lotrul - Patriot
BNT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North Wiikesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C. HUBBARD—MR8. D. J. CABTEB
Publishers
1 1938—DANIEL J. CARTER—1MB
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Ons Year .. $2.00
(la Wilkes and Adjoining Counties)
One Year $8.00
(Outside Wilkes apd Adjoining Coundes)
Rates to Tttose in Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at* the postoffice at North Wilkea
bore, North Carolina, at Second-Class matter
under Act ef March 4, 1897.
Monday, June 12, 1950
Recreation Facilities x
At Smoot Pork Here
Smoot Park has been developed into a
recreation area for all ages.
The park area was purchased by the
town of North Wilkesboro several years
ago, and has served well as a place for
picnics and outdoor gatherings.
But until this year very little was ac
complished in making the park attractive
for children, and for adults.
The town is furnishing high type sup
ervision, with athletic coaches of the city
schools here on duty morning and after
noon daily. Civic clubs contributed a sub
stantial fund for equipment, which has
been purchased and is ready for use.
Much work has been done at the park in
preparing facilities for many sports and
games — a complete program of diversifi
ed recreation.
A program of recreation such as attemp
ted this year will do much to lower juve
nile delinquency here. During the past two
weeks the police arrested a group of
„ oung boys for stealing. Perhaps these
boys could have been saved had we had in
the years immediately past a place of re
creation and supervision.
Adults can use the park to great advan
tage for recreational purposes, and adults
must also furnish leadership and encourage
the children of the entire commuuity to use
thd park. The facilities will attract many
children, but those who are not attracted
should be encouraged to play at the park
and to release their energies in activities
which will build bodies and clean charac
ters.
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Opportunity To Hear
Hoover Commission Report
On June 22nd the Wilkes Junior Cham
ber of Commerce will bring to North Wil
kesboro Joseph L. Miller, former member
of the Hoover Commission On Reorganiza
tion of the Executive Branch of the Fed
eral Government.
Mr. Miller will address members of civic
clubs and others interested in a joint meet
ing to be hfeld at the V. P. W. hall.
The Jaycees have taken as a national
project the acquainting of the people
with provisions of the Hoover Commission
report, and to inform the people just what
is going on in government.
Some of the details of the report are truly
enlightening, and those who hear the com
mission member will have a good opportun
ity to have their eyes opened.
They will learn just how inefficient a
great part of our government has become,
and the desperate need of reorganizing and
streamlining for economy and greater re
sults. For instance, they will find that
some agencies of the federal government
spend many dollars just to pay a claim of
one dollar.
They will learn how bureaus and agen
cies overlap. They will earn how as many
as ten different agencies are engaged more
or less in the same governmental projects,
They will learn how these agencies compete
for more and more of the taxpayers' money
and how their government-paid press
agents beat the drums to keep the dollars
rolling in their respective directions.
All who can should avail themaalvea of
the opportunity to hear the commit
Reminder Of Conc.r
Cwtir Clinic Tuesdays
Each Tuesday a cancer center is con
ducted at the Wilkes courthouse to give
people the opportunity for cancer exami
nation. ,
Local physicians give their time and
work in making the examinations, aided
by facilities of the State and County Health
Departments.
There is no charge for^the examinations.
The center is maintained as a public ser
vice to cut down the terrible toll which
cancer takes yearly in lives.
The only hope of a cancer patient is
early treatment. There is no hope for ad
vanced cases which are neglected.
The cancer center encourages people to
be examined for cancer. If a cancer is
found in early stages there is opportunity
to stop it.
But on the part of the people there is a
tendency to put off until some later and
indefinite time what they know should be
done. In the case of cancer such procrastin
ation is fatal.
All over 40 are encouraged to have ex
amination for cancer, and those under 40
who have any reason to suspect they have
cancer should by all means take advan
tage of the opportunities for. examination
that the center affords.
J LIFE'S BETTER WAY ;
WALTER E. ISENHOUR
High P«nt, N. C, Route 4
EDUCATION FOR LIVING
(Marion Progress)
We read in a metropolitan newspaper
the other day that a large city high school
will teach its students how to talk plea
santly, how to use good English and how to
be at ease in the presence of potential em
ployers and other persons.
School officials have been led to institute
the new course because of the discovery
that many students, otherwise entirely
capable, have missed the opportunity for
jobs because of an inability to converse co
herently or use correct grammatical con
structions. Some of the students get tongue
tied in the presence of others, stutter, stam
mer and lose all power of fluent conversa
tion.
It seems to us that the idea has possibi
lities in all of our schools. The time has
long passed when school officials and
teachers can be satisfied with pumping
knowledge into the skulls of children. Edu
cation is, after all, primarily intended to
equip boys and girls for living. Very often
the student could afford tc know less about
mathematical language or history and more
about the art of getting along socially with
other human beings.
FOUNTAINS OF YOUTH
The man who has a little knowledge and
uses it right is greater than the man who
has much knowledge and uses it wrong.
When men get physically ill they want
the very best treatment possible for their
bodies, but it seems that the majority of
them who are spiritually ill are satisfied
with any kind of dope for their souls.
It is better to have a healthy soul in a
sickly body than a sickly soul in a healthy
body.
If evil for evil would make saints in
our communities we would have lots of
them.
It is a thousand times more honorable
to build a good chicken coop than a mighty
theatre.
It is far more honorable and praise
worthy to earn one honest dollar than
gain a thousand dishonest dollars.
Many may call you crazy if you take a
definite stand for holiness, and call others
wise who take a stand against it, but
it will be reversed at the day of judgement.
I had rather blaze a pathway of truth
than an attractive highway of error.
If you can show me one great, noble man
that the theory of evolution has made,
I can show a thousand that the Bible has
made.
A man may laugh at the things that
will damn him, but he will hopelessly
mourn when he is eternally damned.
I had rather live in the valley of godly
humility than glitter on the hill of pride.
Sooner or later God will exalt the humble
and abase the proud.
Merely fixing up the outside can never
make the inside beautiful. To paint your
face won't adorn your soul.
An ungodly man's language may be
strong, but his character is weak; a godly
man's character is strong, but his language
may be weak.
Give me the company of the poor and
godly rather than the rich and ungodly.
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J. A. Arey, in charge of dairy
work for the State College Ex
tension Service, announced this
week that North Carolina now
ranks eighth in the nation in the
number of artificial breeding as
sociations and in the number of
dairy herds being served under'
this program.
Arey's figures came from s
report released by the U. 3. De
partment of Agriculture. The re
port showed that North Carolina
ranked first in the South in
number of associations and herds.
However, Tennessee, Louisiana
and Kentucky all rank ahead of
the Tar Heel State in number.of
cows being served. Apparently
North Carolina associations are
more scattered and serve smaller
herds, says Arey.
North Carolina has 60 associa
tions serving 9,186 herds and 49,
322 cows. Twenty-four bulls are
used in supplying the associations.
Wisconsin leads the nation with
411,566 cows enrolled, followed by
New York with 287,044 cows.
Other high ranking states were
Pennsylvania, Ohia, Iowa, Minne
sota, and Michigan.
Th&Jotal number of dairy cows
enrolled in the associations in
1949 approached the three million
marie. One cow in nine is expected
to be artificially bred in 1950.# As
sociations are now operating in
47 states and Alaska.
Boomer Club Meets
Boomer Lunch Room
The Boomer Home Demonstra
tion clnb met at the Boomer
school lunch room, May 15th, with
Mrs. Charlie German as hostess
and Mrs. Bill Walsh co-hostess. A
large number of ladies had the
privilege of having Miss Addie Ma
lone, of the Duke Power Company,
demonstrate the correct methods
of freezing foods. Miss Malone
discussed various packaging ma
terials now available for home
use. She then prepared chicken
and strawberries for freezing.
These foods were given to Mrs.
Greene to be placed in the freezer
at the County Home Demonstra
tion Kitchen to be used later
in a demonstration on cooking
frozen foods. All the women are
looking forward to having Miss
Malone visit our club again when
she will prepare dinner, using
these frozen foods. After the
freezing demonstration the club
entered into the business session
in the usual way. The secretary
called the roll and read last
month's minutes, which were ap
proved by the club. Several reports
were given to the club by the
president and secretary. At this
time many beautiful home-made
articles were sold to the club
members, which added to our club
treasury. After this a stork show
er was given to one of our club
members. The next meeting of the
club will be at the home of Mrs. G.
W. VanMeter, June 19th at 2:00
AH members are asked to be pre
sent for this meeting. The club
adjourned and delicious refresh
ments were served to the club
by the hostess. — Reported by
Mrs. O. B. Smith.
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to having a hospital (or the tint
time la the century-old history of
the county.
Voters of u»e county Saturday
overwhelmingly approved the levy
tag ot an annual maintenance tax
of 10 centa per $100 valuation, It
needed, to support the hospital.
The approval of the mainten
ance tax was one of the conditions
tacked on a $40,000 gift for the
structure by Zeno Hoots of Win
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ston-Salem, in honor of hie late
wife, Mrs. Lula Conrad Hoots.
The other eoaditiottB are that
fh« hospital he (Greeted ih.or near,
the town of Yadkinrllle and that
it be named In honor ot Mr*.
Hoote.
Attorney J. T. Eeece of the ho«
pttal hoard of trustee# Mid today
that he would get in totch with
the North Carolina Medical Care
CottmiMlon Immediately to find
hand, Mr. Reeee Mid all that is
needed Is "the rite, a contract and
then we can en to work on It
right awaj.
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