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iMITWOi tWlLKESBOHO. N. Cr IN POLITICS iMbmiiJ Monday* and Thtmday* at North WOkesboro, N. C. tk i. CAITBB and JUUUB a ETOBBASD PnbUalMn SUBSC^PnON RATES: Ono Tear 11.60 Biz Months ^ .76 Pour Mon^s 60 Out of the State $2.00 per Year Krtnod *t th* port ofSce *t North WOka*- ~ M »«e ■ * 1879. bora N, C., •> Mctad elsao matter onder Act 9l Kira 4, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1940 Erwin’s Recommendations Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state superintend ent of public instruction, is going to make some very important recommendations to the next legislature. Here on Thursday night before a banquet of educational leaders he outlined four major recommen dations for improvement in the public school system in the state. The first of these be mentioned was a retirement fund for teachers. He argued that a government which demands private employers to provide for retirement pay ments cannot longer ignore its own re sponsibility to school teachers. The next he mentioned was tenure and perhaps that is an interesting to the teachers as any proposal, salary increase notwithstanding. Tenure law means that a teacher cannot be discharged for pol.ti- cal, petty or personal reasons. In other words it is protection against the ward heeler politican and the ones who would employ their personal friends and neigh bors regardless of qualifications. To put it Li a few words, tenure protection for the teachers would mean that innocent chil dren cannot be made the victim of person ally ambitious and selfish school commit teemen and school authorities. The public knows show great the need is for a tenure law and going further into the needs of such a measure would be a waste of time and space. Salary incerase—Dr. Erwin mentioned that teacher salaries have not been restor ed to pre-depression levels, that salaries generally are going up because of stimula tion caused by defense activities and more work. He predicted that unless teach ers are better paid that the day may come when personnel cannot be obtained to ADEQUATELY operate the schools. There would be enough teachers if the pay aver aged only $50 per month but any person can figure out that all the most able teachers would quit the profession in order to get jobs which would make a decent living possible. Any person in touch with the school system in North Carolina can without hesitation name scores of men and women with ability who have quit the teaching profession to take jobs with pri vate industry because the financial renum eration was greater. We don’t blame them. We would do the same thing, es pecially in view of the fact that we wouldn’t like teaching anyway. Enriched Program For Schools—On this phase Dr. Erwin touched on something which is of vital interest to all. In this modern age many of us have long felt the need for a more flexible curriculum with emphasis on subjects w'hich would better prepare students to earn a living and to be more useful citizens in w’ays other than be ing able to translate Latin into “All Gaul is divided into three parts.’’ Another thing he mentioned was em phasis of democracy. In the school is a wonderful'place to teach democracy and to instill in the minds of children the ever lasting truth that no other form of govern ment is nearly so good for mankind. And while we are on the subject, let us +ake time to pay our respects to some big-vigs of the so called higher institutions of learn ing who a.-e spreadirg such subversive doctrines as communki.'i among students. Don’t ask how we found out such things are being done. We didn’t. We are mere ly taking the word of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has repeatedly charged that some professors in some few najireraities and colleges have been engag ed in siich dastardly work while being paid ii^ whole or in part by units of our '^iettoeratie form of government. and Draft- -VJ Men of 'Rilkes county, when once aga|^ the security of the country seems threaten ed, are again willfiig to serve their ,cou|l- try. It is true that enlistments in the three branchefi of service from Wilkes have not been unusually large in numbers, but there is a spirit of willingness among the young men to serve if needed. The conscription bill has not thrown our young men into fear. With but very few exceptions young men express a williiigiiess to go if called and we have heard of no instances of making advance arrangements to try to avoid conscription According to the newspapers, there has been a grand rush on the marriage license bureau in New York City of young men seeking to get married in order to keep out of service. In Wilkes county there has been( no increase in number of marriages since conscription was talked. Conscrip tion talk and even the passage of the act has not caused any abnormal incerase in the number of cupid’s victims. The army, navy and marine corps offer a good opportunity for volunteers now. If there is a war in the next few years the eligible young men will have to serve their country anyway and some of those who look ahead are going to enlist and be in line for promotion which will make life in the service worthwhile in more ways than one. i^folet T>rtMM«ulg have adaiired the 1941 Otevrolet aa- tomobites, whfch went on display at Gaddy Motor company here and throughout the country Satur day. Complete new styling joins with numerous mechanical improvements to make the new 1941 Chevrolet a worthy successor to the cars which have earned first place in public favor year after year. The greater sue and roominess of the new models, as well as their sleek new beauty, are ap parent in the Special De Luxe Sport Sedan, shown above. There are noraeroos improveipents throughout the new models. Several refinements have been made in the motor and horsepower has been stepped up from 85 to 90. fhet« arc'’ over * i - . eUgftilvifor'yii^ b*t be emidbjredbMaui* funds are '01PA d0«i, not have an nnUadiM-ainoaat ppurate within a fied' approp^tion,,: ot CoiigrqMh It can furnish only those jobs foar^ whkh is has funds. . _ “ If every child in America had *> wholesome sandwich for lunch i every day, there would be no' wheat surplus. ' k **Only Medicine I Ever Uaed and DOW I’m 811 Kept ADLERKA on hand the past 27 yeara.” (O.G.- :.) ADLERKA ctmtaina S laxa- Tex. lives fer quick bowel action, with 5 carminatives to relieve gss pains. Get ADLERKA today. Red Cro« Pharmacy. Low Prices Every Day B.S.V Wilkes Man Must Pay Board In Jail months, and 10 days in jail. To on any farm through conserva- Borrowed Comment GOOD DESCRIPTION (Skyland Post) Elkin.—Arel Pruitt, young white man of North Wilkesboro, found out in Surry Superior court [Wed nesday that drunken driving, es pecially when it’s a second offense, doesn’t pay. Pruitt was arrested here about two years ago following an acci dent in which the car he was driv ing at reckless speed, turned over on Elk Spur street. He was charg ed at the time with driving while under the influence of whisky. The case was continued time af ter time, and in the meantime Pruitt was arrested and convicted , ,, . , I in Wilkes county for a similar of- One of the words that is commonly usedjfense. by different people to express different meanings is “democracy,” To many it means a particular form of government. To many others it means government by the will of the masses, unchecked by any "Wednesday Pruitt came to trial in Surry, with J. L. Darnell, El kin .-policeman, the sole witness against him. But Mr. Dampll’s testimony, plus the fact that Pre siding Judgd Rousseau is also from North Wilkesboro, and knows repaints whatever. To others it means something of Pruitt’s past history. the rule of the majority without regard to the rights of the minority. One of the greatest democrats of mod ern times was John Buchan, son of a poor Scottish clergyman, who mingled a career of politics with writing good literature. He was appointed Governor-General of Cana da as the King’s personal representative, given a title, Baron Tweedsmuir, which he took from the name of the little village where he was born, and died early this year. He left behind him a book, lately published, called “Pilgrim’s 'Way,” in which he set forth one of the best defini tions of democracy ever put on paper. “Democracy,” he wrote, “is not a form of government but an attitude of mind, a I spiritual testament, involving certain ba- ' sic beliefs. One of those beliefs is that the personality is sacrosanct, which is the ; meaning of liberty; another that public : policy should be settled by free discussion; ! that normally a minority should be ready to yield to a majority, which, in turn should ! respect a minority’s sacred things. It i seems to me that democracy has been in the pa.st too narrowly defined and has been identified illogically with some par ticular economic or political system.’’ ' Many people are asking whether demo cracy can be made to work. John Buchan has set a formula which, if followed, would insure the survival of democracy. resulted in a fine of $50 and costs, a suspended sentence of two years Irtcc S-ivo**’c liz-pTlse for ^8 make matters worse, the young man must pay his own board while serving as the county’s unwilling guest. New AAA Farm Program Follows Defense Idea With national defense the par amount issue in the country to day, the 1941 AAA farm program has been designed to tie in close ly with defense alms, says E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer of State College. The new program, which has Just been announced, will empha size conservation of the soil and the maintenance of abundant sup plies through an ever-normal granary plan. Based on recommendations of farmer-committeemen who met in Washington earlier in the sum mer, the 1941 program will fol low the same general lines of the tion measures will ibo continued in 1941. If as much as $15 is earned by planting forest trees, any farm may receive as much as $35 under the program. The program also provides that on small farms where the maxi mum payment Is not more than $20, any part of the soil-building allowance may he earned by car rying out locally adapted conser vation practices not included In the National program. This provision will he applica ble In dtolgnated areas where needed, and the practices for which payment will be .made in this special group will be recom mended by local committeemen. Likewise, Floyd said, in areas where feed crops are not general ly produced for .market, any farmer may grow as much as 30 acres of soil-depleting crops with out incurring a deduction for exceeding the total soil-depleting acreage allotment. 1939 and 1940 programs. Small farmers’ needs have been j In North Carolina there is given further consideration in the 11700 average daily county jail new program, Floyd said. For population, cared for at a cost of instance, the provision under 165 cents a day, or about $400,000 which at ipaot *?0 mav he earned a vear from the county treasuries. Y^OtTRE imdtod to vUt X onr Pre ■ onr Prooeription De partment the very next tinie yon beve one e# thoee predous bits of psper to be “filled.” We went to demoostrato to you, by an aetoal experi ence, that it costs no more — maybe a little leee—to beve yonr preeeriptioa ' here, to tbia prototeional atmoephare thieal where highest etl itandards are maintained. Beeeuse we make a bud- neaa of preacriptiona onr volume is large, onr over- hced low. Give ns a trial. t* Ton take no chances on either quality or price when we .fill yonr Priacription. Our reputa tion keeps Quality up—onr Vol ume keeps Prices Down! ■I HORTON’S drug store Fountain Phone 300 Prescription Dept. Phone 350 Two Registered Druggists on du ty at aU times—C, C. (Charlie) Reins and Palmer Horton. Low Prices Eve AMERICAN-BRITISH FRIENDSHIP (Mount Airy Times) In 1832 Thomas Jefferson wrote to President Monroe: “Great Britain is the nation which can do u.s the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with ber on our s'de we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cor dial friendship.” Former President James Madison, to whom President Monroe referred Mr. Jef ferson’s letter, wrote: With the Britisji power and navy com bined with our own, we have nothing to fear from the rest of the world.” Then, as today, Britain was standing alone against all Continental Europe, lea gued in the so-called Holy Alliance. The threat of European domination of South American and ultimately of this nation was as imminent then as now. Therefore, with Britain’s complete acceptance and assurance of cooperation. President Mon roe promulgated the doctrine which still bears his name. Today, as then, the cooperation be tween the United States and Britain is close. 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