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,D. J. CARTER sad JlJliUS C HUBBARD,
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: '
fl.OO Year ^ th« State; |1.60 Out ot the State.
Entered at the post office at North Wilkesboro,
N. C., as second class matter nnder Ac* of March
A 1879."
MONDAY/FEBRUARY 20, 1933
Some boys are small for their age and
so are some men.
It is queer how unfailingly the neigh
bors find you out, and how seldom the
bill collector does.
\
Sales Tax In Mississippi
Some idea of the workings of the sales
tax in Mississippi is gathered from an edi
torial appearing in the Gastonia Gazette
which comes to us through the .Shelby
Star. Every man, woman and child in Mis
sissippi paid 10 cents each per month
during the first six months of the oper
ation of the general sales t?.N And the
*^ad story .is that the sales tax, which also
included incomes of professional men,
manufacturers and utilities, yielded less
than a million dollars.
Farmers of North Carolina w'ho are
are seeking tax relief should count thi
members of their families and see whether
$1.80 . each—a three per cent tax being
proposed in this state—isn’t more than
the 15.-cent ad valorem for school pur
poses which the people would like to see
.taken off.
Anyway, we observe the workings of
the sales tax in Mississippi as told by the
Gastonia Gazette as follows:
“For the first six months the tax was
in operation in Mississippi, from May 1,
1932 to October 31, 1932, a total of $946,-
478.30 was collected from the retail sales
tax on accumulated sales of $49,064,121.
For the entire year it is expected the reve
nue from this tax will amount to about
$2,000,000 on total gross sa'es of $100,-
000,000. In Mississippi, however, the sales
tax applies to incomes of professional men,
to manufacturers, wholesalers and public
utilities, so that only 80.6 per cent of the
entire revenue from the sales tax is de
rived from the retail sales tax. The figures
so far given have been those relating only
to the retail sales tax.
“The amount of taxes paid by the var
ious retail groups under the retail sales
tax, as given in a recent summary i.ssued
by the Mississippi tax commi.-sion. shows
that the largest amount wa.s paid by the
general merchandise group, composed of
department, dr>- goods, general and five
•and ten cent stores. The food group, com
posed of grocery stoi'es, meat markets and
restaurants came next, with the automo
tive group, composed of
truck, tractor and accessory dealers
■ ' Scout Training. .. _ A
The^'observftnce of National Scout
Week iTJCently gave the people of the Wil-^
Itesboros a clearer conception peiiia^-
lhatt they have heretofore hsxi of the
Scout movement, what Itlmeana. what It
has and can accomplish. V'- '■
Youth takes a serious obligation in be
coming a Boy/:Scout. The Scout oath and
the Scout law give us an idea of vhat the
Scouts are striving to attain in the way
of idealism and actdal visible accomplish
ments. . "
For our readers who may never have
seen a copy of these obligations, we are
giving them below:
THE SCOUT OATH
Before he becomes'a Scout a boy must
promise: On my honor I will do my Best: ^
1. To do my duty to 6od and my country,
and to obey the Scout Law;
2. To help other people at all times;
3. To keep myself physically strong, ment
ally awake, and morally straigtit.
The scout law
1. A Scout is Trustworthy. A Scout’s honor
is to be trusted. If he were to violate his hon
or by telling a lie, or by cheating, or by not
doing e.\actly a given task, when trusted on
his honor, he may he directed to hand over
his Scout Badge.
2. A Scout is Loyal. He is loval to all to
whom loyalty i.s due; his Scout Leader, his
home, and parents, and country
3. A Scout is Helpful. He must'be prepared
at any time to save life, help in’ured persons,
and share the home duties. He must do at
least one Good Turn to somebody every day.
4. A Seoul is Friendly. He ?3 a friend to
all and a brother to every other Scout.
5. A Scout is Courteous. He is polite to all,
especially to women, children, old people, and -
the weak and helpless. He must not take pay.
for being helpful or courteous.
6. A Scout is Kind. He is a friend to ani
mals. He will not kill nor hurt any living
creature needlessly but will strive to save and
protect all harmless life. .
7. A Scout is Obedient He obeys his par
ents, Scoutmaster, Patrol Leader, and all
other duly constituted authorities.
8. A Scout is Cheerful. He smiles whenever
he can. His obedience to orders is prompt and
cheery. He never shirks nor grumbles at
hardships.
9. A Scout is Thrifty. He does not wanton
ly destroy property. He works faithfully,
wastes nothing, and makes the best Use of
his opportunities. He saves his money so that
he may pay his own way. be generous to
those in need, and helpful to worthy objects.
He may work for pay hut mu':! not receive
tips for courtesies or Good Turns.
10. A Scout is Brave. He has the' courage
to face danger in spite of fear and to. stand
up for the right against the coaxing of
of friends or the jeers or threats of enemies,
and defeat does not down him.
11. A Scout is Clean. He keeps clean in
body and thoughts, stands for clean speech,
clean sport, clean habits, and travels with a
clean crowd. ,
12. A Scout is Reverent. He, is reverent
toward God. He is faithful in his religious
duties and respects the conviefors.s of others
in matters of customs and lelir'cn-
PUfiLIC PULSE
rhis is a column open to tiie pub
lie for free exprearfon. TJ>*r.
7otu^ does 9ot assume anjr'fe-
sponaltiilitsr for articles printe'"
under this heading, andm^her
endorses .nor condetons them
PleaM ba'hs brief as posaHe.
• ■ ^
;df my comottiUtjr, 1 feel I dwe’i
to myself and tp the ones In my
community to gtyo to the pub
lic the tmth. My attitude -on
prohibition la * public record,
iand if for no ^ot
Attempted Assassination
It is evident that in .spite of that friend
ly and generous nature.which would cause
him to shake the hand of the farmer and
ii,r factory laborer as well as that of a king,
automobile, lit is evident that Franklin D. Roosevelt,
' ■ in'as the President-elect, must surrender to
trUCK, traCTOr anu aa LUC X iciuLLv-uL ccev, ...
third place. The miscellaneous group, (that irksome restraint wnich a heavy body
composed of hotels, drug stores, newspap
ers, jewelry stores, funeral parlors, flor
ists and cigar stores, were in fourth place.
The revenues obtained from the various
groups and the total gross rales of each
group for the first six months the 2 per
cent sales tax wps in operation in Mis
sissippi, are as follows;
Revenue
$224,079
32,778
8,387
306,778
168,472
47,621
159,360
$946,478
Food Stores
Clothing
Furniture
General Mdse.
Automotive
Lumber & Bldg.
Miscellaneous ..
Totals
Gross Sales
$11,203,967
1.588,910
419,394
15,338,937
9,622,060
2,500,519
8,390,331
849,064,121
58,925
35,672
2,114
109,352
$227,243
$946,478
$1,178,721
first six
“This revenue collected from the retail
sales group comprised only 80.6 per cent
of the total collections from all brackets
of the various groups included under the
sales tax The revenues obtained from the
groups included under the sales tax are
as follows; « 17a
Professional & Persona! Service $ 21,178
Manufacturers Group
Wholesale Group
Natural Resources Group
Pubfic Utilities Group
Total -
Total from retail sales group
Grand total all sources
“Tnese figures are for th-
months operation of the sales tax law on
ly. The collections showed a steady in
crease from month to month, advancing
from a per capita collection of only 6.4
cents per person the first month to 13
cents per person for the sixth month, or
an *average monthly per capita tax of 9.7
cents per person per month or the first
six months. ,
the population in Mississippi is
much smaller than in North Carolina
“mounting to only of which
anlv '996,856 a>re white, with 1,012,965
SeSo^ as^ompared with 3,300,000 per-
Jons in North Carolina, of which only
810,000 are negroes; the figures showing
the operation of the sal® tax there are
regar4ed
♦oir ivoTild nnp.rftte
guard places around a President. As a
result of the attempt to a.ssas.sinato him at
Miami la.st week, the guard will be en
larged and the vigilance of tho.se who sur
round him will be doubled.
The attempted assassination brings to
mind the attempt to kill former President
Theodore Roosevelt, a distant cousin, of
the President-elect, when he was cam
paigning for the Presidency in 1912. He
was at Milwaukee on October 15, 1912,
when a maniac fired at him as he was
stepping into an automobile which was
waiting to take him to a lecture hall. He
suffered only a flesh wound and deliver
ed hrs speech before going to a hospital
for medical attention.
Three Presidents were assassinated
while in office. Abraham Lincoln, the
first of the three, was killed in Ford
Theatre at Washington on April 14,
1865. James A. Garfield was shot in
Washington on July 2, 1881, and William
McKinley was fatally shot at Buffalo on
September 6, 1901.
Give It To Him
The proposal to give President-Elect
Roosevelt full authority to reduce govern
mental expenses is sensible. We do not be
lieve Congress will deny him the oppor
tunity to carry into effect some of the
economies which he promised the voters
in the campaign unless the representa
tives and senators are fearful lest some
their friends be cut off from tjieir jobs.
No other excuse can be offered for the
failure of Congress to grant the authority,
if fail it does. Congress, which never gave
Mr. Hoover more than half-hearted sup
port, denied the outgoing President the
chance. It should not he.stiate to give Mr.
Roosevelt an opportunity.
No small bloc has the power to prevent
passage of such legislation as necessary
to give Mr.. Roosevelt complete authority.
So the American voter will .and^. should
hold the senators and represent^iv® who
vote against the move for a sweeping re-
„gg living a u* wv-o vision in the cost of governnient, respon'^
how 8 «tonilar shies tax would.operate sible.'and render the verdict when^.. they
~ . agai^ face the e^ctorate. »» I'
, A REPLY TO G.ARPIBLD
- EUxEK
^ On* February Mr. Garfield
Eller had an article in your pap
er in whlcl. he extolled the .vir
tues of prohibition and the senti-
menta,therein expresaed I can
heartily concur, but I do -wish to;
take -sharp Issue 'with him ,^when
he asserts that Ih Lew* Fork
Township there is a blockade dis
tillery “on every branch -and
even on some of our hills.” Be
ing a citizen of the towpshlp and
community L-Wlsh to state the
conditions are not as -he has
painted them. In fact, I have
lived here for approximately
thirty years and starting at Judd
McNeil’s home on the Boone
Trail highway, and running to
the fork of Lewis Fork Creek to
the Congo and Ready Branch
Road, including -Mt. Pleasant ac
credited high school,' to the
bridge at the S. V. Cardwell
place, and with the road to Roby
Sullivans’ and then with the
Boone ’frail . Highway, back, to
Judd .McNeil’s, Incliimng all this
bounded section iu which Gar
field Eller himself lives, which is
about two and one halt,or three
miles square, there has never
been within the ’thirty years I
have lived here, to -my know
ledge, a blockade distillery, save
one which was operated at two
or three different places in the
territory and operated by this'
same Garfield Eller, who now
has so completely reformed as
to sing of the virtues of prohibi
tion. I feel that, I am in position
to know something of the sitau-.
atlon in this community, "having
served in the capacity of I^puty
Sheriff lor six years and 1 de
stroyed this copper distillery
operated by Mr. Eller, which was
reported to me by one of his
brothers.
I presume that I am a mem
ber of “one of the dishonorable
groups’’ he alleges tried to hold
him up on February 1st, "with
guns," and I wish to briefly des
cribe what occured in this en
counter with him- and can sup
port jay statement by honorable
eye witnesses. On the date above
mentioned accompanied ^ by my
wife 1 had started to visit 1« my
daughter’s home and on the road
I encountered Garfield Eller who
was armed with a white oak cl^b
engaged in an altercation with
some of his neighbor boys end a
lady. When I approached he was
threatening some of group
with the club and asserting that
he “would burst their brains
out.’’ When I was approximately
forty feet distance he forbade me
to advance any further “up that
road,” and the only thing I had
said to him up to this time was
to nqure wh.at the trouble was.
It was true that I was carrying
a shot gun and he seemed to in
timate that *l had my gun for
him. In order to assure him that
I meant no harm I unloaded my
gun. It is also true that I retain
ed the barrel in my hand hut
only because of the violent at
titude of Mr. Eller, who was
armed with a white oak club, I
remembered that Mr. Eller, the
law abiding citizen that he
claims to be, had on occasions
been known to strike women,
and his wife was no exception,
nad I also remembered that he
had barred the road to me once
before and had drawn his knife
and also that-at that time he
called. for his shot gun and the
gun was brought to him by
some of his children. In-fifteen
or twenty minutes he finally
gave us room to pass him on the
public road and we went on to
started. In that manner Mr. Eller
wes held up by “one of the dis
honorable 'kroups” that he .re
fers to.
On another occasion this disci
ple of law and order held up
Claude McN-jil and drove him
from the roadjwlth rocks, and at
that time our “prohibitionist'’ of
Lewis Fork Township was in a
drunken condition.
More recent than that, In fact
about two years ago, this same
man I am talking about, was pre
vented frpm killing Waud Eller
by Mitch Whittington, when hej
otherrreason than'
th$ fact that llq'tor has 'twen
partly responsible for the rechrd
that Garfield Eller has 'made for
himself, that would he sufficient
to convince me that It Is a cure
and should be atamped out. Mr.
Eller recently caused Mitch Whit
tington to be .indicted in the
Federal Court, and after the case
was heard by a Jury ef- twelve
men and the Federal Court the
•jury preferred not tc believe ^
wbai: Mr. Eller had said and Mr. ■
Whittington was set free. i
I have not tried to avoid the
facts, as I know them of my own
knowledge. I have not cast in
sinuations O’* Innndoes but have
used names and sited facts, and
I am willing to establish, any
thing I have stated that "our
neighbor who believes In prohfbi-
tion” should designate. '
L. G. WOODIE.
Millers Greek Hi
; School'Honor Roll
Following is the honor roll of
Millers Creek high school fof'the
fourth month:
! 1st Grade: Beulah Rhodes,
Evelyn Grce;, Odell Bare, Junior
Eller, Herman I.ovette, Mack
Ni?hols.
2nd Grade: Warren Bumgar
ner, M. P. Bumgnrner, Jr., Jene
Bumgarner. Joe Owens, David
Wllhorn, Pauline Maxwell, Olive
McNeil. •
3rd Grade- Prank Caudill, Rex
Bumgarner, James Faw, Hazel
Hayes. Paris Kilby, Quincy Edd
Nichols, Pi'l Smithey, James
Nichols, Mabel W’agoner, Emma
Mae^ Rhinehardt.
4th Grade: Francis Curtis, Iris
Bumgarner, Billie Hayes. Emma-
gean Bumgarner. Leis Church.
5th Grader Fern Brooks, An
na Laura ranter Howard Bum
garner.
6th Grade: Louise Wilhorn,
Rowena Sn Itbey Lucy Roten,
Magdalene Reinhardt,.. Otha B.
Nichols, Rubv McNeil.
7th Grade. Jessie Minton, Wil-
la Nichols, Joyce Rhodes, Arlene
Nichols, Len Smithey, John Kil
by, Theodore Nichols.
8th Grade- James Kilby, Avis
Dean .Martin.
9th Grade: Frances Bumgar
ner. Helen Hayes. *
10th Grade: "Violet Kendall,
Grace Lovette, Annie Lizzie Mc-
Glamery, Drjtheda 'WMsh.
11th Grade; Winnie Marie
Vannoy, Albert Wellons, Estelle
Yates.
Let us tune up ywsr car foir sjmng
NEW LOW PRICES ON
Murray Tires
Wiley Brook* and Jeter. Crysel
The Motor Service Co.
» North Wilkesboro, N. O.
C. G. ARMFIELD JOINS
STAFF ELKIN TRIBUNE
Announcement was made last
week .that C. G. Armfield, well
known Elkin citizen, has joined
the Staff of the Elkin ’Tribune
and will be connected with the
news end of the paper;
B. H.. Mortimer Dies
Edw. H -M'brtip’er. prominent
lumberman and former-resident
of silk Park, died in a Johnson
City, Tenn., hospital Thursday
from a pistol wound apparently
Inflicted by himseH on the prev
ious • afternoon. According to
available ■ informat’on, Mr. Mor
timer had lunched with his fam
ily arid had then gone to his of
fice which IS within fifty feet of
the residjpee. Shortly afterwards
a shot heard and his broth
er, J. MorG^er, accompanied by
B. H. Mortimer, .ir., rushed to
the office where they found the
deceased man suffering froBt- a
severe wound in the head. A gun
was found' c'ose by.
Brief News Note* From
The ^Vatauga Democrat
(Thursday, February 16)
*■ Nlley G. Norris Dies
Niley G. Norris 58 years old,
(died at the home of a brother,
W. C. Norris, near Boone, Mon
day morning after a severe ill
ness of about six months with a
kidney ailment.
Bingham Named
Raleigh. N. C.—John H. Bing
ham, of Bonne, has been desig
nated as attorney for Watauga
county whose cerlificates of ti
tle for liens, chattels and mort
gages will he accepted by the
Regional Agricultural Credit Cor
poration of Raleigh. N. C., for
loans to be made to the people
of this county, John P. Stedman,
executive vice-president and man
ager, announces.
Keeper: “Don’t you see that
notice, ‘No fishins here’?’’
Fisherman: “Yes, but It’s
wrong. I have caught half a doz
en already.”
had'Eller down and was seeking
to strike him with a rock which
he had drawn over him. After
these and numerous other (\e-
bucheries that Mr. Eller engag
ed in Jacob decided to put bn j
the garb of Esau and then It was |
that he became “our neighbor
who believes In prohibition.'’ I
could continue to enumerate *j|
various drunken sprees In j which
our “neighbor who believes in
prohibition” has engaged.in- but
it would only cumber .the record,
and I don’t believe In ’'washing j
our dirty linen” in puljlic. I re*
'gret •exceedingly t hat It became,
necessary for- me- to wash ■; 1^1®
much, and hold At^np. to public]
gaze, but since, naquestional^y.
the article that J 'refer to wa»|
published for the puriwse rf|
casUng ref lection against
othef law abiding ^
Announcement
The stock of merchandise of the Cash Hardware Company has
b®n moved from the building next door to E. M. Blackburn
& Sons to the building occupied by the Smoak Furniture
Company, and will be operated in the future as the hardware
department of the Smoak Furniture Company. ’
Mr. Burl C. Hayes, who has b®n manager of the hardware
store for the p®t several y®rs, will be glad to have all former
patrons, and new customere call on him for their needs in
genenal hardware, roofing, rang®, stov®, wire fencing, etc.
We have ad^ed many new items to our hardware line, and
we now offer the farmers, ®rpenters, and home-owners a
complete stock from which to make their sel®tion.
Remember, the Cash Hardware Co«««ny is now
in new quarters—iear Smoak Fomit^ Com
pany Budding on Tenth Street.
Prices Arie Now Lower Than They
Have Been In Ten Years
SMWFURNITURE CO.
(Hardware Departinait) :
I
^Tcnth Street