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The Journal - Patriot INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Published Mondays and Thursdays at North Wilkesboro, North Carolina JULIUS C. HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER Publishers 1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?1945 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 (In Wilkes 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 postoffice at North Wilkes boro, North Carolina, as Second-Class matter under Act of March 4, 1897. Monday, November 14,1949 Suggestions For Moiling During Holiday Season One of the bad habits of a great ma jority of people is their neglect to do what they should do when they should do it, and then try to pass the buck for failure. This is overwhelmingly true in mailing cards and packages during the holiday season. All too often we fail to mail cor rectly and early and then blame the de lay on the postal department. A digest of Postoffice Department sug gestions for holiday mailing was prepared by M. F. Bumgarner, Wilkesboro post master, and is published as follows. Fol lowing these suggestions will make sure that your mail gets to the proper parties at the right time: Prepay postage fully on all matter. Buy your stamps before the Christmas rush. Give plain and complete address: zone, street, route numbers, etc. Put your re turn address on upper left hand corner. Inclose packages in strong boxes or other containers. Tie well with strong cord, but do not seal unless you use print ed labels with permission to open for postal inspection. 100 inches is the limit in size for length plus distance around the package. 70 pounds is the limit of weight. Place Christmas seals or stiskers on any side except the address side. You may write "Do not open until Christmas" on Christmas packages, and simple salutations, such as "Merry Christ mas," may be inclosed in third or fourth class packages. Do not inclose any per sonal message, but you may fasten a 3 cent letter on the face of your package. If you mail anything perishable, have it so endorsed before mailing. Parcels may be sent special delivery or special handling by the payment of spec ial fees depending on weight of package. It is well to register or insure Christ mas gifts, registry applying mainly to small, valuable gifts. Send greeting cards by first class mail, and have your return address on them. Thus they can be forwarded or returned in case of need, and can contain written messages. If you have several greeting cards to mail at one time, face them all one way and tie them in a bundle. If any of them bear particles of glass, mica, tinsel, or other irritating matter, inclose them in envelopes, seal them, and pay first class rate of postage. Be sure to mail early for Christmas. Mail for distant states should be dispatch ed before December 10, and greeting cards for local delivery should be mailed not later than December 15, to insure their being delivered before Christmas Day. Postmasters and mailing clerks wiil be glad to answer questions and give further information in regard to Christmas mail ing. o Christmas Seals have been sold annual ly in the United States since 1907. o It is no accident that American indus try leads the world. There is a great deal of planning by both employers and employ ees. Planning to prevent accidents is in cluded. The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles urges all workers to in clude safety-mindedness in their plans for successful work, long life, sound health and home happiness. It Is Sportsmanship To Support Your Home Team This is not intended to tell anyone to support any one team at any time, but is merely an observation on what we term sportsmafnship and the attitude of a sportsman. All are aware of the keen rivalry which has existed between the schools of the Wilkesboros in athletic contests. But this rivalry should apply only to games be tween teams of the two schools, and should not be stretched out to the point where supporters of one school will yell for an outside opponent of the other school. Regardless of the fact that two schools exist here, the Wilkesboros make up one community, and it would be true sports manship for those of one school to support the other against an opponent from an other community or another part of the state. It has been evident in recent years that part of the people in both Wilkesboros, probably a minority, get too much pleas ure from defeats suffered by home com munity teams at the hands of outside op ponents. It is difficult to understand this atti tude, in view of the fact that a good per formance by either team gives good pub licity to this entire community and coun ty. The people at a distance from here who learn of achievements in this com munity care little about which side of the Yadkin has the schoolhouse where the winning team has headquarters. People on both sides of the Yadkin are guilty. Let us cultivate better sportsman ship to the fullest possible extent. o The North Carolina Department of Mo tor Vehicles says an appalling number of traffic accidents are caused by this driv ing philosophy: "Everybody does it. I guess I can get by with it too." Don't let such an idea kill you. LIFE'S BETTER WAY : WALTER E. ISENHOUP High Point, N. C., Routr -? DO YOU PRAY FOR YOUR PASTOR A young minister had just settled in his first pastorate in Philadelphia, when he was visited one evening by one of the laymen in his church. The man said to him: "You do not seem to be a strong preacher. In the usual order of things you will fail here, but a little group of us have agreed to gather every Sunday morn ing to pray for you." The young man saw that group of young people grow to more than one thousand persons, all praying weekly for the pastor. He was J. Wilbur Chapman, who grew to become one of the greatest preachers America has ever known. Oh that our churches everywhere had a group of godly members who would meet on Sunday morning and pray for their pastors! Why not? No doubt many a dear pastor who loves the Lord and his people hardly ever hears of anyone who is praying for him. They expect him to visit the sick, bury the dead, marry the lovers, go among his members continually and keep them coming to church, and help them with their problems, their tests and trials, study and prepare his messages, and perhaps teach a class in Sunday school, be in prayer meeting every Wednesday, and maybe hold cottage prayer meetings among his parishioners once a week, hold revivals, help the poor and needy, win souls, take care of his family, educate his children, and prove a blessing to every body in the community, yet they never meet to pray for him. Oftentimes mem bers of our churches expect the pastor to J do all the work while they sit back and look on. Many even fail to speak an en couraging word, and certainly quite a number never support their pastor financ ially. Usually a faithful few among our church members have to support the church, while others drift carelessly along and seem to feel no responsibility. We believe almost any pastor that is godly and prayerful, even though not highly educated, could make a great suc cess in the pastorate as a soul-winner and shepherd of the flock, if he had a real praying, tithing, faithful membership, In stead of finding fault of your pastor, if he is a godly man, try praying for him very sincerely. Pray for him through the week, and pray for him very earnestly on Sun day morning, and see how good he preaches, and how successful he will be. Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Myers celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary Tuesday, November 1st, at their home at Hays. Mr. Myers is 74 years old and Mrs. My ers 70. They have two daughter* Mrs. Avery Whit tington, of Elkin, and Mrs. Rudd McNeil of Hays, and six grandsons. IT'S G9LDEN Al Go G R E YH OUN El "HOW THIS TOWN HAS GROWN!' men T^ In the Piedmont Carolinas, every town. From the quietest county seat or the busiest industrial center you hear the same story ? "How this town has grown!" t At the Duke Power Company we need no statistics from the Census Bureau to con firm this growth. We gauge it by your unprecedented demand for power. In every growing town, each of you is calling for twice os much electricity as the overage customer used ten years ago. Such demand keeps us on the double run . . . planning, investing, and building so that you may have power where and when you want it as a Raw Material for Profit and a Source of Happier Living. DUKEp POWER COMPANY th /vuLrruorrti Cosuduruxk
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