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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Pabllßhed Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934 Entered at tbe post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. 8. POSTER - President H. P. LAFPOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In tbe State $1.50 Out of the State, 92.00 Kati ona ISP Ed ito rial Asso ciati on k H=m£mߣR • • 1934 It's a cold day in August when that news paper correspondent down. Kinston way cannot think up some outlandish tale and tell it so that it will be believed. Two men in Burlington were arrested for robbing a store with burglar's tools that the of ficers say were stolen from the postoffice in Elk %in. Looks like that ought to call for some ex plaining. With the experience of hard times so close in the rear, it is our notion that the tobacco farmer, receiving high prices for the weed, will not go out and buy himself a Cadillac, right off hand. Scientist in Washington has developed a ma chine to weigh the human brain while the sub ject is still alive. Curious part about it is that he tried it out on senators and congressmen and the thing registered. President Roosevelt is a lucky guy! Passing through the drouth-stricken west he made speeches of encouragement at three points and rain followed within seven hours. There wilKbe some who believe that he was directly respon sible. Encouraged Southern farmers, particularly those in North Carolina, may well feel encouraged as they approach the end of the agricultural season. Crops in North Carolina are generally regarded as satisfactory after a favorable growing season. Tremendous losses were suffered this year in the west and mid-west because of the drouth, and farmers there must buy what they formerly sold to us, if they have anything left to buy wiih. It is manifestly certain that the demand for farm products will hold the price close to normal years, and with almost bumper crops the North Carolina farmer should be able to hold up his head and smile. The cotton yield in this state is expected to exceed the quota established in the acreage re duction program, and with cotton selling around 15 cents as against five and six cents a year ago, the cotton farmer has little to grumble about. The tobacco crop in both belts in this state is reported as unusually good, and with the pi ice hovering around 15c average, the tobacco farmer is in a fair way to make more money on ess acreage and less effort than was the case last year. As a general thing, corn has never shown better prospects at this time of year and thresh ing reports indicate a satisfactory yield for wheat, and the price of each has advanced to a reasonably fair level that should show a profit above costs of production. Much of this favorable aspect may be credi ted to the efforts of a friendly government that has reached down in its pocket and helped the farmer along with everybody else, and it the North Carolina farmer will take a new start, build upon the experiences of the past few years, and set his face toward the sunrise, an will be well again. Has Proved Success According to the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation, the cost of providing insurance for bank deposits during the first six months ot operation, was less than six cents per thousand dollars. The insured banks pay this cost, and deposits are now insured up to $5,000. The report further shows that only one bank failed during the six months period, and its de positors were paid the full amount of the insur ance. It is generally admitted that the insurance of bank deposits, as put in effect the first of the year by congressional enactment, has been a de cided success. Many of the banks opposed the law at first, but now look upon it with favor, be cause from the increased confidence on the part of the depositor has come a parallel increase in deposits that have been disgorged from old socks and other hiding places, and the money put to active use. Deposit insurance, of course, does not as sure that banks will not fail; it simply provides a dependable promise for depositors that if the bank does fail he will be paid the amount of his deposit, up to $5,000. It is reasonable to expect that bank management will improve materially, because the cost comes off the banks, and they may be expected to work together to hold the number of failures to a minimum. More serious consideration of the conduct of banks may reasonably be expected—has been proven in fact, during the first six months oper ation of the plan—more discrimination and care in issuing permits for new banks, and in myriad other ways contribute to better banking methods. What the depositor wants is to know that when he goes to the bank for money that he has placed there, that it will be available. This law assures that very thing, insofar as more than ninety percent of the deposits are concerned, and the depositor is very much pleased about it. Social Insurance Much is being said these dpys about social insurance which Owen D. Young describes as a, modern industrial system that is to provide a sub stitute for the pork barrel and sauerkraut jar that carried families through the winters in per iods of economic stress in yesteryear. He des cribes it as a means of "fighting our bondage of year." • Mr. Young cites a period of depre'ssion a century ago when the farmers were unable to buy shoes from the shoemaker, although they had calf-skins nailed to their barn doors; were unable to patronize the tailor, although they had wool carded and spun. The only reason they were able to survive that season of stress was because they had planned their gardens, their vegetable bins and their pork barrels. He says that he is interested in a social insurance program "only so far as it tends to restore the equivalent of the garden and the woodpile which our industrial readjustment has taken away." Concerning those who may rightly be expected to contribute to the building of such a fund, Mr. Young says: "The worker himself has attained increased earning power and should contribute to his own in surance, just as the old shoemaker did by looking after his garden and his pig. The consumer who has benefited should contribute to the fund by some increase in the price of the products of which he is so much a benefidary. "The consumer's contribution is only another name for the employer's, because, so far as possible, the employer will and must pass along his contribu tion to the consumer in the form of increased prices. To the extent to which he cannot do so, it will come from his profits. It must be so because the entire profits, after an interest return on capital, of any industrial concern would amount to little in carry ing the equivalent of the pork barrel and the gard en. "It may well be that some contribution should be made by general taxation, but I personally de plore the effort of government to do more than carry the expense of the necessary organization for the administration of the fund. If the taxing pow er is used to create the fund, it, like inflation, is likely to run to its own destruction and thereby de feat the purpose of its creation." Social insurance, or job insurance, or by whatever name, something of the sort is in the making. The experience of the past four years makes it mandatory. Twelve to fifteen million men out of employment presents a serious prob lem that calls for preparation—but a preparation that ought to provide only for him with the will to work and not the shirker, who should be pro vided with no more than enough to save him from becoming a social menace. No Longer Death Insurance One significant change in the attitude to ward life insurance has come through the insur ing companies themselves who have worked out a law of averages that enable them to pay before death. What used to be considered "death in surance", is now more properly regarded as life insurance, because more life insurance money has gone to living policy-holders through completion of pohicies of annuity and investment types, and less to beneficiaries of policyholders who have died. More than fifty per cent of the money today goes to the former group. Thus it would seem that life insurance is really justifying its name. Its value is admitted in protecting dependents against the death of the wage-earner, but it is equally valuable and neces sary in protecting the wage-earner against the pitfalls and dangers that loom in the future. Millions of dollars are going out monthly from the big insurance companies, not alone to pay death claims, but to provide an income for the elderly, to educate children, to build and re build estates. It is money that is bringing eco nomic security to those who do not have to die to make it available for others, In this new period of reconstruction that America is entering, life insurance is going to be one of the really great allies of the common man in assuring his financial welfare. Pitched on a high plane of efficient management and hedged about with every governmental safeguard as to methods and practices, life insurance is easily admitted a good investment. Expensive Method The Tilley trial has cost Wilkes county a considerable sum of money. The selection of the jury alone was an important item. It cost around $l5O per juror to get them in the box, to say nothing of the cost for the delayed time of wit nesses. Costs, of course, shouldn't be considered when justice is at stake, and expense evidently was not in mind when the laws were made cov ering the procedure in jury selection. In this case the five defendants had a total of 60 peremp tory challenges and the State had 20. And then there was the questioning to determine bias on the part of the prospective juror, with the pos sibility that he would be stood aside without ex ercising the right of peremptory challenge. It must be admitted that jurors should be selected with care, if justice is to result, but not all questioning of persons summoned for jury service is directed toward determining their probable fitness for trial service. Shrewd law yers try to size them up and line them up to what they consider the best advantage. Other wise trustworthy juries could be selected in much less time than two days. Surely there could be some sensible changes in our present method of jury selection, that would save expense without endangering justice. Headline says: "Germans are now ruled by Reichfuehrerschaft" and for that reason we feel mighty sorry for them. What will Lady Klondike think when she comes back home and finds a bunch of alien cat tle herding on her hills ? THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA Freed In Childress Case • _ • |^(j f>- oin' : dnH H . «■«- #;- '■' >\ . ■->- % /h; Sy Kip St- jf IpNfe JmKm . * ' i \ W v ;• Top, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley, of near Benham, who, with their two sons, Luther (lower left), and Clyde (lower right), were freed in Wilkes superior court Saturday afternoon on a charge of murdering Leoda Child ress on December 30, 1933. Mrs. Luther Tilley, not pictured, was also re leased. Eldridgre Case Is Nol Prossed Left is photo of W infield Stanley, Monday of a charge of murder in coi Eldridjje, right. The state took a nol WITH THE SICK J Patients admitted to the local hos pital during the past week were: Mrs. Zetta Whitaker, Boonville; Al vin Sides. Concord; Arthur Hanks. Roaring Gap; Billy Madison, Elkin; Elva Cooper. Elkin; Elizabeth Coop er, Elkin; Constance Greenwood, Elkin; Emaree Cooper, Elkin; Ruth Buelin, Elkin; Lucille Buelin, Elkin; Dr. S. M. Beal, Elkin; Miss Ohna Bates, Elkin; Mrs. Mary Coram, East Bend; Ora Duncan, Sparta; Vaughn Smith, Jonesvllle; Beulah Smith, -Jonesville; Mrs. Ruby Hamby, State Road; Mrs. Docie Wagoner. Hamp tonville; William Nelson. Elkin; Mrs. Bernice Wolfe, Klondike Farm; Saralee Griffeth. Elkin; Mary Hol comb, Boonville; Thaddeus Darnell, Roaring River: Sarah Darnell, Roar ing River; Harry L, Johnson, Jr., Elkin; Herman Caudill, Elkin; Miss Emaline Neaves, Elkin; A. C. Hood, Hickory. Patients discharged during the week were: Mrs. Lizzie Snow, Jones ville; Houston West, Roaring R\ver; Mrs. Callie Eldreth, Apple Grove; Mrs. Gfcell Irvin, State.Road: Mrs. Harvey Parks and baby, Elkin; Miss Blanche Hemric, Cycle; Sally Smith, Jonesville; Mrs. Prances Chapman, Elkin; James Ralph Fletcher, Jr., Boonville; R. C. Felts, Elkin; Mrs. M t asafe >k , who, with Luther Tilley, was freed innection with the death of Andrew pros in the case. Zetta Whitaker, Boonville: Alvin Sides, Concord; Billy Madison, Elk in; Elva Cooper, Elkin; Elizabeth Cooper, Elkin: Constance Green wood, Elkin; Emaree Cooper, Elkin; Ruth Beulin, Elkin; Lucille Beulin, Elkin; Dr. S. M. Beal, Elkin; Miss Ohna Bates, Elkin; William Nelson, Elkin; Saralee Qriffeth, Elkin; Mary Holcomb, Boonville; Thaddeus Dar nell, Roaring River; Sarah Darnell, Roaring River, and Harry L. John son, Jr., Elkin. CARD OF APPRECIATION We express our deepest gratitude to each of the many good friends for the sympathies offered and the kindness shown us during the illness and passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather, Thomas P. Eskridge, and for the beautiful tri butes of love and respect paid him before and after death. Mrs. Thomas F. Eskridge and Family. She: "I'm from Missouri and you've got to show me." He: "Well, I'm from Elkin so just watch!" Panama hats were so named by the Forty-Nlners who bought them in Panama in their rush to the Cali fornia gold coast. Thursday, August 16, 1934 Case Thrown Out , Of Court; Evidence Is Not Sufficient (Continued from Page One) John R. Jones for his diligence in bringing all the witnesses and facts into court. Following the tlirected verdict of not guilty, four members of the fam ily were set free. They were W. W. and Mrs. W. W. Tilley. Clyde Tilley and Minerva Tilley. Luther Tilley, the fifth member, was held to face a charge of murder in connection with the death of Andrew Eldridge. He was freed. No demonstration was In evidence when the judge rendered his deci sion. The evidence presented by the state, in condensed form, was as fol lows: W. W. TMley—Evidence was of fered to show that he had a knowledge of the note found in the apron pocket of Leoda Childress af ter she had been buried and which was claimed by the state to have been forged to conceal the crime; that he planned to leave the farm immediately after the death of his foster child. Mrs. W. W. Tilley—That cart ridges of the same calibre as used in the gun that killed Leoda Childress were seen in her pocket book; that she found the so-called spurious note and the state contended that she knew when and where it was written. Luther Tilley—That he was seen a short distance from the house at the time the body of the girl was found by neighbors; that tracks of his were seen leaving the premises. Mrs. Luther Tilley—That the copy of the note found in the dead girl's apron pocket which she made was in the same hand-writing as the 1 original note; that she was jealous of Leoda who was supposed to have been a friend of her husband. Clyde Tilley—That he, the young est of the five defendants, had made incriminating statements against himself as to knowledge of the crime. During the trial Solicitor Jones was assisted by Attorneys Parks Hampton, of Elkin. and J. H. Whick er, of North Wilkesboro. The de fense was represented by J. Hayden Burke, of Taylorsville; A. Turner Grant, of Mocksville; Eugene Tri vette, J. E. Holshouser and J. F. Jordon, all of North Wilkesboro, and David Kelly, of Yadkinvllle. The trial got under way Tuesday of last week and two days were spent • in selecting a jury from three venires of 275 Yadkin county citizens. The death of Leoda Childress re -1 mains a mystery. Perhaps it will never be known who fired the bul let which pierced her heart shortly after noon on the day of December ■ 30, 1933, in a front room of the Tilley | home, seven miles northwest of Elkin. Jonesville R.F.D. 1 News Rev. I. W. Vestal filled his regular appointment at Cool Springs church Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Teague an nounce the birth of a daughter on July 29. Mrs. E. E. Thompson and daugh ter, Miss Ola, of Greensboro, and Woodrow Johnson, of Mayodan, re turned to their homes Saturday, fol lowing a week's visit with Mrs._R. L. Hutchins. The many friends of Miss Blanche Hemric will be glad to know that she has recovered sufficiently to be re moved to her home from the Elkin nospital, where she recently under went a major operation. Miss Margaret Hutchins spent a part of last week with Mrs. J. L. Darnell at Elkin, and attended the services at Elkin Valley church. Rev. I. W. Vestal, C. J. Hemric and J. A. Oough attended the Yad kin Association at Courtney Thurs day and Friday: Mrs. Afollie Holcomb, of Winston- Salem, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. A. Qough. The annual Home-Coming Day at Pall Creek Baptist church will be observed Sunday, August 19. The services will begin at 10 o'clock and dinner will be served on the grounds at noon. Everyone is invited to at tend and bring well-filled baskets. The region around Lima, Peru, av erages one earthquake per week. 6 6 6 Liquid, Tablets, Salve, Nose Drops Checks Malaria In 3 days, Colds first day, Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes. FINE LAVATIVE AND TONIC Most Speedy Remedies Known H.&S.CAFE The Coolest Place In Town GOOD FOOD Well Prepared at Reason able Prices ICE COLD BEER
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