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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, February 2, 1939 Entered at the post office at Elkin. N. C., as second-class matter. ■ . C. §. FOSTER. -Pmldent H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, S2.M But at that, "diversion" is about the softest word you could call it To legislators looking for something to tax we respectfully refer them to the— slide trombone. Can you remember back there when in stead of referring to it as b.o. they simply told you that you were smelly. Legislative Headaches Members elected to the General As sembly for the honor of the thing find, so far as the present session is concerned, that they have also drawn a headache that is more enduring than the proverbial "morning after" ailment. Particularly is this so for those who have been assigned to the impor tant Finance and Appropriations commit tees. For to these groups is given the re sponsibility of making a stab at budget bal ancing. There may be some good reason for causing them to work separately, but inas much as there is the important matter of cutting the garment of one to fit the form of the other, it would seem advisable to make it a joint effort as well as joint re sponsibility. Faced with daily new demands for tax reductions, the Finance Committee is com pelled to slash the budget commission esti mates to the point where it is obviously im possible to balance income and outgo. There is the proposed return of intangible tax re ceipts to the local governments; the rail roads are presenting convincing evidence that they should have a 15 cent reduction in the franchise levy, and there are other re ductions looked upon favorably by the Gen eral Assembly, which will work a reduction of a million and a half dollars in the bud getary estimate. On the other hand the Appropriations committee isn't making any corresponding slash in estimated expenditures, and for the very simple reason that it is being pressed for more and more funds from almost every State department and agency. In other words budget estimates of rev enu JT the coming biennium are coming dov i'i and budget estimates of expenditures lire going up. This means a bigger and big ger gap between income and outgo. No wonder Governor Hoey is concerned about the diversion of highway funds. He probably regrets breaking faith with the motorists as much as the next one, but to leave his office with finances out of kilter is something no Governor wants to do. It is not that he loves Caesar less but Rome more. And it is no wonder that Paul Leonard is emboldened to ask the legislature to stop, look and listen: To think of North Carolina as a lean State, and to cut the garment to fit. But the people are demanding more and more from their governments, State and , National, and these things cost money. It's an honor to be elected to the General Assembly, but things do get in one's hair in Raleigh. A Dark Picture The tangled skein of world politics would not be so tragic if human misery were not so involved. If it could be made only a mat ter of diplomatic scheming and planning, a sort of game that somehow could be played according to rules, even if sensible men could not sense the advantage of sitting down to the council table in a give-and-take frame of mind, then maybe international ad justments could be made in a way that na tions would find it more profitable to buy than fight their way to a coveted place in thi sun. But instead of that we have a picture of pain and misery and desolation in Spain and in China, all brought about by the inhuman ity of man's greed for power—the greed of only a couple of them, to be, specific. • General Franco's march into Barcelona last week spells ultimate victory for the rebel army which is more Italo-German than Spanish. Intead of the stabilization of Spain it means her dismemberment. Musso lini and Hitler have not been fighting Franco's battle for nothing. He already knows their price, knows that they mean to collect—and in the collecting France will be the red-headed stepchild that obviously will be left out in the cold, if actually she is not made to ante , the pot. For Britain will come in for something out of the spoils. Spain, war-torn and despoiled, will be a lia bility until that nation is rehabilitated. Italy and Germany have not the money and the means; Britain has, and Britain will be the banker—for a toll. This will eventuate, that is, provided the fee'ing between France and Italy can be bridged. If it can't there is the barest pos sibility that Britain will keep her word to France and together call the hand of the two braggarts. Surely both of them must remember with a pain, how much easier it would have been to set themselves in the path of Mussolini in Ethiopia. Then there would have been no Munich; Franco would not be marching into Barcelona, and Japan would not be riding high, wide and hand some in China. But it is too late now. The inevitable task will be the harder because of the mistaken idea that Mussolini and Hitler could be appeased. And what is more Rome and Berlin, en trenched in Spain, become a threat to the Americas. There is the shadow of two in satiable hyenas, shading their eyes toward the Western hemisphere, and soon we will be paying the price of our failure to sell munitions to as patriotic a people as ever strove for their liberty—the Spanish loyal ists. It is well that we are thinking in terms of preparedness—for we will need to be pre pared. All Momixed Up J. Paul Leonard has at last succeeded in getting his sales tax issue started through the courts. In a test case he is fighting to recover $3.13 paid by him under protest last year on the ground that the levy is dis criminatory and unconstitutional. In a hearing before a Superior Court judge in Winston last week, the State's de murrer was upheld, and Leonard appealed to the higher courts declaring that he would fight it out to a finish. The result of the Winston hearing was not surprising, even to Mr. Leonard, but some of the arguments of the State's attor neys are a bit confusing. In answer to Leonard's attorneys' contention that one in stance of discrimination may be found in the collection of sales tax on gasoline, As sistant-General Gregory explained that no additional sales tax was imposed on gaso line, yet Governor Hoey has persistently been pointing out that the State is entitled to divert the equal of three per cent, sales tax from the highway fund for other pur poses. There is no sales tax on gasoline, ac cording to these theories, but the State re serves to lift it just the same. And there is Gregory's defense of the constitutionality of the sales tax on the ground that it is not a tax on the consumer, but a tax on the merchant. And all the t\me we had been thinking that it was a tax on the man who buys, and for the privilege of buy ing. It is written into the law that it must not be made a part of the purchase price, but plainly separated so the customer will know what he is paying. And isn't it funny that if this is a tax on the merchant, that the State requires the merchant to be his own tax collector? Nothing was said at the Winston-Salem hearing about an unconstitutionally com posed legislature whose representation had not been reapportioned according to the con stitution. If Leonard should win on that point, then every law passed by the last and the present legislature would be void—and • wouldn't that be a mess ? Looks like they've got this business mighty momixed up, taking everything into consideration. Two Results In significant contrast is the attitude of two Congressional committees as they make their report on the activities assigned to them. One is willing to quit and call it a day, resting on its record of achievement; the other begs for $150,000 to continue its work which better could be called devilment. For the Senate Civil Liberties Commit tee, headed by Senator LaFollette, Progres sive-Republican, has done a good job; its in vestigations have been conducted intelli gently, aggressively and constructively, and from its report the Senate may find a basis for helpful legislation. The House committee on un-American ism, headed by Martin Dies, Democrat, has floundered from Dan to Beersheba and back, with no better purpose than publicity for its chairman and the smearing of those he seeks to undermine. It is this committee that revealed Shirley Temple as a tool of Communistic Russia; the committee that heard any voice that would raise itself against the same objects of Dies hatreds 01 cast a shadow of doubt upon the administra tion. It is this committee that wants an other summer with $150,000 to spend. And Congressman Dies stands a good chance of getting the funds to carry-on. His fellows, no matter though they may dis count the honesty of his efforts and deplore his tactics, will not want to be put in the light of opposing any effort to uncover un- Americanism. Dies has had the political shrewdness to build a fire under their feet, by going to the people with a plausible tale of what he hopes to accomplish. The voters have not taken the trouble to scratch through the veneer, and willingly support the Dies cause. And so there is the proba bility that the Texan will have another plea sant summer, with plenty of money to spend. There is much that is un-American in this nation today; much that is amenable to the law as it already is writ. Why not let the law attend to its work at least until it catches up, or until an investigating group is willing to divorce itself from selfish po litical purpose and really and truly—invest igate? the el&in Tribune, elkin, nokth Carolina prODAVI hvMORHwl 11 FRfIHIMPftHKER II II BTO CKB RIP 0E H FIGURES ..... science ■ When I was a schoolboy we used to sing-song a bit of dog gerel which expressed the average pupil's feeling about arithmetic: Multiplication is vexation, Divsiion is as bad. The Rule of Three perplexes me And Fractions drive me mad. One has to have a natural tal ent for figures to be able to grasp their meaning and to understand their applications to the hundreds of fields of knowledge in which mathematical calculations are of first importance. All science in every field of knowledge is based upon mathe matics, "the mother of science." Prom the astronomer who mea sures space in units so large that it takes a row of hundreds of figures to express them, to the physical chemist who measures a film of oil on the surface of the water in terms of a millionth of a millionth of an inch, everyone who seeks to learn the unrevealed secrets of the universe must be a master of figures. BUSINESS . . . bookkeeping The most important thing in American life is Business, and the most important thing in business is figures. The bigger the busi ness the more essential are ac curate figures. Business concerns not only have to keep accounts for their own information, but the require ments of the Government for ac curate reports for all sorts of purposes are constantly increas ing. The income tax laws have made America, as a witty com mentator remarked, a nation of bookkeepers. Now every corpora tion and operator of any sort of business enterprise has to keep and report to Uncle Sam accurate records of payrolls and the taxes paid on them under the Social Security Act. One of the largest industries in America is the manufacture of bookkeeping and accounting ma chines to put down on paper the countless millions of mathemati cal calculations required every day in the ordinary course of business. OPPORTUNITY . . . demand For the boy or girl to whom arithmetic came easy in school, who has a real liking for figures, I know of no greater opportun ity, or one which 1s growing larger all the time, than that of fered in the field of business ac counting. There is more demand for peo ple to fill well-paid jobs in the accounting department of busi ness than there are people qual ified to fill them. At the bottom, where every body must begin, are the opera tors of bookkeeping machines, who get higher pay than the general run of stenographers. At the top are the Certified Public Acountants. It takes years of hard work, and real love of it, to reach the top in accountancy, but that is true of every occupation. One of my friends, who started life as bookkeeper in an lowa country store, worked twenty years before he reached' the top. Now he earns forty or fifty thousand a year as a partner in a firm of certified public accountants. PROFESSION .... G-men Possibly the best-paid and the least crowded profession in the world is that of Certified Public Accountant. / As the name implies, those who hold that title are the ones who have gained such proficiency that they are capable of examining and reporting on the finances of any business or corporation, how ever large, and their services are available to whomever is willing to pay for them. A report by a Certified Public Accountant is required by invest ors, Government bureaus, and in many other cases before author ity is granted to offer securities for sale, or banks will extend material credit. No one can practice as a C. P. A. without a state certificate of experience, competence, charac ter and responsibility. More than once in recent years Certified Public Accountants have disclosed Irregularities in the ac counts and practices of business institutions which even the com pany's directors had not suspect ed. They are in a real sense pub lic servants, a sort of "G-men" in the world of figures. EDUCATION ..... work It does not take a college or university education to qualify anyone as a Certified Public Ac countant. Most of those engaged in this hohorable and lucrative profes sion began working at accounting wl\en they were quite young, and mastered their art by steady, hard work, sometimes supple mented by special evening school classes or correspondence courses. First-rate men often serve for years as junior accountants be fore they are able to pass the very difficult state examinations required for the C. P. A. certifi cate. I am told that in some states, notably Ohio and Pennsylvania and perhaps in others, there is a movement on foot to require ev ery applicant for a public ac countant's certificate to have a full-time university degree. I can't quite see the point of that. The young man who has a natural genius for figures* cannot gain from any college course as much as he can by spending the same time in actual work with figures in business affairs. I think, too, such a require ment would be a handicap to many able accountants who have neither the time nor money in their early earning years to take a full college course. I believe in the value of all the education one can get, but I be lieve even more strongly in the ancient American principle of placing no artificial barriers be tween youth and its opportuni ties. Any law which limits the right of the able and talented to do what they can do best seems un-American to me. HONOR ROLL, MOUNTAIN PARK, FOR 4th MONTH | The following is the list of hon or students for the fourth month of Mountain Park high school: First grade: Jcsphine Casey, Elsie Baugess, Julia Golden, Wil ma Simmons, Richard Harris, Junior Baugess, John Nixon, Chester Cheeks, Helen Childress, Mildred Cooper, Bernice Glaspie, Faye Isaacs, Bettie Jean Luffman, Doris Parsons, Thelma Thompson. Second grade: Tommie Golden, D. C. Cockerham. Bobbie Hanes, J. B. Mays, Charles Pardue, Gray Walters, Buford Wood, Donald Larhmit, Josphine Gentry, Ella | Mae Isaacs, Winnie Luffman, Raydell Wolfe, Doris Pruitt, Cal lie Wilmoth. Third grade: Elizabeth Cocker ham, Ralph Williams, Billy Wood, Alva Smith, Stuart Simmons, Martha Whitehead, Mary Shores, Pauline Callaway, Frances Nixon, Dean Ross, Aurelia Nixon, Doro thy Callaway, Guy Hemric, Rob ert Baugess, Doswell Gentry, Mary Callaway, Bobby Welborn. Fourth grade: Fred Harris, Bettie Swift, Irene Gentry, Pennie Hanes, Wallace Cockerham, How ard Thompson, Nita Lunday, Dorothy Thompson, Dorothy Harris, Harold Snow, Lois Wolfe, Peaxl Hodge. Fifth grade: Dorothy Pardue, Mary W:.od, Tommie Wood, Ho mer Wallace, Faye Callaway. Sa die Franklin, Joosphine Southard, Peggy Wolfe, Mary Ruth Calla way. Leola Ross. Clifton Nixon. Dorothy Wilmoth, Martha Wal ters, Helen Snow. Sixth grade: Ruth Callaway, Nell Burch, Doris Baugess, Fran ces Caudle, Ted Simmons, Anna Fae Williams, Claudius Harris, Bertha Baugess, Vivian Hemric, Fred Bidden, Avice Mays, Pauline Stanley, Bertie Wilmoth. Seventh grade: George eayior, Joe Bill Isaacs, Harold Bmtth, Reba Jane Royall, Bert Cocker- ham, Arlene Williams, Ola Pruitt, Hazel Snow, Ray Lashmlt. Eighth grade: Ray Norman, Steve Dobbins, Clyde Walters, Joy Darnell, Irene Norman, Ralph Thompson, Audrey Renegar, Ma rie Wilson, Frances Snow, Wilda Holder, Buster Smith. Ninth grade: Austin Caudle, Judith Norman, Betty Linville, Dorothy Cockerham, Loretta Steele. Tenth grade: Annie Laurie Johnson, Gertrude Guyer, Ruth Nixon, Lois Southard. Eleventh grade: Hazel Mounce, Ruth Thompson, Magdalene Southard, Kate Wall, Gracie Sid den, Ethel Say lor, Sylvia Nor man, Stella Mounce, Elizabeth Hamby, Jydy Ellis, Mabel Eld ridge, Fairy Dobbins, Nancy Cal laway, Versie Collins, Doliie Cau dill. Jack Robinson, Alma Lee Woodle. Commercial; Pnillip Burch, Ruth Norman, Cecil Richardson, Ruby Stonestreet, Lillian Swift, Hazel Wood. Lakes make up l-12th of the entire area of Sweden. Get Up Nights? It's Nature's Danger Signal This 4-day test must help elim inate excess acids and other waste due to functional kidney disor ders or your 25c back. Must thereby soothe the irritation that may cause getting up nights, fre quent or scanty flow, burning, or backache or your 25c back. Say Bukets (25c) to any druggist. Lo cally at Turner Drug Company. WANTS Wanted—to buy hams. We pay cash. Brendle Produce Co., Elkin. N. C. • tfc For greater savings don't miss Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, starting Saturday. Gen uine 69c value full fashioned silk hose, special only 39c pair! ltc PERMANENT WAVES. SI.OO and up. ..Shampoo, finger wave and rinse 40c. Modern Beauty Shop. Madge Pruett. tfc Here's value! 5c crystal and rose glass bowls special at 3 for 9c at Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, starting Saturday. ltc For Sale —Cloth—Satin, Linen and Crepe. Burrus Gray, Jonesville, N. C. 2-Op Paper window shades, tough and durable, in green and ecru, for only 9c each during Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, which starts Saturday. ltc We buy scrap Iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk in, N. C. tfc Wanted to rent: Furnished apart ment. Call Tribune office, ltc For Sale: Two pens of 10 hens and 1 rooster thoroughbred Buff Minorca chickens. Excel lent layers. $15.00 pen- Mrs. J. S. Defibaugh, State Road, N. C. ltp For Sale—All kinds of wood, any length; oak or mixed. Delivered anytime. J. 3. Hudspeth, H. W. Crouse, Telephone 180. tfc Assortment 150 aluminum ware at only 9c per piece during Gra ham & click's Annual 9c Sale, starting Saturday. ltc Thursday, Fcbr«a?? 2, 1939 For greater savings don't miss Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, starting Saturday. Gen uine 69c value full fashioned silk hose, special only 39c pair! ltc For Sale;, at bargain, nine-year old mare, good condition and good worker. See Jack Gilliam at Chas. R. Darnell farm, tfc Found: 1939 N. C. license plate No. 475-689. Owner may have by proving ownership and pay ing for this ad. Dixie Graham, Chief of Police, Elkin, N. C. ltc Notice—For convenience of Crip ples and those unable to get upstairs to our Adjusting Room we have provided an Adjusting Room downstairs. Hours daily 9-12 A. M., 2-5 and 7-8 P. M. Dr. and Mrs. Crutcbfield, Com opractic Office, Jonesville, N. C., Telephone 260-J. tfc Practically our entire stock will be reduced during our Annual 9c Sale, which gets under way Saturday. Don't miss this big event if you would save plenty. Graham & Click Co., Elkin, N. C. ltc Wanted: A white housekeeper with reference. D. C. William son. 1417 North Hamilton St., High Point, N. C. ltp For Sale —Young mule ready to work, 2 years old last October 22. Will sefi or trade for cat tle; also 2 young Jersey cows, giving milk, 2 and S years old. J. A. J. Reyall, Thurmond, N. C. ltc Notice— For convenience of Crip ples and those unable to get upstairs to our Adjusting Room we have provided an Adjusting Room downstairs. Hours daily 9-12 A. M., 2-5 and 7-8 P. M. Dr. and Mrs. Crutchfield, Chir opractic Office, Jonesville, N. C., Telephone 260-J. tfc Wanted to repair radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Attractive 15c glass bowls only 9c at Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, which . begins Saturday. Practically everything reduced! ltc Do yon want plenty of e(p from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamln. We have it. Abernethy**, A Good Drug Btore, Elkin, N. C. tfn ssortment of ' 150 and 20c enamel ware at only 9c during Graham & Click's Annual 9c Sale, start ing Saturday. ltc Notice—Wanted 500,000 ft. 3/4 lumber, 10,000 ft. 3/4 Sycamore Lumber. Also Oak, Maple and Sycamore logs 12 ft. and 10 ft. lengths. Federal Furniture Co, Elkin. N. C, tfc FREE! If excess acid cause* yon pains of Stomach Ulcers, indi gestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get free Sample, Udga, at Turn er Drug Company. J l-26p FEAL ESTATE Real Estate for Sale: Beautiful building lots 2 miles south of Arlington on N. C. highway 26, U. 8. highway 21. Would sell in small tracts 1-5 acres. See me for your real estate needs. Also building D. C. Martin. Office across hall tmm B c. James, Atty
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