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V. The Jovraal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wllkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER Publish an l»aa—DANIEL J. CARTER—1041 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (I* Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes end Adjoining Coon ties) Rates to Those in Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postofflce at North Wllkes boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter onder Act of March 4, 187a. Monday, February 21,1949 3T55C North CoroJ.no i Prosperity Follows Good Roods (By Charles M. Upham—Reprinted from the January 20, 1949 issue of the Haw thorne, New Jersey Press.) The culture of a country is in proportion to its transportation. It can properly be said that the prosperity of an area is de pendent upon ts highway transportation. If a country has no transportation facili ties, stagnation soon results. A good ex ample of this was New York snow-bound for three days. The advantages of providing an ade quate system of highways connecting ma jor municipalities was well illustrated in North Carolina just after World War I. In 1919, just prior to launching its high way construction program, the State trail ed Georgia with 125,000 motor vehicle registrations and Virginia with 105,000. North Carolina had only 65,000. North Carolina then bonded and started a high way program that connected up the en tire State with improved roads. Georgia and Virginia were on a "pay-as-you-go" plan resulting in a much slower highway building program. A few years later, when the program was nearing completion, North Carolina had 450,000 motor vehicle registrations and exceeded Virginia by 100,000 and Georgia by 150,000. When the highway construction program began there was 17 persons per car in Virginia, 20 per car in Georgia and 31 in North Carolina. In 1928, there were ten people per car in Georgia, seven per car in Viaginia and six in North Carolina. The answer to this remarkable reversal is found in the fact that during this period, North Carolina built 3,500 miles of hard surface pavement, Virginia built 1,600 miles and Georgia 900 miles. Prosperity as indicated in automobiles followed the good roads. Other develop ments in the state were in proportion, in cluding an influx of industry and popula tion. There are innumerable examples of how areas have developed immediately after highways have been provided. In Delaware, practically all of its improved highways were in the northern section which was enjoying reasonable prosperity. The lower counties had practically no roads. At certain times of the year trans portation was halted completely. Maryland, located on the same peninsu la, has had the benefits of a good road system for eight or ten years. A quick glance at the conditions in those two States showed that the soil was practically the same—the people were of the same orig in and heritage, and the only difference was in the condition of its highways. Maryland, which had the highways was enjoying real prosperity and was build ing up productive farms and marketing goods at big prices. Delaware, which had practically no roads in southern counties, maintained a stagnant economy. Its farms were anything but prosperous—due pri marily to the fact the Delaware farmers could only market their crops when weather conditions made it possible. In the twenties all this changed when roads were provided in southern Dela ware. In a short time farms became more productive and farmers marketed their products at top prices. Today, the entire area is a thriving truck garden. Produc tion has brought good profits in the larger cities where the farmers are able to sell their goods due to the fine road system that Delaware has built. , This same story has happened, and is happening in many parts of the country. It shows that the prosperity of an area is in proportion to its - highway facilities. Transferring this same situation to other parts of the country, the same prosperous influences are felt regardless of whether it is an agricultural, industrial, or vacation j area. ] Good roads are also known to change i the whole productive economy of a com munity. A region in Alabama, dedicated to cotton raising for generations, changed over to raising fruit and vegetables with the construction of good roads. Able to deliver to distant markets by truck, the orchards and truck gardens of the neigh borhood prospered. Every city in the United States depends to a greater or less degree on the sur rounding country for food as well as for other things. The vital importance of hav ing adequate feeder roads and keeping them open therefore becomes a matter of life and death. Shutting off a city's sup ply of milk, eggs, and fresh vegetables can have serious results. We have reached the point where our highways do not meet the demands of the ever-increasing traffic. More money must be invested if we are to secure benefits that follow good roads. o The trouble with some arguments is that while they have two sides they apparent ly have no end.—Winston-Salem-Journal. o The world seems to be in a bad stew. China is all broken up, Turkey is afraid of the Russian bear, and Communism is still cooking in Greece.—Winston-Salem Journal. o Further evidence of the fact that the United States is now the seat of the world's culture may be found in the news that the director of the Monte Carlo casi no is over here at Las Vegas learning to shoot craps.—Greensboro Daily News. LIFE'S BETTER WAY t WALTER E. ISENHOUR High P*int, N. C., Route 4 HONOR GOD It is great to honor God. This should be the aim, desire, plan and purpose of man. We should honor Him because He created us. He made us in His own image and likeness. "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou has made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor." (Psalm 8:4,5). For the honor God has be stowed upon us we should honor Him supremely. We should honor God for our health. What a great blessing health is! No doubt there are millionaires who would give all they possess if they could buy good health with it. They can't. Good health is a great blessing from God. We should honor God because He gdves us a sound mind. This is to be appreciated more than we realize. Just visit some in sane institution and behold the mentally deranged. How pitiful! Maybe many of them failed to take care of their health, and by wrecking themselves physically they wrecked themselves mentally. We ought to honor God, love and reverence Him for the right use of our minds, thus taking care of our bodies and minds. We should honor God for our homes, our business, or that which brings us a livelihood, if we are in the right business. If home and business is not what it should be, then we ought to seek God's help and obey His directions. It is our privilege to have Christian homes and engage in bus iness wherein God can be our partner. This pleases God. We should honor God for our country. We live in a Bible land. We live in a land of churches, and a land where there are thousands of Christian people. Think of what it would mean to live in a country where God is unknown, and where there are no Bibles and Christian people, and where millions bow to deaf, dumb idols and worship them. Their prayers and heartcries are not heard; they carry their own burdens; they get no relief from their sins; they suffer in body, mind and soul. Their gods can't help them. Our God for gives our sins when we call upon Him, sanctifies and saves us from sin, and pre pares us to live here and hereafter. We should honor Him for our souls, and with our souls consecrated fully unto Him. Eve rybody ought to honor God. To do so brings glorious rewards, but to fail will bring a tragic consequence. II. N. Told'Slaves' Die By Thoasinds Lake Spccesa.—The United Na tions received sworn testimony yesterday that labor slaves are dying by hundreds of thousands each year from beatings and starvation in Russia. The testimony -was taken in af fidavit form by the American Federation of Labor from for mer inmates of slave labor camps and laid before the Economic and Social Council in a volumin ous document. The United States is backing the A. P. L. exposes with a reso lution calling on the internation al Labor Organization (I.L.O.) to investigate slave labor. Willard L. Thorp, U. S. Assist ant Secretary of State, dared Rus sia on Monday to permit I.L.O. people behind the iron curtain for a look at labor conditions. Charges Denied Soviet delegate Semen K. Tsarapkin denied the charges completely yesterday. He coun tered with charges that the Unit ed State enslaved labor by such measures as the Taft-Hartley law. The charges by the A. P. L. and the U. S. Government, he said, were intended as a smoke screen to divert attention from what he called serfdom in Amer ican labor. The U. S. resolution was pre sented immediately after Miss Tony Sender, A. F. L. represent ative, made an hour-long speech quoting from the sworn state ments. The American proposal asked that the entire document be sent to the U. N. Commission on Hu man Rights. One of the most graphic de scriptions was contained in a statement by Julius Margolin, Polish author, who now lives in Israel. 10,000,000 Minimum Margolin estimated that a minimum of 10,000,000 persons were in Russian concentration camps inside the Soviet Union. He said deaths in these camps run into the hurdreds of thou sands every year. Give To The Pol io Fund
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