the con
clusion that the great Roosevelt
popularity of former years is
somewhat on the wane.
Backers of Mr. Roosevelt are
not unmindful of lhe.se totals l)ut
lliey insist that they are by no
means accurate mirrors of the
true state of affairs They suggest
that till- great masse.s of under
privileged voters did not partici
pate in these recent party-man
aged affairs ami that these would
be Roosevelt votes this fall. They
are correct in that .jOO.OOti less
votes were cast in the Wisconsin
iirimary that were p-olled in tiie
election iv.it there is still
no real iiulii:ation as to which
way this .great absentee vote
micht lie cast in Xovemiter.
Said Seinitor Van Nays, of In-
iliana. a Democratio oppoiieni of
the tUrd^term Adre^ent:
Oeroer totele ttf
WlepouBt, ahow the'^Drealdent
cftoiM carry the Midwest for * a
riukt means he
thlr#'t
Aot be re-dected.” I
“ On the other htmd backers of
the third Jtenn take an entirely
different view of the situation,
claiming that the Wisconsin re
sult is a major Roosevelt victory
third term enthusiast Senator
Pepper, of Florida said: "Againat
a field of two of the leading Re
publican personalities and the
leading Democratic (Mfnservative,
the President won. The vote was
a definite victory for the. Presi
dent.”
On the Republican side of the
picture there was much ado, in
lofty circles as a result of the
smashing'Victory won by Thomas
E. Dewey of New York, over the
forces backing Senator Vanden
burg or Taft for the^ Republican
nomination. This was young Dew
ey’s first major ballot-ibox test
outside of his own home to-wn,
so to speak, and he came through
in an almost unbelievable man
ner. Observers believed, at the
outset, that the New York prose-1
cutor would do well to garner
even so many as half of the Wis
consin delegates, but he proved
himself to he a campaigner of the
first order by grabbing off the
entire Wisconsin delegation for
himself. Of course this tremen
dously boosted the Dewey stock
in Washington circles. To prove
this the forces of Taft and Van
denburg are coming around to' a
slop Dewey’’ way of thinking
and it is a well known fact that
when a “stop anybody’’ movement
gets under way In political man
euvering the object of the move
ment is really beginning to be
taken seriously.
In the opinion of many neu
tral observers here the events of
the past week are beginning to
point toward a Roosevelt versus
Dewey fight this fall. In this
event Ihe.-e observers feel that as
the campaign warms up domestic
affairs will gradually take a back
seat as an issue and that the in
ternational situation will come to
the forefront and become the
dominant question of the 1940
campaign. They look tor Dewey to
run on a strict isolationist plat
form-keep ns out of war at any
cost. The President, on the other
hand, is expected to stand upon
a platform which holds slightly [
more Hi eral views in rtgard to i
strict isolation. ;
Roosevelt is pointed to as the
most astute politician of our
times, a thoroughly finished cam
paigner who knows all the tricks
and all the answers, while Dew
ey, tho young, is certainly not
rondiictin,g his campaign after the
fashion of a novice, and from aii
that meets the eye he is learning
a new trick or two daily in the
great game of politics. |
Oliservers say this rromise.s to |
be the most hotly contested elec- j
tion since Theodore Roosevelt. !
\Vm. Howard Taft and Woodrow
Wilson in 1912. I
^THURSDAY, A1>RIL 18, 1940
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4^- - - . ..
We here been
navlng some
weather in this com-
Fred
and Anderson Atwood,
ttteriHioii. .. ' ^
JBlafi Christgl Watere visited
JdS? grandmother, Mrs. Nelie Wat-Mr jt
son, Sunday afternoon.
more oold
munitT for the past few days’.
Mr. ’turner -Holdavray is visit
ing Mr. Grover Chnrch and ie
very ill at this time.
Messrs. i*age and Richard
Church visited Paul and Silas
Chnrch a short while Saturday.
Mr. Russel Pergruson, of Pur-
lear, ispent a short while with
Mr. Ournle Church Friday.
Mrs. Grady Church and son,
Gene, spent a short while in the
home of Miss Vena Church,
Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Charlie Laws and brother
Use the advertiaing cohattm’vi.
this paper aa your shopping
NOTICE BY PUBLICA'nON
korth Carolina,
'Wilkes County
IN THE 8UP1
A
i
ERIOR COURT
HENRY REYNOLDS
'i
OLBM WRENN AND WIFE
MBS. CLEM WRENN.
The defendants above named 'will
take notice that an action antitlpd
as above has been commenced In
the Superior Court of Wilkes
county, North Carolina; for tha
foreclosure of a tax lien on lands
in North Wilkesboro township, for
were visitors In the home of Mr.
TIT., defendants are required to
Jacob Waters, Sunday.
Many friends of Mrs. Emma
Waters ■will be glad to know she
Is able to be up again after a
serious illness.
Mr. Levi Church, of Purlear,
spent Friday night In the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Church.
Miss Ruth Waters, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr.
reouii
appear at the office of the Clerk
of lie Superior Court of Wilkea
county, within thirty (M) days
from service of this notice and
answer or demurr to the complaint
in said action, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in said action.
’This the 3rd day of April, 1940.
C. C. HAYES,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
and Mrs. Jacob Waters, has re-' 4-25-4t (t)
turned to Lenoir^ | EXECUTOR’S NOTICE~
Among those from this com-1 Having qualified as executor of
munity attending prayer meeting j the estate of John Wood, late of
at Yellow Hill church Wednesday ; Wilkes County, N. C., this is to no
night were Misses Vetra and Mae 1 tify all persons having claims
Church and Miss Ruth Waters, ‘against said estate to pr^nt
T* r"?,?'"’
week-end with her parents, Mr. duly verified, on or before '
and Mrs. J. C. Waters. | the 28th day of March, 1941, or
•Mr. and Mrs. Claud Greene this notice will be plead in bar of
and Mr. and Mrs. Rondle Greene j their right to recover. All per-
' sons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement. ^
This 28th day of March, 1940.
M. M. WOOD, Executor
of the estate of John
Wood, dec’d. 6-2-6t (t>
spent a short while in the home
of Mr. and .VIrs. W. B. Church,
Sunday morning.
.Mr. Grandon .Atwood visited
Mr. and .Mrs. Fred Waters, Sun-
ca/f GAS
E TtUCK OF VALUE. ^
MILcAuc
• THE TIUCK OF VAtUE
No other truck the kind of
engine you get in a CMC. Mileage
Meter Te*U are proving every day
that CMC SUPER-DUTY Engine*
are the most economical of all. It
will pay you to investigate CMC.
Time payments through our own YMAC
Plan at lowest ayailable rotes
You find all kind.s of fre-h |
Meld and garden seetls at «ui j
store. All at lowest prices. Seed I
potatoes, seed oats, seed beans. '
and lespedeza .seed.s. FE.YRSO'
BROTHERS. . 2-26-tf ‘
MOTOR SERVICE SALES CO., Im;.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C.
CMC TRUCKS
GASOLINE
-DIESEL
Do you keep your friendships in constant repair?
NOTICE OF SALE
up.
If our laws are too lenient or ineffec
tive, let us stren^hen and sharpen them.
If enforcement is lax and sporadic, let us
impress upon the authorities the need for
prompt and stern action.
We must keep our people away from
narcotics.
We must keep them away from printed
filth.
Both are shameful and destructive can-
C2rs that must be extirpated if our healthy
and vigorous body politic is to survive.
The blooms off the flowering forsythia is
beautiful evidence of spring and changing
temperatures. As we speak of our lovely
piar-'-’ ■’’■-d extol their coloring and shapes,
do w^' wonder if other generations back of
us have enjoyed these same blooms? Of
ten some flowers were not found here un
til a thoughtful soul brougth them home
to us to enjoy. The forsythia which is al
most as common as the violets was ori
ginally a plant of China, which country al
so was the source of the wisteria.
North Carolina,
Wilkes County.
A. S. CASSEL
vs.
WILKES DRUG COMPANY,
INCORPORATED
Under, by virtue of and pursu
ant to the power, authority and di
rection contained in a certain or
der of his Honor J. A. Rousseau,
commanding the undersigned Re
ceiver in the above-entitled action
to advertise and sell all the prop
erty and assets of the Wilkes
Drug Company’, Incorporated, act
ing pursuant to said Order, the
undersigned will, therefore, offer
for sale for cash, subject to the
approval of the Court, at public
auction, at the building, where the
Wilkes Drug Company, Incorpora
ted, is located, on the comer of
“B” and Ninth Street, at the hour
of 10:00 o’clock, A. M., Thursday,
April 25, 1940, the following de
scribed property, to-'wit:
All the stock, fixtures (including
soda fountain, all accounts re
ceivable, all merchandise and all
other assets of the said Wilkes
Drug Company, Incorporated, of
every nature whatsoever, includ
ing the goodwill of said corpora
tion.
Dpne this the 22nd day of March
1940.
P. J. BRAME,
Receiver. 4-18-4t (t)
A// u/io knew wise old Sam Johnson, the author of the
Jirstgreat English dictionary, were awed ^ bis opac
ity for hard work and charmed by the witty company
he drew around him to relax when work was d^.
Sam Johnson said that a man should al
ways keep his friendships in “constant re
pair.” He was right. A man is l^wn by
the oompttny he keepsT^
You know what friends mean... how they
rally ’round you when your skies are gray
...help untangle your thoughts and restore
clear thinking...squelch your foolish fears
...bolster your confidence and give new
Drawint b] penniuUm C. E Lauriat Ca. PuHulu« o/ BohmJI’j “UJc o/ Samuel Joknson"
Strength to your courage. And when skies
are bright again, what a pleasure it is to
gather your friends together to laugh over
the past, enjoy the present and plan for
the future with fortitude. With your friends
about you, if you feel that you’re rich...
you’re right. * « *
Because of the companionship that
Budweiser offers, it has been the center for
circles of friends for generations. One sip
tells you that it was making friends that
made Budweiser, the Perfect Host.
ANHSUSIt-fiUSCH
Mshrt ej the Worid-FsmeMs Bi$f
SAMPSON'S
S. C. R.
FOR DISCOMFOBT8 DUB TO
COLDS—COUGHS
Budweiser
o^ .^^oietaUoK
MAKE THIS TEST: Drink Budweiser
for five days/On the sixth day try
to drink a sweet beer. You wiii wont
Budweiser’s flavor thereafter.
S-72
THE roRESTER BEVERAGE COMPANY, Wlw*ea«ter