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Jkivtdaytft OuniHiiai : "w*- ^ (UBtlKB «ad JXPXTQ C BOBBABD PoUiikin . ^ SUBSfSupiml^AWs J : Oirt y^ 1^.60 tfm Mwm .78 j};Pwir If Miths .6() ^ Out of th« State I2.Q0 ^r Year ^ Entoed at the pMt office el Nrarth Wilkoe* hero, Nortii Cenniut^ u eacnlid^esa matter tender Act.of Herch 4.1879. THl«SDAy» JULY IS, 1943 R«d CroM Work— Often we think of the American Red, Cross merely as an organization which renders valuable service at some far away point in case of emergency. But we should also remember that the Bed Cross is active in our own community all the time. The Wilkes chapter, which maintains an office and has a full time secretary, is ren dering invaluable service to service men and their families. , The report of the secretary, substance of which was published in this newspaper Monday, tabulated numerous office visits, telephone calls, letters, home v’lits and other things which were done in carrying out duties as the go between for service men and their families. The Red Cross is maintained by your do nations, and is your organization to use when needed. There would never be any difficulty in raising Red Cross funcls if the people would acquaint themselves with the value of the services which are rendered by this great organization. Banks And The War— North Wilkesboro is fortunate in ha'/ing the financial institutions which are locate'd here. ^ The statements issued by the two banks here show that they are continuing to grow in resources and deposits. But perhaps of more importance that the size of the figures in the statements are the war activities that the banks are carry ing out in the march to victory. The banks are rendering valuable service in sale of bonds and in financing war production. And while on the subject of financial in stitutions, let us not overlook the building and loan associations, which are going for ward progressively and are furnishing much money to purchase bonds and to fin ance the war. No institution is better than the men who guide its destinies and set up and car ry out its policies. It is with this in mind that we commend the officials and man agement of our financial institutions. V Sicilian Invasion— Successful invasion of the island of Sici ly off the Italian coast has been excellent news for all of us. It goes to show that our troops, when properly supplied and commanded, are better than the nazis. But because we have so far been suc cessful on Sicily, none of us should get the idea that the wax is over. The offensive stage has only begun and the success of our troops at the front should serve as a spur to our war efforts at home. There should be no relaxation of the war effort until the nazis and the Japs are no n:\pre. ^ A Prayer For Parents— The-following, entitled .“A Prayer For Parents”, has been handed us with the re quest for publication, and this column is as . good a place as any to put it: ‘‘Oh, Jehovah, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what'they have to say jftnd to answer all their questions kindly, keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. H^e me as courteous to them as I would ha^ them be to me. Give me courage to children and to 'not #ynly «kurtftthe ieelings F&rlw lhatl should lanfh my cL*.«——. - V, mort^es dr resort to shame ana IM me sot tempt f to lie and to steal. So guide me ])teeei» Redoee, I prai^lik® May I cease to, nag Mpd when I lair aorta, ««, O “Blii^ ml^ the IR^ errors of my^jcWl- dren and help me bd see the good ^ngs that they do. Give me a.ready worOor hon^ pratee. . ' ’ "Htelp in^ to grbw op w^ my cht^en,^ to treat Iheju as those ctf thefr tsrcN but ltd me not expect of . OOLUHN— (Bettor’s note: Ihe wnc enf-> teriag pttblic'gets a temporal respite today vhHe they r»d a menti and convcntioi» oY iahdt& ADdw me not to rob titem of the opportunity to wait upon themselves,'to think, to choose, and to nuie decisions' “Forbid that I should ever punish them for my selfish satisfaction. May I grant them .11 their wbhe. ttat ,re reMm.bie^™, and haye the .courage always to none other 'than whiai-.d a. a privilege which I know will do them cole,, s former editor of this harm. “Make me so fair and just, so consider ate and companionable to my children that they will have a genuine esteem for me. Fit me to be loved and imitated by my child- Cole,, s former editor of this newspaper who has seen much of the world since he left-here ten years ago). ' ren. ^ , , “With all thy gifts, 0 Great Jehovah, give me calm and poise and self-control. Gerry Cleveland Myers — „ Paper wrappings, substitute for lead I've been invited by my good friend, Dwight Niebols, to write something for this columnT*' hfter lookbig''at the pi^ure which adoirns the heading, I b^Utated for ^ome time but 1 finglTy decid ed that even the worat of my writ ing wouldn’t'disgrace that. Bu^ I suppose you folks don’t look at the photograph, instead Just read the eopy. Well, that's raper . . jusi reau me eopy. weu, mai s foil on cigarettes, smoking and chewmg to- gu rjgijt because he does turn out bacco, have saved 50 million pounds of foil. -V Mo« «... 28 r.Uw.y tank of heavy »d «. »«•> 0^ fuel are needed to supply a single destroy Hubbard and D. J. Carter. I’ve turned a couple of comers since iUci oic xicxjsAxsM. vvf ' i,uru«;u n cuupic ui wrueto er on a round-trip convoy trip between the then and I’m convinced more than East Coast and North Africa. -V- The shellac coating formerly applied to oranges to prevent their shrinkage in transit has been replaced by a wax coating to save shellac for' war use. — More than a hundred girl graduates of a Roxbury. Mass., high school wore red and white graduation gowns they had made themselves, with corsages of blue War Stamps. —V Paper is now used in making alarm clock and flashlight cases, clothes hang ers, buttons, string, porch chairs, rugs, garbage pails, dustpans, mail boxes, blank ets, and many other articles in order to have .more essential materials. LIFE’S BEHER WAY WALTER E. ISENHOUR, Hiddenite, N. C. THE STRENGTH OF A MAN Man’s greatest strength is not in muscle and sinew. We know it is good to be phy sically strong, but it is far better to be morally and spiritually strong. Man’s greatest strength, then, is moral and spiri tual. A nation’s greatest and most power ful strength is also moral and spiritual. Whatever contributes toward man’s weakness morally and spiritually is never to be commended. It should always be dis couraged. Habits of whatever nature they may be which are weakening to the morals and spirituality of a man should be avoid ed. No one can afford to form a habit that weakens him in his manhood. It is likely to weaken him in body likewise, and short en his days. We have seen men who are strong in body, but weak in soul. Some ungodly habit had gripped them; some evil had en tered into the inner life. And as the years went by the moral weakness brought on physical weakness, and as a consequence life was shortened. Usefulness was cast aside, while uselessness was accepted into the life. Such is deplorable. Why let evil rob one of morality and spirituality, de stroy the usefulness of life, with preciou and priceless opportunities thrown away, and eke out a mere existence with nothing- good, great nor worth while accomplish ed? This should be beneath every man. Again we have seen men who were weak physically, but strong morally and spirit ually. They revealed the fact that the; were godly, upright, noble men. They were total abstainers from all intoxicants; wert overcomers of evils of all kinds, and werr strong for God and right. They went along life’s pathway to noble heights. They wielded a good and great influence for the uplift and salvation of mankind. Their strength was in the inner man. God blessed them and made them a blessing. They made their mark and left it behind tc, live after them to bless'the world, while the moral and spiritual weakling left hi influencrliehind hitir tp world; ^t|i%orld today of 'mo^l ii^.^ritualj,jtrengthJ'g; Rerejn i' a**® strdn’g; or fot the took cf ti^ iire hations are weak and cru^pto ' to' ptoc^ Cxod give us men of gieat.ihota a«d ‘upfeitual strenfto 'tb lead^iis. Ames It’s been more than nine years since I sat here in the Journal- Patriot office and pecked out the atVthe Wl'. niero ‘Were it alriif ,-f**- ' yliaid^taro moalluf M oon^.fiia. testajjti .-from varloe*:- Bwifttljentf . haAais lMt;«a|»»wnaaLr C^pp ,«f ilaa^ 1^ tfemory Work is Muiaa) eontMkj^R^Md by I tb* Tmiains Unlcm p^artmemt * of iha: state. Miss BfiinEbbsJl, in' order to he eticihle for the.^ Ri^e- ereet'Tojanuidient, Imd prevtoneiy been euceeseful in ja 1^1 contest at the First BaptW ehnreb, and in a Regional B. T. U, meeting at TaylorsviUe^ S^aiatidn for the coQtiet at Rldgeei^t necesr eitatsd tbe memorisadon-^ot large namber of 8eifpd|re ngirMt. Theke Bible verim were onoted tu response to the folfpving dritiB:. Su'ojeet-^latter, (iaertkm-and-Ans.- vSr, Plash-Cni^ and €omptetiofl. .Miss Campbell made a perfect The io-i, of th«; ifrn.,seVm^; ‘ c- diureljBs In North' Carolina com-1 noting for this honor.- ^ ^ .;8ervJie .l|^’^!^^ -me -.cv .nod bnsbele. -indfamtioiiF point-io a yield of M ii np toOjbueheU to^e »«e 89^:^ idrenover tnO'f 1,600 neres end' to the acripM* - really isn’t nny place like our ova North Carolina. Well| really all I had to say when. I aatv down' to this tjrpe- vriter was a greeting to those who once knew me and bore up BO nobly under the strain. That having been said, I suffer from the emptiness which abounds be neath the greying hair (or should I say just ‘‘grey’j?) atop my head. ever that Wilkes county Is for tunate to have Jule and Dan end Dwight to give them newspaper and Job-printing service. (I am not Including the picture—and with full premeditation). No longer do I Impose upon the good nature of t^.e reading public by pretending to write (except by courtesy of invitation such as this) but I still feel the old urge when I see the old press, hear the linotypes jingling (really sweet music) and smell the ink on Oie printing press. The old urge im pels me to take this opportunity to say “hello’’ to ell the former sufferers from my scribbling. (Hope none of my creditors take note of this and look me up). iDwIght, chewing that darn pap er didn’t help a bit. Sincerely, WILtilARD G. COUE. BlIklXG OUR BOND&— A‘sub headline on the front page Monday said tbe war bond quota for Wilkes this month Ms fifty-five millions and ninety-two dollars. Of course, the correct figure was only fifty-five thousand and ninety-two dollars. Way it came about, the linotype heard us say that we were going to buy some bonds this month and with.' us buying of course he Just knew that the figure should have been millions instead of thousands. • Now you tell one. I’ve been sitting here five min utes trying to think of something else to write. I’ve just been told the trouble. Mabel ’(Mrs. Earl, TAediieim »ays- I uaveMvmt to work at this familiar desk without chewing newsprint. Guess I’ll have to go in the composing room and grab onto about half a sheet. Thought a lot about Wilkes and •Ashe counties and Nbrth Carolina while I was in Panama and Costa Rica. The boys used to say down In Panama that when the Pana manian girls got to looking White to you one had “missed to dam many boats." I decided I’d caught one boat too many when I had malaria seven times in Costa Rica. Interesting countries down in Central America, but there BECTIFyiNG MIST.AKE^ A man called at the home of a minister and asked this question: “It is right to profit by the mis takes of another?’’ ‘‘Certainly not,” said the minis ter. “Then will you please give me back that ten doilers I paid you, you married her?" RUAHLARITIES— Girdles, they say, arq like the Japs—both creep up on you and it takes a Yank to get them down. TRAVELING DIPPICUL'nES— A fussy old lady, traveling cross-country via bus and tbe great open way, finally became irked to the extent of firing fre quent remarks' at the driver be cause of the many stops. “Such transportation,” she boomed. “Why, you stop at every tele phone pole.’’’ “Sorry, lady,’’ said the driver, “but this bus is a greyhound,’’ Ui^e.Spm is taking o lot of fJtrs. Arnerico’s tima fo^/onid wom^ oil over the country ore (depending on nie fo cook, cleon, keep food prop- , erlyj^ heht writer, and do mony of the other ..thing that help ka^' a home. Remember, though, thot the job is easier if all the opplionces I vrork with ore in good shape. Check them in your house for thbt drop of oil or the minor repair that may put them bock into useful, life, because they ore go- in^ to have to last for the duration. Electricity Is Vital In War—Don’t Waste It. DUKE POWER COMPANY V Have a Coca-Cola = Saludos, Amiga (GREETINGS, FRIEND) y i I't- ?JJ Tt*s natural for popular names ,tp h?aowre friendly' atoreviadons. That’s ‘ * I called w!^ you ^ar Coca-OJk i , Of bow to get dequainied h Amerfcaos soon feel « home in Me*ki, iSoWh hev t«ew kind oi"ud^ as komey es Main Street; Vii neighiwr £n;Terxe Haote » gtobe ifOW® ^IJ^ESBOBO CC^-OC^ ®0TllJ OWIPANY, m
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