The Jeirnil - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
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Thursday, May 22, 1947
Speeding and Reckless
Driving Increases
T. S. Kenerly, who recently took office
as mayoi of North Wilkesboro,? stated
here Monday that he is receiving many
telephone calls relative to speeding and
reckless driving in North Wilkesboro.
(And A. H. Clark, highway patrol ser
geant for a five-county district, stated
that speeding and reckless driving on the
highways are definitely increasing.
On July 1 this year the new highway
safety laws in North Carolina will go into
! effect, and the new laws have been fitted
with a new set of teeth to make those
guilty of speeding and reckless driving
feel the full force of the law. Not only
will penalties for speeding and reckless
driving go up, but provisions are made in
the law for taking driving license and
banishing from the highways those who
disregard the lives and property of others
by speeding and other dangerous driving
habits.
Two serious accidents occured in
Wilkes during the past week, which offi
cers said were caused by the deadly com
bination of intoxicated drivers and speed
ing automobiles.
With driving habits growing worse day
by day, the public may expect the high
ways and streets to take a larger toll of
lives.
Speed zones are posied on sections of
highways in this community where normal
speeds are considered dangerous. But the
speed zones mean absolutely nothing to
the wilful speeder. The driver who will
drive at 75 miles per hour by a sign which
says 35 is the lawful speed limit deserves
no consideration when he faces the court
' on a charge of speeding. A second such of
fense should surely bar him from the
privilege of using the highways.
The law abiding North Carolina public
is up in arms about highway traffic dan
gers, as shown by the action of the legis
lature this year. Speeders, reckless driv
ers and those who drive drunk may as
well make up their minds to mend4 their
ways or* get off the road.
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Forest Fires Destroy
Future Resources
Obtaining evidence on who lets de
structive forest fires get out in our woods
is the one big need to help reduce heavy
losses in the future, it is stated in an an
nouncement sent here by the Southern
States Forestfire Commission, Inc., who
are helping furnish some forest educa
tion material to some of our schools in
connection with an annual spring fire pre
vention program.
"Education is helping, but one family
in each 1,000 here is yet helping to burn
up the young timber and wild life nesting
areas, and one family on windy dry days
can undo the work of a thousand, with
one cigarette lighted butt, or one blaze
from a fire under a wash pot near the
edge of the sage grass, or one blaze from
a turnip patch or tobacco bed being burnt
off", the bulletin says, and adds:
"Lately we learned of instances where
firebrands put a match in a lighted cigar
ette butt so the fire would not show up for
sometime, ran away, and within an hour
or so the match ignited from the cigarette
butt, and the smoke began to rise, and a
big acreage of pretty young timber swept
over like a dust bowl."
"May the Creator forbid that we ever
have another world war, but right now
if we got into one we would have to go
to Canada and Mexico, and South Amer
ica for lumber due to firebrands ruining
two-thirds of dur young timber each year;
"Our southlandKproduces only fifteen
billion board feet of lumber each year,
but would produce nearly fifty billion
were it not for forest fires?we have 42
per cent of Uncle Sam's forest areas do^yn
here in our thirteen southern states, but
we have 90 per cent of all the woods fires
of the nation. Down here we have more
dry days, pine needles with more resin to
increase hazards of fire, so we are losing
on the advantage .of our climate and mois
ture which enables us to grow two to five
hundred board feet of lumber each year,
if fires do not kill out the pine and oak
seeds, and the young sprouts of trees;
The Southern Commission and associate
groups call on all good sports in this area
to be forest minute men and grab a brush
and run to any smoke in anyone's wood
lands any time, and help save those little
rabbit nests, quail nests, those blackberry
and blueberry bushes, save thpse muski
dines that will be ripe and juicy this Fall,
save that pretty young timber, and help
save our Nation from want."
The Washington telephone strike has
been settled. But there is no* indication
that Congressmen are overjoyed that their
constituents can now call them again.?
Greensboro Daily News.
Two years after V-E Day, there are 19,
000,000 men under arms and 40 nations
are spending $27,000,000,000 a year off
their maintenance. This is the peace
which passes the average man's under
standing.?Greensboro Daily News.
T U C
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
Again the question of a Christian's par
ticipation in secular amusements, such as
dancing, card playing and the movies, is
raised by a correspondent. This time it is
by a young man. He has been told that]
participation in such things is sinful, that j
he should not engage in such recreation.
Periodically this question comes up. A-|
gain I say that there is no hard and fast
rule pri these matters. Each individual has
to make his own decision in the light of |
the teaching of his church, or by his own
interpretation of the teachings of the Bi-|
ble as they apply to his particular case.
St. Paul, in his Epistle to the young
man Titus, wrote, "unto the pure all
things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;
but even their mind and conscience is de
filed. They profess they know God; but
in works they deny Him, being abomin- j
able and disobedient, and unto every good
work reprobate." As a men thinks in his |
heart, so is he. Rotten fruit is enjoyable
food to worms but not to man. Water]
seeks its own level, and a man's character
is reflected in his actions. So a man's con-1
duct is a reflection of his inner life.
But St. Peter knew that it is easier for |
most of us to progress downward in our ]
conduct than upward, so he wrote, "Dear
ly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and
pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which I
war against the soul; having your conver-1
sation honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you as evil-]
doers, they may by your good works,
which they shall behold, glorify God in
the day of visitation."
Conduct goes further and reflects our
own characters. It may, and often does,
prove a stumbling block to others. Things
which we may be able to do, even in mod-j
erations, they may not be able to do with
out harm. St. Paul wrote of such when he
said, "Wherefore, if meat make my bro
ther to offend, I will eat no flesh while j
the world standeth, lest I make my broth-1
er to offend."
The whole matter can be summed up ]
in these words, again from St. Paul,
"Whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to I
the Lord, and not unto men; knowing
that of the Lord he shall receive the re-'
ward of the inheritance . . ." Here is the ]
final status?if we engage in any form of]
recreation or activity,1 "as to the Lord,"
we ought to feel perfectly free about it.
If there is a question about it in your]
mind, then leave it alone.
ABNORMAL
ABSIMMTIES
By
D WIGHT
NICHOLS
et *1
BORROWING AGAIN?
This time we succumlb to late
spring fever and clip from the
current issue of Duke Power
magazine Miss Helen Lottos' ar
ticle about North Wilkesboro:
I had better make our news
short so you can read on the run,
because like the rest of us, you
are running in order to keep this
traffic out of your hair. Right
here on the 'main street of this
scenic wonderland some of these
fish-eyed drivers, signal for a
right turn, go to the left, and
then, back up! We Duke Power
employees have lovely disposi
tions, but when a shirt tail flap
ping "hot-rod" engineer flips an
animated junk pile around a
corner on hope and two wheels
and when this thing just about
skins the south 1-2 of the N. E.
1-4 of our Southern exposure,
we're disturbed?just plain mad,
and words are about as futile as
evening slippers on va hippopota
mus. They simply don't cover
enough! To add to the confusion,
the Town of North Wilkesboro
is adding parking meters, and
(being so out of the ordinary in
these parts, most folks predict it
will be next Christmas before
most of us find they don't
pay off for slot machines.
In this fair city a place to live
is the "$64-?." If you see some
one slink into a telephone booth
along about sun-down, chances
are you won't see him again un
til breakfast. Everyone is build
ing something or trying to. A
closet with a worn out moth ball
is called a furnished room. An
abandoned chicken ooop is called
an apartment Two rooms are
called a house. Landlords are
called everything. I am remind
ed of the time a ghost chased Pat
through the graveyard. Gasping
they sat down on a tombstone.
?'Well, we were going some,
weren't" we?" asked the ghost.
"Yes, and we'll go some more
as eoon as I get my breath," ans
wered Pat. Yes, things are mov
nig fast around here. Joe N.
Howard was caught without
night clothes in his recent snow
bound episode ,ia Winston-Salem.
When he came out attired in la
dies green pajamas, I think just
about everything stopped. Things
are really getting bad when we
see green pajamas instead of
pink elephants . . . especially
with Joe N. Howard in them.
But here we go, running along
like a dripping faucett?when I
started this I wondered if my
ribbon would hold out, now I
am wondering if you will hold
out.
INDICATION PLAIN?
Teacher-: "'Johnnie, do you
want to leave the room?"
Johnnie: "You don't think I'm
standing here hitch-hikin', do
ya?"
PAST THINKER?
George: "You're a sweet thing,
Anna?"
Helen: "But my name is Hel
en."
George: "Yes, Helen, and as I
was saying, you're a sweet thing
anna love you with all my heart."
PAST FOR LEAKS?
The barber had cut him, nick
ed him and gashed him. "Give
me a glass of water, please,"
gasped the victim.
"You aren't going to faint, I
hope?" asked the barber in a
larm.
"No," replied the victim, "I
just want to see if my mouth still
holds water."?Journeyman Bar
INDICATION OF AGE?
You're getting old when you
worry about the morning after
the night before.
JUST HIS TYPE?
"Now that I're told you about
my past, do you want to marry
me?" 1
"Sure thing."
"And I suppose you'll expect
me to live it down?"
"No, baby. I'll expect you to
live up to it!" \
QUICK SHIFT?
Billy: "Have you ever been in
love??
Lily: "That's my business."
Billy: "All right, then?how's
business?" .jt;:
NOW WE KNOW?
Dumb Dora: "Why do they al
ways refer to sailboats as 'she'?"
i Don: "Because they make
their best showing in the wind."
FOOUN' NOBODY?
Little Marian, 4 years old, was
busy ironing her dolly's new
gown on the Sunday after Christ
mas. Her nurse remonstrated,
"Don't j'Ou know it's a sin any
work to begin on the Sabbath?"
Marian looked up and calmly
answered,' "Now, don't you sup
pose the Good Lord knows that
this little iron ain't hot?"
TOO FAST?'
Lawyer (to gorgeous witness):
"Answer Yes or No!"
Witness: "Fast worker, aren't
you?"
TTi -
CARD OF THANKS
We, the family of C. C. Kilby,
wish to thank in this manner,
our host of friends who eaqjpi
ed to us their sympathy and
kindness, in ao many dur
ing our bereavement.
THE FAMILY.
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The sport of pigeon-racing is
most popular in Belgium, where
nearly every village has its "So
ciete Cdlumbophlle" or pigeon
club, according to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica. Pigeons be
long to thevfamily, Columbldae.
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