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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932
Entered at the post office at Elkln. N C.. as
decond-olaRB matter.
H. FOSTER... President
M. K. Secretary-Treasurer
SUBSCRIPT?ON RATES, PER YEAR
In the State, «IJSO Out of the State. 52.00
Now that so many girls look upon marriage
as an experiment rather than a sacrament, you
no longer need send solid silver wedding gifts.
Something showy and short-lived will answer.
The Whipping Post
Probably the most interesting part of the
recent grand jury report was that which said:
"It is our opinion that a whipping post, properly
handled, would be of great benefit to Surry coun
ty."
The jury doubtless was indulging in a bit of
free-lance theorizing without expecting anything
to be done about it. There was not th 6 sound of
finality that usually accompanies the grand jury
observation, like when it calls attention to some
little discrepancy at the jail, or when it recom
mends that wider-mouthed spittoons be installed
in the corridors of the court house.
It is not probable that a single member of
the grand jury would vote for the establishment ,
of the whipping post for minor offenders, al
though there are countless times when such an
institution would seem to prove more effective In
maintaining order than the present set-up. Young
bucks who get behind a steering wheel when
their breath is so liquor-laden that you could slice
it off with a knife, would be inclined to let the old
flivver stay in the garage, or satisfy themselves
as back-seat drivers, if at the end of their joy
rlue a whipping post awaited where their
girl friends might witness the laying-on of the
lash.
But the whipping post is a relic of the past.
Present-day methods of correction have no place
for it. Modern phychology has determined that
youth must be led and not driven, and if like a
balky calf that tromps down considerable corn,
or messes up the mint bed in the leading, it is
better to suffer the loss than to employ the old
method of twisting the tail and risk the possibili
ty of dislocating a very necessary organ.
The grand jury placed its finger on a very
sensitive spot when it criticised the expensiveness
of trivial cases that clutter up the docket of the
higher court; cases that should find some way of
settlement in the lower jurisdictions if there is
to be justification for the existence of the latter.
It did about all that could be expected of it, re
garding the primary irregularities. We are per
suaded that such alleged errors were more of the
head than of the heart- and the data before the
jury was of a technical nature better suited for
those versed in the intricacies of legal procedure.
But that whipping post! Maybe we'd better
continue to pay the fines for junior, as he jolly
well knows we'll do, rather than risk the bad ef
fect of slamming on the brakes and jamming
irreparably that impulsive spirit, which may
some day make him president, if it doesn't send
him to the penitentiary first.
Congressional Vacation
Speaker Jack Garner put the skids under
the customary ten-days' Christmas vacation for
congressmen, and with a great many of them it
did not "set" so well. Cactus Jack, when he gav
eled adjournment last Friday, told the members
to be back at their desks Tuesday and he didn't
mean maybe.
Some of them recalling the usual procedure;
of a roll-call Tuesday with no quorum and ad
journment, and maybe ditto several times, giving
them the usual vacation, thought it might be
wise to make certain, so they approached the
Speaker and hinted that it was likely they would
not be back promptly Tuesday. Mr. Garner in
formed them that he meant to have a quorum
Tuesday if he had to send and get them.
Mr. Garner caught popular approval when
he said:
"It seems to i»e that with 8,000,000 or 10.-
000,000 persons out of work this is no time for
Congress to ba taking vacations. * * * Anybody
who has a job these days, ought to be glad to have
three days vacation with pay. No doubt the mil
lions unemployed would like to have three days
work with pay. I don't believe many members of
Congress would like to go back to their districts
on a vacation and face the unemployed when they
oueht to be here acting on relief legislation."
That gruff old Texan has been popping his
whip and putting the lower house through paces
it did not dream it had.' Even the Congressional
Record provides interesting reading that smacks
of the wild and wooly west, and it begins to look
like the Senate, over which Mr. Garner will pre
side after March 4th, will have to abandon its
goose-step for a more aggressive stride.
While the lower house limits itself to only
three days for Christmas, the Senate will find a
way to take its full ten days, although there is
plenty of work to be done. The Senate prides it
self on its deliberateness; it just won't be hur
ried into anything. Even the beer bill, upon
which every Senator has already made up his
mind, will have to go through weeks of dissection
and delay, when it could as well be voted on, the
first day.
We are prepared to believe that when Mr.
Garner takes up the gavel in the Senate, this
"iiipst deliberate body on earth" will cufl its tail
aild begin doing things in a new way. f
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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
The New Year
One of the gifts that Santa Claus has left
with us is a shiny New Year. Whether its bright
ness is of the enduring kind, remains only to be
seen and depends largely upon how we use the
new plaything. Standing on the threshold of this
new year we can, as individuals, contribute much
toward making of it a haven or a hell.
We have toyed .with the last few years that
have been handed to us: countless times we have
wound up the springs and felt the thrill of a full
force ahead, only to be discouraged with the inev
itable slowdown of a power not permanent.
Like a new suit of clothes we can wear the
New Year becomingly, or we can soil it with mud;
we can make it serve us advantageously, or we
can become its servant. Not, of course, in the
sense that we can, transform business conditions
and with one fell swoop bring back prosperity.
But in the past three years we have had ample
time to adjust ourselves to the changed order,
and we should carry this adjustment into the New
Year and approach our problems in the wisdom
gained of experience.
There is every reason to believe that 1933
will bring us beer, but beer is not going to help
us much; 1933 will bring a change in administra
tion, but aside from making our national govern
ment more responsive to the will of the common
people, the change will bring no outstanding re
lief. For years we have been abusing vital prin
ciples of economics, and now we are having to
pay, and the permanency of our remittances will
be governed in the main by our willingness to be
gin at the bottom to build a more enduring struc
ture.
Let's give the New Year a hearty howdy-do
and determine to keep one resolution, to meet ad
versity with a smile, all through the next twelve
months.
Changing Winters
For a few days recently it looked as if some
body had their weather dope all wrong. There
are those who have been contending that nature
is growing softer and more sentimental, and that
her supply of cold and snow is becoming ex
hausted, owing to her spendthrift extravagance
during the ice age when she was trying to turn
the whole world into a skating rink. But those
ten days during which the earth was blanketed
with a "silence deep and white," it seemed that
the old-time winters were coming into style
again.
To the youngsters of today, our winters may
seem all that the season should be, but to old
timers these winters are but tame affairs com
pared to those ?f other days. Nature continues
; efficient as to her cyclones and her floods and
| heat waves, but her refrigerating system seems
to be giving out, if you let the old codgers fill
their pipes and tell of other days.
The youngsters, who can never win out in
one of these comparative arguments, should find
consolation in the fact that some day they will
i constitute the "older generation", and theirs will
be the privilege to reminisce, theirs to remember
winters way back when the snow was much deep
er the mercury lower, blizzards more blizzardy
| and winters more wintry.
Maybe the winters are becoming milder, but
it is more likely that the most moderate of the
present is being contrasted with the severest of
the past, that backward-lookers are singling out
some freak of a half century ago, and making it
a standard for their old-fashioned winters. Age,
you know, is that way. It must have its superla
tives. If it is not prettier girls and better likker,
then it must be content with the weather.
Amnesia
Along with the declaration that influenza is
on the rampage all over the nation, although in
a milder form than that of several years ago,
amnesia seems to be on the increase. This latter
malady seems to have talcen on the proportions of
an epidemic—among the higher-ups. Those in
the lower strata of society seem to be immune
from the disease, which we hear tell carries with
it only the pleasant ability to forget.
Since Colonel Robins was found in our own
western North Carolina mountains suffering from
amnesia, other prominent men, most of them in
positions of trust, have disappeared for a season
only to be found in the grip of this truly conven
ient ailment.
The receiver of a Statesville bank disappear
ed three hours before h6 was to turn the bank's
affairs over to Mr. Spradlin, and was discovered
in Wilmington two weeks later. He was troubled
with amnesia, but federal officers held him on
the alleged charge that there was a slight short
age in his accounts.
A Henderson attorney disappeared several
days ago, and his friends declare that he must be
'suffering from amnesia, one of the first symp
tQms of which is "disappearance."
Taken by and large it seems a right conven
ient ailment to have. When Col. Robins drifted
out of sight, it was whispered around the national
capitol that his disappearance was helpful to the
Republican cause, and his "discovery" shortly
after the election freely predicted.
If any newspaper man has been afflicted
with amnesia, he has managed to cloak his di
sease under another name, but if, as reputed, it
enables one to forget, we know two-three fellows
who would not be adverse to fighting it for a
spell.
Paul Redfern, lost aviator for five years, is
said to be king of a savage tribe in South Ameri
ca. All we've got to say is Paul chose a mighty
good time to fill the job.
After looking over a moose in a zoo, we fig
ure that a man shot by mistake for one of those
things might as well be dead, anyway.—Arkansas
Gazette.
If you have solvent relatives you can't get;
Red Cross flour. Which shows how little the Red
Cross knows about relatives.—Publishers Syndi
cate.
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Happy New Year" Abm T. Rmd
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What does Elkin need for 1933?
The past twelve months has been
a trying period for the country. Elk
in along with other similar com
munities of the United States has
had its share of ups and downs.
Bringing home in review the
events of the past has taught us how
to avoid mistakes and prepare for
the future. One thing we have
learned is that co-operation should
be our community watchword and
all our efforts should be made along
that line.
Elkin needs from each and every
citizen the full effort in trying to
overcome the shortcomings of the
I past in that it is going to take the
concerted action of all to bring about
the things that we desire the most.
| Every public institution needs the
full support of everyone. The var
ious civic organizations of the town
need your full co-operation. The
bank needs your support in order to
be of the greatest usefulness to the
community. The building and loan
should have your support in every
: way. Trade at home. Our mer
chants carry varied and complete
lines of merchandise meeting your
every want.
Business recovery means indi
vidual effort and if each will boost
and v. ork Elkin will be proud of its
1933 record.
The Kiwanis Club
It is a mistaken idea that a Ki
wanis club is an organization for
the benefit of its members only.
This organization was organized and
is run upon the assumption that its
efforts are for the upbuilding and
of promoting things that are for the
general good of a community. They
have been rightly named "service
clubs", as service for all is the mot
to of the membership. Take your
community problems to the local
club and you will find full co-opera
tion.
Charity
The charitable organizations of
the town have never before in their
"history found more ready response
for local needs than this past Christ
mas. Relief work during the holi
days has been carried on more
readily than other years from the
fact that funds have been ample for
requirements. It seems that people
are on a more common level and can
appreciate the needs of the less
fortunate at this time. People are
more neighborly and are more ready
to share with others than ever be
fore. We have acquired a closer
touch with each other. It must be
that our hearts are growing bigger
as our pocket-books are getting
thinner.
« Beer
Listening to an argument in favor
of legalizing the manufacture and
sale of beer would lead one to be
lieve that this will solve our tax
problems and balance our national
budget.
There are several things to be
taken into consideration .before be
lieving too much of this talk. The
younger generation knows nothing
about beer, and first cultivate
a taste for it, which like olives, re
quires cultivation, if ever. A. great
many people will try anything once
so the immediate sale may be large,
but will this continue.
Since prohibition there aro num
erous things that have grown in pub
lic faTor as Si substituta: (or la- J
Wins "Edison Medal'*
\y£-,
Bancroft Qherardi, officer and chief
engineer of the American Telephone
and Telegraph 00., is the winner of
the annual "Edison Medal," an
award for meritorious achievement in
electrical science during 1932. The
stance, candy, soft drinks, the mov
ing picture show, chewing gum and
ice cream. All of these articles are
now taxed mora or less by the gov
ernment. Will not the sale of beer
cut down the consumption of these
things and at the same time reduce
the revenue for tax purposes?
It will take more than the legal
ized sals of beer to balance our very
much unbalanced budget.
Officers Elected For
Hamptonville Grange
Windsor's X Roads Grange No.
833, while being young is already
showing that it is very much alive
Being organized in September with
thirty-five members, nine of this
number were initiated in the Sev
enth Degree at the National Con
vention held at Winston-Salem in
November.-
By hard study and determination
they have a degree team now ready
to give the fourth degree.
At their regular meeting on De
cember 14th, in the Grange hall, a
most enjoyable meeting was held.
After opening the meeting in the
fourth degree the degree team took
charge and initiated four new mem
bers into the fourth decree of the
Grange. A harvest feast of several
kinds of sandwiches, cake, pickles,
coffee, fruits and other things pre
pared by the ladies of the Grange
was enjoyed by everyone present
and brought to a close the degree
work.
The following officers were elect
ed for the coming year: Master, H.
C. Myers, oversoer, G. A. Hoots;
lecturer, Mrs. Vera Wood; steward,
W. B. Madison, assistant stewr.rd,
Jack Alired; treasurer, H. A. Jur
ney; secretary. J. S. Thomasson;
gate keeper, Dewey Alired; ceres,
Mrs. Ethel Hoots; pomona, Mrs.
Irma Thomasson; flora, Mrs. Laura
Myers; lady assistant Bteward, Mrs.
Pearl Cooper.
J. S. THOMASSON, Secretary.
SCHOOL DAMAGED BY FIRE
Damage estimated at several
thousand dollars resulted from a
fire which started from a defective
flue in the Concord high school
building Saturday afternoon. The
flames destroyed many valuable re
cords and several hundred dollars
worth of chemicals in the physics
laboratory.
Thursday, December 29, 1932
LATE ITEMS OF
INTEREST FROM
NATIONAL NEWS
BAILEY AGAINST BEER
Senator Josiah W. Bailey, Demo
crat, North Carolina, in an interview
in Raleigh Monday night, said he
would vote against the 3.2 per cent
beer bill now pending in the senate
but would vote to submit the 18th
amendment although "regretting to
do so."
LAWYER VANISHES
Blank walls arose Monday at the
end of every turn in the search for
R. S. McCoin, Henderson attorney
who disappeared Thursday on a
business trip to Richmond, Va.
ABANDON HOPE
All hope was abandoned Monday
night for the 54 miners entombed
in Moweaqua's Community Mine by
a blast that sealed the diggings the
day before Christmas.
CUPID SWAMPED
Unfavorable business conditions
had little effect on persons having
matrimonial aspirations as a. one
day record was broken Saturday at
the Henry county, Va v marriage
bureau when 65 couples were
granted marriage certificates.
FINAL ELECTION FIGURES
Official returns from the 193 2
presidential election, as compiled
Saturday by the Associated Press,
disclosed a new record popular vote
of 39,734,351. Franklin D. Roose
velt, the Democrats' successful can
didate, polled 7,054,520 more vot.es
than did President Hoover.
BANDITS ARE CAPTURED
Three robbers made the mistake
of driving too fast after robbing the
Farmers and Merchants bank of
Stanley, Gaston county, early Friday
morning and Mecklenburg county
officers, after an exchange of gun
fire during a six mile chase, captur
ed them and recovered the money.
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WANTS
For Health's Sake drink Crazy Crys
tals. Sold by Mrs. Ollie Lawrence,
North Blkin, N. C. 12-29-p.
Chattel Mortgages, Warrant
Deeds, Deeds of Trust ani
Land Posters for sale at The
Tribune office. tfc
REAL ESTATE
For Sale—flO-acre farm, fairly good
log bouse, tobacco barn and gran
ary; 12 to IK acres of good bot
tom land; 125,000 feet of timber,
one-half mile hardsurface high
way and school bus. 10 to 15
minutes drive from Elkin. Would
trade for small house and lot in
town.
For Sale—2o-acre farm, 8-room
house, good condition, good feed
barn and tobacco barn, 6 acres in
pasture, well watered. Seme
pplanrilri tobacco, wheat and corn
land. Close to consolidated
school, store and mill and high
way. A real place to make your
living, and can still work in town
when you can gee work.
MARTIN'S, Inc.
aura D. C. MARTIN