i Thursftoy, January. 7 1937 _
1937 A. D.
Another milestone in our steady march toward the
grave has been passed and here we are getting ready to
write something else about Will Holcomb, the man who, we
thought, gave us a bottle of pop for a Christqias present back
in 1935. We've found, however, that that bottle of pop also
represented our Christmas present for 1936, 1937, 1938 and
probably 1939. One bottle of pop to cover a four-year
period!
Always pretty much of
Holcomb has tightened up du
cutting down on his electric light
bill, having equipped all light
sockets with bulbs so small he has
to strike a match to see how to
turn them off.
And it's being told he burned
up three dollars 'worth of gasoline
the day before Christmas driving
about the country trying to run
over an old hen for Christmas
dinner.
So far as we know, Mr. Holcomb
hasn't made any New Year's res
olutions, but we understand M.
Q. Snow has. It is said he has
resolved not to make any resolu
tions that will cost him anything.
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THANK YOU
FOR A GENEROUS PATRONAGE
DURING 1936
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Your patronage and friendship during the past
year has meant much to us and to you all we want
to express sincere thanks with the wish that dur
ing 1937 we may continue to serve you. It is our
hope that 1937 will be a fine year for you all.
IN ORDER TO START THE NEW
YEAR RIGHT
m order to make a fl-esh start for 1937 we will appre
ciate it very much If those who are behind in their ac
counts here will come in and bring them up to date.
Should It be that for reasons best known to yourself
you are unable to pay the entire account, come in, pay
what you can and let's make arrangements about the
balance. Your cooperation in this matter will be sin
cerely appreciated.
Turner Drug Co.
Phone 64 Elkin, N. C.
i spendthrift, it appears Mr.
ing the last year. He's even
That's one resolution that will
be kept.
But switching from our local
citizens to larger matters, did you
know that the sun is one million
times larger than the earth? And
that there are other suns in this
universe that could comfortably
accommodate on their insides mil
lions and millions of suns the size
of ours? Not that we expect you
to do anything about it, of course.
We were reading an article last
night by the late Arthur Bris
bane, in which he was reveiewing
a book dealing with the size of
the universe. It dealt in dis
tances and figures that man's
feeble mind cannot even begin to
grasp. Yet some folks on the
earth, a mere speck of dust in our
own particular corner of the uni
verse, frequently get the big head
and an overstuffed opinion of
their own importance.
But enough of that. What wor
ries us now is that Mrs. Weir is
mad at us because we failed to
publish her letter to Santa Claus
a week or so before Christmas. It
was purely oversight on our part
and we promise we won't overlook
her next year.
This column was written last
year on the last day of the year.
But as you thumb past it to the
local page, it's 1937. Wonder what
THE EMtN TRIBUNE, ELKIN.|fORTH CAROLINA
the new year will bring? It is
probable that some of you wont
be here to witness the birth of
another year. Who knows? We
might not be hers ourself. For
some the new year holds Joy and
prosperity; for others, suffering
and misfortune. What a blessing
we can't peer into the future and
see what's in store. '
During the year to ensue, there
are now living in the United States
alone approximately 25 or 30
thousand people who are destined
to be killed by automobiles. There
are thousands who, before anoth
er new year rolls around, are des
tined to be crippled, perhaps for
life. Yet we work up all sorts of
horror when the newspapers tell
of several hundred soldiers killed
in Spain and pay scant attention
to the THOUSANDS of men, wo
men and children whose lives are
daily snuffed out on our own
highways. Can it be t|iat folks
killed in a war should be worried
about more than folks killed in
an automobile accident? Are
they any deader?
If the United States should go
to war everyone would immedi
ateljr start tearing their hair over
the horror of men being slaugh
tered, and would cry to the hea
vens over the casuaty list. Yet
it's a fact that only a few people
pay more than scant attention to
the small headlines which, at the
end of a year, point out that over
30,000 have been killed and a hun
dred thousand or so injured on the
highway*.
Somehow, it doesn't make sense.
You remember the recent infan
tile paralysis epidemic that made
its appearance in this state. You
remember how schools were closed,
children barred from theatres and
public places in the fight against
the disease which claimed only a
'hundred or so lives. And all the
time, everyone in this state was
in far more danger of suffering
death from an automobile than
(from an infantile paralysis germ.
But perhaps it was figured that
something could be done to halt
the death toll of the disease while
the auto death toll appears to be
with us forever in spite of half
hearted efforts to do something
about it.
One of the half-hearted efforts
to do something about the high
way death toll was the drivers' li
cense law passed in this state. So
far as we have been able to figure
out, this license law is about as
big a farce as anything we know
of. It didn't take incompetent
drivers from behind the steering
wheel. Anyone who said he or she
could drive had merely to apply
to receive a license. Why even
we got one.
"It's different in some of the
other states where laws have been
passed designed to weed out bad
drivers. We know of a young man
in New Jersey who was required
to put on glasses before his driv
er's permit was issued merely be
cause his eyes were not quite nor
mal. More than that, he had to
take a complete physical exami
nation, plus proving to a member
of the state highway patrol that
he really knew how to handle an
automobile and knew all the traf
fic laws. All drivers in that state
have to pass the same examina
tion.
In contrast, we know of a man
in this state who, in his entire
lifetime, hasn't driven an auto
mobile over 50 miles. He simply
hasn't had the practice and ex
perience to make a good driver.
Yet he got his drivers' license
without any trouble.
And now, to start the new year
off right, and while we are all
worked up into a bad humor, we'll
end by going on record with the
statement that the state school
bus system is the biggest disgrace
ever to blot the name of North
Carolina. Passenger buses are re
quired by the state to place ex
perienced drivers at the wheels of
their conveyances, while this
same state allows school boys to
take into the hollow of their
hands the lives of thousands of
school children who must need
ride the school buses if they are
to get an education.
Politics!
| SWAN"CREEK
Rev. N. T. Jarvis filled his ap
pointment at Swan Creek Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock. He read the
twelfth chapter of Romans. His
text being the first first verse of
the same chapter. His subject was
"Present your bodies a living sac
rafice." There was a very good
attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bell had as
their dinner guests Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. James Wagoner and
family, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Myers,
Mrs. Lizzie Swaim and family and
Rev. N. T. Jarvis.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Cheeks Saturday, January 2, a
fine baby boy. .
Mr. Ed. Forster, we are sorry to
--'V- * .• "
note, has been very ill for the past
week.
Mrs. Harrison Felts has been
confined to her bed for the last
week or so.
We are glad to know that Mrs.
W. C. Bell 1s improving after a
month or so of illness.
WILL NOT RE-SELL TO SPAIN
Washington, Jan. 3.—The Mex
ican government officially assur
ed the United States today that
airplanes and other war imple
ments purchased in this country
wil not be re-exported to Spain.
Don't watte a moment if you
your child tcmching. A
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