INSURANCE .... for jobless
The first experiment with compul
sory unemployment insurance in the
United States went into effect on
the first of July this year, in Wis
consin. The movement for a Fed
eral scheme of unemployment in
surance is growing. I don't think
there is much question that we are
heading toward a social system un
der which men who are able and
willing to work are thrown out of
work through no fault of their own
will receive unemployment benefits,
either from funds established by em
ployers, or out of their own w.iges
while they are earning, or by state
or Federal government.
The English system, which is a
combination of all three, looks to
me the soundest. Every wage-earr.-
er, to be entitled to unemployment
insurance, must consent to the de
duction of a small percentage of his
wages, when he is working, which
goes into a fund to which the em
ployers contribute an equal percent
age and the government contributes
its share. That provides the much
discussed British dole, which seems
to have worked pretty well through
the hard times—which are now
about over in England.
PENSIONS .... and politics
I think there is little doubt that
we will soon have a national system
of old-age pensions. That scheme
is working out pretty well in the
states that have put it into effect.
In Massachusetts, my own state,
every male voter pays $1 a year into
the Old Age Assistance Fund, That
makes a fund large enough to sup
port all the aged needy and poor
houses have been abolished.
The average old-age pension in
Massachusetts is a little over $6 a
week. Those receiving it have to
prove that they have no other means
of support—that they are unable to
earn a living.
The trouble with any such
scheme, like many other desirable
social reforms, is that their admin
istration has to be left to political
appointees. Before we can go
wholesale into Socialism, we must
first reform our entire political sys
tem of rewarding partisan efforts
out of the public treasury.
ELECTIONS . . . punk system
Nobody who will stop to think it
over will deny that we have carried
the theory of democracy too far in
making administrative offices elec
tive. The man who gets the job is
not the one with the best qualifi
cations but the one who can make
the best promises to voters.
I have never been able to discover
that a Republican makes a better
county clerk than a Democrat, or
that thee is any Democratic way of
running a school system that is su
perior to Republican methods.
Every man elected to office in
America has to give as much at
tention, if not more, to how he! is
going to get re-elected as he does to
his job. That makes time-savers of
most, and certainly does not make
for efficiency.
COUNTIES . . . too small now
County government, generally
speaking, is the least efficient and
most corrupt phase of public ser
vice in the United States. Most of
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our counties are too small. They
date from the horse-and-wagon days.
There are few places now from
which one who has business at the
county seat couldn't make a fifty
mile trip easier than he could go
ten miles a few years ago.
There is too much overlapping of
city and county governments. Few
cities are as fortunate as St. Louis,
which is in no county. New York
City is making a brave effort to rid
itself of the five counties which are
all inside the city limits. They
make for duplication of cost and ef
fort, waste of public funds and gen
eral inefficiency. Those who are
fighting to retain them are the poli
ticians who hold county jobs and
their followers.
I think we are coming pretty close
to a general consolidation of coun
ties in many parts of the United
States.
FRATERNITIES .... first 1750
Away back in 1750 a group of
students at William and Mary Col
lege in Virginia organized themselves
into the "Flat Hat Club," which was
the parent of all American college
fraternities. Thomas Jefferson was
one of its members. Later it became
the custom to give these fraternities
Greek names and identify them, to
the outer world only by initials,
as colleges multiplied, one fratern
ity might have chapters in many
colleges.
There is something about each of
these Greek letter fraternities which
constitutes a life-long tie between
its members. Most of America's
famous men have been members of
some fraternity. I am reminded of
that by the interesting innovation of
Alpha Delta Phi, one of the oldest
of them all, in holding its annual
convention the other day on a
cruise to Bermuda on the Furness
liner. Queen of Bermuda. And I was
specially interested to note that a
great educator from my own section
of the country was elected to the
presidency of Alpha Dela Phi, of
which by the way, President Roose
velt and Justice Harlan Stone of
the U. S. Supreme Court are mem
bers.
Dr. Frederick Sill, founder and
headmaster of the Kent School,
whose rowing crew, trained on the
Housatonic River, defeated the
crack school crews of England last
year, is one of the rare men who
fully merits the most honorable des
ignation that can be given to a man,
that of a Christian gentleman. As
head of Alpha Delta Phi he will in
spire the student members of that
102-year-old fraternity with even
higher ideals.
Woodruff Reunion
The annual reunion of the Wood
ruff clan will be held at Elkin Val
ley church, two miles north of Elkin
on highway 26, at 10:30 a. m. Sun
day, September 2, 1934. All family
connections and friends are cordial
ly invited to attend and bring well
filled baskets as dinner will be served
on the grounds.
R. C. Woodruff, Chairman.
Mattie Mae Powell
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
By virtue of authority conferred
in a certain Deed of Trust executed
June 15, 1928 by Jas. T. Greenwood
to David B. Harris and Tristram T.
Hyde, Jr., Trustees, which Deed of
Trust is duly recorded In the office
of the Register of Deeds of Surry
County in Book 108, page 10, de
fault having been made in the pay
ment of the indebtedness secured by
said Deed of Trust and at the re
quest of the holders of the notes
secured thereby, the undersigned
Trustee, being one of the Trustees
named in said Defed of Trust, will
offer for sale and sell to the highest
bidder for cash on Monday, August
27, 1934, at 12 o'clock Noon, at the
Court House Door in Dobson, N. C.
the following described kinds and
premises, to-wit:
A certain lot, parcel or tract of
land situate, lying and being in the
County -of Surry and in the State
of North Carolina, and more par
ticularly bounded and described as
follows, to-wit:
All that lot of land with the im
provements thereon, located, lying
and being in the City of Elkin, Elk
in Township, Surry County, North
Carolina, bounded on the west by
Thursday, August 23, 1934
property of Miss Maude Greenwood,
on East by property of H. % G. Chat
ham; on south by Main street and
North by an alley, and more parti
cularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point 50 feet
west of intersection of Bridge and
Main streets, said intersection being
the center of town, and lying on the
North side of Main street, runs
northwardly with line of H. G. Chat
ham 100 feet to an alley; thence
Westwardly with said alley 20 feet;
thence parallel with Miss Maude
Greenwood's line and five feet from
same 100 feet to a point on Main
street, thence with Main street 20
feet to the beginning. Same being
twenty feet off the Eastern portion
of Lot No. 3 in Block No. 10 as shown
on map of Elkin Land Company,
recorded in the office of Register of
Deeds of Surry County, in Book 29,
page 600. (Together with the right,
title, interest and estate in and to
the stairway located to the west of
said property reference being made
to report to special commissioner
of August 2, 1918 in J. A. Green
wood, et als, versus Phillip Green
wood, Minor. And being the same
property allotted to the grantor
here in the above suit.)
This July "25, 1934.
DAVID B. HARRIS,
Trustee.
Folger & Folger, Attys. 8-23