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NORTH WII Mioimcs !>yfLi" — - ^ Itfd Tb^ndays at ItMBrbi, Htartb Caroliniv •I* l>/i3rvCAItTBi» ®B^ JULIUS C. HUBBARB -'fe''"'- Ctl i*awa«h«i , /»^ SIfftSCRIPTlON RATES: 41-60* ^,76. J «wu-months V Out of the State S2.09 per Year Cnterad at the poet office at North VnUne- GaraW. • IkiM North Gandaa> aa aeeend-elass nwttar tniM: Act of Match 4. 1879. THURSDAY, OCTT 28,1943 Workers are calling ontte^l^pC " Ibnpfc w Tragedy Of Era— A recent editorial in these columns on the subject of juvenile delinquency Tecei\^- ed much comment. • And we learn from the following ex cerpts frem an article in the New York Herald-Tribune that v. situation similar to local conditions exists all over the nation: “The rising rate of juvenile delinquency among girls will be one of the greatest tragedies of the era, Edward C. Kennelly, special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, direc tor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, declared yesterday. “Arrests of girls under 21 years of age rose 64 per cent in the first six months of 1943, (can you imagine that!) compared to the corresponding period of last year, he told 500 degelates to the forty-seventh annual convention of the New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers. “The girls side of the ledger is more se rious today, Mr. Kennelly said. Girls are the hardest hit among our young people by the social impact of the war. “Juvenile delinquency arrests among girls in 19‘ 2 rose 55.7 per cent over 1941; drunkenness rose 39 per cent, disorderly -ccmduct 69 per cent, and prostitution and commercialized vice 64 per cent. Girls fol lowing boys to Army camps have caused a large part of the problem. Arrests among boys under 21 in 1942 decreased a little more than 3 per cent, a small drop, in view of the number of boys in the armed forces”. Mr. Kennelly traced criminal tendencie.s in most normal children to lack of super vision and guidance in the home and the community. Asserting that youth's natural craving for excitement ha.s reached a new high, he said: “Unle.sg we channelize that, youth is in for real trouble”. And along the .same line we are (iiioting parts of an article by Dr. Carl V'. Reynolds, North Carolina State Health Officer: “Parents, do you know with whom your children are a.sso(T»ating when they are not under your roof—the kind of compan}' they keep? Mothers, are you throwing about your daughter, during childhood, adolescence and young womanhood, that protection to which they are entitled? Fathers, are you doing your duty by your sons, by informing them concerning the pitfalls of life and warning them against the results of indiscretion? “Of the 16,713 new cases of syphilis re- ,■ ported to the North Carolina State Board -of Health during the calendar year of 1942, three thousand and sixty-four occurred among children under 20 years of age. Of these 3,064 cases, .there were 2,742 among children between the |ges of 10 and 19. in clusive, embracing the adole.scent period in its entirety, and of the grand total of 16,- 713, there were 4,304 new cases of syphilis among young men and women from 20 to 25 years old. So, you see, syphilis, gets in its most deadly and extensive work among adolescents and men and women of early maturity. The same is true of gonorrhea, of which there were 9,620 new cases re- porte'd to the North Carolina State Board of Health in 1942, including 2,149 cases ■ among boys and girls through nineteen years of age. “Syphilis, up to the age of puberty, is awumed to be congenital, and gonorrhea the result of a child's being nursed ov 'S handled by a person afflicted with that disease. Truly, “the wages of sin is death”, * ,^’y you look at it, whether those are acquired by men and women '^t^ohaueleidwd the age of physical and or are paid to little -ridden parents who iitiliimed of themselves for not pfeventable and correcting before it is too late!” Wilkes . Many people are nq| welj;-^aua with the Natiqpal War 5hind. v ' Briefly, the National War Fund will fjir- nish money for operation of United Serv ice organization and for the inapy relief ,?©^ cieties helping to'keep people from starv ing in nations allied with oura in the war What more worthy causes could be in cluded? The American people shouldj^ grateful for their blessings and shO«ii| reach out a helping hand to those who suf-' fer and starve. And locally the fund for the Boy Scouts •and Girl Scouts have been combined with the National War Fund quota, making a grand total of $12,000 to be raised. ■ This-means a contribution is necessary from every person in the county who can give, whether'it be a small or substantially large amount. —V T-''* I Br Credit Due Local Merchants— Probably no business has had more bur densome detail to comply with in carrying out rationing and price regulations, than have the retail .stores of the country. Al most overnight, their buying and selling methods were revolutionized, and their banking and bookkeeping greatly compli cated. On top of that, they have faced a manpower shortage more serious than most businesses. Only the inbred ingenuity and determination of the American merchant could have met the impact of such drastic changes, and at the same time maintained service to consumers. Official data appears to demonstrate that retail food distributors have fared worse and performed better than other more articulate and better organized groups. It is apparent from the Index figures that retail food distributors cannot proper ly be charged with “profiteering’ and the Index may well indicate the justification for certain price adju.stments. It is but fair to give credit to any industry that ha.s made such a record as have the retail stores under such drastic operating condi tions as they must meet. ' START AND HOFR— It baa been said that in order to write, a person has to be In spired. Others say, that the way to write is jast to start writing and hope. Larking in inspiration today. We are choosing the latter course of Just starting- and hop ing. ^ We have Just been reading' about all the things a fellow has to do these days to pull through, and the more we read, the more we get confused and wonder if we can do it. For Instance, we are told to keep our back to the wall, and at the same time to keep an ear to the ground. How do you do it? And while keeping our hack to the wall, and an ear lo the ground, we are supposed to keep our chin up (if a prop is handy) and at the same time keep our nose to the grindstone. And while keeping our back to the wall, an ear to the ground, our chin up and our nose to the grind stone, we are supposed also to keep our sr.ouicer to the wheel, keep a level head, and have both feet on the ground. And all that has to be done in order to keep our head above water. Just try being enough of a con tortionist to be in all those shapes at one and the same time. THK AND THAT— The difference between church bell and a politician is that the church bell peals from the steeple and the politician steals from the people. Paste This In Your Hat— REPORT KXAOGERATED— This one was told on us several years ago. but don't you believe it. We grew up on a farm and came to town on very few occa sions. Once when we went home someone who was along told that we got off the wagon here in North Wilkesboro, scraped a bare foot across the pavement and said: “Well, I don’t blame ihem for building a town here. The ground is too hard to plow any way’”. LIMESTONE Ai NowAvaiMifoti^Wflkes County Farmwsa# Orehardists at only ... )Per Ton Cash Delivered WE WILL DEUVER III TRUCK LOAUS ARy WHERE IN WILKES COURTT FOR SALE AT ALL TIMES! —- Bring or Mail Orders To TripieA Office Wilkesboro DlCK^S Service Station lbi1blH(keskoni.ll.C. What is the matter with our so-called business and political leaders who chant: “Capitalism has one more chance”, or, “Private enterprise has one more chance after the war,” or we will have a totali tarian government? Do they really believe what they .say? If .so, they better not ad- verti.se their panic. We are fighting a war to preserve free dom. We wouldn’t be licking the A.xis if we would surrender the right to say and do what we plea.se, and raise our families as we please, because someone promised to fill our stomachs. Borrowed Comment THE WHY OF SHORTAGES (Charlotte Observer) There’s more butter in the United States today than ever before in its history, but butter is among the major scarcities in the markets. There’s more meat of all kinds on the hoof than ever before, but we must have meatless meals every day in the homes of civilians. There’s more corn bursting from the bins of the farmers than the fields of the country have ever produced before, but you can hardly find a pound of grits any where. Nor is the full answer to the riddles to be found in the vast supplies of these goods which are going to the armed services and which the peopTe ol the countrj^ are en tirely willing to deny themselves in order that the 'boys in uniforms may have all they want and need, and to spare. One of the major reasons for such con tradictory situations is that the government agencies which are trying to function in the regulation of these markets and the control of these prices are not on top of their jobs in bringing about wise and work able adjustments. Seme of our widely publicized shortage.^ and scarcities would seem to apply not so much to the commodities themselves as to the inefficiencies and inabilities of those-in political control to manage the situation in the public interest and to the protection of the national economy. One thing you will not give your wife for Christmas is a couple of dozen nylon hose.—Charlotte Observer.
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