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JOURNAl^PATBIOT. NORTH C. IfURSDAY, SEPT. 18,1941 "riie *WWgENP«^ iw P0UT1C8 |io«4*7t wd Thursdays at “ North MTilkesboro, N. C. ' h. J. CABTER snd JULIUS C. HUBBARD . Publishers ^ ^ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ■ Year |1.50 Six Months : .75 Pour Months 50 Out of the State $2.00 per Year B&tered at the post office at North Wilkes- boro, N. C., as second class matter under Act Bf March 4, 1879. THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1941 prica riR€fi, and nm er unit 'profite .In ipr4|i [ tp’/lw dowii.'" R is retuilinfir wlbJc^ . cate^the consumer to ibuj; cally, and make his. dollar go fartni Retailing raises prices when that is u^_ avoidable—^it has no way'of picking mon' ey out of the air, and it can’t hold retail prices at given levels when manufacturing prices go steadily up. "But there is no doubt whatsoever that retailing has done wonders in keeping retail price increases to the absolute minimum. It is only just to give credit where due. School Buildings Wilkes county has reached the point where there must be new school buildings and additions to present buildings if schools are to have the facilities necessary for a reasonable degree of efficiency. From every district in the county comes accounts of need of buildings, additions or school plant facilities. This condition is not new, but has grown worse during the past few years. The need for school buildings and addi tions in some districts is despei'ate. School buildings to fit even the more desperate needs will cost much money but the point has been reached when some provisions must be made for adequately housing the school population. The decision will rest with the people if the Wilkes county board of commission ers submit the issue of a bond issue to fi nance school buildings as the board has planned. It may be that some federal help may be obtained on some of the projects but there is a possibility that the county may have to bear the burden of expenses to fill the most pressing neds. In the event a bond issue question is sub mitted to vote, we do not know what the amount will be, neither do the county au- tho'.-i'.ies know because estimates have not been made. Shifts in population and rapidly grow ing centers make planning for the future difficult. It was only a few years ago that the -Millers Creek building was erected. Then it looked spacious and adequate for years to come. Now the building is literally overflowing and more than a dozen rooms are needed to house the various grades, cla.sses and departments. The same is true to some extent in other cases. North Wilkesboro, which pays a large pa;t of the county’s taxes, has crowded school buildings and needs additional fa cilities badly. In Wilkesboi'o, where e. larg-e new building was erected a few years ago, there is need for additions or a new building. Roaring River, Ronda, Mount Pleasant, Traphill. Cricket, in fact every school, needs something. But the people may as well face the fad that to have schools th^re must be build ings and equipment. It is nothing short of criminal to fail to give children an opportunity for educatio'i and training. It would be grand if some paternalistic Sar" ■ •■■.■'U'hi snake i'..s a gift of al>oui a half million dollar.-, worth of .sch )-,,! buildupg- and equipment. But lacking .such a hc:ie\ oleiit character, it looks very much lik-’ the most lic.qiorale needs must be fill ed ■ hard way—Ijy taxe.s. Don’t Blame Your Retailer An authoritv on merchandising remarks that there is a growing tendency of labor and some consumers to blame prices rises on retailers. That tendency should be scotched in a hurr}'. For the plain truth is that the re tail trades, in all fields, including both the independents and the chains, have carried on an aggressive and successful campaign to keep living costs down. Between June 15, 1939, and June 15, 1941, industrial wages rose 27 per cent on a weekly basis. Industrial real wages— which,means wages interpreted in the light of purchasing power—^rose 22 per cent. In those same two years, the cost of living increased but 6 per cent, and that includes rents and personal service as well as commodities. It is retailing which has further cut over head expenses and passed the saving on to the consumer. It is retailing which has eliminated many unnecessary middleman operations, and again passed the saving on to the consumer. It is retailing which, in many instances, is absorbing wholesale Inter-l)ependence Day America already has an Independence Day to memorialize its freedom. Perhaps it should also have an Inter-dependence Day to serve as a reminder of how greatly every American depends on every other Americ&n for the preservation of that freedom. The fact is that liberty, if it is to be pre served at all, must be preserved intact— by all of us, for all of us. Deny it to any one group, and the chances are that in time it will also be denied to others. Presi dent Roosevelt’s recent statement that “the rights of free labor as we know them today could not survive without the rights of free enterprise” serves to illustrate that fact. Today we are arming to defend free en terprise and all our other freedoms. To do that successfully every one of us—and every group—must surrender some liber ties temporarily. But we must make sure that we surrender them only temporarily. We must resolve how that emergency con trols over our freedom must end with the emergency, and that no one group shall be permitted to use the current crisis to ob tain unfair advantages over another. Un less we do that we may learn too late that we have thrown away the very liberties we are making sacrifices to defend. — Those Vital Vitamins While the American people take eating for granted, with little thought about the vitamins in the food they eat, except may be the women who are worrying more about their figurss than about their health, ! the doctor carrie.st on in his effort to brinq better health through proper eating. Dr. Russell Wilder, physician on the Mayo Clinic staff at Rochester, Minnesota, has been promoting nutrition as a national defense factor. He maintains his leader ship over the defense nutrition drive by virtue of his chairmanship of the Food and Nutrition Committee of the National Re search Council—a quasi-official agency from which the government draws techni cal advice on defense problems. I'r. Wilder contends that vitamin B1 is grossly deficient in the U. S. diet and sug gests that some of the country's labor un rest can be attributed to a B1 deficiency in the diet of the worker. B1 is recognized as the nerve and morale vitamin. Ur. Wilder’.s committee has been con centrating on adding B1 to the U. S. diet— primarily through the new “Enriched Flour” and “Enriched Bread,” twin foods at whose birth Dr. Wilder officiated. (lood health is good defen.se against an enemy, the same as good tanks and guns. I Borrowed Comment FLOOD CONTROL PROSPECTS j (Winston-Salem Journal) Congre.s.sman W. O. Burgin, of the , Di trict, ti.dd the North Wilkesboro ! Kiwanis Club the other day that the pro- I ])osed Yadkin valley flood control plan is ! a worthy project which has his interest I and support. It has a good chance of 1 early legislative and executive approval, he said, if it can be shown to be in line with the defense program. There is the rub, but so many things are being shown to be “in line with the defense program” that surely a project designed to protect many lives and millions of dol lars’ worth of property in the Piedmont can be found somewhere near the home defense line. There is no disposition here to stretch a point. It may be that the project may have to yield procedure to more direct defense projects. But by all means an effort to control the flood waters of the Yadkin in its upper reaches should be made as ear ly as possible. There are few projects that would pay larger dividends for this section, the state and nation in proportion to the funds expended. Our consular agents in Thailand report a heavy demand for American calculating machines. The whole dam population, it appears, has suddenly started trying to figure out what’s going to happen next.—| Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. FAIR, SIPEILIGWW y: In case you haven’t noticed lt.‘ tbe apple, general farm and 4-H eluh exhtbita ere truly outstand ing . . . Watt Gragg, chief "dx- ecutlye of the town of Boone and known far and wide as the "hug- ginest mayor”, was a genial visi tor at the fair'on, opening day. His actlTities were confined to handshaking, which he' can do like nobody else 7 j-. It la ajins- ing to watch the reaction of crowds to certain ' thlnga, The stage acts are very Interesting. But some of the most difficult feats* received little applause while some of the less difficult and which any acrobat could do were enthusiaatically applauded . . . Since they cut out bumping because it is dangerous, tbe little cars on the midway are not patronized very much; people like thrills, danger or no danger. They bump together on the highway and if they can’t hump they won’t pay to ride. PROB;LE»I IN ARITHMETIC If you had 6.334 stacks of hay in field number 1 and 9.666 stacks of hay In field number 2 and took the hay from field number two and put It all together with that In field number one how many would you have? Now don’t get a pencil and paper and add 6.334 and 9.666 and say there would be sixteen stacks because that would not be correct. Putting all the hay together would make one stack. THIS ONE IS EASY How far can a dog run into a forest? Answer; Only half way, after that he would be running out. HOW TO MAKE CAT STAY AT HOME One reader wants to know of some way to make a cat stay at home. It has been reported to this column that a neighbor gave another a kitten, which the latter neighbor w'ants very badly to keep. Blit cats have a way of goin:; brek to where they came from. She ha.s tried all the suggested ways to make it stay at its new home, including gheasing its feet and ruldiing its hack ou the inside of a chimney, .Anyone who knows any other good suggestions plea.-e communicate with this column. W-\R MAXEI VER T.AI^ES During the army maneuvers, or war games, war is played much like tag football. Certain things done mean that a tiridge has been dynamited, a .soldier lias been shot or wounded, a tank has been put out of commission, etc. .Army officers umpire the ganie.s and tell soldiers, tanks, etc., when they have been "put out of Imsiness.” During the maneuvers in Ten nessee a former baseball player w-as driving a tank “in action” and an officer umpire approach ed and told him that his tank had been knocked out. Speaking in baseball language the tank driver said: "MTiy yon hlankety | Iilank the lousy h u m i didn’t came in ten feet of me. I ^ You ueed gla,=ses.” I\ THE lU C HOI SE | K lady driving along in the war . mi neiiver area in Tennessee was I stepped by a soldier at ,a bridge. The soldier said; “l.ai'y, you ivin't go any further. This bridge lias been demolished.’’ She look ed at the big concrete bridge and did lint see anything wrong with it. .After a few minutes she de-; cided tliat tlie soldier was crazy i riid when another man in uni- foi m approached she a.-ked: I “Soldier, u man awhile ago told | me this bridge had been blown up. What did- he mean?” His reply convinced her that some body had hats id their belfry, maybe herself. He said: "Lady, I can’t tell you a thing. I have been dead for three days.” THEY HAVE (NkMPE'TITION “Suicide Hayes’’ and his “hell drivers” scheduled for action to day at the fair may be wild driv ers but we know some around here would give them much com petition. The biggest difference would be the locals would hurt or kill somebody while “Suicide Hayes” does not. Si^ 'sMsiAl Bpichint place anoDt friends in tbis'e^on dur ing the.week-end. liie lilce cool weather afforded op^toniUee for pleasant travel. -^■.„ Mr. and Mrs. ■' Leonard Oreer and children, of Patterson, visit ed relatives In this community Saturday afternoon. Misses Inez Phillips and Win nie Spears, both Of whom are at Cricket, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Phillips, and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spears, during the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Canter and children, of' Wilkesboro, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Tredaway and chil dren, of Pores Knob, were visi tors in the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Church and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Keys, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Llnnle Benge and children, of Purlear, spent Sunday visiting relatives in this commu nity. Mr. and Mrs. Pervls Baker and eons, Zelle and Dwain, of Pat terson, visited Mr. and Mrs. Coy Church Sunday. Other guests In the home of Mr. and Mrs. Church were: Mrs. Lee J. Church, Johns ton Church. Helen Church, Mrs. Nina Church and little daughter, Joan, Mrs. ’ Fannie Flecher and sin Nila, Della Mae Mikael, Mrs. Llzzzie Church, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Green, Mr. Herman Love, Mr. Lonnie Woods, Miss Mandy Green, Raleigh Church and Mr. Ralph Kes. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Laws and children, also Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Laws and child, all of Pat terson, visited Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Woodie and other friends in this community Sunday. Relatives of Mr. Llnza Church visited him at a Winston-Salem hospital Sunday. Mr. Church has been a patient in the hospital for some time and is reported as be ing in a serious condition. His} many friends and relatives hope that he may soon recover. has a head' -of- , " on her shoulders” HAT’S why she places so much em phasis on lighting in her home. She knows thot proper lighting gives warmth and beauty, enhancing rugs, draperies, walls and furnishings. More than this, she learned long ago that plenty of light means efficiency in the kitchen, in the basement, and in every household operation. 3 Caidf SiefU TO BETTER LIGHT “Which travels faster — heat or cold?” “Heat, because you can catch cold easily.” r Uptfaned fro® "The Look-of- X ^^g.^onth League" —thanks to the help of CHI- CHES-TER3 PILLS In relieving symptomatic functional pain and dltcoiafort. Absolutely safe to take as directed. Con- r® tain no habit-forming I' *, drugs nor narcotics. VISIT AN ELECTRICAL « DEALER TODAY! I.E.S. Lamps Pul s ctrtiRsd I.LS. Lamp betids yourtaiy dull. Mskn Mtinj auift . . . htipi cut down cytilMin. Rlgfit-SiiaMbs AHOvMrttwKwMa Give your eyes t lift by utins lisht size bulbi in the right places. Call us for Jrtt home lighting survey. Modern Lighting Adaptor Units Make it easy lo have soil indirect light at a twist of the wrist. Duke Power Company HOURS 9 TO 5 NINTH STREET About Regulations Governing Installment Buying! 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