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|x IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North IUUD9G. its*—danielZ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: _ One Year *2.00 (In WUk«a and A<tye4ninf Countlea) One Year $3.00 (Ootatte Wilkes and And AdMnfcc CanntUa) Rates To Tfcise In Service: One Year (anyw&ere) $2.00 Entered at timtrffiM at Nartfc Thursday, March 4,1948 President Proclaims Red Cross Campaign The annual Red Cross fund campaign began this week. All are familiar with the type of services rendered by the Red Cross, but to refresh your memory we reproduce here President Truman's proc lamation of the Red Cross fund campaign this year: , _; "Whereas the American National Red Cross in accordance with provisions of its federal charter continues to give succor to victims of disaster, to render special services to our armed forces, and in many other ways to contribute to the health, safety, and welfare of our people, and "Whereas, in 1947,, the Red Cross ex pended a sum in excess of eleven million dollars on account of disasters alone, aid ing the victims of the greatest number of calamities in any single year of the or ganisation's history, and "Whereas, in response to a growing need recognized by numerous medical leaders, the Red Cross has now embarked upon a national blood-donor program de-, signed eventually to furnish jwhole blood and blood derivaties to the entire nation without cost, therefor, and "Whereas, the Red Cross must stand ready to provide assistance to millions of American veterans in their readjust ment to civilian life and to furnish added comfort, entertainment, and relaxation to those in government hospitals, and "Whereas, this organization which ex emplifies the noblest instinct of mankind —the desire to aid one's fellow man—is now issuing its 1948 appeal for contribu tions totaling seventy-five million dollars; "Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March 1948 as Red Cross Month, and I urge every citizen to respond as generous ly as possible to this humanitarium cause. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington, this ~l Qfl4 Hnv nf PVhruarv irr vear of*Our Lord 'Nineteen Hundred and Forty-eight and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Seven ty-Second." Solicitation Control Is Planned Here The Wilkes Chamber of Commerce has a Solicitation Control Committee, whose duty it will be to examine all proposals for soliciting and pass upon them. This is a free country, of course, and ev erybody has freedom of speech and can solicit for any type cause, but if the public supports a solicitorial control committee, the solicitors wouldn't get far without the committee's approval. . Under the plan being used, a person who wants to make solicitations among business houses must first lay open the facts of the proposal to the Chamber of Commerce Committee. The proposal is examined and if it is worthy and needed the committee will give it it's approval. If not, the solicitors meet much resis tance because they caitft show to the people they contact a statement of ap proval by the committee which exam ined the project. This means that persons who make a racket of soliciting contributions cannot get by. The committee will find out how much money is sought, the need for the money, and for what it is to be used. It is also understood that all fund cam paigns will get a once over by the com mittee to ascertain whether or not the community is being imposed upon to furnish more than its share, especially of funds which are to go out of the community. ■ This is necessary, because many campaigns are planned to get the mon ey where people will give, and without two much consideration for spreading the demand proportionately among communi ties on the basis of wealth and population. • — —. Comrade Borisov of Russia who affects shock at learning that an Alabama hus band is free to beat his wife if he uses a stick of less than two-inch diameter nas our permission to take the matter up per sonally with Governor (Big Jim) Folsom. —Greensboro Daily News. o Senator Robert A. Taft joins in the de mand for creation of a United Nations po lice force to protect Palestine partition. Wonder if he'd like to be 'Secretary for defense in the event Forrestal resigns.— Greensboro Daily News. o -THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. By the clock of destiny, it is later than we think. According to one of America's top ranking psychiatrists, this national is on the brink of disintegration. His reasons for making this statement are the increase in divorce, juvenile and adult delinquency Dr. Edward A. Strecker, chairman of the psychiatry division of the National Re search Council addressed a postgraduate assembly of gynecologists and obstetric ians in Los Angeles. According to the As sociated Press, which reports on his ad dress, he blames mothers for the growing tendency to cling to the maternal apron strings long after they should release their their children as inde too inclined to neglect the psychological rearing of their children. After the second child, a father tends to desert his wife emotionally. The doctor acknowledged that peo ple are basically the same today as they were years and years ago when family ties were stronger, "but forces outside are at work on them, and in the most materialistic civilization the world has ev er known, spiritual values have been swept away." He referred to the divorce rate of one of three marriages and in some densely populated areas, one to two marriages, lax marital relationships, fall ing birthrate and soaring delinquency of sHnlic on/4 iiivaniloa mliiph Vio ploaaifioH He indicated fathers as v'surface symptoms of national decay". In an interview to the press, Dr. Streck er said that as parents, most Americans are failures. They fail to instill self-re 'liance in their children. Children grow into emotionally adults, unable to meet responsibilities. "Somewhere along the line," he declared, "we have lost our spir itual values. Through technological ad vance we have achieved a highly mater ialistic civilization, but underneath we are straw." Ministers, priests and rabbis have been warning the nation of this growifig spir itual decay. Now psychiatrists are sound ing the same alarm. Dr. Stanley Jones quotes one prominent west coast psy chiatrist as saying that most Of his pa tients needed the mourners bench and God far more than they needed him. All the while we seek substitutes, and look for scrapegoats. We blame prohi bition for national corruption, and now drunkenness is at an evil all-time high since we have dispensed with them. We say we must have more recreation, so we are gradually giving over Sunday, the Lord's day, to commercialized recrea tion. Sunday picture shows, Sunday com mercial games are being accepted oyer the country. Saturday), night dances are running well over into Sunday morning. Now public dances-on Sunday night are being offered. Truly, lik$ Nero, "we fid dle wjiile Rome burns". This nation came to greatness on the home, the church and the school—no amount of military preparedness will suf fice if we continue our course of spiritual decay which leaves us morally weak and unprepared. ABNORMAL By D WIGHT NICHOLS eta) . * , 6*%*, ! LARRY'S' BASEBALL CAREER During the Coffee Club session •we got the full story of Larry MOQre's baseball career and why he turned to law, and front office duties for baseball teams. 1 Larry, as yon know, is secre tary-treasurer, better known as business manager, of the newly organized' North Wilkesboro club in the Blue Ridge League. But let us turft to his active career on the diamond as Larry him self relates it. Larry played baseball for an Alabama high school. He was a third baseman, and terrifically ~ J mu . a a —a - * own opinion of himself as a base ball player, and by his own ad mission. Maybe because of the attiletic ability which he thought he had, Larry was induced #o Baptist Hollow, sometimes known as Wake Forest College : off the sports pages. Maybe it was the law school, or maybe it was the baseball record of the Baptist school that enticed the third baseman from the Alabama high. Came time for baseball prac tice about this time of the year and Larry was ready. But, you know how it is. Such fellows as Ted Williams report late foi; spring training. They are so dog gone good that the boss don't tear his hair if they are not the first ones out. Larry, as might be expected, was late reporting to the practice field. He says he put on his best swagger which he thought a fin ished and polished baseball play er should use as he- ambled to the field. . Practice was' under way and after lounging around for a min ute for the benefit of the coach and players to get a good look at THE third baseman, Larry took a look at what was going on on the field, particularly at third base. 'Practicing at third base was a youngster of bone and muscle who apparently had the speed ol li)5%t*ingr>-He toW pietflngtrptAe grounders and whipping them to first so fast that Larry could fol low his actions only with diffi culty. Larry was awed ibut not ready to oonceae anyxning. so Larry thinks to himself: "May be the guy can't hit. That's the way of flashy fielders. They can't hit and I can really wallop the ball. I'll Just stan<j here until he takes his turn at the plate. Then I'll go in". So the ffcst third baseman final ly took his turn at bat. He whip ped the bat In a masterful arc; they haven't found that ball yet. As the story goes, the third baseman that was so fast hit 600 in his only college year at Wake Forest. He went from Wake For est to Chattanooga professionals and on to Washington. He was none other than Buddy Lewis. Incidentally, Buddy won an A merlcan league batting champion ship or two and for. ten years was one of the game's greats. Now Buddy goes home to Gas tonia because of a iback injury sustained in a crash against an outfield wall. This year he will coach Gastpnla Legion juniors, where he got his staTt to fame, and he may be back at Washing ton next spring, if his .physical condition improves. o Once again we wish to call your attention to the new lot of desir ble table ware. Hie tables are loaded with real values. Select your needs now.—Hie Goodwill Store. 8-9-2t Leather BRIEF CASES - at - Horton's Drugstore m. 11 —"" ■■ ~ it -m , CARD OF THANKS We wiah to ■ extend our deep est gratitude and appreciation to our many frlenda, tor the kind ness and sympathy, shown ' us during the arrival and burial ot our dear brother, Pfc. Stewart L. Bishop, who gave his life in the service of our country. ,Also for the beautiful floral offerings. We, tdo want to thank each and every service man, who took part in the funeral service. MRS. CHARLIE DANCY'S _ FAMILY AND ROLLEN BISHOP. NOTICEl)FSALE ~ North Carolina, Wilkes County. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Wilkes County, made in the special pro ceeding entitled Charlie Winebar ger vs. Edith S. Winebarger Ban goes 8 et al, tiie same being No. upon the. special proceeding docket of said court, the under signed commissioner will, on the ISth day of March, 1948, at 12:00 o'clock Noon, at the courthouse door in Wilkesboro, North Caroli na, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash that certain tract of land lying and being in Red dies River township, Wilkes county, N. C., adjoining- the lands of F. E. McGlamery, Elihu McNeil, .and others, and more particularly de scribed as follows, to-w4t: Beginning at a stake on the west side of Highway No. 16 and running a northwestward direc tion 810 feet, more or less, to F. E. McGlamery's line to a hickory nr. i i i — — near a white oak fa F. B. McGUra er/i line; thence a northeastward direction with F. E. McGlamery's line 100 feet to the F. E. MeGlam ery and L. B. Pieree corner, known as the locust and pine corner; thence with F. E. McGlamery's line an eastward direction to a white oak, being F. E. McGlam ery's, Conrad Vannoy's and T. C. Bowie's comer; thence with High way No. 16 a southward direction 226 feet to a stake, the point of beginning, so as to inchide 225 feet road frontage, containing 6 acre*, more or less. - This 10th day of February, 1948. W. H. McELWEE, CLYDE HATES, 3-8-4tlM Commissioners EXCAVATING A(l Kinds . Estimqtes Free See me at my reeidance Ml Creek Road, or write ROUTES N. Wilkeiboro, N. C Support Y. ML C. A. ■■ m Simmons PEAUTYREST Innerspring Mattress .We have in stock a limited number that we can offer with or without box springs. ) Oyer 800 Coils • Guaranteed 10 Tear* V RHODES DAY Phone 424. North Wilkesboro, N„ C.!
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