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The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITIC8 > 1 f A Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina nJLTD8 C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER Publishers 1SS1—DANIEL J. CARTER—1041 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (la Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $3.00 (Outside Wilkes end Adjoining Ooantles) Rates to Those in Service: One Year (anywhere) T $2.00 Entered at the postotllce at North WUkee boro. North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1870. Monday, March 28, 1949 Your Opportunity To Aid Clean-Up Civic Activities committee of the Wilkes Chamber of Commerce is mapping plans for the Clean-Up campaign, which will reach a climax the week on April 24-30. In order for this event to mean some thing, much planning and preparation is necessary. Many committees have been appointed and are now functioning. It now appears that the event will be more than just an announcement. One of the key committees is the beauti fication committee headed by Mrs. Ivey Moore and Dr. A. 0. Chamberlain, co chairmen. It will be their duty to make a survey and to recommend that specific improvements be made in the interest of better appearance and health. In order that this committee may func tion properly, a suggestion box has been provided at the Chamber of Commerce of fice, where all citizens may place sugges tions for clean-up work. If you know of something that should be done to make this community more attractive, write your suggestion and put it in the box. It will be given careful consideration. The project is everybody's job, and complete cooperation is essential if real success is to be achieved. Beekeeping Is Profitable Sideline Knowing something about the ups and downs of beekeeping, we would not urge that anyone try it entirely for a living, but it can be a profitable and enjoyable side line for farmers and other rural residents. This week a bee specialist from State College is meeting with a number of people to Wilkes, helping them with their bee keeping problems. Paul Choplin, county agent, says that Wilkes should produce twice as much as is being produced. Wilkes is fortunate in being in the heart of the sourwood region. Sourwood trees grow only on the eastern slopes of the Ap palachian range and the territory is some what limited. Sourwood honey, all honey lovers agree, is superior to anything else in flavor and texture. It is a delicacy that has no equal in the honey business. Beekeepeis have a great opportunity to take advantage of this natural monopoly in this part of the south. Very little labor and much "know how" is required in beekeeping. The bees do the work. Double Or Nothing (Greensboro Daily News) The joint appropriations committee has assumed what seems to us a strange and weH-nigh indefensible attitude in approv ing an appropriation of $700,000 for as sistance to needy persons between the ages of 16 and 65 in North Carolina but making its actual availability contingent upon a matching basis with county and federal funds. Now, if one needs to be told, provision for these citizens, who constituted a gap between the dependent children's act and old <«e assistance, is left solely to the counties; and as a result they get a mere pittance that hardly enables them to keep CdT and sonl together and leaves medical attention, which is needed in most instan ces, largely unprovided for. The Daily News holds no brief whatever for hand outs or the encouragement of programs which discourage any possible self-help. But where a case of need is legitimate, there should be some agency capable and sufficiently well financed to step in and meet this need in society's and humanity's name. It is the basis of need, genuine need, that we are citing. Yet that test seems to have been overlooked or disregarded in the ap propriation committee's action. What was, the committee most interested in on the basis of the condition which it wrote into the statue, assuagement of human need and suffering or getting of federal funds? If the need existed, the committee's own appropriation of $700,000 should be made and justified accordingly. But if such a test were applied, then why the stipulation that state assistance should have to be contingent upon anybody else's especially the federal government's matching funds. As the situation now appears to stand, the needy who would come under provi sions of the bill will either get twice or three times as much as the State itself pro vides o r get nothing at all other than the funds which the counties now manage to scrape up in an admittedly inadequate program. If one can justify that arrangement, he or she is, to our way of thinking, more cal lous than mathematical. Isn't the State's own- conscience the first thing to be satis fied? o Washington economist predicts 60, 000,000 will be employed by Summer.; Well, here's hoping that doesn't prove to be an idle rumor. — Greensboro Daily News. i t— r\ Over at State College they are said to be making Diesel engines which will run on air and a little powdered coal. That sounds great for the future, provided we can induce John L. Lewis to let us have that little coal. — Greensboro Daily News. • LIFE'S BETTER WAt« WALTER E. 1SENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 Watch Your Can'ts and Cans If you would have some worth while plans You've got to watch your can'ts and cans You can't aim low and then rise high; You can't succeed if you don't try; You can't go wrong and come out right; You can't love sin and walk in light; You can't throw time and means away And live sublime from day to day. You can be great if you'll be good And do God's will as all men should; You can ascend life's upward road, Although you bear a heavy load; You can be honest, truthful, clean. By turning from the low and mean; You can uplift the souls of men By words and deeds, or by your pen. So watch your can'ts and watch your cans, And watch your walks and watch your stands, And watch the way you talk and act, And do not take the false for fact; And watch indeed the way you take, And watch the things that mar or make; For life is great to every man Who lives to do the best he can. A RICH FIELDS OF LOVE I'd rather own rich fields of love, And have sweet peace within my soul, And live in touch with God above, And hear the bells of heaven toll, Than own the diamond fields of earth, Or all the pearls of all the seas. For nothing is of greater worth Than heav'nly riches puch as these. 0 give me, Lord, rich fields of love That I may live in heav'nly bliss, And be as harmless as a dove, Whatever else of earth I miss, That men may labor here to own, Including fame and great renown. Or splendors of an earthly throne, With gems and jewels of a crown! Rich fields of love within my heart Will bless my feUowmeri I know Far more than lit'rature and art, Or other things I might bestow. If I should have no love to give, No grace to bring them unto God, Nor nothing that would help them live And go the way that saints have trod. 1 do not ask, dear Lord, for fame, Nor for the kingdoms of this world, That I may bear a rich man's name Or sail 'neath splendor's flag unfurled; But hear my humble prayer today And fill my heart with love divine; Yes, give me fields of love I pray That makes one's spirit great like Thine. House Votes More Planes To Air Force WASHINGTON-, March 22 — I x % — The House oyerrode President Truman's budget re commendations today and over whelmingly approved a 1,111 au thorizing the air force to continue building toward 70-group stren gth. The measure, passed tby a *oll calfr vote of 395 to 3, now goes to the Senate where it is expected to get a generally favorable re port. /It does not put up any cash. That must be provided in a separate money bill. It would, however, freeze ex lstingi manpower ceilings of the air fdrce and army. The army now has a celling of 837,000 of ficers land men while the air force has a jtop of 503,000. Their actual strength, fixed by the budget, is much! lower. WELL DRILLING * OF Different Sizes We can drill in any kind of formation. R(fYAL J. RUSSELL Route 2 Ppres Knob, N. C. EISELE CONSTRUCTION CO. Tomlinson Bu Iding Phone 767 SEE US FOR ESTIMAT BUILDIN We Can Give You A ES ON YOUR (Contract Price
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