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Monday, July 11, 1949
Sidewalks Needing
More Attention *
In spite of the great increase in number
of automobiles, there are many people who
by choice or necessity must walk to get
where they are going. Everybody does not
have cars.
We make this observation to note that
many of the sidewalks in North Wilkes -
boro are in poor condition and in need of
repair. There are also a number of blocks
which are badly in need of sidewalks.
In this connection we qnote the follow
ing comment by an elderly citizen:
"City Fathers: Will yon kindly enlighten
me as to why our streets are of so much
more importance than our sidewalks: Our
streets are maintained and kept in pretty
smooth shape, while plenty of our walks
are about as smooth as a quarry works.
Is it because feet and legs are not as im
portant as tires on pleasure and joy rid
ing cars? We older people, M well as the
young, are taking chances of breaking a
leg or two, not counting their parts of the
body, every time we step on some of the
rough walks. And if we are fortunate
enough not to fall and get broken up, we
have to take off our soaked shoes and
socks when we get home if the weather
is rainy. There are too many unstocked
fish pohds on our sidewalks.
"Poor people and others who walk are
entitled to some consideration, as well as
those who sit on springed cushions and
ride along on smooth streets. Better at
tention to sidewalks certainly would be
appreciated by pedestrians."
One badly needed sidewalk project is
from uptown to Memorial Park. There is
no walking space along Wilkesboro Ave
nue to the park and pedestrians are in
danger there every night. During the base
ball and football seasons there are thous
ands who walk to Memorial Park, taking
advantage of one of the best forms of
community recreation afforded. These
pedestrians are entitled to a sidewalk,
where they would have some measure of
safety and be protected from the hazards
of walking in mud and water.
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Control Not Solution
To Liquor Problem
Newspapers continually have articles
and editorials for or against legalized sale
of intoxicating liquor.
If all the space use£ in those arguments
were nsed to try to get people to drink
less, or to drink no liquor, the space
would be used to better advantage.
Prohibitionists will argue that it is
wropg for the government to enter the
liquor business and that prohibition by
law%is the better course. The ABC advo
cates use columns and columns to point
out that it is better for the government
to get the profits than it is the bootlegger.
But the fact remains that liquor is a
disastrous and potent evil, whether it is
purchased in an ABO store, a rot-gut sa
loon, a palatial cocktail parlor, or from
the negro bootlegger.
The great volume of liquor consumed
in this country is an ever present threat
to the nation's stability. Drunkenness and
Stability do not go together.
The people of the United States are
spending more each year for liquor than
their combined expenditures for educa
A.in— churches and charity.
Effortl should be directed toward low
storef nor bootlegger, can flourish
«.e <«*■
tal abstinence from use of liquor. Schools
can follow up with frank and revealing
courses about the evils of alcohol. Every
child before reaching the age of youth
should know the facts about what alcohol
is doing to wreck lives. ' They should
learn that a large percentage of , social
drinkers finally become alcoholics—total
wrecks, complete failures.
Every child should know that his future
depends upon refraining from use of in
toxicating drinks. Every child should
know that employers refuse jobs to ha
bitual drinkers, and that the first drink
is the first step-toward becoming an out
cast that nobody wants to employ.
Why accept the fact that people are
go&g to drink large quantities of liquor
and will continue to do so? Why take the
defeatists' attitude that nothing can be
done about it?
Why not direct more attention to edu
cating the public to the evils and danger
of alcohol?
Taking the liquor business from the
bootleggers, dressing it up and putting it
on Main street will not make it any less
dangerous, nor will that move save lives
from being wrecked by drink.
Neither will prohibition laws make
safe your children from life as drunk
ards.
Liquor contains alcohol, and alcohol is
detrimental to the human mind and body.
The place it is purchased from makes lit
tle difference. The stamp on the bottle
will not save the consumer from evil ef
fects. It is a killer, regardless of whether
it comes from an iced cocktail glass in a
palatial parlor, or from a fruit jar in the
bootlegger's back room.
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• LIFE'S BETTER WAY c I
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Rout'* 4
WHAT ARE YOU LIVING FOR?
We are not responsible for coming in
to this world, but we are responsible foi;
the way we live and how we go out. This
responsibility is great and solemn. How
are we treating it? What are you living
for? As for my part I am living for God
and my lellowmen.
Every person should have a purpose
that is good, great and worth while. No
one should live for the wrong purpose
When one's life is given to God fully we
know that he aims high, plans well and
has a purpose that is worthy to live by
and die by.
Are you living merely to exist? Do you
aim higher than just the temporal things
of life? Does your heart and soul, mind
and spirit rise heavenward and Godward,
or do you confine yourself only to the
things of time and of this world? Wliat
are you living for?
Many people seem to live only for
themselves. They want everything that
is earthly to come their way. They de
sire to take in, but have no interest in
giving out. Deep-rooted selfishness nev
er makes for greatness, nor for peace,
joy and happiness. It never makes for
blessing others, nor for the glory of God,
nor for Heaven.
Men who thirst for money and riches,
or for the things of this world, often d*
so by making the lives of others hard.
They seek to feather their nest by making
the nests of those about them thorny.
They live to gratify the carnal desires of
the flesh. Their interests center only in
this world, not heaven. He who does not
think nor prepare for anything beyond the
shores of time certainly lives too low.
His course is downward. The end will be
outer darkness forever.
Bird-watching, says a noted .orinthol
ogist, is an excellent antidote for neuroses,
In other words, a bird in the trash is worth
two bats in the belfry.—Pittsburgh Press.
o
A machine that is said to type a letter
and address an envelope is being shown at
an office equipment' exhibit in Chicago.
But can it also chew gum?—Kansas City
Star.
o
"As a novelexperiment, try telling the
exact truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth for la day," suggests a psy
chologist/ No, .thanks. We bruise easily.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Navy has perfected a device which
is being used to record the groans and
moans in White House timbers. It will
also come in useful for recording these
sounds in the armed forces whenever the
subject of unification comes up.—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
omen
IN TN« t
URCH
njarytimUr
"I'm not 'just teaching Eng
lish'; I'm teaching girls," says
Miss Alberta Tarr, of Walker,
Mo., missionary-teacher In the
Methodist Girls' School In Hiro
shima, Japan—the school in
Which more than 300 girls were
killed when the first atomic
bomb fell. "I'm teaching girls to
form habits of study, to think,
to form judgments, to be
thoughtful of one another, to ex
pect more of themselves than so
ciety expects, to use their study
opportunities for growing intr
worthy women, to develop a
wholesome self-respect. Through
the medium of English, I am at
tempting to lead them out oi
their narrow, Insular thought
world into an acquaintance with
and interest in people of other
lands and their problems. Witb
900 girls, this is a full-time job!
It means not only hours of teach
ing in the classroom, but also
many hours outside as well" . . .
The Ascension Lutheran
Church of Shelby, North Caro
lina (the Rev." J. D. Sheppard
pastor)., is bringing from a DF
camp in Bavaria, Miss Velta R
listers, a young graduate in
piano from a Riga conservatory
to be the church pianist and 1
choir director. , The church has J
agreed to furnish her home, and t
salary, an opportunity to teach i
piano to Shelby children, and <
lessons so that she may learn to, 4
play the organ. When the TJ. S. i
Lutheran Resttlement Service 1
fund that Miss listers had a fl- i
ance, the Shelby church also i
found a Job for him: Ringolds E.
Langins, a Latvian DP, a uni
versity agricultural graduate^
will become a plant specialist in
a wholesale flower concern near
Shelby. Later a job of housekeep
er was found for the bride-to
be's widowed mother. . All three
"adjusted persons'' will soon be
in America and in North Caro
lina.
Miss Nize Fernandez, a nativa
of Cuba, has been named prin
cipal of the Colegto Irene Toland,
missionary school of the Metho
dist Church, in Matanzas, Cuba.
She is the first Cuban woman
to head a Methodist school In
the half century the church has
carried on educational work on
the Island. Miss Fernandez be- j
came a teacher in church schools
upon her graduation from Cole
gio fiuenavista in Havana; re
ceived the degree of Bacheloi
from the Government Institute
in Matanzas and of Doctor of
Pedagogy from the University of
Havana, and has been on the
faculty of Oolegio Irene Toland
since 1933.
Miss Dorothy Edwards, a pub
ie health nurse, and Miss Rnth
Ltkins, an educator, both mis
lonarles of the Methodist church
a the Philippine Islands, re
ently took a mobile clinic into
he rural communities of Cagay
m Valley, Luzon Island, which
tad been occupied by the Japa
lese during th£ war. "I was
lumbfounded to find the chll
iren so nndernouiihed,
Miss Edwards. "Miliaria
befculosis are prevalent.
tary control is very poor,'
medical facilities are inadequal
We heard tales of desperate wj
experiences everywhere we wenj
Many of the families lost every
thing they had, but their spirit
is unbroken."
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