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The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS G. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER - Publishers l»tS—DANIEL J. CARTER—im SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 . (Is Wilkes and Adjoining Counties) One Year i $3.00 (Outside Wllkas snd Adjoining Counties) Rates to Thosevin Service: One Year (anywhere) ... $£00 Entered at the postofflce at North WUkee boro, North Carolina, as Seeond-Clsss matter under Act of Mareh.4, 18T0. Monday, April 11, 1949 JLJg*^ I" Cancer Detection Clinic Will Be Forward Step The Wilkes Medical Society has decided to set up a cancer detection clinic in this community. The Medical Society has agreed that four doctors would work for two hours each, weekly in the clinic to help people find out whether or not they have cancer. No charge would be made for examina tions in the clinic. The doctors would be giving their services in the clinic. . The county and state health depart ments and the American Cancer Associ ation would help in providing equipment and necessary personnel other than the doctors. This decision on the part of the Medical Society here is one of the most forward steps in public health taken in this com munity and deserves high commendation . Cancer is one of the leading killers, and has been a very difficult problem to the medical profession. The American Cancer Association, which now has on a drive /or funds, is doing much in research in an ef fort to try'to conquer cancer. But as the matter now stands, the best hope for any cancer patient is to find out that a cancer exists while in the first stages. There are very effective meth ods of treating cancer in its early stages but not in later stages. There is where the cancer clinic would be very effective. The clinic would be for examination of all persons who have any reason to believe they may have cancer. There would be no cancer treatment in the clinic, and family physicians would give advice relative to where treatment could be secured. But the first essential fact is to learn that a cancer exists before it reaches the point where it cannot be removed or cured. In places where such clinics as is planned here have been operating, several cases of cancer were discovered. No doubt some of them will be able to secure treatment that will save their lives. Had they not learned they had cancer they may have gone on without treatment until it would be too late. o Rot Eradication Should Be Semi-Annual Project The North Wilkesboro city council took a forward move here this month by ap propriating funds for a rat eradication campaign. The sum of $200 was designat ed for that purpose, along with about $46 left over from a former campaign. E. B. Spruill, Wilkes sanitarian, appear ed before the board and explained the rat campaign as planned and approved by saa itation departments. Bed quill it mixed with food which rats cherish, and dis tributed where rati frequent. The red squill is deadly to rats but will not kill other animals. Bats are numerous in North Wilkesboro tad yearly destroy merchandise, grain aad produce of great value. A fraction of the amount of losses due to rats would be sufficient to finance effective campaigns to rid the city of rats. One very successful campaign was car tried out here, with such effect that rats wars scarcely noticeable for some time. But it is impossible to kill ail rats, aad left breed rapidly; until within a year the situation is as bad as ever. note who have tried the rat eradica tion work say that vary effective results can be obtained if campaigns are carried out twice yearly with most of the rats kOed erery afcc months, the number which earn tfaa is «si frss* saoufh Is cause mush The city would be spending; money eco nomically if two campaigns were put on each year. There is still another approach to the problem. Property owners should rat-proof their buildings to snch an extent that rats cannot enter. This would not only save their own property, but would lessen the places for breeding of rats and make it much easier to keep them out of the com munity. * ' /• o Educators Must Help There ought to be more talks in high schools by teachers and guest experts on the subject of alcohol. It is a very complex subject, as is indicated by the fact that its literature runs into hundreds of thou sands of titles. Bright young people, quite capable of applying intelligence to a mat ter which is of vital importance to them, 'are making their decisions in regard to the alcohol custom casually, and on the basis of practically no information. The educational establishment, as well as the church, has a great responsibility to them in connection with this matter. " | •LIFE'S BETTER W£U WALTER E. 1SENHOUR High Point, N. C., Route 4 Stop To See The Preacher You go to see the doctor and you go to see the nurse, You go into your pocket and you give them of your purse; You go to see the merchant and you pur chase from his store, And when your goods are running low you go and buy some more; You go to see ybur neighbor and you talk about your farpi, And maybe say a lot of things in which there is some harm; You go to see the dentist when your teeth are getting bad,' You look into the catalog to find the lat est fad; You answer to your Government at every call of roll, But never see the man of God about your precious soul. You pass and pass the preacher by and never stop to think Some day you'll reach your journey's end and stand upon the brink Of vast enternity so sure, then go to meet your God, And answer for the way you've lived, the path your feet have trod. Perhaps you've let your Bible lay upon the sneii in oust, And then you'll find, when it's too late, the things in which yon trust, And things for which you've spent, your life, your money and your time, Are not the means that bring you peace and joy that is sublime; So stop, dear one, upon your path and let the preacher pray And help you find the God of love ere ends life's little day. You say the preacher ought to be in every needy place, And ought to wear a sunny smile and have a cheerful face; He ought to study, preach and pray, and visit all the ill, And ought to be an honest man and settle every bill; He ought to keep his family up and educate them, too, And run his car and visit much, and be a shepherd true; And if he fails on anything, although he's done no sin, Tou think you ought to get him out and put another in; And yet, perhaps, the truth is this, you didn't-dpiyour part, And now you have a guilty soul, a sinful, wicked heart. .. ^ -X*': *' ■ * ' 0 yes, yen pass the preacher by and have but little thought Of how he'* labored in your midst—ho* faithfully he's taught— To-save your preoious soul from hell, and save your children, too, And help you on the narrow way with pil I / grims that are true. Tou spend your money and your life for pleasures of the land, And never stop to visit 1dm, nor give a helping hand;* Tou do not help support the church, nor even pay your dues, ITor help the preacher's family oh with food and clothes and shoes, Though you expect him on his job, faithful and true indeed, But never ask if he is well, or has a single Activities Of Colored First Boptist Church The Knights of Daniel Boys of the First Baptist charch that played in a basketball game and won over a Woodlawn school bas ketball team in a score of 49 to 37 at the Lincoln Heights school Tuesday afternoon, March 29, at 2:00 o'clock, are now playing a return game with the same team with details to 'be announced later. On the following Wednesday afternoon that the Knights o Daniel Cluib was engaged in ree reation, ' the church-sponsorei Scout Troop 187 was busy, undei direction of its able Scout master Robert Lee Redmon, cleaning the ! church grounds in an effort tc Leo's Electric Shoj 511 Sth Street NORTH WIllKESBORO, N. C. Phone 557-J Contracting, Supplies and Fixtures We service any make electric Stove or Water Heater LEO ANDERSON Qualified Electrician co-operate With the city In its Clean-Up ci mpaign. N Several >rganlzatSons of the church th t are oomposad of male memt »rs have pledged to put In a fi w hoars of labor In cleaning th< Woodlawn cemetery on Thursda ' evening from 4:00 to 6:30 p. n . Plane will he work ed out at i lis time for farther clean-up effirts in the communi ty.—Contributed. rir mum If'lH VI li'irfiK 1 Sunday American Comics In S | Big Sections. 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