The Journal - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
Nx>rth Wilke3boro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MBS. D. J. CARTES
Publishers
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Monday, May 26, 1947
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Employes' Picnic
Excellent Project
The Employes' Picnic planned by the
Trade Promotion Committee of the Wilkes
Chamber of Commerce for personnel of
the mercantile firms of the Wilkesboros
Wednesday, 5:30, at Smoot Park is an
excellent project.
The picnic is being given by the em
ployers in recognition of the splendid at
tendance and cooperation of the sales per
sonnel at the Sales Institute recently held
here.
Such gatherings will create goodwill a
mong the personnel of the business peo
ple. It will be a pleasant and profitable
diversion from the monotony of their jobs.
For years this community has been
rsadly lacking in diversions for working
people, and this lack can be attributed to
neglect and a lack of realization of the
importance of such activities. It is indeed
a pleasure to note an awakening to a
proper sense of values. The Chamber of
Commerce, and especially the employes'
committee in charge of arrangements, are
to be congratulated for the efficient
handling of the Sales Institute and the
picnic to climax the project.
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Why A Depression?
There is a popular school of thought
which says that a depression following
boom times is inevitable.
Because everybody is employed, wages
and prices are high and prosperity is pres
ent on paper, if not actually, does not
mean that a depression and "Hard times"
are inevitable.
We are not economic experts, but with
the pent up demand for almost every
thing we see no necessity of a crash.
However, there can and may be a re
cession in business during a period of re
adjustment.
It is generally agreed from President
Truman on dowfi that prices are too high,
and that prices in some lines where de
mand is preatest are far out of line. Some
business men will not agree that there is
a limit to prices the public will pay, and
this attitude will be responsible for the
recession in the event it makes its sudden
appearance.
Moderate and reasonable price reduc
tions will forestall the day when business
suddenly awakens to the fact that the
consumers have called a halt to paying
whatever is demanded. A moderate lev
eling off of prices will make possible a
long period of prosperity without the
crash that pessimists say must come.
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Congratulations To
High School Graduates
If all advice to graduates in commence
ment address, editorials, sermons, etc.,
were put into one pile it would be enor
mous.
High school graduates are happy at
completing a phase of education, in that
they have successfully gone through the
prescribed course of study in the public
school system. It is seldom that they re
member much of the solemn pdvice, ser- |
monizing and warnings and advice about
this and that or the other.
This is the first year that graduates
have been through 12 grades and their
education should be more thorough and
comprehensive than those who have
graduated in previous years. But it is
doubtful whether or not this will hold true
because schools have been operating und
er a terrific and jtrangKng handicap.
Schools have been under financed in
teacher salaries and facilities.
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High school graduates should realize
that their education has represented a sac
rifice on the part of their parents, and
in many cases on the part of their teach
ers. It is generally agreed that teachers
in recent years have been of two classes
?the professional teacher who loves her
work and haa remained in the work when
she got barely enough in pay to buy
clothes and food; and those who taught
because they were not really capable of
holding down a job with good1 salary in
business 6r industry.
Those who can find ways and means
should certainly be encouraged to con
tinue their education. A boy or girl with
character and determination can usually j
find those with money who are willing to j
risk a loan on a future citizen.
Character with high standard of mo
rals, including honesty and a willingness
to work, are worth more to a high school
graduate than money, property or weal
thy parents.
Borrowed Comment|
OVERWORK AT WASHINGTON
' (Reidsville Review)
It is well known that the life of a con
gressman at Washington is hard to en
dure, but apparently the half has never
been told. Some of the facts of congress
ional life have been indulged now by Rep.
Fred Bradley of Michigan.
1^ seems there are so many parties,
banquets, and so on, which a statesman
has to attend, that it is very hard to get
any kind of work done, and the more con
scientious statesmen feel very bad about
it. One of the congressional deplorers con
fesses that it is not unusual for some mem
bers, in pursuit of their duties, to attend
several banquets and receptions in one
evening. "The strain is terrific," he says,
"and can hardly be imagined by the pub
lic back home." Surely there should be
some alleviation of the strain.
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Where independence is concerned, it'll
take the future to show precisely what
Great Britain means by becoming an In- j
dian giver.?Greensboro Daily News.
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Harold Ickes, once a Republican, there
after a cabinet member of a Democratic
administration and always on the ball or
bawling somebody out for missing signals,
nominates Col. Robert^ R. McCormick of
the Chicago Tribune for President as the
only man capable of inspiring the Tri
bune's whole-hearted support. While Har
old is being so ponderously sarcastic
could he not pass a law to define as high
treason any act or thought indicating a
doubt as to the correctness of the Tri
bune's claim that it is the greatest news
paper in the world??Greensboro Daily
News.
LIFE'S BETTER WAY
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
Hiddenite, N. C.
WILL AND PURPOSE *
If you have a will and purpose
To employ well your time,
And devote your life to something
That is noble and sublime,
You may top the hills of honor '
And ascend to heights of fame,
Leaving some great work behind you
To immortalize your name.
You may be a noted artist,
Or a writer great in truth,
Or a teacher quite efficient
To instruct and lead our youth;
Or a saint to shine for Jesus
In the home and in the church,
Or a blessed missionary
That for heathen men may search.
You may be a Christian doctor,
Or a nurse with shining face,
Or a lifter of the fallen .
Who have failed to fill their place;
Or a business man or woman,
Full of love and grace Divine,
Blessing others through your dealings
And your spirit sweet and fine.
You may be a prince of preachers,
Winning multitudes of souls,
That shall shine in heav'nly glory
While the age eternal rolls;
Then have God the Father crown you
With the greatest and the beat,
Where there's joy and peace abounding
And eternal, perfect rest.
ABNORMAL
i MSHMTIES
By
DWIGHT
NICHOLS
et *1
GREATLY RENE FITTED?
Patient?Doctor, I want to
thank you for your great medi
cine.
Doctor?It helped you, did it?
Patient?It helped me won
derfully.
Doctor?How many bottles did
you find it necessary to take?
Patient?Oh, I didn't take any
of it. My Uncle took one bottle
and I am his sole heir.
LESSON IN MANNERS?
Little Boy (to his mother
while they were looking at a
dentist's showcase): If I had
to have false teeth,' I'd like that
set.
Mother: Hush, Junior. Haven't
I told you not to pick your teeth
in public?
MEANING NOT CLEAR?
Curious Priend: "Why in the
world did that saleslady slap
you?"
Purchasing Agent: ''Darned if
X know. All I did was ask her
how much she would take off for
cash."
TOOK LONG TIME?
lA doctor a4ked his woman pa
tient her age. "I never tell any
one my age," she answered ooyly.
"But, as a matter of fact, I've
just reached twenty-one."
"Indeed," said the doctor.
"What detained you?" '
MOST GENEROUS?
The hunter came panting up
to one of* the party.
"Just met a great big bear in
the woods," he said breathlessly.
"Good!" said the other. "Did
you give him both barrels?"
The hunter wiped his perspir
ing brow.
"Both barrels!" he returned,
'I gave him the whole guij."
TANK DIDNT TELL ALL?
Father*?"I see toy the gasoline
tank that you didn't get very
far last night."
Son?"Well, Dad, I'm not com
plaining."
NO EXCUSE?
Juror: Tour honor, I beg to be
excused from ? Jury duty on the
ground that I am deaf in one
ear.
Judge: That doesn't matter;
we listen to onlv c^ie side at a
time.
SLOW UP, PLEASE?
The sergeant was taking par
ticulars from to. new recruit.
l^kre you married?"
"Yes, sir."
"Any children?"
"Yes, Bir. Five girls a&d four
boys."
"Nine altogether." x
"No, sir. One at a time!"
AND WHY NOT??
"Well, I do say," said the
sweet old lady upon tasting hdr
first glass of beer. "It tastes ex
actly like the medicine my bus
band has been taking for the
last thirty years."
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The US DA announces that
nearly ten million bushels of po
tatoes from the 1946 crop have
been shipped abroad under the
Department's potato export pro
gram.
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Straw Hats, liots of 'em. Most
all colors for everyday and sport
wear for men, women and chil
dren.?The Goodwill Store.
5-29-2t
NOTICE
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
Mrs. Irene Coleman, admr. d. b.
n. of the estate of Mrs. Mattie Mc
Neil Pearson, deceased, and Irene
Coleman heirs-at-law of Mrs. Mat
tie McNeil Pearson, and her hus
band, Calvin Coolidge. Coleman
vs.
Glenn McNeil and Delia McNeil,
minor heir-at-law of Mrs. Mattie
McNeil Pearson, deceased.
The respondent, Glenn McNeil,
will take notice that an action en
titled as above his been com
menced in the Superior Court of
Wilkes county before the Clerk for
the purpose of selling the real es
tate of Mrs. Mattie McNeil Pear
son, deceased, for the'payment of
the debts, and the division of the
remainder among her heirs-at-law,
said real estate being her share of
the lands of her deceased father;
and the said respondent will fur
ther take notice that he is required
to appear at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county in the courthouse in
Wilkesboro, N. C., within ten days
after the last publication in the
Journal-Patriot, and answer or de
mur to the petition in said special
proceeding, which is now on file
in said office or the petitioner will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in said petition.
This 14th day oiLMay, 1947.
c: c. Hayes,
Clerk of the Superior Court of
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Home & Auto Supply
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C
SHE'LL REALLY
"OH" AND "AH" AT |
THESE BEAUTIFUL
Daniel
Greens! t
$2.98
TO
$4.50
Of course, and there's a
reason they are the choice
of millions.
Come in and let us show
them to you.
What makes a
RAILROAD?
Is it tracks and trains? Of course I
Is it the teamwork and devotion to duty of thousands of men
and women working together? You bet!
These things... and many more... make a railroad. And so do
the underlying policies that reflect the hopes and aspirations of the
railroad as a whole.
The policies that guide the Southern Railway System have not
varied through the years. They have been, and are?
To dovolop the territory and to foster faith in the
South, its people and its opportunities.
To furnish safe, economical and adequate railroad
transportation in the territory where the "Southern
Servos the South."
?o treat fairly and kindly the men and women whoso
work keeps the railroad going.
To pay a fair return to the owners of the property.
With steadfast faith, and with these principles that are recorded
in our 1946 Annual Report, the Southern confidently approaches
the future years.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM