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The Job rial - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARIV-MR8. D. J. CARTER Publishers 108S—DANIEL J. CARTER— 1»4I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (la Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) Rates to Those in Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postofflce at North Wilkes boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1879. « Thursday, February 24, 1949 i i North Carolina HESS ASSOC I AUG Johnston's Viewpoint Is Pure Americanism The address of Col. Clem D. Johnston before the annual membership meeting of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce Mon day evening was filled with pure Ameri canism. In other words, the speaker ex pressed opposition to the gradual tearing down of free enterprise. Col. Johnston spoke much of interna tional affairs, declaring that the greatest commodity America has to export is the philosophy of free enterprise. America to day stands alone as the one great example of free enterprise, while Russia represents the ultimate in communism. "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuming that his own shall be safe from violence when built." This is a quotation from Abraham Lincoln, and used by Col. Johnston in his address here. The American way that has placed this country so far ahead of the rest of the world that there is no comparison has al ways been a way of opportunity. It has been a system whereby every person had an opportunity to build something for himself and having constitutional guar antee that his property would be safe. America did not forge into the lead in the world by tearing down, or taking from those who have and giving to them who have not. America was built the Christian way, with a maximum of human rights to every individual, rich or poor. Now *we are drifting toward Russia's way of doing things. It is easy to get votes, often a majority, by clamoring for taxing the rich and distributing the taxes to the poor. Already that point has been reached where taxation is having diminishing re turns. The same voters who are swayed by promise of utopia refuse to understand that such a trend will take from them their opportunities to better their position in life to raise their standards of living. Instead of tearing down the huse of the rich man to make all equal, give the poor man opportunity to work diligently and build one for himself. Now this nation is seriously considering giving the government responsibility of paying our doctor and hospital bills. Nat urally, with government waste and red tape we would pay twice as much in taxes as we get in paid doctor bills. No people ever grew great or strong by evading their own responsibilities. It would take a great payroll tax to run the government bureaus for socialized medicine. Papers during the week carried stories about expanded social security, which will carry additional payroll taxes. In come taxes withheld are taking a big slice of wages. Add them all up, along with other proposed taxes, and we find that we are gradually but surely surrendering our pay checks to government, which would ultimately end in nationalization, socialism, communism or what have you? And just as surely as we surrender our pay checks we surrender our individual liberty. When you lose the right to spend the money you^earn you are going a long way toward having your individual life controlled by government, which is what Russia wants because then we would be in Russia's class without having been con quered by arms. As Col. Johnston said, those who say we can pursue a middle course have not learned the facts of life. We go one way or the other, and fast. 1 Begin With Th« Boy If you are going to do anything perma nent for the average man, you have got to begin before he is a man. The chance of success lies in working with the boy and not with the man. That applies peculiarly to those boys who tend to drift off into courses which mean that unless they are checked they will be formidable addi tions to the criminal population when they grow older. No nation is safe unless in the average family there are healthy, happy children. If these children are not brought up well, they are not merely a curse to themselves and their parents, but they mean the ruin of the State in the future.—Theodore Roosevelt. "We have learned that, if prohibition does not always prohibit, neither does civilization always civilize, nor education educate, nor Christianity Christianize.''— Frances E. Willard. Los Angeles Times, 1-7-49: "Moderate Drinking Propaganda Hit." A Washing ton, D. C., dispatch says the American Temperance Society describes "moder ate" drinking as just an education for a drunkard's career! — THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert Spaugh, D. D. "Prayer changes things." An unusual letter about this is on my desk from a reader of this column. The story goes back to 1931 in the midst of the depression. The bottom had fallen out of things for him in every way. His business had collapsed, and he had a critically ill child. One night he was called to a sales dinner in a small hotel. He was surprised to see in the din ing room a motto hung on the wall, "Prayer Changes Things." The motto gripped him. Returning to his home town 25 miles away he thought about that mot to and prayed like he had never prayed before. He gave his life and his' business fully to his Lord. When he returned home he continued to pray. Thigs commenced to change. His child was restored to health. He staged a remarkable business "come-back." And now for his present letter: "Per haps you remember my story concerning the little three word sign I saw in a hotel back in 1931. I made up my mind that if I ever had a desirable place to put up such a sign I would. Now, believe it or not, I have just finished a building of my own and it is paid for. In my office which faces the street, where every customer can see* as he enters the door is in large red letters, 'Prayer Changes Things.' It has caused much, comment. "I have a letter from a young man, a father, who had to take his boy to John Hopkins Hospital for a very serious lung operation. Some time before he had been in my office, saw the sign. Then he went to the hospital with his son. He wrote me that the sign on the office wall had helped him through those difficult days, that the boy survived the operation, and was mak ing a good recovery. "If you had the time to read it, and I had the time to write it, I coulfl write all day. Every eighth day of January I write a letter to myself in which I list my as sets and liabilities. Your letter to me (I wrote him) came on January 8th, and I stapled it to the letter I had just written to. myself. "Last year when I had to clean house with my business, and fire my old plant manager, I thought I couldn't get along without him. Whiskey caused him to lose a job that paid him over $5,000 a year. What would you say about a man who had a good job which jumped him from $1,500 a year to over $5,000 letting whis key get him? Well, I thought I couldn't run my business without him, but the Lord sent me another good man, honest, and sober. Last year I had the smoothest ope ration I have ever had in my life." Then follows his financial statement, which is a good one. "Yes, 'Prayer Changes Things.' There is nothing like having God as mjf Senior Partner." He concludes with a paragraph telling about a new parsonage which has just been built for his church to which he made substantial contributions. Here is one -man who firmly believes that "Prayer Changes Things." Pleasant Ridge New Of Week Mrs. F. L. Lyons left for Long taaob, California, Wednesday, ifter spending several weeks lere and in Elkin. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moyse, of 3-alax, Va., were the week-end quests of Mr. and Mrs. Arvil Qen ry. A daughter, Patricia Ann, was >orn to Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Harris, Saturday at the Hugh Chatham hospital. Mrs. Myrtle Carter is spending i few weeks visiting her daugh :er, Mrs. Long, and Mrs. Lee iVood, of Greensboro. Mr. Earl Blackburn left last foil Ne1i I. 1L. B. end gu« week lor) Newport News, Va. Mrs. lL B. Mt ray had for week-end guests Howard jMcDowel ty Ann Sales, all Mr. and Mrs. ham, of pountali Dixie Reeves, of Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Bet of High Point. Grover Cocker Park, and Mrs. Mount Airy, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dolla Thompson last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Cooker ham announce the birth of a son on February is, at Hugh Chat ham Memorial Hospital. Herbert Rare Lane of RylandJ who grew 2,699 pounds of nnta on one acre, has been de clared winner of the Chowan j County 4-H Club peanut contest I for 194ft. hya£intAs TU1IPS [jonquils HENDERSON'S FLOWER SHOP Phon s 545 .
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