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North Wilkesboro, N. C.
D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Year ^1.50
Six Months — .76
Pour Months 60
Out of the State $2.00 per Year
filtered at the post office at North Wilkes
boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act
af March 4, 1879.
MONDAY, AUG. 25, 1941
W. R. Absher
The pioneer citizens who figured so' lar
gely in the early growth and progress of
North Wilkesboro one by one answer the
call to eternal existence.
But results of their earthly lives will
live on in the community which they help
ed to build.
W. R. Absher, who died last Tuesday,
was one of the early leaders in North
W^ilkesboro and whose leadership endured
for many years. His first experience in
public life in North W’^ilkesboro was as
principal of the school, beginning that ca
reer a few years after the village was in
corporated
In business life he was successful and
held an enviable reputation for integrity.
In civic endeavors he was actively inter
ested with movements for the progress and
welfare of North Wilkesboro.
In church life he held several positions
of trust and for decades was a member of
the board of stewards and a Sunday
school teacher in the Methodist church.
Mr. Absher was a man of firm convic
tions and who did not compromise what he
considered right with the doubtful.
It is with regret that we record his pass
ing from earthly existence in this com
munity but we pause to mention that his
fruitful life will live on in the surround
ings he loved so well.
White Bread Plus Vitamins
Americans are white bread eaters. They
devour white flour and are apt to turn a
disinterested eye on brown. It may be
the taste and it may be the color. W’hat-
ever the reason, they specify white most of
the time when they buy a loaf at the gro
cery store or order noon sandwiches. Some
time ago the milling and baking indus
tries undertook a nationwide campaign
designed to increase whole wheat bread
consumption, but sale of this product
never exceeded two per cent of the total.
Then the medical fraternity entered the
picture. It was known that malnutrition
and diet deficiency existed even in well-
to-do homes, with handsomely stocked lar
ders. The scientists \vent to work to find
out w'hy. Their discovery amounted to
this: Many palatable foods are sadly de
ficient in those vitamins which are essen
tial to robust health. And white bread was
one of them. In the process of refining,
thb flour lost many of its health attribu
tes. There was. for in.stancc, a deficiency
of thiamin, which leads to impairment of
the nervous, digestive and circulatory sys
tem. There was deficiency of nicotinic
acid, which is closely related to pellagra.
There was a deficiency of riboflavin, which
results in a stunting of growth, lowering of
vitality, premature aging, and nervous dis
orders.
So in 1938, with the facts known, the
American Medical Association went on
record to the effect that in the proce.ssing
of foods the goal should be to retain the
natural food value—and that if this is not
feasible, the processed food should be sci
entifically enriched to restore the losses.
It is to tne credit of the millers and bak
ers that they cooperate fully. So today
they are planning to give the white bread
most of us epjoy so much, the vitamins we
need, f'urthermore—and this will be of
particular interest to the lady of the house
enriched flour and bread, when included
in proper diets, are no more fattening than
unenriched varieties.
The medical fraternity has again done a
big job for the health of all the people,
and particularly to the white-bread con
sumers of America—a classification which
includes the bulk of the population.
Still, if it weren’t for football how would
anybody know that the colleges w^jre open
for business?—San Diego Union.
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Fatalities
Mpre bicycle riders were killed in North
Carolina the first .seven mon^ of this
year than were killed during the
twelve months of last year, the Higlt^ay
Safety Division reported this week.
Accident records show that Sfb bicycle
riders m t with death on the streets and
highways of this state from January
through July of this year, an 80 per cent
increase over the 14 cyclists killed the
first seven months of 1940 and a 26 per
cent increase over the total of 20 cyclists
killedi all last year. A majority of the rid
ers killed were boys, and most of them
were killed because of violations of the
rules of safe riding.
Warning that bicycles are classed as ve
hicles under the State law, and that cy
clists must obey the same general traffic
regulations that apply to motor vehicles,
Ronald Hocutt, director of the Highway
Safety Division, listed the following 12
rules for bicycling with complete safety.
1. Refrain from “clever” or “stunt” rid
ing.
2. Dismount and walk across danger
ous intersections.
3. Keep to the right and close to the
edge of the roadway.
4. Learners should ride in a park or
other safe place.
5. Ride without wobbling; avoid sharp
turns.
6. Say “No” to anyone desiring to ride
as a passenger.
7. Never hitch onto a moving vehicle.
8. At night, carry a light in front and
either a light or reflector in the rear.
9. Stop for all stop signs.
10. If parcels are carried, strap them
to the frame or place in a basket carrier.
11. Avoid crowded streets and heavily
traveled highways.
12. Keep yourself and your bike in
good condition.
If bicycle riders will obey those simple
rules this business of one bicycle fatality
every week will be stopped in North Caro
lina.
By DWIGHT NICHOLB, et aL
.RATHER WAIT THAN RUN
They have^a lot of fun when
the baseball tjeams of the color
ed prison caa^pa play. The field
at the camp ^ere is enclosed and
a tVuBtle is placed on the O'Utside
of the fence to chase foul balls
and home rum. A spectator asked
the trustle: '‘When, you go way
down there hfter a ball why
don’t you run?”' His reply was,
“Why should I run.? I don’t
have but 20 more years here.’’
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ON STANDING ARMIES
Heard on'the street: ’'Speak
ing of standing armies, we have
the staudlngest army In the
world—the WPA You would
never get one of them down un
less you shot the shovel handle
in two.”
CASHED A PHOTOGRAPH
In Minneapolis a negro girl
wrote the NYA office, saying that
she had not received her Check
of $14.50. The office wrote her
that her check had been mailed
out, that it had been endorsed
with her name and that it had
been cashed. To prove this they
sent her a photostatic copy of the
check as cashed. The copy was
good that she took It to a
store and cashed it.
RULES OF THE ROAD
On Decreasing Speed
Sec. 102, Motor Vehicle Laws of North
Carolina:— “(c) The fact that the speed
of the vehicle is loweh than the . . . prima
facie limits shall not relieve the driver
from the duty to decrease speed when ap
proaching and crossing an intersection,
when approaching and going around a
curve, when approaching a hill crest, when
traveling upon any narrow or winding
roadway, or when special hazard exists
with respect to pedestrians or other traffic
or by reasori of weather or highway condi
tions, and speed shall be 'decreased as may
be necessary to avoid colliding with any
persons, vehicle or other conveyance or on
entering the highway in compliance with
legal resuirements and the duty of all per
sons to use due care.”
In other words, adjust your speed to ex
isting conditions. Regardless of what the
stated speed limit may be at any particular
point, drivers are required to decrease
their speed when conditions of traffic, vis
ibility, weather or the roadway are such
that it is not safe to drive at the maximum'
legal speed.
HONESTY IN ’TRADING
A cattle trader in the Blue
Ridge country who bought many
calves and figured to make an
average profit of one dollar each
gave this advice to his son when
he started out in the same busi
ness: "if a widow has a calf for
sale and says she will take $10
when you know it is worth $12,
give her $11. Never take advant
age of any person’s ignorance a-
hiout the worth of what they have
to sell. But if you find a person
whom you know is trying to skin
you in the trade take the butter
of his bread and —
if he don’t give you the bread."
Over a long period of years the
old man had been .-nccesstul with
his generous policy toward those
whom he could have taken ad
vantage of and in many instances
his generous tn-des eventually
became the most profitable.
A dramatic scene lowing Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard, the
romantic sw^thearts in David O. Selznkk’s “Intermezzo, a Love
Story,” which ia playing an engagement at the Liberty Theatre
Tuesday only through United Artists release.
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H. M. PARUER WRITES
Neutral Fertilizers
Increase Yields Of
Potatoes and Cotton
Plots of Irish ipotavoea, sweet
potatoes and cotton that have
received neutral fertilizers have
consistently out-yielded those re
ceiving acid fertilizers in tests
made by the North Carolina Ex
tension Service, says. E. C. Blair,
Extension agronomist at State
College.
With sweet potatoes, the re
turns from neutralizing the ferti
lizer increased as the potash was
Increased in the mixture. These
increases were 3.7 bushels to the
acre for three per cent more po
tash; 11.1 bushels for six per
cent more potash, and 14.2 bush
els for nine percent more potash.
Mr. Blair reports.
Neutralizing fertilizers with
doiomitic limestone, in similar
tests, has Increased the average
yields of. Irish potatoes as much
as 32 bushels to the acre. Brsic
fertilizers .have produced increas
es ur *0 46 bushels, Mr. Blair
adds.
The result? of tests for three
successive years with acid, neu
tral and basic fertilizers applied
on the same plots have indicated
no potrto scab infestation result
ing from the neutral or basic fer
tilizers.
Cotton yields, in the same ex
periments:, have shown increases
of more than a half-bale to the
acre by the use of neutral ferti
lizer.
Los Angeles, Calif.
August 22, 1941.
Gentlemen:
With best wishes I am this day
ihalling you $2, for yrhlch please
renew my subscription Jto your
paper for one year. I hope tbat
everything is moving along nice
ly In dear old Wilkes. It seems
like the world is on fire, and the
end Is not yet.—War, War, War,
and more war.
The Bible says in part that
when the wicked rule the nations
mourn. But let us hope that we
will get something really worth
while, efter this mad brutal
struggle is all over.
Hitler must be destroyed re-
gardles,? as to what the cost may
be. I am led to believe that Mr.
Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill are
on the right track.
I hope to be able to get back
to North Carolina sometime dur
ing 1942 in the event I am bless
ed to live until that time.
I have been quite sick for the
past weeks, spent three weeks In
the hospital, but at this time I
am feeling much better.
Yours very truly.
H. M. PARLEIR.
Use the advertising columns of
this oaner ns vour shopping gnlde.
creased 33 bushels to the acre by
the use of neutral fertilizer, over
the yields of potatoes which re
ceived acid fertilizer. In Norfolk
sandy loam the neutral fertilizer
brought an increased cotton yield
j of 266 pounds to the acre over
Yields of Irish potatoes in Bla- cotton produced with acid mix-
den fine, .-andy loam were in-' tures.
GOinERNMENT AND LIQINIR
One man whom we know to be
personally and politically dry and
who hates to see lives ruined by
liquor as badly as anyone, made I
the remark that he would not
report stills?' if he knew ■«'here
there were a dozen of them. He
said that the government is in
the business of selling liquor and
his argument Intima'.;d that it
had no business punishing in
dividuals in the same business.
LIFE’S BEHER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR,
Hiddenite, N. C.
FEUTXIWSHIP
‘ ’There you sit,’ Harry Lauder
used to taunt his audiences mer
rily—‘been side by side for two
hours, and not one of you spoke
to the fellow in the next seat!’
Under that warm-hearted influ
ence, few there wer’ who did not
turn and speak to ftie .stranger
•beside him. It’s as easy as that.
A word, a smile, and the strang
er at your elbow may become an
interesting friend. All throi'.gh
life, we deny ounselves stimulat
ing fellowship because we are too
proud or too afraid ot unbend.
‘You can travel, it you like,
cased in the local armour of priv
acy that can shut you away from
the common touch. But it isn’t
hard to approach a person who
has a friendly smile on his face.
But why not be the first to smile?
“We should sdek the precious
stuff of human fellowship. We are
all strangers to each other, until
one of us puts out his hand—and
makes a friend.”
FORGIVING
It is great to. be forgiving
As we journey on life’s way;
In so doing we are living
So that we can truly pray
“Holy Father, let Thy pardon
Come upon me from above;
Grant that in my heart’s small garden
There may be the purest love.”
Dr. E.S. Cooper
—CHIROPRACTOR—
Office Next Door To
Reins-SturdivBiit, Inc.
Only God forgives the debtor
When he calls upon His name.
Breaking chain and binding fetter,
And removing all his shame.
Just as he will show to others
A forgiving spirit true,
And the love that makes them brothers
A? life’s journey they pursue.
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It is noble and uplifting
If forgiving we will be;
But the soul of hate goes drifting
On life’s vast, uncertain sea
Who will not forgive another
Of his failure and his wrongs,
Nor be reconciled to brother.
Though he sings the victor’s songs.
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Company
T. H. WILLIAMS, Mgr.
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Father, make us kind, forgiving,
Gentle, patient and devout,
So indeed we shall be living
Far above uncertain doubt
As to what will be the ending
Of the race we run on earth.
And that Jesus may be sending
To our souls the sweetest mii'th.
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