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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938~ 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 TEAR In the State, 91.50 Oot of the State, s2.o* Dogs may be loyal critters, but they don't always show that they are good judges of character when they go to bestow their affections. The last to condemn Japan for break ing treaties, are the women who pay no at tention to that word "obey" in the marriage ceremony. Old-timers who believed in the efficacy of the hot poultice, never learned that get ting hot under the collar doesn't relieve a pain in the neck. Our notion is that Mr. Hancock will have to drag out a more important issue than "pledge cards" if he craves to cross the tape ahead of Bob. One would think that Mr. Roosevelt is too good a politician than to antagonize al most the whole nation by urging a curtail ment of installment selling. After all, the sum total of life is to live, to do a little good, to trust God and have a little fun, sharing it with the other fellow when it is calculated to bring mutual happi ness. Philander Johnson's Uncle Eben says: "Our preacher has de bes' system for beatin' a crap game dat I knows. He never risks nuffin' hisself, but depends on de winner to put a liberal percentage on de collection plate." The Reason For His Leadership "On most of our land we grow feed aifd sell it as milk and pork and meat." We are prepared to believe that this one little sen tence explains why D. Hubert Boney, Duplin county dairy farmer, is referred to as one -of the leading farmers of Eastern Carolina, al though his farm includes only seventy-five acres of land. As a result of that program Boney op erates on a cash basis and has a monthly in come the year 'round from five cash crops— beans, cotton, tobacco, truck and strawber ries, plus two income sources from livestock. That is intensive rather than extensive farming, and to this Easterner it means 300 working days each year. With twenty pure bred milk cows, fifty Duroc hogs, a large flock of chickens, six acres of strawberries, forty acres of corn with interplanted leg umes, Boney is diversifying his efforts, and on a little seventy-five acre farm he is mak ing such a satisfactory go of it that he is recognized as one of the East's leading farm ers. Boney refuses to put all of his eggs in One basket. His cattle and hogs and chick ens process his feed for him, and turn it in to more and bigger dollars, than the feed would bring on the open market. And here is his prophecy: "We believe the day is not far distant when our farmers will become more conscious of grass and livestock and have a steady income. They will not be so dependent on the credit sys tem and will look to their herds and soil building practices for food for their crops, instead of buying it in a guano bag. This paper could covet nothing better or more important than that the farmers of this county would catch the vision of this Easterner and plan their work as he has planned his. It will be a glorious day for North Carolina when our farmers in greater numbers subscribe to the Boney creed. Calls For Straight-Thinking- Our readers will remember that more than a year ago we predicted in these col umns that soon there would be the demand that Congress provide pensions for world war veterans, with all that means to a na tion already struggling to keep head above water. Pensions came a step nearer recently when three veterans' organizations appeared before Congress to urge the enactment of a general pensions bill applying to "widows and orphans" of world war veterans; a bill that provides not only for pensions for wid ows and orphans of those who were killed in war (these are already receiving pensions) but for the payment of pensions to widows t.nd orphans of veterans who will have died in the future, from causes that have noth ing to do with war. Those who marry a war veteran up to July 3, 1941, become eligible for these pensions One lets the gap down to the charge of p lack of patriotism, when voice is raised against war pensions. And there is no purpose here to discredit the good inten tions of those who would provide for caws of actual merit, but to blanket the whole, in what amounts to a raid oil the public treas ury by a strong pressure group, calls for a lot of straight-thinking, divorced as much as possible from amendment. For it must be remembered that the United States is still paying pensions to "widows and orphans" of the war of 1812, which ended 123 years ago. Nor should we forget that Civil War pensions continue to amount to around $200,000,000 a year. For which there is some excuse in the fact that for these no broad insurance program ex isted, such as was provided for the soldiers in the world war. There can be no discounting the splen did service rendered by those who with a minimum of murmuring subjected themsel ves to the hardships and tragedies of war. But now they are faced with another test of their patriotism and should measure their demands accordingly. ? There is no greater argument for stay ing out of another war, if it can possibly be avoided—than pensions. Should Have Assistance The committee appointed by Governor Hoey to consider the advisability of a State Department of Justice, has been studying the system under which the twenty-one so licitors of the State are operating. Major L. P. McLendon, head of the com mittee,- has brought to this more or less gratuitious assignment that same sincere and earnest interest that he exhibited as chairman of the State Elections Board, and whatever may be the recommendations of this study group, the State will be the rich er because of this analyzation that is ceve ing all phases of the administration of jus tice in North Carolina. Should the committee's study of the so licitorial system lead to the adoption of a program that will provide a more compre hensive and thorough prosecution of law violators, it will be time well spent. For the records indicate that efficiency in the ad ministration of criminal law is not keeping pace with the increase in crime. Under the present system the Solicitor is compelled to work at a tremendous dis advantage. Almost singlehandedly he must cope with all of the best legal talent in his district. The wonder is that any of these prosecuting officers are able to turn in as good records for convictions as they do. For it is obvious that the solicitor must be a su perman if all his cases are properly prepar ed. He comes fresh from one court to pros ecute the docket in another, and certainly he is not able to make a study of all the facts or assemble convincing evidence in more than a few of the more important cases that he must try. Unlike the local attorney, representing the defense, he cannot get out and round up all the evidence. Yet he must meet opposing attorneys with this handicap. The State, if it really is interested in the fullest administration of its criminal law, should provide an all-time assistant to the solicitor in every court in every district—a capable lawyer commissioned to work as ef fectively in assembling details as the private lawyer does for the individual. It would cost a little money, but fewer offenders would worm through the seive because of necessarily poorly prepared cases. A Common Cause Certain members of Congress have been making a great to-do over whether this gov ernment has an agreement, alliance, under standing, or what else have you, with Great Britain, In case of war. Certain senators have implied that there is a secret agree ment or understanding. Secretary Hull says there is not, and that should be enough to satisfy—unless the doubters are more inter ested in knifing the administration than in maintaining the international prestige of America. What Mr. Hull didn't say, what there is no earthly need to say, is that there IS an understanding, although not SECRET. For it plain as the bump on your nose, that there has been and will be parallel action in military and naval policies so long as the two greatest democracies are challenged as they are being challenged today. And why shouldn't there be such agree ment and understanding so long as it doesn't amount to an alliance that would make us fight John Bull's battles on every occasion or on any occasion. Better, of course that such agreement be frank and out in the open, free from secrecy: better that the world should know for certain, as it suspicions, that England and the United States, bound to gether by blood ties, memories, traditions, ideals, will be found standing together, never for conquest or to oppress, but against such foes as already are disturbing the peace of the world and which are studiedly threaten ening the very existence of democracy. We have fought for peace and the prin ciple of good neighborliness, but a world gone mad will have none of either. It is a pity the world has not learned its lesson; has not counted the dollar-cost of war. But it hasn't. We showed our good faith when we trusted the pledged word of other coun tries and scrapped finished and unfinished ships, but to no avail. Now there is noth ing else to do but arm to the teeth just as any individual would.do, if neighbors all about him were out to kill and destroy. And if there is a common purpose why shouldn't there be a common front, with a minimum of duplication? To raise a howl about such uniform effort is but to give comfort to those who would destroy i| they thought it safe to try. THE ELRIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY Animals that choose to live in water should have fins; those in air should have wings. Extreme evolutionists take great pride in worshipping their ances tors. 3oth heredity and environment figure very largely in the develop ment of a human being. No wonder that "static" asserts itself in many radio productions. It's no more foolish for an ass ■ ———— to die at his master's crib than for a per son to die ig norant in the midst of knowl edge. No mocking bird would at tempt to mim ick all that's broadcast now-a days. Yes, a parrot can talk. In the future, I suspect th£t traveling cards will contain the slogan, "Turn off the radio." A buzzard does not enjoy the aroma of flowers. It's economical in boarding establishments to turn on the ra dio full blast—no man can eat a square meal while it is going on. Some quadrupeds walk upon on ly two legs. Rip Van Winkle left the world better than he found it. He left a number of devoted disciples. Esau is not the only man who sold his birthright. A nudist and a naturalist have some things iu common. The eagle lowers his dignity when he lights on a carcass. The most proficient mechanic cannot do good work with dull tools. Which is the mother hen, the one that lays the egg, or the one that hatches and raises the chick? Would a crow be less a crow were its feathers white? A finished product has no de defcts in it. Many people seem "spiritually" inclined these days. Many homes have been made happy by the presence of poodle dogs. Blessed are the childless wives who administer to the comfort of other peoples' children. Leaf Market In Canada Nearly Gone Raleigh. North Carolina which grows the major share of the United States flue-cured to bacco, "has virtually lost" Cana da as an export market for the leaf, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco mar keting specialist of the state de partment of agriculture, said to day. "During the past 10 years, Ca nadian growers have increased their tobacco production from 6- 000,000 to 53,000,000 pounds," he said. "While Canadian acreage is relatively small, the fact re mains there is one less maiket for our flue-cured tobacco." U. S. exports of flue-cured to bacco to Canada have decreased 300 per cent during the past three years, Hedrick said, or from 8,- 000,000 to 2.000,000 pounds. The 1937 Canadian flue-cured crop sold for an average price of 27 cents a pound, he reported. "Since 1932, when the stalk cutttlng of the Canadian crop was supplanted by priming, the yield and quality of the leaf has been greatly improved. "Canada's knowledge of the cul tivation and curing of flue-cured tobaccfe has resulted from the teachings of southern growers, annually make the trek to Canada for the priming and curing sea son." Polite Gamekeeper: "Didnt you see that notice at the entrance to these woods?" Small Boy: "Yes, but it was headed 'Private' and I was too po lite ty read on." Before Daybreak, The Dawn Quest—What a pretty name your maid has! Hostess—Oh, that isn't her real name. We Just call her "Dawn" because she's always breaking. (By C. M. Dickson) jtSBEKjAIE'r 1 ' . • ' ~ Qibrakar by A. 6. CHAPIN TODAY «nd TERROR no greater In the whole of a fairly long lifetime I have never known a time when the world's mind was so filled with terror as it is to day. To the reader of the daily newspaper or the listener on the radio. It seems as if the whole world were in a turmoil, with tragedy stalking on every side and catastrophe threatening the security of the established order from a dozen directions. I am not convinced that danger and disaster are any more preva lent now than they always have been, considering how many peo ple there are in the world today more than there were a hundred or two hundred years ago. To day's dangers are of a different kind, because we have so many new inventions capable of caus ing disaster. People do not die by millions from starvation, as they did during the Hundred Years War which ravaged Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, when seven-eighths of the people of Germany died from lack of food. All the deaths by automobile and airplane accidents do not come to as high a percentage of the world's population in a year as the death-toll from wild beasts robber bands, epidemics, ship wreck and starvation used to come to. * » » NEWS comes faster Our minds are confused by the rapid impact of tragedy. Our fore fathers concerned themselves lit tle with such things outside of their own neighborhoods because they did not know about them un til long after their effect had be gun to subside. Today the whole world knows what happened ev erywhere only yesterday. News comes faster than we can digest it. George Washington died on De cember 14, 1799. The only exist ing copy of a newspaper report ing his death is dated January 7, 1 1800. It took more than three week* for the news to reach New i York state readers. Imagine how i long it would take for the whole ' world to learn of the death of a President today! I own a copy of a newspaper i printed in England in 1721. It 1 contains the first news report of i the conquest of Persia by the Mo hammedans. That had occurred - more than a, year before. Today I we have the news of yesterday's ) battles in China and Spain in our , morning papers. No wonder we t get the impression that the world is on the verge of destruction. • • ♦ SPEED ...... is a "must" The most precious and perish ' able commodity in the world's i market is news. The fresher the news the greater its value. The i Rothschilds became the wealthiest • family in the world because-they got the news of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo a day before anyone else in England knew it. That : would be impossible today. Newspapers and press associa l tions are paying $1.50 a word for ' news dispatches from the war in China, but a ton of coal can be sent across the Pacific for a cou ple of dollars. The world can wait for coal; it must have news today. A century ago a ship was not given up for lost until three years had passed since it was last heard from. Today a great "Clipper" plane is forced down in mid-ocean and we know it the next day. Ac tual photographs, motion pictures of the sinking of the "Panay" were shown in thousands of the atres within two weeks after the tragedy had occurred ten thous and miles away. We get so much news of tragedies that we become depressed, haunted by the feeling that everything is going wrong everywhere. « » • EVENTS ... the "big three" The three most important events in the life of every person are Birth, Marriage and Death. The closer to our experiences are events which happen to others, the more interested we are in them. That is why reports of births, marriages and deaths are the news most widely read. People want to read about such things when they happen to folks they know or have heard about. Death ranks first in news in terest. It is something most of us fear, all realize it is inevitable. War news, news of shipwrecks, or fatal accidents in which hun dreds or thousands die stirs us to deep emotional reactions. So does the marriage of famous people, and the birth of children to dis tinguished couples. The biggest piece of news of the past year was the marriage of the former King of England to an American lady. The biggest news event to which the world is look ing forward as I write is the birth of an heir to the throne of the Netherlands. Will Juliana's baby be a boy or a girl? But as we grow older our interest in news turns more and more to the obituary notices. Who that we know or knew about has passed on? And we wonder, less fearfully than when we were younger, when our turn will come. • * • PAPER from pine Paper is still the greatest me dium. by which people learn the news which interests them. Def initely more people read newspa pers than listen to news reports on the radio, and I believe that will always be so. People want de tails which the radio cannot give them. In my lifetime I have seen newsper circulations jump from a few thousands to millions, the number of newspapers climb from a few hundred to 13.000 in America alone. This has been due to the discovery that paper can be made by machinery out of the same material the wasps make it to build their nests. - The first wood-pulp paper in the world was made the year before I was born, in my old home town of Stock bridge. It cut the cost of printed matter and multiplied its output. Paper is going to be cheaper and more plentiful still. Paper from southern pine is beginning to supplant paper from northern spruce, at lower cost and unlimit ed supply; of raw material. Proud Peacock Little Alice was taken on a visit to a peacock farm. Her mother was busily engaged In conversa tion when her small daughter ran up breathlessly. "Oh, mother, there's an old chicken out in the yard in full bloom'P Thorsday, February 17,1938 ARE REDECORATING PENNEY STORE HERE The J. C. Penney Co., of Klktn, is redecorating their store, the en tire interior being given new paint which is adding much to the store's attractiveness. Work of the painters is about complete. WANTS Early Ohio mountain grown seed Irish potatoes. Excellent variety. Mrs. J. P. Phillips, Arlington, N. C. lt-c Help Wanted —White woman as cook end housekeeper for small family. Apply to Mrs. Enoch Harris. * ltc For rent: Seven room house, with water and lights. Good pasture. Mrs. W. S. Sale, telephone 161. Some good young mares for sale or trade. J. B Hudson, two miles north of Elkin, on High way 26. 2-17p Wanted: Two men with cars for out-of-town traveling. Dealers for Fuller Brush Company. Ad dress replies P. O. Box X. Elkin, N. C. 2-17-p Wanted: Good wheat and white milling corn. Market price paid. See Riverside Milling Co., A. M. Jennings, Prop. 3-3-p For Bent—Three-room apartment with private bath, heat and water furnished. Wired for electric stove and refrigerator. Mrs. R. L. Kir km an, West Main street. 2-17 c For sale: 5 or 6 hundred yellow heart locust posts, 7 feet long. Call at once if interested. O. W. Martin, Jonesville, N. C. ltp—tfc. FREE! If excess acid causes yea Stomach Ulcers, Gas Pains, In digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, get free sam ple doctor's prescription, Udga, at Turner Drug Co. 6-3p CHUNK WOOD FOR SALE Dry pine and oak slabs mixed or green pole wood eut to order, $2.00 per load. Phone 12-F-2. Quick delivery. J. F. Miller, tfc Do mn want plenty of eggs from strong, fast glowing young / chicks? If so feed Panamln. We/ have It Abernethy's, A Good Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. till Wo buy scrap Iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk ln, N. C. tfc Wanted to repair radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc gpiUa Mineral CHI, quart six* 89c. Antacid Powder, large size 50c. Nyseptol, pint 49c. Gallon Mineral Oil $2.25. Turner Drug Co., Elkin, N. C- tfn SMALL FARMS FOR SALE I farms 16 acres each with build ings on good roads. Prices will interest "ou. I—6 room cottage for rent. REICH & HUNT REAL ESTATE Farm to trade for town property. Some bargains in small farms and city property. See or call met for your real estate needs. Phone 301. Office over Home Furniture Co. (The old Fann ers & Merchants Bank Bldg ) D. C. MARTIN, Realtor
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