The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkeaboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MRS. D. J. CARTER Publisher* 10SS—DANIEL J. CARTER—104K SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year „ $2.00 (la Wttkee 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 WUkeeboro, N' rth Carolina, as Sesond-Clsss matter under t ct of Mar oh 4, 1870. Monday, April 25,1949 Clean-Up Week Is Here In Wilkes ■ ••v. * 5"^jd . .■< This is Glean-Up Week, the event you have been waiting for if you have not carried out a Clean-Up campaign on your own premises. During the past week much effort has been put forth by committees in charge of the event to impress upon the people the importance of making more beautiful the appearance of homes, streets, places of business and public property. s It is worth repeating that impressions can carry great weight. The first impression of your community gained by a visitor can change its entire future. Industrialists have been known to locate great industries in communities which impressed them as being neat, beautiful and where people had much civic pride. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," is an old quotation familiar to us all. We might also add that cleanliness is a great help to sanitation and public health. There are so many intangible benefits that it is impossible to list them all. In view of the fact that everything is in favor of a more beautiful place in which to live and do business, let us all resolve to carry out much clean-up and beautification work during the coming week, regardless of what we may have already accomplished this spring. Rights Must Be Earned In A Democracy Albert S. Goss, Master of The National Orange, has written a telling editorial on the important subject of "Human Rights Versus Human Responsibility." He points ' out that the General Assembly of thte United Nations has officially stressed rights which are theoretically owed the individu- j al by the state, such as the right to rest and leisure, protection against unemployment, housing and medical care and other forms of social security. Then Mr. Goss writes: "We believe the United Nations is tackling the whole question of human rights wrong end first . . . What the world really needs is a Declaration of Human Responsibility! People need to learn that they cannot expect something for nothing. Furthermore, self-government falls when a majority fails to realize that they must contribute as much as they take out. For example, the impossible economic situation in France today is the result of the people demanding more of the government than, they give ... 'It is high time we return to the simple philosophy of willingness to work." One great difficulty that must be met by the framers of any United Nations declaration of policy is that they must satisfy scores of nations and governments which subscribe to every kind and form of political theory. However, the peoples of the free countries, the United States included, have gone a long way down the deadly path that leads to complete governmental domination of our lives. The 'gimme' spirit has reached tragic proportions. At.i1 so has the idea that government "owes" us protection against every possible exigency. To quote Mr. Goss again, "Rights must be earned through the exercising of responsibility." In a free country, the peo