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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
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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