v/,-.,--*^--..^ .? •-,■ ••• • ■ iNoxriaioaiT m wuaxm KMfetf iujw. MKi'Tiid»Jwnt Nortii WtUrasboro, Noitii GaroUns jnum c. RtmsasiB uu h. u cabtbr 1M»—DANIBL f. OABTBR—IMS SlJBgCRIFHON BATES: One Year 12.00 (In WttkM and Adjatotac C«aiiti«) One Year 18.00 (Oatsida Wfikaa and Aa^dDfiiff UouMJea) Bates To Thofa OiSerrice: One Year (anywh^) |2.00 filtered at postoffice at North WSkse 8«eond.claas vatter th CUmMM, as 8« ; «rJAoMi#4, U79. THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1946 Car Drivers and Accidents Safety Committee of the Wilkes Cham ber of Commerce is launching a safety program in Wilkes county. Object of the program is to reduce the terrible toll of life on highways in Wilkes county. Did you know that for 1946 Wilkes has one of the bloodiest records on the high ways of North Carolina? One of the main phases of the traffic safety program will be a check of the cars on the highways during the week of September 23 to 28. It is true that defective cars cause many accidents. Faulty brakes, bad lights, bad steering connections, low visibility wind shields and many other defects can cause accidents. It is the object of the car check to find those visible defects and force the opera tors of those cars to have them corrected or take the vehicles off the roads. All of which is well and good. But it is our opinion, based on reporting automobile accidents over many years, that 90 per cent of the accidents are caus ed by drivers. ... Greatest single cause of automobile ac cidents, in our opinion, is excessive speed. A high speeding car is involved in almost every accident. Second on our li.st of causes of accidents are intoxicated drivers. If defective cars can be removed from the road, some accidents will be prevent ed. But if an when defective drivers are re moved before accidents happen, we really will have accomplished something. There are primary and contributing causes of accidents. An old car with mechanical defects per haps could be operated with a reasonable degree of safety at 35 miles per hour, but would be a veritable death trap at 60. In fact, it would be a deadly weapon. Admiral Percy Foote, native of Wilkes who once headed the Pennsylvania state police, says that North Carolina needs more stringent laws to remove speeding and reckless drivers from the highways. Excessive speeding and reckless driving are terribly dangerous, as the accident statistics will show, but the courts look upon those offenses as petty misdemean ors in North Carolina. There certainly should be more .stringent punishment for second offenders on those charges. Someday, after blood of more victims stain our highways, the public is going to demand better traffic laws and more stringent enforcement by the courts. o Religious Education Week Significant Prime responsibility for teaching chil dren to obey the laws of civilization lies with the parents, J. Edgar Hoover, direc tor of the F. B. I., pointed out in giving his endorsement to the 16th annual ob servance of Religious Education Week, Sept. 29-Oct. 6, in churches and communi ties of rural and urban areas of the con tinent, under the auspices of the Inter national Council of Religious Education. “Juvenile offenders result when adults have fallen down on their responsibilities as educators,” Mr. Hoover declared. “Of tentimes youths have been lured into crime because adults have failed to pro vide proper outlets and upbringing. Too ■many cases of young offendera reflect lax ity in early discipline, indifference on the part of parents, and neglect by the com- monity.” Pointing out the sharp rise m crune aince the end of the war, Mr. Hoover re- ** ported that dttringil045 a total of : ? 641 major crimes were committed, mn in- crease of 12.4 per cent over 1944. “Forty- nine per cent of the burglars, 61 per cent of the car thieves, 80 per cent of the ra pists, 85 per cent of the robbers, and more than 33 per cent of the thieves were youngsters under voting-age,” he stated. Eric Johnston, president of Motion Pic ture Association of America, Inc., express ed his belief that “material things ^ without value unless things of the spirit walk with them hand in hand,” in this statement endorsing Religious Education week. “This is a time of vast unrest and reck less social strife for which there is but one cure: a practical application of the faith of our fathers,” Mr. Johnston said. “In this hour we need to hea^ again and to observe the lessons of charity, toler ance, underetanding and respect for the dignity of man. We are strong materially as perhaps never before. But spiritually, we are a shadow of what we ought to be. The International Council of Religious Education,* sponsor of the observance, is the cooperative agency through which 40 Protestant denominations and 173 state, city and provincial councils of churches and religious education of the United States and Canada work in the field of Christian education. President of the Council is the Hon. Harold E. Stassen, St. Paul, and treasurer is James L. Kraft, Chicago. 0 —' T U F EVERYDAY eOVNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spau^h, D. D. ... •*' Why spend a dollar digging a hole then put a 25c plant in it? That sounds silly, yet figuratively speaking, it is common ^ J V e>> a coupie 01 yeare . • • practice. I have seen many a church buy Every time we write something MmE FALXi BRBEZM8— It is BO muck the nsmbor of hours put in, a* ■wftst yov Pat In thB hoars . • , haVB been accused of being hard boiled Perhaps It is *fi««t so much In hot water . . . Suppose wo have more one-way streets and then we could get humped only In the rear • • • Many self- made men knocked off work too 0000 . . . And here’s another typographical error that's a gem: "The bride was given In mar riage by her father, •who was dressed In white satin and mar Qulsette gown with a sweetheart neckline, fitted bodice and full train” . . . Relative to driving habits, wo are made' to wonder where some of the cracked idiots who drive local streets ever got the Idea they had the right while making left turns to run over ipedestralns walking acnoes on the green light • • • O®® wise guys said he wanted to show us a Truman dime. It turn ed out to ibe what Is known as a dollar bill ... We Just heard another wise guy say his new job Is terrible, that he has to get up at six o’clock; right in the middle of the night . . . And And here’s another slip that passed In the night: “Flags of the United Nations hang from the walls. In the center of the room was a long food table, pre sided over by Mrs. Deborah Full bright, all In white, and filled with luscious fruit, pies and cakes.” O. R. Uhurch, of Wllibar, says he has been a subscriber to The Journal-Patriot for a long time, and he proves it. He sent In a date line of the paper of February 22, 1495. He also said that Columbus beat him over here only a couple of years an expensive pipe-organ, then employ a f-J/^t^^J^weTer-gM cheap organist to play it, tvhile its finance in the cross fire from both sides board is unwilling to spend any money to The height of optimism was ''■ 7° ■■ -r- —- . - the man who rode a bus to Le- maintain it. A pipe-organ is no better than attend a bail game and organist who plays it. I happen to be car tottery,' eipecting to drive an organist myself, and know that. Many untSTe a church is getting $1,000 value out of a growing . . . You may fool $10,000 organ, simply because they won’t some of the people all the time, spent enough money to employ a good or- ai, „f ganist and maintain the instrument good condition. ■% We do the same thing with the houses we build. We scrimp, save, go into debt for a period of years to buy a nice house and furnish it. Then the faftnily spends very little time in it. Try to find them in the daytime and they are either at work or play away from home. In the evening they crowd the picture shows, places of entertainment, the highways. Ask the minister who trys to make pastoral calls. He will tell you of the small percentage of people he finds in these homes. The finer they are, the more difficult it is to find the occupants. They are putting a 25c plant in a $1 hole. We do the same thing with the home itself. The home is an institution, not simply a house. Many a man has spared no expense which he could possibly af ford, to secure the woman of his choice as his wife. Women are doing the same thing these days if we are to judge by the num ber of articles written telling women how to secure husbands. Then they go to the marriage altar and think they will live happily everafter without doing anything much more about it. They build a mar riage then do little to maintain it. It is much harder to hold a marriage together happily than it is to make it. The nearest perfection we find in marriage, is a per fect willingness to “give and take.” That is what too few married couples are will ing to do. They are putting a 25c plant in a $1 hole. ^ The same thing is done in a home when children come. I have been with many fathers and mothers when the first child came. They were willing to spare no ex pense for this first arrival. The husband goes with his wife to the hospital for the first baby, feverishly paces up and down while she is in the delivery-room, rejoices enthusiastically when the baby arrives, then goes out to tell all of his friends a- bout it. But when that baby grows up in to a child who always craves first the com panionship of his parents, they are busy at other things. Another case of a 26c plant in a $1 hole. All of this doesn’t make sense, but most of us do it. The trouble is we don’t stop to think. ' ' ’ Wuhlntton. (icials hooked In ehup^liMti today over wh^w Beeret^'tHT State Byrnes’ aiwwb at Stntti^at irlll heln eet&blkKi one yrstU^pt two. • 4-^ 'Rie Itneop geoerally te ae same ae it waa wh«s the hig pr- gnment was whether Ute AlBea should impose a-“hard” or “soft' peace on Germany. The debate atoe pits Uioee who favOT pattence Oad ooneiUatlon toward Rnssia acetnst those who beliere a wotVtog baale with (Vewe one waa written many years ago). Alas more thoughts refnse to hatch My wife, she says, I stopped to soratCh However that—ibnt for this patch Rhyme left undone. , (liast two verses ■written years later). Tenacious little clever devil, Thou dlggest in sands a spade or shovel With pick alone—end on the lev- el . , ■Where hast thou gone? The books proclaim Identity Of all things, Insect, bird and tree No mistake, however that may be. Thou and I are one! THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, #1 iy Mnflliid wtSi eo are -,J.;JB.^'waa » kind'and Idviag. hAuibaBd, and leavee a host of i^^dii to mourn hie ioss.^—Con- Saif. MSekiM CiyUl^ifUiear OfT AND FARM SIIBYITB PBOPERTY FLATS Offlee ted Floor Bank of North WflksohoM BsOdiag (mtrnPhmrnm Rmideoce 566 ALWAYS TARE A LOOK — at — RNODES^DAY Narth WBfcsoben, N. C HAROS OF TREBEnERKMD Gesaplol^ reeoiMrtnetod Md rebsOt, tlsresi^ clsanod, rmiladed, sm givai two taninga, ready for dottvory to tho dio* cruniaatiBg Maoidan, AH oor recoastmeted Pianoo are gaarantoed for fivo yean. PRICES BEGIN AT $98j00 New 37-iiieh SPINET ILANOS bow ob diepUy. 6ARW00B nANO CO. ’Phone 546R Wilkesboro, N. C. We are receiving lots of wiater weight merchandise, mat’s and young men’o hats and other scarce things. It pays to vfadt us, often. The Goodt^ Store. 9-12-2t WILLIAMS ) MOTCdl CO. e T. M. WIShiBie, Manager BEAR Frame Service G(»OB Ul^ CAM> TROeXfi. AND TRA^RS Easy Terms • Complete • Body Rebuilding Electric and Acetylene Welding Will Fay Cash for Late Model Wrecked (5ars and Trucks ’Phene 334-J Unotke^ 4 of- time, but the rest of the time they will make fools of them selves. STORK DID IT AJLJL— Jimmy was assigned by his teacher to write a composition a- bout his origin. He questioned his mother. ‘‘Mom, where did Grandma come from?” “The stork brought her.” “Well, where did you come from?” “The stork brought me, and you, too, dear,” So the young modern wrote the introduction to his composi tion. “There have been no natur al births In our family for three generations.” THK CHiGGER—• Diminutive Voracious chlgger I thank my stars thou art no bigger And that thy keen relentless dig ger Stops at the hone. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of the estate of Belle Johnson, late of Wilkes county, N. C., this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate _ to present them to the undersigned, whose address is Joynes, N. C., duly ■ver ified, on or before the 2/th day of August, 1947, or this notice will be plead in bar of their right to recover. All petrsons indebted to said estate will please make imme diate settlemtat. rrosW’Asr Executor of the estate of Johnson, dec’d. 10-3-WT NOW OPEN For Business • Prompt Service • Coorteons Service ADMINISTRATORB’ ncotcb Having qualified u adnMjastra- tors of estote of W. E. (^Ivax4 late of Wilkes county, N C., ttis is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to pp^ sent thent to the undersigned, whose address is West Jeffeiaon, N. C,, dmy ■verified, on or before the 27th d#y of A*^t,.1947, or this notice will be plead in bar of their right to recover. All p«- sons inuebted to said estate ■wul please make inunediate settlement. !%» 27^di^ of Augmiti MRS. McMIliLAN, R. W. COLVABD, , „ „ Adinrs. of the estate of W. E. Col'vard, ded*d. 10-8-6tT