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} ; V '■ ■ 4^ Widest Paid Qirculation ot any Political Paper Published, Monthly 20»cts a Year OUR MOTTO: ONE FLAG, ONE SCHOOL, ONE PEOPLE, AMERICA FOR AMERICANS WIxt §^dlm Jarki OUR AIM; TO S’WAT LIARS AND LEECHES, H'TPOCRITES & HUMBUGS, DEMAGOGS & DASTARDS VOL. 37, NO, 3. MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, MAY, J932. PRICE FIVE CENTS. More Plain Talk! “More Taxes!” “To Prop Eigate the Faith” Fellow Americans:— In lost issue of Tlie YeUow Jacket ■We inid'iilg'ed' an some pretty plain talk about tie tax-eating .pollticiaais of this debt-cuTsed. country, but we only got started. We assure you tJrat tie lu'usic bas just begun. We called' your attention tben to the startling fact that the cost of all the goveroiments of the U. S. has increasied 347% during the .past 1*6 years, while at the same itkne the National- ineoihe has increasisd only 148%, and the population but 26%; that -governrn’eiit exiJendatures have; increased m'ore than twice as fast as National inccrtie and more than 13 times as fast as population’. We told' you that the time and place to start out to raotify this state of affairs was in the primaries this year. Congress isn’t going to act till you force it to act. The only way under heaven to get action from Congress or from the other departments of goveni- ment is to apply the inouisitorial branding iron to every candidate for office -of every .party, from do.g-catcher fco President. Force them to pledge themeis:l.ve& upon th-eir sacred honor to work for and vote for.the reduced cost of government all- along the line, and work like 'the dievil grinding tan.' bark to this end. Here we have the spootacle of the G'US'atest Nation on Earth paying a Departoent of Agriculture $315,000 a year to tell you farmers how to raise higger a.nd- better crops, while at the same time paying a Federal Farm Board $500,000 a year to tell the farmt&Ts that the best way to relieve tlvemselves ds to .plow up every third ■row! Doesn’t that beat the Devil for ineonsistency and waste? Every intelligent pers'On’ know.® that this country at the out-break of the World War threw all economic re strictions overboard and set out on a wild and r2okLe.gs career of borrow in.g, spendiinig, speculating and wasting that has had no parallel' in jncdern (times. Well, you see where it has landed- us. The fact is that the Plain People—the backbone, heart, pallar and fou'ndation of the American Nati'On —^are being “taken for a-'ridie’’ an true racketeer fashion. Now, folks, W'hat you better do for the present, and the time is right now tip for action'—^is to lay all partizan .politics aside and for get whether you are foldoviers of the fat and lazy Elephant or Che dog eared and dum donkey, and give your orders to the powers that be to “get down to .brass tacks”, cut out the granid'-standi play and begin soane experLsef-slashing legislation or hell -will soon (be a-popping. What Mr. John Taxpayer wants— aud is about ready to demand, seize^ take, or wrest—is for the. national law-makers to start in their own back j-ards when that long-delayed clean* upreally begins. Congress-can holler about cutting, expenses-'-yes, reducing salaries of 'the Poor Devils who get a scant living' wage—but there won’t be any •righteousiness in the deal until mem bers-of that HON.ORABLE body.stop their legalized plundering of the Treasury. That’s piTtly strong talk, eh? Well, what would 3'ou call it when .Senators and Represientatives, know ingly, and year after j-ear, accept as traveling expenses several times whai their actual expenses amoimt toP That an antiquated law sa-nctions such a “Treasurj- raid’’ doesn’t make it rigiit! More than a century ago, W’h'eri it required many days of hard traveling, and many nights in inns along the route, for a Congressman to get from hi.m some to the Capital ,of the nation, there may have been justifioation for allo-vring 20 cents per mile as traveli- ing expenses for each member. B-irt those days have passed. TGdaj’, when first class passenger transpoi'tatioii costs less tlian 4 cent.s a mile, aud pullman fare a surall (Cont.inued on page 3. column 1) Befouling the SuimyviSouth R'fecesntly a toddy-tippling tumble- .'ibug Tam.mamyite reared up on' his hind legs and in a speech and thru the papers jimsulted the South and President Hoover thus: “We must give Hoover credit .for d'oiaig onie good thing. He kicked the South out of th-e Democratic Party and we shoiuld thank him for 'that For the> South has been the canker in the Party aai these years. It has a.Iwaj’s bee® the h-ot-bed of troublosi, first with ais .slavery, then its Protesitaint in- ibolerance and Its Prohibition. , It’s a good' thing we’ve got nid of the South.” Of course it would be sheer idiocy evea to hope to have such a foiol as •t.hai..k9;ow that, it was; the;-Santli that gave .this republic, its'"fath^ of our cotmibry”, its finsit- -presMeiKt; its Dec- l-arabian of Independenjce, and' the im mortal Constitution “pants, of which” as A1 Smith -said',—'these high-handed Tamm-any •pcQitlca'il highivaymen. now hoartily “hale”. It was a Southern etatesiman, Thomas Jeff-eirsion-, who founded -the Bemocratio Par.ty, and the only stetesnuen with the exception of Cleveland anid Eudhiaaifan (wmo wasn’t a slait'esimiaji) .the ‘ Democrats have ever el-eoted PneiSide.n.t were from the South. The Senegambians in.the Ta3n.many woodpile as plainly to be sieeiii. Tam- , many is the poOitioafl machine of the . Bo’pe’s devilish claim, ho “make . Artiex'ida CatheJic”, s^slze. this |;ovem- ‘meut, wreck % ccaiistltution and turn. , the great fkioncdal treasures of this' republic info fhq '^brtioa'n: vaults. New York City, -alien in ideate, popu lation and pei-sonal habi'cs, luate-s th-e Sduth becaus'e the Prciteistant South fitubboj'irly blbcks Tamimny’s' anti- conistitutional schemes, keqps tlio Pope from coming' ■over to' Am-wica and otherwise is a thorn' 'in Rmne’s side. New'York City is-no-t as miich American a-s Cairo, Egypt, or Paris, France. It is composed of a hod,_ pod'ge of foreigners, many of whom are Qithoi'.sts and oniai’dii^ts, a,nd even those .who goto church must have the gO'&pel preached in .theia* 2.00 alifen churches in '35 diffierent ' fc-reign language®. The So'uth, most An-gJo- Saxon native Caucasian .section of the country, . pre-veate.r- Tammeny’sis -“in- tem'at,iC'nal!izing” thiB govemmenit, rob bimg its golden treasuries and shack- •ling Lt,s poopld with 'the handcuff-s of the Romish Chmxib'. Alien ideals and inhabitanitis are neither wanitisd no-r welcome.d in the Sioiitb; Am'erica is good enough for us and the Constitu tion is still oiur guide, •And- th'e crown of insult heaped on' the head'S of the Southern Dera-o«iracy by Tammany is the fact that they entertain such conibempt for Southern Democracy, and yet admit, as they did xe’centlly, that “they can lelect their msan P.resiid'en,t, even if some of the big Easitem' and Northerp. states go •against hto, BY» THE VOTE FROM THE S(^TH.” in oth'er 'sr.ords-, Tam many uaeig the Southem Democracy as '• (Continued on page i,' column 5) The day may die, the sun. may set. But taxes, like the river,. Keep going up, and' hig-h'er get, Andi will it st^p? No, never. You get a raise m weekly ■wage— The Income Taxes grab it; Y'OU-r uncle leaves a heritage— “Inheritance” will mb ■it. You put your saving an some bank— The Exmse Tax will take it; You try to hock jmur auto crank— It cost-s a tax to stake it. You can' not give a-way your clot'hes Un-lefeiS' the “Gift Tax” nails you And -tweaks your pocket-book and nose Until youir h-eart near fa-lls jxiu. You can’t buy rouge for jmur pale wife But what the .^rafters tax it; You 'try with d'ni-iik ’bo take your life— The “Beverage” tax man smacks it. You telegraph the Co'unty Horde— And pay a tax for wiring; You pray for death’s’ release to come— And get taxed tor expiring. You seek to buy a .s'eft of furs'; T'O keep jiour wife from freezing— Th-ey tax her “ten percent” on hers And ad'd more for her sneezing. You buy a gill or so ■of Malt To take An apiK.tizer— The tax man yells for j'ou to “Halt! And' pay our tax divisor.” You give your graduating girl A box of gum or oaud-y— They tax it till you're in 'a whirl And mve like Old Man Ga'ndhi. If there’s a thing they’ve failed to tax. Please keep i't from the papers; For they have heaped tax on our backs Until We cut up capers. It's tax on gasoline and gum, On theatres -and races. On matches, rod'ios and rum. And rides, if you go places. They tax a man for wearinig shoes, . And even tax the leather; Thjy -tax his debts and revenues, .And a.lmfOst tax the 'R'eather. They tax a Jay for drawing breath, The license for his marriage; And when he aseks relief in deatii, Th-ey tax the fun'ral carriage. “Fundamefitalism Vs: Liberalism” .Th^e’s pobod'y as nmeh away from ■ home in the -upper story as an editor of a religlcnji® magartne, when he -tries • to soft-pedal' on B'omo sheieiianiigiii he •perponaH.y lakes to roll, Fco* instance, before us is the OhTistlan: Evangelist, a St. touis . ch'w-^ papeir, (that 'trie® to straddle • (the -equine o-f Chrristian progress® in' an apology for ‘Taberaldsm” in ' the ' •chiHsch, Soya this stpinel-e;^ scrib® anent ic»rtaia Bible critics; “SofUDe ipreachieir® boast o£ She fact • that they ore ‘Liberals’, whole oHters rejoice that they are fFun.'damentaliists'. Boat boasts are dn vaizu 'Wh'^ I9 the TOhte of going off into any ‘ism* oboirt a ^laool of tbKmght'? Neither Liber- aMsm DOf EkmdamentaMsoit avaOeth anythhrg”, etc., etc., mtil you gag. 'Vnslch is om She 57 varieties of reasons that Cbe church today ■ better iKdd on the a-venage, hard- ftsadikW flober-dbiuikiDg son of m-orjit 'We have always n'otLced 'that it Is usually .the putt3’'-s!pinied sky-pilot sipillbesi who lean toward peace at any priie just so the crowd© come and* the ooll-ection plate© jingle who chant such imbeciMc twaddle. This ixartioular ■ paper repTesenit.gi a Foreign.' Missionary •Board that has ©plit its oomm'Unlbn by .supporting, foreign misBionaries ■'who assert that Jesns Christ was a mere man, that e-veryhedy isi '-the "Son of God” the same as- He wasi, and .that the dootritt© of the Trinity can or cannot be believ’ed, a® suit® th'e sweet ■will of the applicant for grace. Fimdamentalisan is simply standing on the Book and believdng it to be the Word of £h'e Lord; liberalism 1® the sort of Spiritual s-Viill that puts Fo®- dicdzsf and Cadmans and c(their 'Ri'bi-ioal assassin® in. big. ipulpitSi And as f'CO' us and also oitr house, ■we win serve iha Lord by iz^evaibs that 'She ^ble -is 'whai life said it 'was, Hia Lispired Word. For -we’d rathetr any Qmi& he caBed a Fundamentalist tfhaa a . fool, 'wMch preachers, or anybody, are -nho ’deny God’a WiU'iL Announcement! I'cUoiy Ameryians;— . j,. The liftle did yiiltbw Jacket, wlucli lias be*n swatting dema gogs, hip and thigh, for the past 37 years, desires lo announce to- its million readers tliat it has the stage all set ”and the ivires all strung for the Presidential cam paign and 1111!“’ real, simon-pnre, old-fashioned, £00 - in - the • shade, juice 3viU begin to sizzle and flow in the June Ainnber. We uill regard it as a personal favor if you will coiney this neus to tlie bsethren in yojir community and elsewhere about the country that they may send clubs that all friends of the'paper everywhere may be rejnni^ated with the pare and unadulterated elixir of po litical righteousness. 8end a club today and help drive the blues aw.ay.—ik BOX L.iWS, Editor. SpecialSoli.llates Regular subscriptions, one year, 20c Club of 3 annual Subscriptions, 30c Elnb of 5 nnnuhl subscriptions, 50c 'Club of 10 annuid subscriptions, $1.00 Additional subscriptions at saine rate as above—that is 10 cents pet each: subscription. Single wTapped 25c year. Remit by Express or P. 0, Money Order, Registered Letter or Certified Check. PlOase don’t seiitf. stamps. THE YELLOW JACKET, MORATIAK FALLS, K. G, SPEAKISG OF TAMMAXY’S SMELL A iraanibUfCtaous'j''esidier of 'the Stmger W'lio 1© -ev'idently fesb-amed of M'Snaimie, for be Calls to aL.-write© thus: “■Wbat right bave. you to say that Tammamy^ Hail 14 fotom.? You seem ■to take. pl-easure in saying ©o, but I’ll ©ay it’s ntot.” Porbops. Tammany is I*fke the dark- compl-eicted Ne@ro womaio’s baby. The d:ootqr., orf a visit to the wo- man’s borne,’ notioed one of the youg- sters sitfttog on -the floor bowling and ralstog merry Heck for flair. “That 'baby is spoiled', asai>y! it, AumtyS” asked Iho doot-or. Nc>, eub, docftoh, bit bain-’t spoi-lt. AM Nigger -babieg gmeU© flat ■way.” It may be tlhai Tammany’s natural smeM i© being rotten. Muicit a® we dislike to csltldze the Roman CathoMc Gburoh wia don’t think much of an- Institution that puts: a bid on 4ibe cradle and n baj> ^ ^^01 srave. ■ . , Elaewheire, gentle .reader, you will read in this .paper of the j^ericu'n Catboli-cs’ gift of $1,100,000.00 to ihe Pope of Rome. A© tbii© is ten per cent LESS itaia® tbe usuali ANNUAL do natio® of Am-eri'ca® Catholics to the Pope, luaitura'lly you may lose some sleep wondering what all tbis' money is- for. Well, we’ll eu'lighten' you. The Pope ©ay© it’& for “the propa- giahio®' of -the faith.” And, of course, America® Catholics*, being human and a lot nrore Catholics and lA'm.eri-ea'n's, wouldin’.t dig dovm in thieir jeainjs omd hand over such sta.gi gering sumg every j'-ear just to “propagate the flaith” in dark Africa or dusky Ai^’a or eteewhere where they have no kin. It's the Pope’© big blind to “pr-opar ga-te'-’ the Pope’s poilitical. “faith’' right here'in the good old. U. .S. A., wbere he hopes to get hi© talons on our treasUT5’, siedze our goverament as he ha® every other go'vernment where the picki'Ug were good, and let the Dertl take the hind-most. Bosh and silly chatter, 3''ou say? Wtell, listen to these few uncoutra- dicted facts: VTien the Pope pressed his I'Oiml oath-hound subject, A'l S'mdth, to run for Presi'd'ent in 1928, AT not only got properly swatted at the pollS'; he 'lieft a Democratic deticLt of $1,497,391.00 for Sir Private Cbamiberlai® to the Pope John J. Raskob to pay. Oh June 6, 1929, Sir J.obni made Ms financial reiport ito Clerk Page of Congress, as the law requires. Sir John revealed $1,056,277.00 in collections, and said he got $989,000.00 of iJiat out of New Yoi'k City. Sir .Tobn reported' $150,000.00 a© given by himself; $50,000.00, by William H. Tood'; $160,000.00 by another holy- beme budrdy, W. F. Kenney, Al Smith’s bod3--guaTd‘ companiLoin'; $50,000.00 by Bemiard M. Baruch, a Jew with ■an easy mind toward aiU thing© “Catho lic"; $2d,000.00 from P. D. duPont, who get© lot© mo-re ba.'dt e3’'eTy time the ammuni'tioii-boys- ©tir up a war; $100,000.00 from'M. J. Meehan; $150,- 000.00 from Jlerbert L. Ijehman; $50,000.00 fr'om T. J. Mam; $50,000.00 from John F. Giicbrist; $50,000.00 from James' J. Riordan, amother Al Smith buddy; $25,000.00 from D. A. Harrington; $25,000.00 from Daniel J. Riordan; $25,000.00 from P. F. lienney; $10,000.00 from D. J. Mooney, a^- $10,000.00 from George R. Van Namee, all of which is a lot of “jack.” In none of these, nia'nbes will you read the ou’tsitandihg letibeiTS spelling the “tongivefn- name” of the Pope. But in practically ev'ery one, you will ©ee tlie fish-gills of dievout ■i^m-a'n Oatbolic isubject©. If our mind hasn’.t gone plumb -pudding, that 'last is just a set up of Papa’l dummies, AND THE POPE, THRU HIS HENCHMEN. IS THE REAL PAYMASTER OP THIS PELF. Not ■{bat the Holy .-Papa."' donates these ddtiars out of hiS' ow-u swag. Mercy, ne^'er. “Rom© never changes',” ©ay© the d-ogma, the Pope •adways keep© the change. But, 3'ou un'derstand, gentle reader, the Holy Papa, aforesaid', just raise© his annual S’hake-d-O'W'n of the “true a'nd’ faithful” Papalcrat© 'in the United States'; the washer-wom'en’, the ©crub-womien, the need’le-heroin'e© and .the har-d-working Papal dupes dig diow® and; cough up from their wages', "to pT0.paga(t& the fait’h”, 'tlii'nki’H'g, no doubt, they are sending the Oo-spel to the heathen as the im'ss'ionari^ d'o. And out of whatever the d-ear Daddy-buok Pope has left of that sum after takin'g out hi© own d’^ires, he passes on to his “faithful” dnmmieg—and they put it do'wn a© their own gran'd, gorgeous, giglorioiis' gi'fts to the great' “Cause.” If the New York Herald-Tribune of IVIarch 22, 1932, is to believed—and it is—^tbisre’s something -smelly about the Smith Fund’ for a fact That paper says that the Smith Fund* note (they ©tiill owe over half a million more) is in the hands cd the County Trust (Continued on page 3. column 4)' A Pemocratic Prayer To Our Noble Flop-Eared Jackass:— We. the un-washed and imwos'kabie, Prohibi'tion-hafting, depression-cussing. Hoover-heckling Dourbon-bred', and Tsiimman3'-buttiei'’ad follo-wer© of' £hy Donkci'Ship bow down on our marrow •bones '-ihis evening in convention as sembled’' -to offer up our prayer® to thee., G’l’ca-t hee-ha'wang jackass, -we thank thee for condes'cendi-rag to become oxir political emblem. We .thank thee for ^3" hair-trigger he^s, for thy di’Camy •eyes and for thy hypnotic bray. Thy heetei, teach us to Mok the po'litical backslidei'S in the skat©; toy eyes move us to pr^ent our inno'cenrt poise before the people, and thy hiope- lasp’iri'ng •hee-haw reminds u© ito vote early and oft'en: 'Thy tois'tle-eoiing ■proclivitie® remi'nd xis that, we, too, have 'been Idvinig on toe toistlcg of de feat for ei'ght long year© and now we are ■longing for the fl'esh-po-t© ia« in ‘the day© of Wilson'. Most adorable Donkey, we ,thank thee for braying Brcto'er RaskO'b into the Democrolac folds. The Rep© were too dry for Johnny and toy al-cohoLic hee-haw cut this Gordian, Knot that bound Raskob to toe Elephant’® side. We to'ank toee for all to© Democrats that have fallowed; thy voice -in toe past. We tha'nk thee for letting the Pope sprinMe toy head with holy •wnter and putting toe sign of the cr-os® on thy rump. We thank thee for inispiring Al' Smith 'with the courage to'kick to© Prohibition plank of toe 1928 Dehiocratic platform into king dom come. We 'thank thee for moving Jimmy Walker to stage a beer parade in New York City. We thank thee for encouragtog the Tamm'any tiger and Brother Rask-Ob 'to “sm-ear”' Hoover aud 'belittla the Republican part3‘. We thank toee for toe opportu'nity of ©Landonig up before toee and pointing- to thee a© our preciou© emblem with ■oUr voice exclaiming “Hee Haw, We’re Coming Back.” We thank toee for teaching u© all how to bray. ' We toamk thee for sho-wing u® all how to use our heei© and, -may we never cease -kicking until we have succeeded in knocking toe letemali ®awidu©t out of every Hoover Democrat in America, just a® we did Tom Hefl-in, and may we never .cease braying for lickeir and damming- Rrohibitlbn untli- we have cajpt’ivabed, saddledi end bridled- every Repuhlieami who'loviee' hi© Moker bdter than he iove® ho© sacred Elephant. Lead the way, Adoraible Dofnkey and we ■wi'll' foJcliow. We f-oilowed thee ■without a whimper thru toe Clevcaaud ponia We followed toee to dieS^ thru the “free stiver” 'battles* 'We'fol- lowed toiee with Alton Begum' Rarker' on his gold bug platform: the garbage cant We f-ollowed th'e© under the banner “He -wKl koeip ms looit of war” and’ got Into a hell of a war for our pains. Then we f'Cllowed} thee into * an orgiLe of borrowing and- ^pend-mg' ' and speculating unfci'l we had used up aM the m'o-ney dm toe United' States three times over a’nd ■which startod tod' (Continued on page 3, column 4) A Socialism We Favor "While we Jiave never trailed much ■with The 'Sooialist©, ■wie have co-me to toe 'conclusion that at l-east one of their ©ul'gestioma would -be h'elpfuX at this 'fcl'mie. We favor toe government’s .going into thia banfcm'g ibusmes©, and taJdng frosi.lhapilvate.jndh^u8ia allliconse. to lend money left in (thear fceeplng'by depositor©. The fact that bankers, all ovw the couu'try have dosed' up shop and left their wage-ea'rmimg deposdtors in the I'uxch for thdr savLo^ is a re flection on the- ©ffleiemey of our government, to put it m-Udl-y. One Asheville, N. C., 'banker who stole over $15,000,000.00 from toe county, city and hi-s de'posd’tor®, i© still living in luxury after a year’© court triais for his dastard deed', and, many of our bigge^ hank bosses ha.'VB not only robbed their patrons but add'edi insult to their injurle©. We know a bank whfere a man had 'nearly a toousand doUai^ on d^eposlt and who wa® on a flriemd’s note £(»’ $75.00 as ©ecord't^. When too hank dlioeed the bankera oodored tbe so* curity to pay toe note «t onoe^ amd as hi® fund's •were aM tiea up to toe same ba-nk, t.e toM them to credit the $76.00 on toe fund® 'he hadijn the bank. They refused! to do so and tomehtenM to sue him. And^ under the inefficient system of bank control we have,'he could'.-h'ave beeai. sued, and' hi© home aucticmeii off op.* a judgment,'too he had 'ina'ny indre time© toe amount to toe safes of the closed hank. Up in New Yoak to© Jirein:bera* of toe big aodal clubs walk out of the ’rooms every time a baniloar walk© in. They refuse to asBociato -with certaiii bankers, and w© know some who are not fit 'to be associated ■?vifh. If private indivlduala -wi^ to 'gannze banks for toe purposa icff lending money on inters. Jet 'toon •put up toeir own money a-Twi tak« th’^ O'wn risks. The government should take over aM banking bxisimesB / where deposits are made, by wage- ^ - eamera and b-usinesB pronroters, and give ampto secuotty flor every doMar intrusted to theta* keeping. So, -wtneo it comes to goveroment- ownerisftitp of the basdcis, we are tlMt much and that flar a Soeoattit,
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