Newspapers / The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, … / March 31, 1949, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
1 The Joirul - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina ITTLtTUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER Publisher* 19S2—DANIEL J. CARTER—IMi SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 0n® Year $2.00 Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year $8.00 (Outside Wilkes snd Adjoininc bounties) Rates to Those in Service: One Year (anywhere) $2.00 Entered at the postoffice at North Wilkes boro, North Carolina, as Seeond-Class matter nnder Act of March 4, 1879. Thursday, March 31, 1949 Red Cross Goal Should Be Reached Last published report on the annual Red Cross fund campaign in Wilkes stated that $4,000 is needed to reach the goal. Only half of the requested amount had been raised. According to our information, the a mount contributed had come largely from x contributors who had given substantial sums, and that the number of contributors is not as large as it should be. There are at least 4,000 people in Wil kes county who can and should contribute at least one dollar each to the Bed Cross. In view of the great services rendered by the Red Cross to so many people it is strange that it is difficult to raise the funds with which the organisation is to - carry on. Perhaps it is neglect on the part of the people, who wait to be contacted before giving. The people must remember that the soliciting work is volunteer and is a public service on the part of the solicitors. Wfe should treat them with every courtesy £&nd make it possible for them to com plete their tasks as early as possible. o Turning Your Pay Over To Government The Great White Fathers in Washing ton are whooping it up for the more a bundant life, which everybody is in favor of until they begin to realize who pays the bill. There is no way of getting around the fact that we are not only going to pay for what we get, but we are going to pay more than we get and lose our free way of life if all the proposed measures are enacted into law. If we look to Washington for complete security and our every need we must al so surrender our earnings in the same measure. All the theorists in the world cannot get around that stubborn fact. And it also must necessarily follow that if government supplies our every need, government will also dictate our way of living. Following is some timely comment by P. P. Hankerson in "The Wooden Barrell", a trade publication edited in St. Louis: "Economists, testifying before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives recently, estimated that the compulsory insurance programs now being considered would take 20 per cent of all payrolls. In other words, out of every $100 you earn, you would have to kick in $20 as your share of the do good plans. And on top of that, brother, you would have all your other taxes and expenses. "Five programs to bring about the beautiful life are now under serious con sideration in Washington. Conservative students estimate that they will consume the following percentages of the payroll: Old Age and Survivors Insurance, 5 1-2 per cent; additional cost of doubling the benefits under the program, 5 1-2 per cent; Unemployment Compensation, 2 per cent; Cash Sickness Insurance, 1 per cent; Permanent Disability Benefits, 2 per cent; Medical Benefits, 4 per cent. Xhi» equals a total of 20 per cent. But that's just a starter. The helping boys al so are talking about State old age- pen sions aid to the blind, aid to dependent children, etc., etc. At the rate we are wo grossing, we might as well turn our salary « overto Uncle Sam each month and let him take care of us! ' "As a sturdy American of the old school, I see a tremendous danger in all of these social security proposals, outside of the fact that we are straying towards a so cialistic government. I see the destruction of initiative and ambition and thrift in the individual . . . qualties that have made this country the greatest country on earth. Why work hard? What,do I care if I lose my job? I'll get unemployment compensa tion. Why save for a rainy day? If I'm sick, Uncle Sam will pay the bills. Why save for my old age, or buy insurance to take care of me in my declining years? Old Age and Survivors insurance win taKe care of that. "Do we want to be a nation of pension ers, looking to our government for aid and support? Or do we want to be a nation of two-fisted, hard-working men, solving our own problems. It's up to us to decide." o More pupils from the public schools have visited Raleigh during the current legislative session than at any three-four previous sessions. We yrish it were possi ble to believe that they had met three- or four-fold governmental efficiency. — Greensboro Daily News. o T 14 F EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Rev. Herbert j Spa ugh, D. D. .Happiness here and security hereafter is not obtained by a single step. It is a chieved as the result of a long course in spiritual education. We follow this plan in secular educa tion. A, child enters primary school at the age of six, passes through high school, and perhaps on into college. After graduation from college, if he wants further educa tion, he does post-graduate work, and so enlarges his education, which should con tinue throughout life. St. Peter took the full course in spirit ual education and looked back upon it as an old man, wrote down the eight steps, of course, in his second epistle. "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love ... if ye do these things, ye shall never fall". 1. The first step is faith—faith in Je sus Christ and His gift of salvation through His sacrifice on the cross. The cross is a symbol of forgiveness, which the open tomb is a symbol of new and eternal life. 2. The second step is virtue—the new uie 01 righteousness as the resttlt of spirit ual re-birth. 3. The third step is knowledge—spir itual knowledge acquired by study of the Bible and God's plan for the salvation and happiness of man. 4. The fourth step is temperance— the ability to maintain physical, mental and spiritual poise. Life is confusing, but he who knows can walk through it in calm ness and certainty. He takes one day at a time, one step at a time. 5. The fifth step is patience—the man who is living the new life knows that "all things work together for good to them that love God . . . these hath no temptation tak en you but such as is common to man but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it". 6. The sixth step is godliness—the man who has come thup far in ilia spiritual education has acquired God-like habits of living. He has learned to walk with his Lord. He shows it in his home, place of business, wherever he goes. 7. The seventh step is brotherly kind ness—kindness in thought, word and deed. 8. The eighth step is love—St. Paul tells us in the 13th chapter of First Co rinthians that although a man may have acquired all other qualities, without love for God and his fellowmen his life and spiritual education is incomplete. Seven notes complete the musical scale; the eighth is the octave, "the first note in the new scale which tunes with the old. So love is the crowning note of life, the : final course in our spiritual education. What are you doing in the school bf life? Are you passing your courses? Are you truly educated? If so, a life of happi "• is yours. Union Grove News OF the M Week Rev. Grady Jolly, home mis sionary, preached at Mt. Plsgah Baptist church Sunday at the 11 o'clock hour. His daughter; Miss Dorothy Jolly, was also a visitor 'Sunday at Mt. Plsgah Baptist church. Mrs. Danah Prevette and^ eon, Danny Lee Prevette, of Greens boro, is visiting Mrs. Prevette's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wright, last week and this week. Danny Lee has measles. . Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Campbell and son, Rayford Lee, of Greens boro, visited relatives In this community Sunday. Sra VI gii an 1 hail! yem std: clq ag; R Mil M< Mt Tr l Ro i Wil nding Wilkes fillers Cri (iw, Ronda Is were I lost amo|ij ketiball r. following nding of tlj ding only kinst Wilkel team TRAM qnda lers Creek untain Vie Pleasant phill ring Rlveij kesboro Given On Cage Teams »k boys, Mountain and Millers Creek era in game* won g the high school s In Wilkes this is the unofficial |e county teams, in the games played county opponents: pHRLS W. 8 8 9 6 3 2 0 lu 3 2 S 3 7 10 8 T. 1 Jboys mm w. l Millers Creek 9 2 Wllkeeboro 6 2 Traphlll 7 3 Mt. Pleasant 8 4 Roaring Hirer 5 7 Mountain View Ronda TW' The Navy's new C-4 emergency ration contains a minimum Mt, 3,800 calories, enough for on* man per daf. Dr. J. H. SOWDER * Optometrist Car^" Of Vision Glasses Fitted 821 B Street North Wilkesboro, N. C. Hours 8:30-5:00 Phone 899 Closed Wednesday Afternoons
The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
March 31, 1949, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75