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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday. March 2, 1939 Entered at the post office at Ellrin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. 8. FOSTER. JPiwMent H. P. LAFFOON. Secretary-Trearerer —— : SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER TEAR In the State, SI.M Oat of the State. K M He can be counted as a man of wisdom if he has a large collection of facts that no body is interested in. To speak the truth is always a good re solve, but there are times when it is best not to speak it too freely, if you don't want to get into trouble. According to one philosopher: "An econ omist is a fellow who knows everything about money except how to make it." We wouldn't still be glorifying that cher ry tree story, if there had been as much po litical competition in Washington's time as there is now. What Will Congress Do With It? Congress now has a government reor ganization plan worked out by Representa tive Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina. What CoriKies» will do with it is another matter. It is not as far reaching as Presi dent Roosevelt's ill-fated program which Congress knifed because through it the members were knifing the President. The Warren draft has eliminated many of the objectionable features; retains the powers which Congress so jealously holds as its own, yet provides for the elimination of overlapping agencies of government that tend to confuse as well as add unnecessary expense to executive administration. That government needs reorganization is apparent to everyone. As at present con stituted it is cumbersome and inefficient. But even cumbersomeness and inefficiency would not be so bad, if these were not ac companied by political considerations that make administration of public affairs a monstrosity that invites corruption. There will be opposition to the Warren measure, for the simple reason that reor ganization, if ably attempted, will mean the loss of patronage for representatives of Congress who have leaned heavily on the distribtuion of jobs to the faithful as a de pendable prop for their continuation in Washington. They will oppose on the ground of the unwisdom of placing too much au thority in the hands of the President, al ways an effective smokescreen. But their main reason will be the perpetuation of a spoils system that has been the boon of the politicians almost since the beginning of our government. Congressman Warren is proposing what any good business executive would demand first-off for his business: that it be run on a business-like basis that would encourage efficiency and reward it accordingly., If the Republicans in Congress really want to serve their nation, they will not oppose this measure simply to be opposing, but will weigh it on its merits, and thereby differ entiate themselves from some of their Dem ocratic brethren who as usual will think first in terms of political expediency. This is a measure that should invite no controversy on sane, economic grounds. If it is defeated it will be because the members prefer a system that they can exploit to their own selfish ends. We shall see which way they are headed. Encouraging There is every indication that the ad ministration is willing to rest on its oars; to be content with its social reform accom plishments and bend its energies toward re covery. Many have contended that the pol icies of the past six years should have been reversed: that recovery should have come first and social reforms afterward. But Mr. Roosevelt held differently, perhaps on the theory that when a man is about to die he sends for his preacher, but when he gets well he doesn't even want a doctor. Secretary Morgenthau contends that the government can safely revise its tax struc ture in favor of the industrialist by remov ing the objectionable rough places that irri tate. And Congressman Doughton who has a mighty influence in the formulation of tax policies that must originate in his ways and medns committee, is badcstanding Morgen thau. Then Harry L. Hopkins, new Secretary of Commerce, in his first pronouncement since his elevation, in his lowa speech last week, made definite and friendly gestures to business and industry. Hopkins, close to the President, speaks with authority, and when he submits plans or even talks in gen eralities concerning the stimulation of the investment of private capital in order to promote the national income, it should and will be encouraging to private business and industry. Hopicins admits that lack of business is a "hard, stubborn fact" that is not without justification, and declares that he will set himself in his new position to remove the cause of this unconfidence. He is proceed ing on the dependable theory that business must have profits in order to hire workers, and workers must have jobs in order to complete the circle and provide profits for industry. Business needs profits and work ers need jobs, and the sole purpose of busi ness as Hopkins sees it should be to bring both together, reserving only the right of referee to see that there shall be no short cuts from either angle. Truly it doth seem that we are headed for a more sane, a more friendly approach to the problem of idle wheels and unemploy ment. If only Congress would quit think ing in of the next election and politi- Boring from Within It is highly probable that those German- American bund meetings in New York and Los Angeles last week, particularly the New York affair, will be worth all the pain in the neck they gave to straight thinking Ameri cans. For if they did not invite the wrath and final condemnation of the American people, we miss our guess woefully. Under the guise of a patriotic observ ance of Washington's birthday these for eign-born (most of them) ingrates referred to him as a great revolutionist leader and implied that now Americans should be turning to another revolutionist, Fritz Kuhn, to lead them out of the wilderness. Speakers in German uniform attacked American democracy as corrupt and ineffi cient and insisted that the only sane solu tion of economic problems has been pointed out by Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Reich. It was enough to make George Washing ton turn over in his grave—that picture of his, flanked on either side by the German swastika, with Old Glory a mere incident in the background. Some are saying that the mere fact that such things are permitted in this land of ours, is ample evidence of our strength; that we are not afraid of the freedom of speech of which we so proudly boast. Maybe so, but it may turn out to be a weakness for which we may yet have to pay a heavy price. It is not as though we can sit compla cently and twiddle our thumbs while these yokels spread their disloyal doctrines and thumb their noses at our traditions. As revolutionists they are not dangerous, no, but as worms eating at our vitals they can so undermine our strength, and if and when t here should be a showdown with their be loved Germany, highly organized they could bore from within effectively. There is not much sense to spending our dollars for national defense against a for eign foe, when we have them rigbt here in our midst, biting the hand that feeds them. If these maggots don't like our land and our government let them catch a ship back to their beloved Hitlerland. They are here by their own election, and if they don't like it they can head back home. It is significant that these German storm troopers roared their applause at the names of Congressman Dies, Senator Nye, and booed when the President was referred to as Franklin D. Rosenfeld. Surely they would have blown the roof off if somebody had yelled—Bob Reynolds. Worshiping the Past The major political parties have finished paying their annual tribute to their respec tive saints. The Democrats had their din ners and orated about Jefferson; the Repub licans ate and lauded Lincoln. If these two great patriots were alive today, neither of them would recognize the political color scheme that is invoked in his name. Jefferson would find the party that de lights to honor him, far afield from his theories and commitments, and honest old Abe Lincoln would be pained by the arm flinging and air-splitting about "destroying liberty," the "sanctity of the courts," "hum an rights" and "states' rights." Becaune among his immortal utterances are record ed his views on these that 'sound more new dealish than anything that has been dished out by Mr. Roosevelt. For instance there is the chant that Mr. Roosevelt sought to undermine the courts of last resort: Abe Lincoln had to endure the same criticism, and here was. his answer to his critics: "If the policy of the government upon vital questions is to be irrevocably fix ed by decisions of the Supreme Court . . . the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically re signed their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal." Lincoln had just defied the Supreme Court on the Dred Scott decision, and when he refused to honor its orders during the War Between the States." Jefferson and Lincoln were outstanding statesmen in their day. They deserve every honor we can pay them. But if left to them to counsel and advise they would now be telling us to look forward and not back. Times have changed, and political and ec onomic charts have necessarily changed with them, and except to turn to Lincoln and Jefferson for inspiration and courage, our eyes should be to the front, for there are all sorts of pitfalls ahead. The conservatives in both parties are crying out against spending; insisting that business confidence be restored and indus try will provide jobs and end relief. The liberals in both parties agree with the Pres ident that government must fill the gap in purchasing power until private enterprise can get under the load. If both are wrong,' then there should be a common meeting ground somewhere between the two philos ophies, and instead of hero worship, wei should be about the business of finding it j THE ELKJN TRIBUNE, BURIN, NORTH CAROLINA Ft ° day] ftrauonAcwl Bill PRAN/prrkeb II 1| BTO C K B R I D 0 E l| FORECASTS peace No mental exercise Is more stimulating than to try to Imag ing how tilings will be made and done and people will live in the future. It is rather unsafe for the prophet, however, if he date 6 the changes too soon, or doesn't have some solid foundation of knowl edge of the direction in which the world is heading. Nobody who reads this will be around a hun dred years from now to find out whether I've guessed right or not. For one thing, I feel sure that in another hundred years most of the people living in the world will have found out how to manage to live side by side without fighting. That will make the world of 2039 a happier place for everybody. It will come about with the steady increase in understanding between peoples . And that will come about through the means of communications, such as radio, television, aviation, moving pic tures and still undiscovered ap plications of them. A hundred years from now it is unlikely that everybody will speak one language, but I believe that every school will teach the rudi ments, at least, of some world language, which might be Eng lish, Spanish or some artificial tongue, like Esperanto. FLYING speed A few days ago a test pilot at! the Curtiss-Wright flying field inj Buffalo sent his plane through the air at a speed greater than' anybody had ever flown before. The speed recording instrument stopped recording at 575 miles an hour, but both the pilot and his passenger agree that they flew even faster than that. I wouldn't want to guess how fast men will be able to fly a hundred years hence. New ma terials, new kinds of engines, new devices to control the plane, may easily make it safe to fly at a thousand miles an hour. At less than that speed a flyer could start from New York at noon, follow the sun westward and fly around the globe in noon-time daylight all the way, getting back to New York at noon the next day. As more flying is done the cost will diminish. Then everybody will fly. When a worker can fly to a new job a thousand miles away in a couple of hours at the cost of half a day's wages I think the International barriers against the free exchange of labor will have to break down, MATERIALS ..... future New kinds of materials for ev ery conceivable purpose are pour ing out of the research labora tories so fast today that it is per fectly safe to predict that in a hundred years the everyday things we use and even the homes we live in will be made of substances of which we have as yet only the faintest hints. TO the generations living today celluloid is so commonplace that few can remember when that first of the cellulose plastics was a startling novelty. We use vul canite or "hard rubber' for a mil lion purposes Without thinking how new a product it is. But now the modern plastics made of carbolic acid, of coal and limestone, of vegetable fibres, are becoming commonplace in their turn. In a couple of generations I believe that fibrous, flexible and unbreakable glass will be in gen eral use. In a hundred years people will be building their houses out of fabricated plastics and glass bricks, perhaps, and heating them by electric current which will then be cheaper than coal, wood or oil fuels. INDUSTRY . . . cooperation In the world of a hundred years hence, so much larger a proportion of the things which people use and even eat will be produced in factories by processes of which we have as yet only a hint, that a greater and greater proportion of all the people will be workers in industries. In a completely industrialized world I believe the social organ ization will be.fax more coopera tive as between groups or classes. Labor will have more of a say in the problems of management and the division of profits, if any. Management will uniformly main tain the best possible relations with Labor. And Capital wUI have to be content with more modest returns on its investment.' I think it possible that the in dividual capitalist will have prac | tically disappeared in a hundred years, and that financial re sources for the promotion of new j industries and the enlargement of A Break In The Clouds jlllißfiiffit I - s —,■- ■ -;Psl~ w* - "'iSßfc^oiflssl POH welcome. LgjiM U'L SuMSHime ! f I'eopie's Column I The Tribune does net neces ! sarily endorse any article n der this beading hot welcomes at all times communications of interest to its imdeti and the reneral public. DESIRES INFORMATION ABOUT JOSHUA CURTIS Editor Elkin Tribune: Have you space in your news column for a small query con cerning an old settler in your lo cality? His descendants, people of repute in the West and Far West wish to gain more informa tion about this family. There is no family history book planned nor any commercialism con nected with this search and no one of your readers will be cir cularized. It is merely the hope of the living descendants that someone in your locality can add a few facts about the old settler, Joshua Curtis, especially as to where he came from. In 1790 he was a neighbor of William Len oir, Esq., whose name is perpe tuated in the name of a county and city in your state. Joshua Curtis' §on, William Curtis, in 1790 married Edith, daughter of Thomas Cottrell who lived next door. Joshua also had an older son, Samuel, who had married shortly before 1790 and had in that year one little daughter. These two boys had six or seven sisters and it is from the descend ants of these girls that we hope to learn more about Joshua Cur tis. especially where he came from. William and Edith settled at Moimt Vernon, Ind., and it is their descendants who are in terested in tracing the family. Please print this short note in hopes that someone interested will write to H. D. Curtis, Manlius, N. Y., about this old rettler, Joshua Curtis, who in 1790 lived in the Morgan District of Wilkes old ones will come from pools of capital accrued in life insurance companies, building asosciations, savings banks and such places, out of the earnings of the work ers and the managers themselves. CHANGE human It is ten to one that my guesses about the future are all wrong, as anyone's must be. But of one thing I am-certain. The world and the ways in which people live in it will not come to a fixed stop in a hundred years not in a thousand or a million years from now. Whatever thfe world is like in 2039 there will be great numbers of people who will want to change it. Some of them will merely grumble and complain, but a lot of others will be busy trying to make it easier, more comfortable and more beautiful to live in. There will be plenty others who will try to tear down all the new things and go back to the older ways. There will be people try ing to get more than their just share of the world's wealth, and others making no contribution at all to the common wealth but de manding that they be supported ■as well as those ".who do the world's work. Human nature Is one thing that does not change. But in spite of the defects of human na ture, the world and its ways keep on changing forever. County, N. C., which county was then much larger than now. Sincerely, HARLOW D. CURTIS Box 92, Manlius N. Y. Feb. 20, 1939. The metal cap for bottles is earning $1,000,000 a year for its inventor. WANTS A complete line of candies, 10c pound, 15c pound, 20c pound and 25c pound. See our dis play. Walker's v sc- 10c Store. Store building for lease or rent. Located at State Road, five miles north of Elkin, on high way 21. Ready equipped. liv ing quarters in rear. C, M. Royall, State Road, N. C. ltp You will find Wood's Tested Gar den seed at Graham ia Click 5c & 10c Store. All garden beans and peas 15c pound. Small seed 5c and 10c ounce, See us before you buy. ltc We buy scrap Iron and metals Double Eagle Service Co.. Elk in, N. C. tfc Wanted—to buy hams. We pay cash. Brendle Produce Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Watch our windows and visit our store for new merchandise ev ery week. Walker's 5c and 10c Store. Girls—Own your own business. Earn $75 to SIOO per week. Have others earning for you. Yes, it is the beauty business. Every Woman Your Customer. Today now while you think of it write and learn how you can learn the profession. Open your own shop. We train you—fur nish your own shop with a small payment. We help you to succeed. New classes form ing now. Continental College of Beauty Culture, High Point, N". C. 3-16 c Visit our Basement Store for cut flowers, flower binbs, rose bush es, flower pots, pottery, etc. Walkers' 5c and 10c Store. Do you want plenty of eggs from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. We have it. Abernethy'o, A Good Drug Btore, Eikin, N. C. tfr FREE! If excess acid causes you pains of Stomach Ulcers, Indi gestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get free Sample, Udga, at Turn er Drug Company. l-26p Lost—Small squirrel dog, white with black and yellow markings. Female. Notify Billy Gambill. 3-2 c A complete \ine of garden and flower seed in bulk and pack ages. All certified seed. Walker's Basement Store. REAL ESTATE For Sale or Bent—s-room house in Arlington, price $1250; $250 cash, balance $lO per month and interest. Rents for SIO.OO per month. For Sale—67-acre farm on hard surface road, 9 miles from Elk in. Price SISOO, 1-3 cash, bal ance on terms. Bee D. C. Mar tin, Realtor. tfc ',* * • . ' " ;• f * '• % Thursday. March 2, 1939 See us before yon boy garden seed, seed potatoes, seed oats, and fertilizers. Our prices sure always the lowest. Cash & Carry Stores No. 1 and 2, Elkin and Jonesville, N. C. 3-9 c Just received —new shipment of table lamps in assorted colors. Special buy makes this low price possible—sl.l9. Also a new shipment of aluminum ware popularly priced—loc to 98c. Graham & Click Co., 5c & 10c Store, Elkin, N. C. ltc For Sale or Trade: Order on a new Chevrolet car or truck for 115.00. Will sell for $40.00. See EOmer Morrison, Jonesville, or Jonn Maiius, Km iii, N. C. 2-16-3-2p FREE! If excess acid causes you pains of Stomach Ulcers, Indi gestion, Heartburn, Belching, Bloating, Nausea, Gas Pains, get free Sample, Udga, at Turner Drug Company. 5-4p Special Combination clothes hamper and seat which is a genuine $1.50 value. Our price —9Bc. Graham & Click Co., 5c & 10c Store, Elkin, N. C. ltc Baby Chicks U. S. Approved Pullorum Tested. They will really live and make money for you. Bunch Hatchery, States ville, N. C. 5-18p Just received large selection Dahlias, Gladiolas, Canna Lilies and Rose Bushes. Reasonably priced. Graham & Click 5c & 10c Store, Elkin, N. C. ltc Girls—Learn to be a Beauty Op erator. Only a short time re quired to learn this high class profession. There is a demand for well trained operators. En roll now. Write at once for special low rates. Hinshaw School of Beauty Culture. North Wilkesboro, N. C. 3-30 c For Sale: Pair of matched mares, 8 and 7 years old. Total weight 2,400 pounds. A. C. Phillips, Thurmond, N. C. 3-9 c A complete line of everyday greeting cards —birthday greet ing cards 2-sc, sc, 10c each; convalescent cards 2-sc, 5c and 10c each; sympathy cards 5c and 10c. Walker's 5c and 10c Store. ERMANENT WAVES. SI.OO and up. ..Shampoo, finger wave and rinse 40c. Modern Beauty Shop. Madge Pruett. tfc For Sale—All binds of wood, . length; oak or mixed. Delivered anytime. J. S. Hudspeth, H. W. Crouse, Telephone 180. tfc Lost—One female pointer, white and yellow. Notify Billy Gam bill. 3-2 c Wanted to repair radios. Oar expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc FLOWER SEEDS Of All Kinds F. A .Brendle & Son Elkin, N. C.
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