The Jonrial - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Pnbllafcers
lttl?DANIEL J. CARTER?1941
SUBSCRIPTION RA.TEB:
One Year ; $2.00
(la WUk?a ?ad Adjotalac Coamtlca)
One Year $3.00
(Oatalde WUkw ui ?djoiaiac CoomOM)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) ? $2.00
Entered at tea poatott? at Worth Wllkaa
boro, North Carolina, mm
udtr let ot March 4, 1ST*.
Monday, August 23, 1946
Formers Day To Bo
Outstanding Event
On September 14 the Trade Promotion
Committee of the Wilkes Chamber of
Commerce will stage a Farmers' Day cel
ebration that is expected to overshadow
any previous one-day event in the history
of North Wilkesboro.
The event is held here annually' as a
day of entertainment for farmers in ap
preciation of their business, patronage
and loyalty during the year, but the event
is open for everybody to enjoy.
Last year a combination of circum
stances made it impractical to stage a real
celebration for Farmers' Day, but this
year the committee has gone all-out to
make the day an outstanding event.
The day's activities will begin with a
mammoth parade at 10 a. m., starting in
Wilkesboro and proceeding to North
Wilkesboro by way of Memorial Park apd*
over downtown streets here. There ?
be more than fifty units in this parade
and much attention and work will be giv
en the parade in order to make it depict
real progress in the community and
^county. J
In North Wilkesboro in Yadkin Valley
Motor company's used car lot will be
many hilarious and entertaining contests,
with valuable prizes for every winner.
After this program there will be a bar
becue lunch.
J. Melville Broughton, former governor
who has always shown much interest in
agricultural progress in Wilkes, will ad
dress the crowd from a platform on Ninth
Street. 4-H boys who won in the timber
thinning contest will be awarded their
prizes. A string band will give a concert
and there will be other interesting fea
tures, including the giving away of many
valuable prizes given by merchants.
Everybody will want to come to Far
mers' Day, because it is a day of enter
tainment and inspiration.
Babe Ruth Symbol
Of American Way
Born in obscurity. Babe Ruth rose to
unexcelled heights in baseball, the nation
al pastime. Ruth died last week, and the
nation mourns his passing.
The boy who was to become the idol
of millions was reared in an industrial
school, where he was receiving training
ta be a tailor. But as a youth his baseball
talents were recognized and he was given
a contract to play with Baltimore for
$?00 per year.
The boy who went from the industrial
school to play for $100 per month, became
the highest paid player in the game, earn
ing $80,000 salary, $5,000 more than is
paid the President of the United States.
Ruth's contribution to the game of base
ball helped to blot out the Black Sox scan
dal and raise the game to national emi
nence. Millions paid to see the mighty
man hit the balls out of the park and the
Yankee Stadium, a three-million-dollar
park, is a great monument to his ability
and contribution to the game.
But of more importance is the fact that
the great hero was typically American.
He loved children and when disease re
tted him from the? game, and he no longer
was on the field to receive plaudits of
thousands, he devoted his time as advisor
to the American Legion plan of junior
baseball throughout the nation. liberal
with his time and means, he was alway
ready to help the youngsters with every
word or act of encouragement.
Mora Goins For Labor
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It should be remembered that when the
Taft-Hartley law was passed, the CIO
PAC organization announced that it would
fight to defeat every member of Congress
who voted for it.
Since that time> 147 members who sup
ported the Act have come up for renom
ination, and 137 of them have won. And
only one of the 10 who lost represented
a major northern industrial district, where
CIO-PAC supporters are supposed to be
strong.
This certainly indicates that the rank
and file of union labor, like the rank and
file of the voters at large, doesn't servilely
follow the orders of the big-shot union
officers. And there is plenty of reason
why it should not. The leaders denounc
ed the Taft-Hartley Act as a slave labor
law, which would make the most ruthless
exploitation of the worker both possible
and inevitable. Yet what has actually
happened?
Borne of the principal labor groups have
made some of their greatest gains since
the law was passed. Soft coal is a prime
example. The new contract gives the
miners an extremely liberal pension plan.
It further increased pay?even though
the miners-received the highest wage of
any comparable group before the new
contract. The short working day remains
in effect. Every benefit the miners had
before the Taft-Hartley Act, was retain
ed, and more are now enjoyed. ,
Workers in sjeel, automobile and other
big industries have also won new gains.
To say that the Taft-Hartley Act has in
any way weakened labor is to deny the
obvious truth.
Apparently the members of Congress
who voted for the Taft-Hartley Act ben
efited labor, and the workers know it.
?UFFf KTTER WAY <
WWUNBR EL MEHH?UR
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WRITE IT IN YOUR LITTLE BOOK
Well, write it in your little book
Ahd don't forget the page,
That everyone who is a crook,
Regardless of his age,
Can never rise to heights sublime
Without a single doubt,
Nor live in manhood's sunny clime,
Unless he turns about.
Yes, write it in your little book
That only truth can stand.
And then quite often take a look
At this small page so grand,
And see how well you measure up?
How deep and full and high?
And if you lack a single cup,
O, write it in your little book?
Your little book of life?
That God must live in every nook,
Lest evil like a knife,
Would cut from you salvation's gems?
The pearls of greatest worth?
Then take your soul's sweet diadems
When you shall leave the earth!
? KEEP ME TENDER
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Keep me tender, blessed Jesus,
? In my heart and ip my mind,
In my soul and in my spirit
As I mingle with mankind,
That my life may be a blessing
While I journey on piy way,
And that I may sense Thy presence
When I kneel to Thee and pray.
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Keep me tender, Holy Spirit,
Lest through hardness I should sin,
For the enemy so heartless
Seeks and seeks to enter in,
So that I should lose compassion
Toward , my fellows on life's road,
And become a morose critic,
Helping none to bear life's load.
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Keep me tender> O dear Father,
So that I may shed some tears
Qver sinners and hacksliders
Who have failed across the years;
Yes, that I may smile in mercy
On my brothers who are weak,
And be loving, kind and gentle
When I look at them and speak.
Keep me tender, God of glory,
Always in my inner life,
So that as I deal with others
I may never kindle strife
That would bring a great obstruction
Twixt my soul and heaven'# throne,
And would hinder Thee from saying,
"Twill crown the# as My Own."
Fire At State
SmiMs Costly
EUkln, August 19.?Two State
Road families Friday night
watched their living quarters go
up in smoke.
A (building containing two
apartments and a filling station
was totally destroyed in the
blase.
The filling station was operat
ed by Homer Moody, who with
his family occupied a second
floor apartment A first-floor
apartment was occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Flake Hone.
The building was owned by 1
L. Golden, State Road, who esti
mated the damage St $20,000. He
had no insurance on the struc
ture.
This week the Moody family
is readying its house nearby tor
early occupancy. A tenant re
cently vacated the hogse which is
located between the homes of
two of Mr. Moody's brothers And
near the home of his father.
The fire spread so rapidly that
nothing was saved from the
Moody apartment. Furniture, per
sonal (belongings and $1,200 in
eash, kept on hand for change,
were lost From the Hone apart
13th Aniversary
Social Secirhy
The 13th anniversary of the
signing of the Social Security
Act occurred on Saturday, Aug.
14, It -wae pointed out toy Mr.
Louie H. Clements, Manager of
the local Social Security Admin
istration field offlcfh In Salis
bury, N.C. Thie law wae designed,
among other things, to provide
workers and their families the
protection of social Insurance
and, since that day in 1016 when
the law was signed by the Presi
dent, it has become a vital part
of the lives of mllligns of Ameri
cans by giving workers a way to
build protection for themselves
and their families. Sines 10ST,
when the system of old-age and
survivors' Insurance west Into ef
fect, Mr. Clement stated, more
than two iblllion dollars have been
paid to retired workers and their
families and to the survivors of
I workers who have died. Mr.
j Clement, manager of the office
ment several articles were
snatched from the flames.
The lire Is reported to have
started In the rear of the filling
station about 8:80 p. m.
In SalUbun-jr, ityi farther the!
payments are now feeing made
to more than two million persons
at the rate of more than 42 mil
lion dollars a month.
Offices likh the one at Salis
bury, are located in 475 other
towns and cities throughout the
country. Through these offices
approximately 91 million account
numbers have been assigned.
These social security account
numbers are an imortant part of
the job of keeping- workers'
wages recorded accurately.
The Salisbury office has been
.operating since November 9, 1936
for the benefit of residents of
Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Ire
dell, Rowan, Watauga and Wilkes
counties. In addition to the
services available at 301 P. O.
Btdg., information and advice
may be obtained from a repre
sentatives of the Salisbury of-,
flee' on the following schedules:
Town Halt, North Wllkesboro,
N. O., each Thursday at 9:46
p. m.
Town Hall, Mooresvllle, N. C.,
2nd end 4th Tuesdays at 8 p. m.
The public is Invited to call at
the local office or at the above
stations to discuss any questions
about old-age and survivors' in
surance.
Supportthe Y. M. C. A.
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Removing the dasher with a flourish was Father's reward for back-bending, arm-stretch
ing, collar-wilting labor . . . back in the days of making ice cream by hand.
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As the cream thickened and the crank got harder tc turn, it really took o Man of Muscle
to keep the dasher turning.
Today, the daughter who used to watch Father tyrn that hand freezer whips her home
made ice cream out of the refrigerator as a matter of course . . . just another family
chore taken over by electricity.
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Yet, members of the Duke Power system remember when only the most daring housewife
would allow a mechanical refrigerator to enter her kitchen.,
The spirit of investigation ... of trial and re-trial . . . continues in our organization
today, because ...
The full benefit of new uses of electricity in Piedmont homes,
business, and industry come only after patient and persistent
pioneering. /
DUKE) POWER COMPANY