The Joeriai - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS V Hl'BBARD ?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Publishers
1938?DANIEL J. CARTER?1946
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Entered at the poetoffice at North Wllkee
Doro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter
unrtei Act of March 4. 1879
Monday, September 5, 1949
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Labor Day And
Social Security
Monday, September 5, is Labor Day?
a legal holiday in honor of, or in the in
terest of the working man. It is entirely
proper that this one day should be set
aside as a courtesy to our millions of
workers, for they are the very backbone
of our great Nation. The initiative, de
pendability and resourcefulness of the
American worker have characterized him
as a symbol of efficiency. In peace and in
war, the world looks amazedly upon the
American workingman as a superman of
accomplishment.
Still, there comes that time when even
the best of workers must reluctantly lay
aside their gloves. Our most able men
have experienced this inevitableness. It
isn't always easy to accept. And what
after they have stopped working?
Today, thanks to the passage of the
Social Security Act in 1935, American
workers in commerce and industry have a
provident advantage over their fore
fathers. At age 65 or over, whether re
tirement is desired or forced, they are not
faced with a total loss of income so long
as they are insured wor' ers under the
Federal Insurance program. Their Social
Security card is like an insurance policy.
It represents an insurance account with
the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors In
surance. As. a truly social insurance, it is
a stimulus to independence. At retire
ment, it provides the basis for maintain
ing the aged worker's home and for keep
ing his family intact.
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance pro
vides protection not only for the retired
worker but to his survivors, regardless
of the worker's age, at death. A widow of
an insured worker, with minor children in
her care, has a world of protection under
Social Security.
The American worker needs to remem
ber that his Social Security card is like an
insurance policy. The name and number
on the card identifies his insurance ac
count with Uncle Sam. Detailed informa
tion concerning the various types of SociaT
Security may be secured at the nearest
Social Security office. That office serves
the workingman as his Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance representative. Workers
and their families in this area are served
by the Salisbury, N. C. office located in
the Post Office Building, Room 301. A
representative of the Salisbury office vis
its North Wilkesboro each Thursday morn
ing at 9:45 o'clock. He may be seen at
that time at the Town Hall.
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WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High Point, N. C., Route 4
WIELDING A BAD INFLUENCE
It is a serious thing to wield a bad in
fluence. Perhaps the vast majority of
people do not realize this, nevertheless it
is a fact. We do not doubt but that mul
titudes of people whose influence is bad
hardly stop to give it a serious thought.
They go on, across the years of life on
the wrong road, leading, and helping to
lead, others in the same direction, some
day to wake up to the fact that life, with
its golden opportunities, is wasted, and
that they have helped to waste other lives
and the precious opportunities that justly
belonged to them. 0 that many would
wake up to this fact!
Men and women who drink, use pro
fane language, commit adultry, or live
worldly, ungodly lives, wield a bad in
fluence. Fathers and mothers who leave
God out of their lives, neglect the church
and Sunday school, and fail to set the
right examples before their children, wieli
a bad influence. They may be helping to
make lawless citizens of their sons and
daughters instead Christians, ladies and
gentlemen. Think of it! We know that the
influence of parents certainly counts, and
if they leave God out of their lives and
homes, and have no family altar, and do
not love and cherish the Holy Bible, they
may be helping pave the way for their
children to wreck and ruin, to failure and
to hell. We are made to wonder often
times at the bad influence of parents.
They do not pray, nor go to church and
Sunday school, and maybe allow their chil
dren to read bad literature, keep bad
company, run wild with the wicked row
dies of the country, and perhaps if their
sons and daughters miserably fail in life,
even becoming criminals, they greatly
wonder why it is. Well, don't wonder. The
wonder would be if they should make
good with such poor environment?such
bad environment. 0 the power of in
fluence, either for right or wrong, good
or bad! Think seriously of your influence.
It will have eternal results.
Graduate Center
Te Be Held Here
By A.S.T. College
Boone. ?- Appalachian State
Teachers college will open an
extension graduate center in the
Wilkesboros (North Wilkesboro
or Wilkesboro) for the schoc'
year 1949-50.
Two courses will be offered
from 4:00 to 6:00 p. m., and
two courses from 7:00 to 9:00
p. m. on Thursdays of each week
for ten weeks, and on the college
campus for five class meetings
on Saturdays. The courses given
will be those for which there is
greatest demand. Registration
will be on September 15 at 7:00
p. m.
Each course will carry three
quarter hours credit. A total of
nine quarter hours may be earn
ed in extension courses toward
meeting the requirements for
the Master of Arts degree at Ap
palachian State Teachers college
Two graduate courses done In
extension will be accepted as the
equivalent of a six-weeks term.
The faculty for the courses f
the graduate center will be mem
bers of the regular college fac
ulty.
The extension graduate center
is under the direction of Chapell
Wilson, dean of the graduate
school at Appalachian.
Keep Calm?Stay Happy and
Healthy. Millions of people, es
pecially women, habitually suffer
from needless fatigue and other
chronic ailments because they
put too much emotion and en
ergy into trivial matters. Read
what noted Mayo Clinic doctor
says about some women wasting
?10 worth of energy on a ten
cent problem in "Why Get Excit
ed" appearing in September 11
issue of The American Weekly,
Nation's Favorite Magazine Witb
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