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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, March 16, 1939 Entered at the post office at ElkJn, N. C.. as second-class matter. 0. 8. FOSTER-.- AB » tot HL F. LAFFOON „ '3e«reUrj-Tre«urer SUBSCRIPTION KATES, PEE YEAR In the State, fl-5* On* «f the State. s*.oi General Franco probably realizes now that to the victor belongs the broils. This Chinese checkers business is liable to create some more "Tobacco Roads." 'Pears like we're going to have to reverse the thing and beat our plowshares into swords. The Republican senators are supporting Senator Byrd's reorganization bill. Even political blood is thicker than water. } The fellow at the next desk was won dering why thfi President keeps insisting on higher wages, without ever saying a word about salaries. It's Robert Quillen's notion that "every community has a catty, always-mad-at somebody woman who wouldn't be that way if she had mdre money than her neighbors.' Democracy's Capacity Senator George Norris, father of the Tennessee Valley Authority, predicts that the committee appointed to investigate charges of mismanagement and dishonesty, will turn in a report that gives TV A a clean slate. And George Norris who has followed all of the activities of the investigators with the interest of a father, ought to be proud of that. . But that will leave old Doc Morgan who started the ruckus out on a limb. Dr. Mor gan refused President Roosevelt's request for details, preferring to make a martyr of himself. Apparently he had no details to furnish, except those bom of his imagina tion or his animus. . With all of its faults, this has been one great undertaking that has resulted in a minimum of questionable practices, better known as graft. And this is surprising when the number of human fingers involved in its various activities are considered. If it has tramped on the feet of the private utilities, it has been generous with them as witness the purchase outright of one of their biggest at a price that was satisfac tory. The Tennessee Valley Authority has met one of thqi great problems of this era and handled it without recourse to a dictator ship. And that in itself is an accomplish ment. that should inspire those who want to make democracy work. For democracy is definitely involved. The TV A. has to do with something more than electric power, navigation and flood control. The economic development of the Tennessee valley section provides a pattern and chart for the nation's future, its activities have not only arrested soil erosion but human erosion, and in their stead assets of definite and lasting value have been built, and built so permanently that it will stand as a guide post in the days to come. And the fine old gentleman who conceiv ed it, who fought for it, and who now stands and views it pridefully can well reflect that "the capacity to produce this new hope is the one thing that may save democracy." Why It Is Opposed The lower house of the national legisla ture has passed the Warren-Cochran gov ernment reorganization bill which has the approval of the President. It is softer in places than the bill which Congress had a duckfit over at the last session and which it turned down with a vim. Foes of the measure say it will work no saving in dollars, but its friends counter with the assertion that it will make for effi ciency. Senator Byrd proposes a bill that is not greatly different from the house bill except in the manner of its adaption. The house bill* provides that the reorganization as ef fected by the President, shall be in force and effect, unless the Congress disapproves it within a specified time; Senator Byrd's measure reverses the order by specifying that the reorganization worked out by the President must be approved in a specified time, ft is obvious that getting Congress to approve anything proposed by the President in twice the time»that Senator Byrd would allot, is next to impossible unless Congress forsakes its sluggishness. As a matter of fact our representatives in Washiington are rieluctant to authorize any sort of reorganization that will take from them the patronage plums that they distribue among their constituents to keep them in Washington. That was mainly why there was such a furore over the proposal during the last session. Some sort of reorganization that would eliminate overlapping agencies and, author ities is an admitted need. Any well-organ- ized business would demand it first off. Other Presidents, Democrats and Republi cans have called for it and failed—and all have failed for the same reason. Grover Cleveland tried it' forty-five years ago; started to do some of it on bis own hook without any legislation. But when he went about the business of dis charging a feW treasury clerks who did so little work that he thought they should not be on the payroll, senators And representa tives swarmed down on the White House, and even that hard-fisted President ran up the white flag. Political nature hasn't changed with the years. Where Can Economy Begin? To the overburdened taxpayer any talk about governmental economy is music to his ears. The politicians know this and are pjaying it up, like nobody's business. Some of them have a score to settle with the ad ministration and in their armflinging in the name of economy, they at once get in their dig and catch the ear of the tax-paying voter too. Economy is desirable, yes. But where economy begins and ends is an arguable matter. • Senator Pat Harrison, with a chip on his shoulder, calls for a ten per cent, cut in gov ernment spending. But we reckon he would balk at having his senatorial salary sliced to that extent. Curtailing federal spending by ten per cent, would be pleasing to all of us, if it could be done in safety. But we are re membering that two years ago there was this same clamor; it impressed the adminis tration to the point where there was an ex tensive tightening of the national purse strings in thte thought that maybe business would get under the load. But business didn't, and things began to happen. Then it was that big industrialists from all over the country ceased their talk about economy and flocked to Washington, insist ing that the floodgates be opened to save the nation from another catastrophe. The administration agreed, and right now we are on our way up. Are we about to do it all over again? Is business sufficiently impressed by the friendly gestures, to take up the* slack ? If I not then the government had better not be too sudden with its economy. For there are times when the government as well as the individual must spend to save, and this may be one of them. To follow Pat Harrison's formula and cut 300,000 from the work relief rolls in addition to the 500,000 removed during the last four months, would mean cutting off 300,000 customers of business, which would be shutting out profits as well as adding to the dole list. Such a program applied all down the line would be like placing a sentry at the doors of every American business house to chase away every tenth customer. If business can stand that, then by all means let's have economy. But business couldn't stand it unless indus try takes up where government leaves off. And the effect would be felt by all of us. As certain as the sunrise there are two sides to the economy business, and it should be the purpose of our statesmen to find the common meeting ground, rather than mea suring the issue by the yardstick of politi cal expediency. A Tempting Plum Representatives Turlington, of Iredell, and Murphy, of Rowan, have introduced a simple little bill relating to bills of cost in suits for tax foreclosures in those countries, which if enacted would prove as beneficial as the bill is simple. The bill provides: "That in all tax fore closure "suits brought in Iredell and Rowan counties, where the same do not go to actual sale, no attorney's fees shall be charged against the taxpayer in the bill oncost.' All over North Carolina properties are advertised and sold for taxes each year, yet these properties have not been sold at all, for next year they are sold again, yet title does not pass. But you may be certain of one thing that does pass—the attorney's fee. And it is a fee that generally is earned by a stenographer who fills in a line or two on a blank form, rubber stamps it with the at torney's name, and the aggregate of all of them represents a tidy sum that is paid by the county and charged against the proper ty. Sometimes the money is recovered and sometimes not, but the iniquity of it all is that the taxpayer must suffer a useless toll that is hard for him to bear. While these foreclosure fees makes the county attorneyship a fat little political plum in counties where this system is em ployed, the attorney is not to be blamed. The legislature outlines the procedure and sets the maximum fees, which often are cut in half, still leaving a total that makes the of fice desirable. For a long time Mecklenburg piddled along with these tax sales that had no final ity to them. The taxpayer, maybe with sound reason, came to look upon them as a joke, seeing as how his property remained in his name. But lately Mecklenburg has I found a way to make a tax sale mean some s thing, and bidders for property find that they have bought something, whether their s deeds hold water or not is still another mat ! ter. There is no objection to the attorney ! fee in such cases. It is the continuity of the ' process that irks. ) Iredell and Rowan have hit upon a sim ' pie method of sidestepping this obvious 1 fault, if their representatives are backstood by their senators who probably will face 1 local pressure to leave matters as they are in - order to keep one lucrative job with which - to reward the faithful IIP TEE ELKIN TRIBUNE. BLKIN. NORTH CAROLINA bale Carnegie 5-Minute Biographies flj|^ Author of "How to Win Friend* and Influence People." ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD The Navy Couldn't Use Him, But He Is Now Our Most Famous Admiral In 1900, a little boy down in Winchester, Va„ was keeping a i diary. He had been inspired by 1 the stories of Admiral Peary's ( heroic struggles to reach the i North Pole; so in the autumn 'of i 1900, this little twelve-year-old 1 boy wrote in his diary, "I have 1 decided to be the first man to I reach the North Pole." Many years later, the boy who , wrote that decision in his diary ] actually did reach the pole. In ] fact, he was the first man ever ( to fly over the North Pole, and he i was also the first man ever to fly ( over the South Pole. His name, , of course, is Richard Evelyn Byrd. Commander Byrd declares that , the mighty fee fields in the South Pole regions are slowly receding and he believes that, some day, millions of acres of land, now smothered beneath slow, grinding glaciers, rpay prove to be ex tremely valuable; and so he is de termined to plant the Stars and Stripes on that land and claim it forever in the name of the gov ernment of the United States. . Byrd's life is an inspiring il lustration of a boy who had an undying ambition .to do big things and who did them in spite of innumerable obstacles. First, he wanted to travel and see strange lands. And by the time he was fourteen years of age, he had traveled all the way around the world —apd pe had done it all by himself. He came back home, and went to college: and in college, he devoted a lot of time to boxing, wrestling .and football. In doing so, he broke a bone in his foot, crushed his ankle and made himself so lame that he Government retired him from the Navy at twenty-eight years of age as physically unfit for service. He said a man didn't have to stand up to fly a plane; he could do that sitting down. He could do that even if he did have a lame foot and a broken ankle. So he started out to become an av iator and he succeeded, in spite of the fact that, while he was learning, he crashed twice and once he hit another plane head on. Thirsting for aerial adventure, he longed to fly over the frozen wastes of the North, where men had never flown before, but at every turn he was refused and re buffed. For example: First, he planned to fly north in the huge dirigible, the "Shen andoah"; but the "Shenandoah" went up for a test flight and crashed. Then he pleaded with the government to allow him to make test flights in order to fit a plane for crossing the Atlantic; but- the government wouldn't let him command the test flights be cause of his bad foot. Next, he begged the govern ment to allow him to pilot one of the planes in which Amundsen planned to fly across the Arctic ice; and again he was refused, this time because he was married. And then, on top of all these bit ter disappointments, he was re tired from the navy a second time —retired again because he had a bad foot. How Farm Shares In Auto Profits Results of the Ford Motor com pany campaign to develop new farm crops that industry can use are indicated by an article In the 1939 Ford Home Almanac, now being distributed throughout the United States. For every million Ford cars and trucks built, the company uses 89,000,000 pounds of cotton—the crop from 558,000 acres —the Al manac article shows. Other pur chases of farm products neces sary for the manufacture of a million Ford units are listed as follows: 1 Five hundred thousand bushels of corn, for making rubber sub stitute, butyl alcohol and solvents; 2,400,000 pounds of Unseed oil, for making paints, core oil, soft soap and glycerine; 2,500,000 gallons of molasses, for making anti freeze, shock absorber fluid? and solvents. Three million, two v hundred thousand pounds of wool, which help® to make upholstery, gaskets, anti-rust, floor coverings and lub ricants; 1,500,000 square feet of leather, for making upholstery | and hid-glues, 20,000 hogs to supply the lard oil for lubricants, ' oleic add and brush bristles, and 1 2,000,000 pounds of soybean oil i I for enamel; plastics and many 1 [other uses. Of course, he may havs been wrong, but Dick Byrd had the funny idea that initiative and courage and brains were more important than good feet. So he went out and got private parties to finance his expeditions, and then he set about doing things that startled the world. He flew across the Atlantic ocean. He dropped one American flag on the North Pole; and then he turned around and dropped another American flag on the South Pole; and when he return ed to his native land, two million excited people gave him an ova tion such as Rome never paid to Julius Caesar when his chariots returned in triumph over Pompey's blood. And finally, the United States Government conferred'the title of Admiral on this young man who, fourteen years previously, it had retired. , -V« M^^^^aflßßß[BHßß|^fcyr^^^^^Sfcfcii?^ , ' /PJ6 ■ THESE 6 MAGAZINES AND THIS NEWSPAPER ———^——— HERE'S WHAT YOU GET ALLSEVEN FOR Pathfinder (Weekly) ... 52 Issues , ONE YEAR McCalPs Magazine .... 12 Issued / Good Stories 12 Issues A|M J** Farm Journal 12 Issues ( M Jj Farmer's Wife 12 Issues ] tr f * Progressive Farmer ... 12 Issues £n The Elkin Tribune .... 52 Issues i~j Cheek here if you want Son them Agriculturist, one year, substituted for Progressive Fanner. (For out-of-state subscriptions, add 50c to each year.) 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Date | Here's $2.50 in FULL PAYMENT for a one year's subscription to pie Elkin | Tribune and a new or renewal subscription to the following six publications: PATHFINDER (weekly) .. 1 Year FARMER'S WIFE .... 1 Year - McCALL'S MAGAZINE .. 1 Year FARM JOURNAL .... 1 Year GOOD STORIES 1 Year *PROGRESSIVE FARMER . 1 Year | "O Cheok My name is. ...Address.. *•— Toton State - & RITES HELD FOR JONES W.BROWN Prominent Farmer of Boon villo Community Fatally Injnred in Accident STRUCK BY HAY FORK Funeral services were held Fri day afternoon at Michell's Chapel church for Jones W. Brown, 39, who was fatally Injured Wednes day afternoon when a part of a hay fork broke loose while hoist ing hay in his barn and fell on his head. Rev. R. L. Speer, Rev. M. A. Cox and Rev. Clete Simmons conducted the services and burial was in the church cemetery. Mr. Brown, a prominent farm er of near Boonviile, was struck on the head by a part of the hoisting device which broke loose as it was operated by a pulley. He died early Thursday morning. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ola Van Hoy Brown; four child ren, Evelyn, Sarah, Glenn and Joan Brown; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown, of Boon viile; one brother, Cleon Brown, of Boonviile; four sisters, Mrs. Bynum Martin of Boonviile; Mrs. Margaret Brown, of Boonviile; ; Mrs. Pollie Temples, of Winston ' Salem, and Mrs. Bessie Ring, of , Boonviile. I Read Tribune Advertisements! March 16. 1989 Celebrates 21st Birthday I ALTON, 111. . . . Robert Wadlow, tallest person known to medical bis tory, celebrated hie 21st blrthdaj here recently at a party gtven bin at the Masonic Temple. Waffloi measures 8 feet 8H Inches an weighs 491 pounds. Here Is a famll) group at the celebration. Patronize Tribune advertisers. They offer real values Mattie Mae Powell NOTARY PUBLIC Building & Loan Office Main Street
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