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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1935 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as * second-class matter. C. S. FOSTER. -President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State $1.59 Out of the State, $2.00 A Very Live Corpse - For a party that a few months back was considered all but dead, shattered into tatters by the disheartening results of election .in which the voters registered their will in no unmistak able fashion, the Republicans are making plenty of noise and whoopee. The party is not dead by any manner of means. It is not even sleeping, not nationally. It is only natural that G. 0. P. leaders should find delight in the attacks on the admin istration by Huey Long, Preacher Coughlin, Dr. Townsend and others. If these former friends of the administration can drive a wedge deep enough for Republican fingers to get a good stout hold, the splitting of the political log may not be such a hard matter after all. But while Republican leaders are shelling the Roosevelt woods, the real shock troop batal lion is covering the advance with argument about economics that makes an efficient smoke-screen until the reasons for the bombardment are analyzed and assayed for their real worth. The United States Chamber of Commerce, represent ing as it does the industrial interests of the na tion, takes a crack at Roosevelt policies every time the opportunity offers. The Chamber has never been friendly to a Democratic administration, because it has never been able to team up to a mutual satisfaction. This industrial organization thinks only in terms of dollars and cents and has no yardstick by which to measure human values. What it wants is the old time "rugged individualism" which is a misnomer for its corporations and holding companies. In March, 1933, it was willing to lay its industrial troubles on Mr. Roosevelt's door step, but now that he has pulled its chestnuts out of the fire, these high financiers profess to see dire calamity ahead. This fits in mighty well with the Republi can purpose and plans. Indeed, it is reasonable to suppose that there has been ample prompt ing from behind the scenes. But amid all the noise and slap-sticking G. O. P. leaders, diligent in their efforts to find a leader, have not been successful in putting him out in front to groom for the presidential race. Undoubtedly Mr. Hoover covets the privilege of again pointing to the grass in the streets of ev ery city in the land; young Teddy Roosevelt would like nothing better than a marathon with Cousin Franklin; Senator Vandenburg is watch ing his step and marching carefully to the tune of political expediency. And there is a whole covey of candidates who would answer the call of their party, but there is so much chatter that the call can't get through. When Love Beckons Uganda, one of Great Britain's most prim itive colonies seems to be succeeding in solving an extremely difficult social problem: the value of a wife. After much discussion and numerous test cases, the stable price handed down by the court of chieftains is—five cows. Of course both the girl and the cows are evaluated on the hoof, and the exchange is thus standardized to dispense with unfair competition, haggling by the bridegroom, or extortion by the father of the girl. It is barely possible that conflict would arise in case of troubled domestic relations in divorce. No provision has been made for the return of the bride to the parental roof, and the father does not understand that in such case he is to return the five cows. Maybe if the Ugandan father is shrewd he will discount something for wear and tear on his daughter and send -back only two of the animals. That would be accen tuating the question: what is a girl worth before she is married and how much does she depre ciate afterward. If this little African province can settle this question satisfactorily, maybe it can also tell us what to do with our Huey Long. Germany announces that 333,000 women between the ages of 16 and 33 are needed on farms immediately to become mates for farmers, and the government is lending its fullest co-op eration to this match-making extraordinary. It has allocated $100,000,000 for farm homes, and fe ordering the girls back to the farm instead of back to the kitchen. But here in America the front pages of our big dailies carey the pictures of Hollywood's di vorces, alongside of the accounts of matrimonial tangles of our idle rich, and our. court calendars are cluttered up every term with appeals for re lease from marriage vows said in response to love that did not last until the next full moon. Maybe Uganda and Germany hold some thing that we haven't got; maybe each senses the need of governmental supervision of mar riage contracts and obligations. But one thing Is certain our own government has not found it necessary to provide "rental payments" for cur tailed production in the marriage industry. The wedded ones are plowing up every third row on their own account and without government urge. Outwardly friendly to Russia as we are it may be significant we keep sending a Bullitt back to Moscow.—Nashville Tennessean. THE ELBJN TRIBUNE, EJLKIN, WORTH CAROLINA Right Much Money Senator Bailey is quoted as saying: "J be lieve that When it is all added up, North Caro lina will get about one hundred million dollars, which is its share on a population basis, of the four-biHion-dpllar work relief appropriation." Inasmuch as this money is supposed to be spent within fifteen months, surely this state, along with its neighbors, is in for an upward boost from many angles. The Great Smoky Mountain Parkway pro ject will constitute a big slice of this fund, but North Carolina, along with Virginia, will have to get busy and acquire and present to the fed eral government the necessary rights of way, if the money allocated to the project is to be spent within the allotted time. Along with the general projects such as grade crossings, soil erosion, forestry, subsist ence homestead, and other ventures, there will be gobs of county and city projects, but in the case of the latter there is likely to bei disappoint ment unless the proposals are presented imme diately, because expedition is the heart of the entire program. Those on relief who are employable, will be put to work and the unemployables will be turned back to the state and communities. There's not going to be much more of what amounts to the dole. Men who are able to work will be expected to grab a tool, else they won|t find their name on a pay check. That is as it should have been at the start. It was impossible for the federal government to play Santa Claus to all without encouraging indolence. The local communities, which in the final analysis have to foot the bill, know better the actual needs of those who cannot work, and should provide for them. Not A Bad Bet The Wisconsin legislature has passed a bill to require the serving of one-third of an ounce of cheese and two-thirds of an ounce of butter v/ith every restaurant meal costing twenty-five cents or more, until March 1, 1937. That seems to fit in with the fool things that legislatures do, oftener than semi-occasionally—but is it? There is method in Wisconsin's madness. The sponsor of the bill boldly stated its object— to make visitors conscious of that state's dairy prominence and to help the farmers by just that much. Wisconsin produces great gobs of cheese of the better kind, and is also proud of the butter the farmers produce. The state is taking a long shot in making the consumption of both compul sory, but visitors will not raise a howl about rt if the cheese and butter is of quality, and maybe they will remain to praise. But if Wisconsin can do that with her but ter and cheese, why not North Carolina make it obligatory that visitors be introduced to our li quid corn in the same manner, and require that a "chaw" of tobacco top off the desert for each lunch served those who are merely passing through. If the objective be extended to promo tional effort among our own people, this compul sion applied to the bridge clubs and after-dinner speakings at our civic organization meetings, the thing would go. over with whoopee. Wisconsin hasn't placed a bad b£t! One third of an ounce of cheese and an ounce of but ter served with every restaurant meal, will put how-many cows back into production, and many a dairyman will be able to take that coveted trip into Canada to have a look at the Dionne quin tuplets. : „ War's Cost The cost of war is appalling, yet the total is by no means immediate tor all of it. The cost of enlisting men and equipping them for service ■ is tremendous, and in the last big conflict this ' nation loaned money that it will never get back. ! This of course is reckoning the cost of war from ' a material standpoint—in dollars and cents— -1 and aside from the cost in human lives which cannot be estimated. ~ Paying for war must go on and on from one generation to another. Pensions alone amount to an almost unbelievable sum, and they extend farther than one thinks. It was in 1906, a cen tury and a quarter after the revolutionary war that the last pension check occasioned by thkt war was' issued—paid to the last widow of a vet eran of the Revolution. The total amount of pensions for that war was $71,000,000. The total cost of pensions resulting from the War of 1812 was $46,000,000; the War with Mexico, more than $60,000,000; the various In dian Wars, more than $53,000,000 and the Civil War, more than $7,500,000,000; nearly a mil lion persons are now receiving pensions on war compensation, besides the 3,725,000 World War who have bonus certificates. And as certain ad night is dark, we are headed into the greatest pension budget of all time. The demand for immediate payment of the bonus certificates is predicated upon the urge to clear the decks for pension demands that will make all other pension lists look like thirty cents. Yet those pension costs when they come will be only a part of the total cost of the World War. Just pause and think what educational ad vancement could be achieved with the tax money that goes to pay for war. In our patriotic fer vor we do not hesitate to mortgage the future to bear the cost of killing and being killed, but we raise a mighty howl when a mere mite, in com parison, is added to the tax load to provide edu cation for our children—education that should have as one of its objectives the intelligent ef fort to consider the causes and find a cure for war. - . r Surely America has had her fill of armed conflict! If the white crosses above our boys in Flanders Field and their maimed and battered buddies nursing their ills in our hospitals and whiling out a miserable existence, do not im press, then our dollars spent in thi3 senseless way should bring us up with a ierk, and those who have been profiting by making war continu ously imminent should be torn from their barri cade of wealth and thrown into the gutter. PRIZES OFFERED FOR FARM RECORDS 4-H Club Members May Compete For More Than SI,OOO List » m ■ i. ■■ Prizes valued at more than SI,OOO are offered North Carolina 4-H club members who keep accurate farm records this year in the na tional farm account contest. The contest, sponsored by the In ternational Harvester Company, Is designed to stimulate a greater in terest in the keeping of accurate farm records, according to L. R. Harrill, 4-H club leader at State College. To county winners will go prizes worth $lO. and the State winner will receive SIOO. The latter will com pete in the sectional contest, for which a $250 prize is offered. The national winner will receive an award valued at SSOO. The records may be kept in any suitable farm record book which shows a complete inventory of all farm possessions at the beginning and the end of the 12-month per iod, a record of money received and paid out during the year and what the receipts and expenditures were : for, and a balance sheet showing ' how much money the farm made . or lost. The records will be judged on the following points: completeness, ac curacy, and neatness, 50 points; "SPEEDY" by Elkin Motors, Inc., Elkin, N. C. SO-85^90--NO WONDCOI/ WBUU OP /\UI- 1 vjeve ovcrtaken ScwkcmS -we ccwcerr-Z BYt-8YB # 1 V ukb this- and thatlT}' 1 ~j\ whyw\/ BACCR APTERjOUR BVM LOOK! HCS SMYBYB/. I JU4T WHY I C/AME V~r7 q START— ves.sift- SPECIAL USED 1934 Ford V-8 Coach 1931 Ford Coach TAR VATITF! 1931 chevrolet Coupe 1931 Ford Coupe VAL.UU&: 1931 PQJ-Jj po rdor Sedan 1930 Ford Coach , * . • • '— W- VriJ TOYOS ~ 98* Men! Never before such n „„ .. „ . Sanforized! White duck! 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Both springy rubber heel 6 to 11. wide and narrow brim styles. — EaJjdLJLJbJSteJ^ East Main St. Elkin, N. C. analysis and suggestions for changes in the farm, plant to increase earn ings, 90 points. Any bona fide 4-H club member who is taking an active part in club work this year is eligible to enter the contest, Harrill said. Those wishing to secure more de tails about the contest may obtain them from county farm or home demonstration agents. LIVESTOCK GROWING IS SAFE FARMING Livestock Has Pulled Many Farmers Thru the Depression The depression affected the price of livestock as it did other farm crops, yet those who had animals to balance their crop production did not suffer so keenly. This is the lesson, N. C. Ferebee of Camden county says he has learned. "The livestock on my farm pulled me through the depression," he told I. I. Case, animal husbandman at State College. "Mr. Ferebee has a well-rounded livestock farm and in addition to the actual sales of livestock and its products, he gives much credit to the manure produced in maintain ing the fertility of his land," says Mr. Case. "He also was able to sell bis crops to the livestock at a fair price and to keep nearly all of the fertility at home instead of market- Thursday. May 16. 1935 ing it Along witli the low-priced m crops." Livestock on the Ferebee farm consists of 22 grade Aberdeen Angus breeding cows and their offspring by a pure bred bull of the same breed. In addition to these animals, Mr. Ferebee usually buys some steers to fatten for market. Recently, he sent a truck load of fat steers to the Baltimore market where they averaged 1060 pounds each in weight and brought $9.65 a hundred. There is another truck load yet to be sold. But Mr. Ferebee does not keep beef cattle alone, Case says. He has ten Duroc-Jersey sows, a flock of ,20 mutton-type ewes, five brood mares, five horses and one stallion. Mr. Ferebee has been breeding and raising his own work stock for 20 years," Case says. "It has been near ly that long since he has bought any work stock of any kind and he be lieves that this in itself has been a ereat saying to him, especially dur ing recent years since the price of work animals has more than doubled. Like other successful live stock growers, Mr. Ferebee has found that the man who Jumps in and out of livestock according to the price of crops does not do so well but the man who sticks to it, year 'after year, fares very well. Tailoring Dress Making All Kinds of Sewing Mrs. G. W. Laffoon West Main St. Phone 101-R
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