' JU*nJ8 C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER
PabHsfcers
IIS3—DANIEL J. CARTER—1141
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.00
(la Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
On$ Year $8.00
(Outside Wilkes and Adjoining ConntlM)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at t*he postofflce at North WJlkee
boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter
ander Act of March 4, 187#. ' /
Monday, January 17, 1949
Our Minds Fail
To Grasp It
The headline reads, "Girl, Ten, Kid
napped, Slain, Body Dumped in Ditch."
The story says that the most important
clue is "a smashed half-pint whiskey bot
tle bearing a 'Philadelphia' label."
The headline is horrible; the story is
horrible ; the picture of the little girl's
body lying face down in a ditch where it
was dumped by the murderer, goes
straight to the heart of any humane per
son.
The headline, the news account and the
picture do not tell the story. It is impos
sible for newsprint to convey to any mind
a realization of the tragedy because the
mind simply refuses to grasp it. We are
talking about the murder of little ten
year-old Roberta Rinearson, but the kind
of thing which happened to Roberta is
happening almost daily to many other lit
tle girls—many more than a few years
ago.
So far as the English language will con
vey the story, however, here it is (with
the omissions which must be made):
The child had been brutally mistreated
and strangled. A garment torn from her
body, was stuffed into her mouth; there
was a deep cut behind her left ear, and
her lips were crushed. Finger marks on
her throat indicated the ruthless brutal
ity with which her life was taken.
Crimes of this character usually occur
to women and girls who are picked up in
taverns, or to women and girls who are
victimized by men who have been drink
ing. If we were to stop all drinking, there
would still be crimes of this character,
but they would be comparatively infre
quent, as infrequent as it was, for instance,
in 1920.
If there is any right a woman has, it is
the right to be free from molestation of
this kind, and the right of a little girl is
ten times as sacred. We say nothing of
the rights of parents.
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Borrowed Comment
FEDERAL AID FOR SCHOOLS SEEMS
ASSURED ,
(Winston-Salem Journal)
The chances are good that one of the
first'bills passed by the present Congress
to fulfill the pledge mpde to the people
of this country by President Truman and
the Democratic Party will be the meas
ure assuring Federal aid to public schools.
A bill providing for $300,000,000 per
year for this purpose has already been
introduced in the new Senate. It is similar
to the bill passed by that body during the
80th Congress. The new bill is S246. It is
being sponsored by both Democrats and
Republicans.
Both Senator Thomas and Senator Taft,
spokesmen for the sponsors of the meas
ure, agree that its enactment into law will
equalize education opportunity for the
children of the United States. Mr. Thomas
reminds the country that this bill is in
keeping with the platform of the Demo
cratic Party, the campaign promises of
the President, and his recommendations
to Congress in the State-of-the-Union
message.
An important section of the bill' pro
vides that control of educational policies
shall remain in the bands of the states and
fa'iw .in. i^nii.iAi i -f t
their localities. Federal control or influ
ence of {he educational program is spe
cifically prohibited. Senator Taft empha
sizes the fact that the bill "forbids any
Federal interference in the educational
policy of a state, and prohibits Federal in
terference with school administration."
' When this measure becomes law, North
Carolina will receive upwards of $20,000,
000 a year# from the Federal Government
to help support its public school system.
This will help us tremendously in Teach
ing the goal set for our public schools by
the State Board of Education in its rebom
mendations to the State Budget Commis
sion this year.
Of "course, none of the funds to be ap
propriated by Congress under the terms of
this bill can be used for building school
houses. But one report from Washington
indicates that President Truman probably
will ask Congress to appropriate addi
tional Federal funds to aid the states in
the construction of school buildings.
North Carolina could use some of that
money, too.
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Most of the good things that come to
individuals in life have to be paid for in
some manner.
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-THE
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
Every man is a measuring stick to some
one, by which he measures his virtues or
condones his vices. We ought to think
more about that. It is a terrifying thought.
Someone is gauging the depth of his char
acter by mine. Someone is getting his ideas
of religion from what he sees me doing.
Someone is following in my footsteps.
Someone is justifying a thing which is
wrong for him, because he sees me do it.
Fathers and mothers ought to think a
bout these little feet which are following
along in their footsteps. A father told me
the other day that his little boy saw him
take a drink of liquor. Perhaps he had
seen him take others. The youngster re
minded his father that he had seen him
take the drink. The thought of the young
feet following in the father's footsteps
struck him, and he replied, "Son, you will
never see me do that again."
I have known good men ruined by the
influence of their associates. A man says
that he knows "how to take a drink." Cer
tainly, most of them say that. Admit that
he knows when to stop, but someone is
following his example who does not know
when to stop. He is ruined. Who is going
to answer for that man's fate?
A man ought to go to headquarters for
his example in conduct. The Christian
should guide his conduct by asking him
self the question, "What would Jesus do?"
But many of us forget that, and look a
round and set our sights a bit lower! A
man becomes the example by which a |man
may be saved or he may be damned. And
that man may be you, and he may be' me.
Emerson, I think, wrote, "What you do
sounds so loud I can not hear what you
say". Some of the most effective sermons
are those preached in life. William Cow
per Brann wrote a few pungent para
graphs on this subject, which I have in
my scrap-book, and which I pass on. They
are good.
"The place to take the true measure of
a man is not the forum nor the field, not
the market-place nor the Amen cprner,
but at his own fireside. There he lays
aside his .mask, and you may judgeiwhe
the'r he is imp or angel,' king or cur,; hare
or humbug. I care not what the world says
of him; whether it crown him witH bay
or pelt him with bad eggs; I care never a
copper what his reputation or re igion
may be, if his babes dread his home com
ing, and his better-half has to swallo v her
heart every time she has to ask for a five
dollar bill, he's a fraud of the first i rater,
even though he prays night and mom till
he's black m the face, and cries hlalleu
jahs till he shakes the eternal hills, i »
"But if his children rush to the front
J gate to greet him and love's own sunshine
illuminates the face of his wife when she
hears his footfall, you may take it for
granted that he is true gold, for his home
is a heaven, and the humbug never gets
near the Great White Throne of God."
People are winching us more careful
ly than we think. They are pattering their
lives by our actions. They are getting
their estimate of the religion we profess by
our every-day actions.
A
Trench System Garbagellisposal |
■I Being Used By North Wilkesboro!
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The town of North Wllkesboro
bag installer tbe trench system
of garbage disposal.
The town purchased a bull
{lam machine, which is the pne
iece of equipment needed to car
ry out this modern system of
garbage disposal. A plot of land
bwned by the town and adjoining
Memorial Park was appropriated
(for use In the project.
In the trench system the bull
blam, a deisel powered unit, is
•used to dig a deep and wide
►trench, in which the garbage is
.dumped daily. As the garbage is
'placed in the trench, the heavy
bull clam machine is used to pack
it down, after which it is sealed
over with dirt.
In the plan being used the
garbage is entirely sealed off and
the only effect on the land i°
that it will be built up about
three feet. After the land is used
for garbage disposal by this
means it can be
cultural or other
ifsed for agri
purposes. It
has 'been estimated .by sanitary
engineers that the
available at the p
of the project ial
plot'of land
esent location
Sufficient for
ten years use, aijter which it
can be used again for the same]
purpose, if necesstry.
The machine boing used will
also be used to cleir up and . bury
the mass of decayed garbage west
of this city near tl e airport.
The garbage disposal system
was started here junder supervis
ion of E. L. Hinton, sanitary en
gineer from the {state board of
health, and E. Jl#f Spruill, Wilkes
county sanitarian.
Sanitarians stkted that #the
former system of placing garb
age in exposed dumps created a
health hazard, as well as being
unsightly and giving off unpleas
ant smoke and o<Iors.
A. B N O R M A L
ABSURDITIES
By
D WIGHT
NICHOLS
et *1
HOW BIG BUSINESS
IS TRANSACTED—
(A One-Act Play by Sam Savar,
One Play Playwright)
Scene: Office t)f a Big Wheel
in a Big Concern.
Characters (they sure are):
The Tycoon Himself and his Man
Friday.
Boss (Importantly): Say—ah
—Jim, we need a new truck.
What was the price of the one
we looked at this morning?
Bossed (Unimportantly): $15,
000.00, Sir.
Boss (After One Second delib
eration) : Get it!
Bossed: I'll place the order £
^•ight now, Sir.
Boss: Y'know, we ought to |
have our front remodeled. What;
the heck. What did the builder I
say that would cost?
Bossed: $4;750, Mr. B.
Boss: Aw well, call him up and '
tell him to start building.
Bossed: Right away, Sir. . !
Boss: Say Jim. We need some
Announcements Printed. Oet
some estimates on 1,000 Paneled
Card Announcements.
Bossed: (3 Hours, and $7.95
worth of phone! calls later, plus
$6.00 of the caller's labor time)
Mr. B., here are the estimates.
The lowest priced printer wants
$13.50, and thp others run all
the way up to $50.00.
Boss: Call the Cheapest Print
er, and see if you can't knock off
a couple bucks! from his Esti
mate. ilf you Ican't bring him
down, put me oh the phone. (And
so, after buying a truck for
$15,000, with k Second's delibe
ration, and speeding $4,750 with
zra
another Second's consideration,
our Hero, the Boss, is.wrangling
with some poor pinphed printer,
who Is liying one foot away from
the last back he made—and since
this scene goes on for honrs, or
days, and is still going on all
oyer the country, we better Close
the Play, and let our Patient
Reader of this Play draw the
curtain with his Own Moral.)—
Graphic Arts Monthly.
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Total cattle numbers in North
Carolina haye ibeen declining
steadily since 1944, when they
were estimated at 7*59,000 head. •
Of Different
We can drill in any
kind of formation.
ROYAL J. RUSSELL
Route 2
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Pores Knob, N. C,