The Joirul - Patriot
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Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesfcoro, North Carolina
JULIUS c. HUBBA.RO—MRS. D. J. GARTER
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ISM—DANIEL J. CARTER—1141
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One Year . $2.00
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One Year $8.00
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Entered at the postoffloe at North Wllkes
boro, North CaroUna, as Seoond-Claaa matter
under Act of March 4, 187S.
Monday, June 13, 1949
New Graduates Now
Face Responsibilities
If all the advice to high school gradu
ates at this time of the year were laid end
to end ... it would be a good thing.
But there are certaux observations
which can be made without adding to the
volumnous amount of advice and counsel
handed down in commencement oratory.
The high school graduate in this age
faces numerous responsibilities which are
new. Many will continue their education,
and with competition becoming keener
year after year, they will find that higher
education will be so useful as to be term
ed essential. The average high school edu
cation, it is noted with regret, has too
little of practical value without further
education or practical training in the field
of experience.
Instead of directing much advice to
graduates, which wouldn't be followed
anyway, we would warn those students
who have not yet reached the 12th grade
to stay in there and complete high school,
regardless of obstacles. Students who
drop out of school now are going to find
the going rough in years to come. There
are already numerous employers in this
country who will not consider a job ap
plicant without a high school education,
although the work to be done requires
little scholastic knowledge. As a greater
percentage of young people finish high
school the odds against those who drop
out of high school are going to increase
and the lack of a high school education
will become a greater handicap year after
year.
xne graaume in must uiaiauucs una
been dependent npon parents until gradu
ation. For those who do not choose fur
ther education, graduation represents a
transition from dependency to responsi
bility. They will be faced with the tough
task of earning their own livelihood and
making their own homes. Incidentally,
they will soon face the problems, finan
cially and otherwise, which their parents
had to face and solve in order to provide
them with education. This transition may
also mean an awakening on the part of
the young man or young woman to the
tough problems of life. The way and man
ner the graduate goes to work on these
problems will determine the kind of life he
or she will live, and will ultimately meas
ure the success or failure in later life.
Funds Are Needed
For Cancer Work
A belated campaign is under way to
raise $2,000 for cancer work, part of
which would be used in Wilkes county and
part to the American Cancer Society for
continued and diligent research in efforts
to'conquer this killer.
Work of the cancer detention center
now being operated every Tuesday shows
that cancer funds are needed. Already
several cases have been found which may
be cancer and which may be cured by
early treatment. It takes funds to educate
people to the desperate need of early
diagnosis of cancer in order that early
treatment can save their lives from cer
tain death.
Some day medical science will find
means of cure for cancer, and ways of
preventing its occurence. But until that
happens, the best that can be done is to
discover cancer early and use known
methods of stopping it before fatal dam.
age is done. All of this takes money, and
the American Oancer Society, through its
many chapters throughout the country,
seeks to raise that money.
Letters have been mailed to hundreds
of people in Wilkes asking for a small
donation, or as much as the donor feels
inclined to give. Many of the letters have
been returned with contributions. In many
other instances there has been neglect and
procrastination on the part of those who
intend to give but have not got around to
it. There is no better time than now to
send in that contribution.
BUTTER AND EGG RACKET
(The Elkin Tribune)
The state, in tracking down and ar
resting George Smith, termed the ring
leader in a huge "butter and egg" racket
in North Carolina, has no doubt interrupt
ed and perhaps thrown off the track a
racket that has been spreading corruption
in many places and in many ways.
This butter and egg racket has been
flourishing for years, and that it is a lush
business for those at the top of the ring
goes without saying. Missions of dollars
have been fleeced from victims who can
not resist laying a bet on the line.
A series of articles, written by a Win-,
ston- Salem newspaperman, has shown |
.that the evils of the racket not only affect
those who foster it and those who support
it, but have slipped into higher places in
the form of "protection" from public of
ficials and police officers.
This writer has personally seen what
the racket can do. Twenty years ago a
proof reader on a North Carolina daily
newspaper was caught in the act of
changing correct market quotations which
appeared in the newspaper for which he
worked into ficticious figures which suited
the intention of the racket leaders of his
city. The proof reader lost his job as the
racket continued its merry way.
It is to be hoped that George Smith,
who from all reports is an unsavory char
acter, will get his just desserts, and that
his henchmen will also be nabbed and the
racket broken up. But it is doubtful that
such will be the case, for so long as there
are suckers to plank their money down,
there will always be those ready to reap
the harvest.
Sometimes we are inclined to think
that those gullible enough to play such
rackets deserve all they can get. For if
it were not for them—supposedly law
abiding citizens—such rackets and cor
rution could not exist. It is ironical that
the law must protest them from them
selves.
® LIFE'S BETTER WAY e
WALTER E. I5ENHOUR
High Point, N. C-, Route ,4
DON'T THINK IT SMART
Don't think it smart, my little lad,
To form a habit that is bad
' Because it's practiced by the throng
That takes no thought for right or wrong;
But stop and think that what you do
Will have direct effect on you,.
And out in future days and years
The wrong will bring you bitter tears.
Don't think it smart, my little lad,
To follow custom, fashion, fad,
That says it's nice to chew and smoke,
Or drink, or tell a smutty joke;
That it is fine to be a sport,
Though evil things you have to court;
But keep in mind and truly know
You'll have to reap the seed you sow.
Don't think it smart., my little lad,
To even follow your own dad
In anything that isn't right,
Although he seems a man of might;
For many dads don't follow God,^
Nor go the way good men have trod;
Therefore to follow as they lead,
Their sons could not in life succeed.
Don't think it smart, my little lad,
But quite deplorable and sad,
To start in early life in sin,
And thus in doing so begin
The wrong career, which you'll bewail,
Somewhere along your rugged trail, '
And maybe end in dark despair
Beyond the reach of God through prayer.
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It's only manly to be good
And nobly live, as all men should;
To cherish honesty and truth
In days of childhood and of youth;
To walk uprightly and be clean,
Nor yield to anything that's mean;
Yes, follow God in ev*ry plan
And be in Ufe and soul a mam.
Car Registration
In North Carolina -
Near Million Mark
Raleigh Motor vehicle regis
tration In North Carolina reach
ed 900,330 today, only 58,212
below registration for the entire
year of 1948, the North Caro
lina Department of Motor Ve
hicles announced.
^*The current figure represent
% a gain of 54,846 over the
same period last year. Total reg
istration for 1948 was 958,642.
If present gains are maintained,
registration Is expected to break
the million mark before Decem
ber 1.
Meanwhile, latest compilations
show that new trucks and cart
were brought into the State and
sold during April at the rate of
356 per day. New car registra
tion for April totaled 7,197 as
compared with 5,165 for last
Agk-il, Ntew truck registrations
numbered 2,054, a drop from
the 2,949 registered in April,
1948.
The April figures brought tc
24,481 the total of new cars
brought into the State this year.
Trucks sold in the State through
April totaled 7,595.
Ford led In car sales for April
with 1,610 registered, followed
closely by Chevrolet with 1,556
sales, iln truck sales, Chevrolet
led with 964. Ford was second
with 443.
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