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IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursday* at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. ft, 1. CARTBB
1M1—DANIBL J. CARTBR—1*41
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.00
(I* Wilkes ud Adjoining Counties)
One Year 1 $8.00
(OataM* Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Bntered at the postofflce at North Wllkes
boro, North Carolina, as Second-Olaae matter
under Act of Marsh 4, 1*70.
Thursday, January 6, 1949
Infantile Paralysis
Campaign For 1949
During the year there will be, as usual,
many fund raising campaigns, and all of
them will be worthy of your support.
But the first one in this year will be the
Infantile Paralysis Campaign to raise a
quota of $10,000 in Wilkes county.
In our way of thinking, this is a must on
the program of work for the year.
That assertion is made in view of the
fact that the National Foundation spent
during the year 1948 more than $25,000
for care and treatment of Wilkes victims
of infantile paralysis—more than forty of
them.
With but a few exceptions, the families
of these unfortunate victims of a dreaded
disease could not have paid their hospital
bills, because polio treatment is specializ
ed and tremenduously costly. It cost more
than $17 per day to care for and treat a
polio patient. Some cost much more.
The Wilkes chapter, with the aid of
National Foundation funds, has paid more
than $2,000 for care and treatment of one
patient in an iron lung and this expense
must go on until that unfortunate child
can breathe.
The money that has been expended has
saved lives, and lives are not to be valued
in dollars and cents.
The money that has been expended in
many instances has saved children from
being so badly handicapped that they
could not earn a living. This represents a
great saving to society, to public institu
tions, to states, counties and muncipalities,
because those who would have been crippl
ed and would have become dependent
upon public funds can be producers and
add to cumulative wealth instead of be
ing a burden.
It becomes the moral duty of the peo
ple of Wilkes county to raise at least the
$10,000, and at least partially reimburse
the National Fondation so that unfortu
nate children in other areas where epidm
ics may strike in years to come can get
the treatment and care which was afford
ed our more than 40 cases in 1948, and the
37 in 1944.
To raise this amount of money will take
greater effort than formerly, so when you
are asked to help by calling on your neigh
bors don't turn a deaf ear. And when
some volunteer worker who is working in
the campaign calls on you for your con
tribution be as cooperative as possible.
Don't act like you are doing him or her a
favor. It will be the unfortunate victim
of polio that you are helping.
Dr. Ralph MacDonald told here a story
which illustrates this point. A little girl of
about 4 years of age was carrying a baby
of less age across a muddy road. It was
all the little girl could do to lug the young
er one across. An interested bystander
asked. "Aren't you small to carry such a
large burden?". The girl looked up:
"That's not a burden. That's my brother."
In this campaign by raising at least
$10,000 in Wilkes we will not be carrying
a burden. We will be helping an unfor
tunate brother—here in Wilkes, or in any
other place where polio may make of a
healthy child a crippled victim.
If your parachute fails to open, says a
paratrooper instructor, that's what is
known as "jumping to a conclusion."
In planning for the future, especially
your own, never count too much on what
somebody else is to do for you.
The Caroline Mart
Record-breaking flights of the Navy's
newest flying boat, "Caroline Mars", has
refocused attention on the importance of
seaplanes in modern air transportation
and military supply planning. First, the
Caroline Mars cracked the non-stop sea
plane record with a 4,748-mile flight from
Honolulu to Chicago, carrying 42 persons
and a 14,000 pound payload. A few days
later it carried the highest airborne pay
loan in history—68,283 pounds from
Pawtuxet, Maryland, to Cleveland. It is
now in regular service, crarying 40,000
pounds over the 2,400 miles from Ala
meda, California, Naval Air Base, to Hon
olulu.
With a length of 120 feet, a wing span
of 200 feet, and two decks, the bridge or
flight deck alone of the Caroline Mars is
larger than the entire interior of a 21
passenger airliner. The cubic content of
her wings and hull is equivalent to a 14
to 16 room house. It has a range of 6,750
miles and cruises at 173 miles , per hour,
with a maximum speed of 238.
The Navy has operated four similar sis
ter ships to this newest Mars for nearly
three years in continuous Pacific overseas
schedules, totaling many millions of pas
senger and ton miles, without injury to a
passenger or even a forced landing, for
an unmatched record of efficiency, safety,
and economy.
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There is always something wrong with
a man, as with a motor, when he knocks
continually.
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It depends on whether you're walking
or driving whether you hate, pedestrians
or autoists.
You're lucky your ancestors did come
over on the Mayflower, says a bored listn
er, immigration laws are much stricter
now.
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-THE
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
^Some of the teachings of the Bible you
can't prove out in this life, such as the
teaching about Heaven and Hell. But
there's one you certainly can prove out
and has been proved out. That one tith
ing, giving a tenth of income to the Lord's
work." The man who told me this is a
successful contractor. He has done a fine
piece of work in connection with our new
church sanctuary which we are building
for The Little Church on the Lane in Char
lotte of which I am pastor. We were talk
ing together as he watched his men at
work.
He told me how he lost hisbusiness dur
ing the depression and had to start again
from scratch. He decided to take the
Lord into partnership with him and adopt
a program of tithing. He has been in
creasingly successful in every way since.
He told me how he "sold" an acquain
tance on the tithing program. When he
went to him with it, he was struggling
along trying to rear a family on $750 a
year. Then he took the Lord into partn
ership with him and commenced tithing.
The Lord blessed him. The next year his
income jumped to $2,500. New he has a
$5,000 income, lives in a $15,000 home on
which full payment has been made. He
has other things that go along with this
standard of living.
These stories are not new to me. I have
heard similar ones for years, and know
them to be true. I have never met a man
or woman who consistently practiced the
tithing who did not prosper in every way,
spiritually and financially.
Another illustration comes to mind
which I heard some years ago before the
days of high prices from a business execu
tive who did not practice tithing person
ally. It concerned two men who worked
for him. One was married, earned $25
a week, tithed, was able to save a little
money. The other was unmarried, and
earned $35. a week, didn't tithe, was al
ways hard up, and frequently borrowed
from his married friend and tither who
earned $25 a week.
Even the income tax laws recognize the
Bibical principle of tithing and allow de
ductions for it.
If you want to get on a sound program
of living spiritually and financially for
1949, take the Lord into partnership with
you, give His work your tithe, and take
it out first.
ABNORMAL
UtHHTHS
By
D WIGHT
NICHOLS
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CAN'T LET ISM DOWN—
It's a small world.
Not go vary long ago we re
ceived a letter from Major Wil
liam B. Stuart in Korea. The let
ter was just to tell that a Journal
Patriot paper received there by
Pvt. Stanley S. Staley was appre
ciated by many of the boys. The
Major said he liked to read oar
columns on jokes and sports.
So If somebody way over In
Korea—somebody we have never
seen—wants to rqrt It we'll writ*
It.
Recent perusal
we oan get our
nothing. In fact
we have need li
over a period of > Bars. Wtaat'a the
matter? Are Americana losing
their sense of hn nor?
of all the Jokes
eyes on reveals
most of them
these colnmns
SHORT SHORT
They laughed
rroRY—
when we cams
In with shorts < a bat when ws
sat down they
lit.
MOKE SHORTS- -
(Growling all day makes yon
feel dog tired at night . . . Math
ematical problen s: Ton lend me
120 and only ihre me $10. I'll
only owe yon t in, and you owe
me ten, and we
labor should do
any capital or d<
round. It never
thing except tor
you get Into a
re-all even
To darn your li ck Is no way to
mend It... Man r who do so much
talking about i hat capital and
have never had
ne any labor
There is no po: at In laying a
amounted to any
a hen . . . When
argument with
ft fool just remember that he may
be doldg the same thins... Know
what ''hard" and "easy" money
means? Hard to get and easy to
ipend . . fflf people could sell
sxperience for as much as It oosts
maybe they could make both
ands meet.
YADKIN SALES TALK—
A prospective purchaser was
looking over a piece of property
irhlch lay along the hank of a rtr
sr. Hej remarked to the real es
tate agent: «
Prospect—Doesn't thla river
■ometknes overflow this land?
Agent—Well, this river Is not
one or those sickly streams that
Is alwkys confined to Its bed.
There was a girl from St. Paul,
Who Wore a paper dress to a ball.
The dress caught on fire,
And burned her flront page, sports
and all.
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Bladen county has planned an
all-out anti-rat campaign, to be
conducted during November. It is
estimated that raits cost the peo
ple ot the county $200,000 an
nually!.
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