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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, June 22, 1939 * Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. S. POSTER President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, $2.00 Lower Taxes Assuming that the tentative budget adopted at the last meeting of the board of commissioners is officially ant finally ap proved at the July meeting the tax rate will ; show a reduction of fifteen cents from the rate of $1.50 under which we have been op- | erating. That ought to listen well to the j ers of Elkin. It is not a big reduction, no, \ but it is big enough to be noticed on the j tax receipt. And what is of as much impor tance, a start has been made toward shaving j a rate which, while it was in line with many I other neighbor towns, was plenty high. This indicates that the members of the board j sense the importance of every consistent ec- ! onomy and are willing and anxious to work i to that end. But we would remind that a minimum i tax rate should not be the goal of either the J board or the taxpayer. For no tax is too high if we get value received and likewise i no tax is low if we don't. There are services ! that are essential. In the main they are | services that are actually profitable to the taxpayer in that they enable him to earn more easily, and from which he clips cou pons of value, in one way or another, every i day in the year. That should be remember ed when one is inclined to grumble about the total that appears on the tax bill. It is only when those services are not balanced by consistent and careful spending, that the taxpayer is justified in griping about the tax rate. That was a rather important meeting ! last week. The decision not to have part nership with illegal slot machines will meet the approval of the majority of our citizens. Unfortunately the State has opened the gate, invited the pilferers in, and aside from collecting the license fee, will have little or nothing to do with their supervision. That is left to the community and the local offi cials. It appears that Elkin means to mea sure up. Other places will not, and soon we will be seeing slot machines, legal and ille gal, operating where enforcement officials are lax and where public sentiment just plain don't care. The bus franchise approved means a def inite convenience to many of our citizens. A rather important meeting, we say again. The Court Disposes The action of the State Supreme Court in dismissing Paul Leonard's suit brought to test the validity of the three per cent, gen eral sales tax did not come as a surprise. The surprise would have come if the Court had over-ruled a tax upon which the State has come to depend so definitely. One unversed in the technicalities of law has no business taking issue with learned jurists, but a layman will be pardoned if in his ignorance and dumbness he cannot square the court's decision with the facts. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy in his able delivery of the Court's opinion points out that the legislature has the right to make classification and exemptions; that the classification and exemptions made by the General Assembly apply alike to all retail merchants affected by the act, and con cludes that "this is all that is required to sustain the constitutionality of the act." But Mr. Leonard contended that the act was discriminatory in its provision for a maximum sls levy and reminded that the purchaser of a $4,000 automobile pays ap proximately one-third of one per cent, tax while his neighbor who can afford only a SSOO flivver pays 3 per cent. The Court sidesteps this issue by reminding that Mr. Leonard's tax payment amounted to only $3.13 which debarred him from making it a point in his plea for recovery. The tax payers of North Carolina still do not know whether this differential is constitutional or not. Mr. Leonard contended the the sales levy in its entirety is unconstitutional because it was laid by a General Assembly that was not legally constituted in that its member ship had not been reapportioned after the 1930 census as the constiution requires. To this the Court answers "Quite a devastat ing argument, if sound, but this allegation in the complaint is but a conclusion of the pleaders and is untenable." And right there the layman becomes confused. For many moons he has been hearing a lot about the sanctity of the con stitution; the State charter says very plain ly and understandably that there shall be re apportionment; there has been no such re apportionment, just as the Leonard com plaint claims—yet the Court says this is "untenable." One can understand that to declare the sales ta;r invalid on the ground that the General Assembly enacting it was unconsti tutionally constituted would have automat ically invalidated every other law passed by it. Such confusion was unthinkable, and so the constitution was stretched a wee bit to avoid it, just as it has often been stretched before. / Solving Their Own Problem The medical profession is vigorously op posed to the' Wagner national health bill because the doctors charge that it is "fraught with danger and will not accom plish its objectives." As a matter of fact the doctors, in the main, are opposed to any* sort of national legislation looking to the es tablishment of any sort of government-con trolled health service. It is an encroachment which they claim will destroy initiative and so mechanize the profession that progress will be halted. The encouraging thing about it is, how ever, that the doctors are admitting that everything is not exactly as it should be, and; if sweeping must be done, they prefer to uJje their own broom. And who can say that this is not as it should be? There is a large slice of humanity suf fering for lack of medical attention for which they cannot pay, and this in spite of all the splendid service the medicos are ren dering gratis, and with all the sponging they are subjected to. They are a magnani mous lot, but their magnanimity, of neces sity, cannot be spread wide enough to en compass all who are denied adequate med ical care. That is why the public interest in the government plan to lend a hand. Realizing this trend the Medical Society of New Jersey, the oldest organization of its kind in the nation, is making plans for a non-profit medical care insurance organiza tion, calculated to point the way to self-reg ulated improvement, if it does not actually forestall government encroachment. The New Jersey program would set up a medical service plan as a separate corpora tion with a subsidy from the parent body, and will take voluntary subscriptions at a premium rate of about four cents a day, in return for which the plan will provide care in case of need. Subscribers will have free choice of doctors who will be paid not by clients, but by the corporation. The program is to try out this plan for an experimental year in one of the larger cities. The result of the experiment will determine whether it will be continued or not. Some sort of program that will assure medical care to those who need and cannot pay is bound to come, ultimately. By all means let the doctors try first to work it out if they can. Our Part In It Remembering Munich and what appear ed to be the selling down the river of a plucky little nation, and continually remind ed of Britain's willingness to bow in the face of Hitler's every demand, it is easy for us here in America to arch our brows in wonderment. What we don't seem to realize is that we are contributing as much as the next one to international strife, and in more ways than one. There isn't any doubt that a majority of the people of this country stand with the President in his desire to help Europe's menaced democracies in every way possible "short of war." Yet we insist on hog-tying him with a neutrality policy which, in ef fect, puts us on the side of the strong against the weak; the heavily armed against the poorly armed, .'he aggressor as against the victim. In short our neutrality weakens the influence of the United States for peace; actually contributes to the pur pose of war mongers to foment strife. And again: Right now England is being challenged by Japan at a time when the lat ter is most certain that Britain is so en gaged at her own front door that she will not dare to call Japan's hand. Yet in block ading the British and French concessions in China, Japan is threatening America as well —purposes to make the Pacific a closed sea, dominate the Far East and tell everybody what thfey shall and shall not do. It could be argued that we have not enough material interest in China to risk a single life for it. And if renouncing every claim there would settle things it could well and profitably be done. But it would not settle things. Every grab that Japan gets away with but hastens the day when her strength, augmented by her alliances, would make that nation an even more serious threat than ever. Japan wouldn't last a year with the kind of economic blockade that Britain, France and the United States could establish. But there will be no such blockade because the isolationists here make us an unknown quantity. Full public sentiment would sup port any move that would help to stop Japan in her tracks, but because it is politically expedient for unfriends of the administra tion to oppose, it cannot be said that we have a definite policy, and because we are not to be depended upon for anything, we are thus adding to and prolonging the strife. This night baseball should be a boon to the office boy who had been working that "sick gramma" stuff overtime. Business of explaining to their Majesties that we hated to miss that garden party, but we had to go see a fellow about a mule. Suggestion to Mr. Roosevelt: Make an nouncement that you do not choose to run for a third term and charge admission-to see the boys skedaddle. You could cancel the national debt thataway. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA WAKE OP AND LIVE By DOROTHEA BRANDE To talk enough, to talk per suasively, to establish and main tain friendly relations with those around us, is of supreme impor tance to effective living. Nevertheless, it is easy to talk too much, at the wrong times, or with the wrong objective. In numerable proverbs exist to show that folk-wisdom has always rec ognized a danger in excessive wordiness. "Speech is silver, si lence is golden"; "Much talk, lit tle work"; "A barking dog never bites." Without making too much of a point of the matter, a few of the reasons for counselling silence may be worth examining. Every great religious discipline insists on the wisdom of learning the control of speech. Several* Christian sects observe silences, some are vowed to perpetual si lence. When the Unconscious has us I fully at its mercy we talk not as we should voluntarily choose to talk if we could see all the con sequences of our speech, but from a need to relieve some half-per ceived pressure. So we grumble ' humorously about our difficulties, and make ourselves self-conscious by doing so. Or we excuse ourselves defi antly. Or we complain of a trif ling injustice, and are sometimes startled to see how much more pity we invoke than the occasion warrants. Once we have found a well spring of pity and indulgence in another, we are seldom mature enough not to take advantage of it, thus reinforcing our infantil ism and defeating our growth. One of the worst wiles of the Will to Fail is that it foices its victim to ask for unnecessary ad vice. Here again, the universal deep motive for asking for ad vice (unnecessarily, it should be emphasized once more) is that by so doing we can go on feeling protected and cherished even though we are no longer children. But that again means that we are being provided with advance excuses for failure. If we act on the advice of another and are un successful, obviously the failure is r.ot ours but our consellor's; isn't that plain? So we can continue to day-dream of successful ac tion, to believe that if only we had followed our first impulse we could not have failed. Since such motives can be present, it is wise to scrutinize every impulse to ask for advice. If the origin of the desire is above suspicion, then there is only one further question to ask before seeking help with a clear con science: "If I worked this out for myself, would I consume only my own time?" If the answer to that i* "tfes," then it is generally bet ter to work out the problem in dependently, unless the amount of time so expended would be grossly disproportionate to the importance of the result. If you are a creative worker, remember that time spent in finding an independent tech nique is seldom wasted. We are accustomed to think of the succes of a man like Joseph Conrad, a Pole, in writing the English language, or of the work of an electrical genius like Stein metz, as savoring of the miracu lous. To have had to work out their problems alone what a tremendous obstacle to over come! On the contrary; the necessity for independent action was one of the conditions of their success. The working out, however la borious, of an original technique is worth the time expended, the loneliness entailed. I UNION GROVE I Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Harris and children spent the week-end in Thomasville. Mr. and Mrs. Travis Vestal were week-end visitors of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Hobsop. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hinshaw spent Sunday with Mrs. Hin shaw's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hobson. Miss Evelin Lackey, of Win ston-Salem, spent the week-end at home with her parents. Miss Nancy Logan and Miss Ruth Caudle were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sizemore and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sizemore. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Caudle were the Saturday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. W M. Hobson. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Allen and children, and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Sizemore and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis Sunday. Mrs. Oscar Caudle is improving from her recent sickness, her many friends will be glad to learn. ' Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wiseman and son; Thad, were the Sunday StillSunk afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis. Miss Zelda Caudle, who grad uated from the City Memorial hospital in Winston-Salem last month, is spending a two weeks vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Caudle. Mr. Alfred Wiseman, of High Point, visited a short while with Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Allen while on a visit in Surry county. Scotty: "She's the most eco nomical girl I know." Mac: "I'll say she is. I gave her a marshmallow the other day and she powdered her nose with it." For Sale: Good 1935 Ford V-8 • Roadster. See Early Combs. Phone 308. tfc Why take a chance? Travelers Accident Tickets for one day or more Hugh Royall, Elkin, N. C. 6-29 c For sale—one practically new Progress ice refrigerator. Har ris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. ltc You will need sun glasses for your summer driving and books and magazines for your vacation. Call for Crooks smoked sun glasses and anything you need in books and magazines at Walker's 5 & 10c Store. Servel Electrolux Kerosene Re frigerators bring full automatic refrigeration to farm homes .without electricity. Many sat isfied users in Surry county. Write today for free literature. No obligations. Lester Haynes. Box 333, Mount Airy, N. C., Dealer for Surry, Yadkin and Alleghany counties. 6-8p For sale at a bargain—one used 6-cubic foot Frigidaire. Five year guarantee. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. ltc ■" —— i Have you supplied your needs in canning supplies? If not re member the best to be had for the money is found at Walker's Basement Store. Do you want plenty of egg* from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. We hove It. Abernethy's, A Good Drug Store. Elkin. N. C. tfn For rent: store building. State Road, 5 miles north Elkin, U. S. 21. Equipped, living quarters in rear. Remodeled. C. M. Royall, State Road, N. C. tfc Summer time always calls for lots of extras in electrical supplies. You will save money by secur ing your needs at Walker's 5 & 10c Store. We buy scrap Iron and metal*. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, N. C. tfc James Blevins will have an ice cream supper Saturday night, June 24, at Alson Sizemore's at Center. Everyone is invited. Plenty of string music. ltp Wanted: Two or three passengers to share expenses to New York, for week or ten days, and re turn. Telephone 269-R. ltp Found —Pocketbook Saturday af ternoon. Owner may have same by describing and paying for this ad. R. E. Snow, Elkin, Route 1. ltp For sale—one nice 5-year-oid spotted pony; one 3-year-old mare, well broke and weight about 1,100 pounds; two fresh cow£. Bub Price, Jonesville, N. C. tfc Delicious western steaks and fried chicken dinners at The Ren dezvous. tfc One large two door used Frigid aire for sale cheap. Harris Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. ltc Why take a chance? Travelers Accident Tickets for one day or more. Hugh Roy all, Elkin, N. C. 6-29 c Accommodate two passengers to Pittsburg, Pa., July first. Re turn in two weeks. Call 118. ltc Wanted to repair - radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc Planning To Remodel? Then Hurry Here for the Building Material You Will Need. Prices Are Right and Service Is Prompt. Elkin Lumber & Mfg. Co. "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 68 Elkin, N. C. HOT VALUES In COOL SUMMER Blue - Brown - Green HE Plain and Fancy Back, With 2 Summer Trousers $4.50 to $7.00 The Men's Shop Herman Guyer Phone 199 Thursday. June 22. /fW9 Permanent Waves, SI.OO and up. Shampoo and finger wave, 40c. Modern Beauty Shop, Louise Vestal, Ruby Gray. Telephone 340. tfc Don't neglect that late garden. Check your seed and supply your needs with the very best at Walker's Basement Store. Wanted: To repair your watches and clocks of all makes. Work promptly done. My prices are right. J. P. Talbirt, Main St., at new bridge. 7-6p Consider Your Stomach. If you feel rundown and out of sorts, possibly you have Acid Indi gestion and Sour Stomach. Take KENCO tablets for two weeks and see how much bet ter you feel. A trial will con vince you. Send SI.OO with your name and address to Kenco Co., 5118 Wyalusing Ave., Phila., Pa. 6-8p
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