*
The Journal - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MBS. D. J. GARTER
Publishers
1082?DANIEL J. CARTER?i#4I
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year . |2J00
(In Wilhsa and Adjoining Counties)
One Year $3.00
(Outside Wilkes and And Adjoining Counties)
Rates To Those In Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at the postofDce at North WQhes
5oro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter
under Afet ?f March 4, 1879.
.
Thursday, Aug. 7, 1947
Fire Is Always Imminent
Summer and early fall present special
seasonal fire hazards vhich are of par
ticular concern in small towns, forests,
and agricultural areas.
Carelessness in the forests has destroy
ed millions of acres of magnificent timber
?and has robbed the country of beauti
ful vacation spots. Under certain condi
tions, living trees become literally explos
ive. A large proportion of forest fires are
the sole and direct result of carelessness
on the part of campers, hunters and fish
ermen. The most extreme care must be
taken in disposing of cigarette butts,
matches and other inflammables. They
must never be thrown from cars. And,
when you are through with a campfire,
take every precaution to make sure it is
out. Soak it with water, then bury it in
dirt.
In towns, grass fires are a constant
source of trouble?and some of them
have led to conflagrations. Every com
munity should have and enforce a law re
quiring property-owners to keep grass
cut and every property-owner should co
operate wholeheartedly. His welfare?
and perhaps his life?is at stake.
> On the farm, constant vigilance is the
price of fire safety. Wide firebreaks
should be ploughed around grain fields'
and haystacks. Barns and houses should
be free of rubbish. Every care should be
taken with gasoline and other burnable
liquids. Most farms are far from fire de
partments and when a serious fire breaks
out, heavy loss is inevitable.
The only way to lick fire is to work on
the proposition that it is always imminent
?and to act accordingly.
Total-State In All Its Glory
It will be interesting to see just how
American Communists, Communist-sym
pathizers, and fellow-travelers go about
squaring the present policy of the Soviet
Union with the old propaganda to the ef
fect that their particular brand of dicta
torship offers the sole hope for bettering
the lot of the "common 'man."
When, some time ago, the Soviet Union
refused to join in the Marshall Plan for
the rehabilitation of Europe, it divided
the world into two opposing camps. It
made united effort for putting hungry and
destitute peoples on their feet, impossible.
It decreed, in effect, that the citizens of
the small nations such as Czechoslovakia
must divorce themselves from all hope of
American assistance on, pain of "displeas
ing" Moscow?and thereby inviting the
kind of terrorism that subdued Hungary.
The peoples of these unhappy countries
were not, of course, given an opportunity
10 express their own wishes in the. matter.
It is only in "degenerate" capitalist na
tions that the ordinary ciitzen has a free
ballot, free speech and a free press. Only
under the obsolete and ridiculous demo
cratic system can a man work or not work
as he pleases, start a business speak his
mind, and go about his affairs without
dread of secret, police and drumhead
courts and concentration camps and slave
labor. Only where the laughable institu
tion of free enterprise exists do the people
control their government?and choose
their officials all the way from town mar
shal to the head of the nation.
Communism feeds upon despair, starva
tion, terror. The Soviet high-command
has decided that these shall be its gifts
to every nation which it c.an influence
and dominate. It is building one of the
most brutal systems of slavery in the his
tory of the world. Here is the total-state,
"its glory. _
Borrowed Comment
* MAN'S LIMITS
(Reidsville Review)
Men in white coats, toiling' in labora
tories, have made m?ny .discoveries and
solved many mysteries connected with the
structure of living things. Dr. Robert B.
Woodward, Associate Professor at Har
vard University, now announces that new
substances have been created which near
ly duplicate molecules of muscles, nerves
and skin.
Aside from the commercial and medical
uses for these synthetic materials Dr.
Woodward says that the'y will lead to a
better understanding of how nature builds
up proteins in the body.
Dr. Alexis Carrel and Charles A. Lind
bergh, pursuing the same sort of research,
discovered a way to keep the heart of a
chicken beating indefinitely while separ
ated from its natural environment.
The element which has always eluded
man in his investigations is the original
creative impulse, life itself. Knowledge
of the structure of living things is being
pushed to its absolute limits, but no test
tube will hold creation.
t li r
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
Those inclined to scoff at the plague
miracles recorded in the book of Qenesis
in connection with the contest between
Moses and Pharaoh should read the As
sociated Press dispatch from Port Deposit,
Md.
"Ephemerida today had scored an all
time record victory in their annual battle
with the Pennsylvania Railroad's Port
Deposit-Harrisburg freight line. Three
350-ton electric engines, hauling as many
freight trains, ground to a stop last night
at the town of Peach Bottom, Pa., when
hoards of the May flies swarmed over the
h trains. For several hours, train crews toil
ed to clear away swarms of the mono
plane-shaped insects which covered the
boxcars, clogged the overhead power and
defiantly short-circuited motors.
"Halting three trains at once was a new
record for the fragile ephemerida in their
traditional mid-summer death struggle
with the railroad . . . Three steam locomo
tives were dispatched to the rescue. The
helper engines pushed two stricken trains
to Harrisburg and the third to Port De
posit, myriads of the inch-long insects still
clinging triuihphantly to their perches."
Long ago an ancient prophet wrote,
"Who hath despised the day of small
things?" While we think we're in the days
of great things, it is still the small things
which matter most. Let's don't forget
that. Here are thousands of inch-long in
sects frustrating the mighty power of
three huge electric locomotives.
Pur government will stand or fall de
pending upon the small thing of thousands
of intelligent individual votes. Let no man
say his ? vote doesn't matter. It is democ
racy, and especially Christian democracy
which exalts the place of the individual
man and the individual vote.
The success or faliure of your business
depends upon small things, small profits.
Some of the greatest merchandising in
stitutions in the country to<|ay are those
which depend upon nickels and dimes for
their existence.
The success of your home depends upon
small things?little words of praise and
appreciation, little acts of kindness, cour
tesy and love.
Your own individual destiny depends
upon small things. One unforgiven sin
marks you as a sinner heading for Hell,
unless forgiven. One act of turning to
Christ for forgiveness marks you for
Eeternal Life here and hereafter in Heav
en.
Don't despise small things nor disre
garct them. They're more important than
you think. You should be able to remem
ber those lines by Julia A. Fletcher Con
ney, taught you as a child, "Little drops
of water, little grains of sand, Make the
mighty ocean and the pleasant land. So
the little moments, humble, though they
be, make thp mighty ages of eternity . . .
Little deeds of kindness, little words of
love, Help to make earth happy like the
heaven above."
ABNORMAL
By
DWIGHT
NICHOLS
et al
, 7 ' ?
' ' . ; ? I
h6t WEATHER WAELfi?
Thanks (or the fan mail and
compliments about the column
on ''Irresponsible Gab." We're
glad you liked it . . . Sometime
ago we gave you some Interesting
umpire decisions in baseball.
Latest one we've heard was about
the runner who was trapped and
was being chased ddwn between
second and third. He threw his
hands high and yelled "Time,"
and the umpire called time< The
runner then walked to second,
got on the bag and told the um
pire he was ready for play. But
he didn't get by with it, because
the umpire called him out . .
You people who want to see night
football games here this fall and'
professional baseball next sum
mer better chip in to the Me
morial Park fund. Blair Gwyn is
the treasurer, so why wait? Send
in yourB today . . . You can't
choose your ancestors, but more
than likely they would not have
chosen you either . . . The only
way to account for the seemingly
untimely passing of some people
is that they died of good behav
ior . . . ' Hand painted flowers
are popular on bathing suits, but
you don't see sunflowers on
them, because of lack of space
. . . The woman who called an
insect exterminator company and
ordered 10,000 bedbugs and
cockroaches said she was leaving
and that the landlord had de
manded that she leave the place
as she found it.
GREAT AOOOMPLI8HMENT
Lord Louis Sterling, the Brit
ish-Gaumont executive, received
word of his knighting while he
was visiting America. To cele
brate the occasion friends tender
ed a banquet to him at,the Astor,
with everybody making' flowery
speeches that drew tremendous
applause. But the show was stol
en by the guest of honor's
daughter, who cabled the new
lord from London: "Congratula
tions, father?for making a
lady out of my mother."?Pa
rade. a
A LOCAL GOLFER?
At the. Country Club George
Hunt observed two small boys
watching him and remarked.
Huqt?You iboys will never
j learn by watching me.
Boy?We ain't Interested in
golf Mister, we're going flshin'
as soon as yon dig up some
worms." i
CARD ?P THAjnsfe
We wish to take this means of
expressing our most sincere
thanks for the many kind expres
sions of sympathy and acts of
kindness during the last illness
and at the time of the deat^ of
our father, William Thomas
FURNITURE?
ALWAYS TAKE
A LOOK
? at ?
RHOUES-UAY
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
Transeau.
JOHN TRANSEAU,
w*ill transeau,
BLISHA TRANSEAU,
ERED TRANSEAU,
JETTIE TRANSEAU.
MRS. ROBERT McLAIN,
C*T/UIH
MIUUl
FIND CVM FOR MIFIRY BUI TO NASAL
CONGESTION 1UFFLY RUSNEO HERE I
Relief st last from
catarrh, sad hay fever i
tion is seta today In reports of i
a formula which Ims the power to
nasal congestion, lb
agonizing ?inns header
earache, hawkins aad
of blessed relief -
costs ?S.OO, M
R. M. Bra me & Sons
. Mail Orders Pilled
TELEPHONE !?
? i
WATCH
FOR THE GALA OPENING
THE ROLLERDROME
Opening Here Soon to Bring Clean, Healthful and
Joyful Entertainment to Young and Old
BRINGING you the finest in
SKATING EQUIPMENT
SKATE - "For Health's Sake" - SKATE
% y
s
White sldewalltlree, as Illustrate*,
will be supplied at extra east as sooa as ???liable.
WHO is it that's first to spot ?
and quickest to go for ?a
really fresh new fashion idea
when it comes along?
The ladies, of course I
And who is it that, according to
careful surveys, put Buick far
ahead of its price class and up
among the lowest-priced three
when they name the car of their
innermost choice? .
The fair sex ? but naturally 1
A.nd who is it, when you come
right down to it, that gets the most
practical use from enough stir
ring Fireball power to handle the
day's travel-jobs without strain
and struggle?
Who relishes most the restful
ease of wide, cushiony seats, and
the blissful gentleness of all-coil
springs that make rough roads
well-mannered and good roads
glass-smooth?
Who goes for a car big enough to
be company-minded ? yet light
and easy enough in handling to
park without a tussle, and flit
shadow-light through market
hour traffic?
Who, good friends, has the fam
ily's smartest eye-for-a-buy ? the
shrewdest size-up of what's really
good?
/No one but the Lady of the
Household 1
So we toss out this thought to you
menfolks:
Chances are that you've been
hankering for die kind of thrill
that lurks in this great-hearted,
great-powered beauty.
You'd sort of like to get your
hands on a car as big and mighty
as this ? if you thought the better
half could be sold on it
' '. ?. ? ?
Take our tip ? she's already sold.
Favored as it is by red-blooded
males, no Buick we've ever
offered has won die smart sex
quite like this one.
So why not pull a pleasant sur
prise some evening soon? Just
come home and say, "Well, I
placed an order for a Buick to
day. They're taking 'em with or
without a car to trade."
Then watch her fall all over your
neck!
Tun* In HENRY J. TAYLOR, Mutual Network, Monday* and Friday*
ONLY BU1CK HAS MIL THESE
When better
automobiles are built
BUICK
will build them i
? airfoil roams ? moAiL power
? ACCURITE CYUNDBt BORING
? SILENT ZONE BODY MOUNTINGS
* fUTtWOGHT PISTONS ? BUICOIL SPRINGING
? FULL-LENGTH TORQUE-TUBE DRIVE
? MRMI-FIRM STEERING ? STEPON PARKING BMAKt
? DBMUEX SEAT CUSHIONS
? BROADIUM WHBLS ? CURL-AROUND BUMPCRS
it TSN SMART MODELS ? BODY BY NSHBt
K ? ..< . 'it
" '
Wort 'D' Str..t
North Wilkwboro, N. C.