Chatham
WINSrON
Blanketeer
Vol. 3
JULY 16, 1935
No. 2
FUNERAL IS HELD
FOR W. W. GOUGH
Former Yadkin County Mam Dies
Suddenly Tuesday Morning
After Period of Bad Health
Funeral services for William
Henry Gough, 66, who died sud
denly in Winston-Salem Tuesday
morning, were conducted from the
home on West End Boulevard at
10 o’clock Thursday morning, and
at Deep Creek Baptist church in
Yadkin county at 11 o’clock, in
terment followed in the church
graveyard. Rev. Charles H. Stev
ens and Rev. Stanley S. May had
charge of the services.
Although a native of Yadkin
county, Mr. Gough had made his
home in Winston-Salem for the
past 15 years. He had been in
declining health for six months,
but apparently was better Tues-
f^ay morning when he went out
on the porch. He suddenly col
lapsed, dying within a few min
utes.
He was a carpenter by trade.
Since moving to this city he had
joined Salem Baptist church and
was a faithful member.
Surviving him are his wife, who
before marriage was Miss Mary
Williams, five daughters: Mrs.
Clinton Reeves, of Rockford; Mrs.
H. Templeton, of Danville, Va.;
and Misses Rebecca, Ruby and
Lucille Gough, all of Winston; six
sons: Anderson Gough, of Jones-
ville; T. H. Gough, of Florida;
W. W. Gough, of Mount Airy; H.
L., C. V., and T. J. Gough, all of
Winston-Salem. Twelve grand
children, one sister, Mrs. Mary
Spillman, of Cooleemee, two
brothers. Miles Gough, of Yadkin
and Doc Gough, of Anderson,
also survive.
Pallbearers were members of
his Sunday school class.
American Worker Most
Productive In the World
Income Produced Widely Spread! Among All Classes of Popu
lation; Wages 85 Per Cent of National Income
“Old Rugg*ed Cross’’
Most Popular Hymn
Over a nation-wide radio hook
up “Seth Parker” one Sunday
^ight asked his listeners to send
the name of their favorite
hymns. This is a list of the ten
hymns receiving the highest vote:
“The Old Rugged Cross”, 26,-
^Tl;' “Nearer, My God To Thee”,
20,688; “Abide With Me”, 20,316;
“Lead Kindly Light”, 19,935;
“Rock of Ages”, 16,880; “Jesus
Lover of My Soul”, 15,235; “In
the Garden”, 14,789; “Onward
Christian Soldiers”, 13,779; “Little
Brown Church”, 11,274; “Let the
Lower Lights Be Burning”, 9,784.
What is your favorite hymn?
Observation shows that the
productivity of the American
worker, reinforced with power
ar:d with improved machinery, is
the greatest in the world, and
that the income thus produced
has been widely spread amon^
all classes of the population.
If this were not the case, the
widespread distribution of mil
lions of automobiles, electricity,
refrigerators, telephones, radios
and individually owned houses
would have proved impossible.
There would not have been the
money to purchase them.
On the face of things, the ab
surdity of the mis-statements
that 2 per cent of the people re
ceive 60 to 80 per cent of our na
tional income is apparent.
As a matter of fact, if such a
poor distribution of wealth ex
isted, the very mass-production
and mass-consumption of goods,
in which the United States has led
foreign countries, would have
been impossible. Our great plants,
our millions of employed workers
would have been impossible.
In other words, the soap-box
orators, who have been poisoning
the public mind with false statis
tics, have been trying to explain
away a plain truth.
And this truth is almost direct
ly opposed to the false doctrines
which they preach.
As the Brookings Institute of
Washington has reported, those
who work for a living receive as
wages about 85 per cent of all the
national income.
The remaining 15 per cent goes
as a return on capital invest
ments MORE THAN HALF of
which is owned by INDIVIDUALS
OF MODERATE INCOME who
own the stock in our corporations.
Some corporations have more
small stockholders than employ-
6GS.
The figures are proved by a
study of the Federal income tax
statistics.
As a matter of fact, those re
ceiving incomes of $5,000 a year
or more in 1933 got less than 10
per cent of the entire national
income.
Those with incomes above $100,-
000 in 1932 and 1933 had less
than 1 per cent of the national
income.
It has further been figured
that if in 1933 the entire income
of all those receiving five thous
and dollars and more had been
confiscated by the government
and redistributed evenly to the
remaining 120,000,000 persons,
each person would have received
only $35 more each year.
Our real job is not of redivid
ing national income, but of in
creasing the total of our wealth
so that we will have more to di
vide. American experience shows
that most of the increases in our
national income will go Into
wages.
Before wealth can be distri
buted it must first be created.
Every employed worker is a part
ner in the creation of this wealth.
And any experiment which holds
back recovery prevents the crea
tion of new national wealth, cuts
the returns to the employee and
employer alike, leaves, us less
wealth to share, and prevents the
return of the jobless to regular
employment.
Be A Good Forg^etter
Be a good forgetter. Life is too
short to remember that which
prevents one from doing his best.
“Forgetting the things that are
behind, I press forward,” said a
brave old man in the first cen
tury. The successful man forgets.
He knows the past is irrevocable.
He lets the dead past bury its
dead. He is running a race. He
cannot afford tO' look behind. His
eye is on the winning post. The
magnanimous man forgets. He
is too big to let little things dis
turb him. He forgets quickly and
forgets easily. If anyone does him
wrong, he “considers the source”
and keeps sweet. It is only the
small man who cherishes a low
revenge. Be a good forgetter.
Business dictates it, and success
demands it.
FRANK’S REVIEW.
Larit year broke all existing re
cords in highway murder. More
men, women and children were
killed in traffic accidents than in
any other twelve-month period.
BLANKETEERS
WIN 4 AND TIE 1
Take your time, but be sure it’s
your own time you are taking.
Defeat Lenoir, Duke Power, Grey
hound Travelers and Thomas-
ville Chair Co.; Tie Mojuds
The Chatham Blanketeers end
ed a big week in baseball circles
Saturday with a win over Thom-
asville Chair Company to give
them a total of four wins and one
tie for the week.
Taking the games in order, the
scores were; Tuesday, Lenoir,
15-0; Wednesday, Duke Power Co.,
High Point, 8-3; Thursday, Grey
hound Travelers, 3-2; Friday, Mo
juds, Greensboro, 9-9; and Satur
day, Thomasville Chair company,
12-6.
The night game with the Trav
elers went 12 innings before the
Blanketeers eked out a win. Fri
day night, in a second night af
fair with Mock-Judson at Greens
boro, the gamte continued 14 in
nings and was then called at 9-9
due to the lateness of the hour.
In the Lenoir game Tuesday,
one of a series in the Charlotte
Observer semi-pro tournament,
the Blanketeers knocked the
boards off the fence with three
homers, three triples and three
doubles. Homers were by Weston,
Clodfelter and H. Hambright;
triples by Cornelius and Weston,
and doubles by H. and F. Ham-
bright and Mackie.
Thursday night’s game with the
Travelers was a pitchers’ duel
with Stockton and Rumple gain
ing the decision over Pair Swaim,
the game being one of the finest
amateur exhibitions ever wit
nessed in Winston-Salem. It was
anybody’s game until West lifted
a short fly to Clodfelter in the in
field in the 12th inning to end
the contest.
Friday night at Greensboro the
Mojuds were leading 9-6 in the
ninth inning when Chatham
scored three runs to tie the score.
After that neither team could
break the tie and the game was
finally called.
A feature of the game was Wes
ton’s great catch of a fly at cen
ter which averted defeat for Chat
ham.
Cornelius garnered a homer for
the Blanketeers with two men on.
Saturday, in the game with
Thomasville, Davis and Clodfelter
led the hitting with three for
four each.
Life Insurance Agent (impres
sively) : “Madam, every time I
breathe somebody dies.”
Madam; “Good heavens, you
ought to use Listerine!”