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IMIGTON Washington, July 17—Whether or not the President won a vic tory over Congress in the second round of the monetary battle re mains to be seen. After the defeat of the Admin istration in the all-night session at the close of the fiscal year, enough pressure was put upon Senators and Representatives to induce them to enact a new sta tute renewing the Presidential powers to devalue the dollar, maintain a currency stabilization fund, buy domestic silver at the fixed price of 70 cents an ounce and to set the price at which the Treasury would buy foreign sil ver. ~ln"every respect except that of fixing the price of domestic sil ver, the new act gives the Presi dent all the control over money and currency that he had before his former authorization expired. Lawyers of both parties in both houses, however, contend that the new law will not stand up under court scrutiny, if anybody brings up the issue. At the same time, a strong movement is forming to take away the Presidential power to buy foreign silver at anything but the world market price. The United States has been practical ly supporting the Mexican Gov ernment by its purchases of sil ver, and that is objected to on Capitol Hill. Battle of the Session The fight over amending the neutrality law to make it more acceptable to the President will be the battle of the session, from present indications. Thirty-four Senators are lined up under the leadership of Senators Borah and Nye to fight to the last ditch against repealing the preesnt law prohibiting the sale of arms and ammunition by Americans to na tions at war. The idea behind this is the be lief that the United States was dragged into the World War be cause so many Americans had been making money in huge sums supplying the Allies with fighting material, and that if we allowed THRFTY BUYERS WILL SAVE ON THESE WEEK-END SPECIALS AT THE NEW ELK PHARMACY ELKIN'S CUT-RATE DRUG STORE Syrup Pepsin _ Gets-It Corn $1.20 Value for Nujol R T, edy ti nn Nuioi i 50c tJ/l«vU i Value cn Q . . Wild Root Tonic 60c Size for 50c I gg c 60c Bottle _ 29c Mineral Oil, qt. 49c ■ T " Arrid Deodorant Powder Puffs 2 for 10c 25c Kotex and 10c Amolin Powder, I ] Ipana Toothpaste Both for \|3fc J 39c 20 c Pebeco Tooth Squibbs Mineral Oil 25c Size . 19c 89 c Milk of Magnesia 39° Kleenex Tissue Band- Nyal Anti-Acid lOc Aid C 2 for 25c 4* I Onlv Peruna, Bottle $1.19 Cascara Aromatic 8 4-oz. Bottle 38c I 19° lOOJßrewers Yeast Dr . West's Tablets 39c Toothbrushes PRESCRIPTIONS * v lk/ Tooth Powder ACCURATELY FILLED BY REGISTERED 1 DRUGGIST. BRING US YOUR NEXT ONE E - main sT - ELK PHARMACY PHONE mo Flower - Girl r • ! 5-^., Parrish, film actress, shown here admiring the beauty of a Califor nia yucca, one of many now blos soming in the Hollywood Hills. Yucca is protected by a state law, forbidding persons to pick or mu tilate. that sort of thing to go on we would be dragged into the next war. The war alarm had begun to subside by early July, though the Government's observers abroad are reported to have warned the State Department against over optimism. How the provision in the new WPA law requiring every worker to put in 130 hours a month for the money he or she gets will re act upon their personal chances for reelection is a question which is worrying some members of Congress. The situation disclosed by W. P. A. officials and Congressional investigators, that a large num ber of people on relief were draw ing from SSO to S9O a month for working only fifty or sixty hours a month was too tough for Con gress to swallow. Shock to Members The WPA was intended to pro vide work at bare subsistence wages for such as could not find jobs in private employment. The discovery that the "prevailing" rate" of hourly union wages was being paid in many cities to W. P. A. workers came as a shock to many of the members, and the outlook is that the majority in Congress will stand pat against all the political pressure by labor THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA^ •organizations and WPA worker organizations. The death of the Secretary of the Navy, Claude Swan son, was not unexpected. Mr. Swanson was 77 and had been seriously ill for more than two years. Forun ately the Assistant Secretary, Charles Edison, son of the great inventor, has recovered from the illness which kept him inactive for several months. The largest naval construction program in all the nation's his tory is getting well under way, and much of the credit must be given to Mr. Swanson, who had been an advocate of a powerful and modern navy since his years of service in the House and Sen ate on the naval affairs commit tees. That Mr. Edison is the log ical successor to his place in the Cabinet is not proof, however that he will be chosen by the President. The belief that Germany has eyes on a part of the Antarctic Continent as a possible flying base is partly responsible for the President's order to Rear Admiral Richard Byrd to make another trip to the frozen South and stake out claims in the name of the United States to the territory which he discovered on his two famous voyages to the South Polar regions. The idea is to establish at least three aviation basep for naval aircraft and personnel, as a fur ther means of defending the Monroe doctrine of no European sovereignty over any part of the Western Hemisphere. Other Nations Have Claims Some other nations have pos sible claims to Antarctic territory, notably Norway, whose explorer Roald Amundsen, was the first to reach the South Pole, and Eng land, which has sent several ex peditions into the frozen wastes. Plans are shaping up for an anti-trust drive against builders, manufacturers of building sup plies and practically everybody concerned with building opera tions. Washington believes that build ing costs are much too high, es pecially for the low-income home buyer, and that much of the high restrictions and combinations in cost of housing is due to illegal restraint of trade. The No. 1 trust-buster, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, has been working up a case against a very large number of diversified interests in the building field, Mid-Summer Santa Qaua MIAMI, Fla More than 50,000 Miamians were visited by a mid summer Santa Claus recently who brought the first of $4,000,000 in refund checks from the Florida Power and Light Co. closing chapter in a hectic seven-year long victorious fight by Mayor E. G. Sewell (above), to cut Miami's electric light and power bill one third. and expects to begin shooting pretty soon. Political observers here now leave all other presidential can didates out of consideration until the President makes a definite move which will clearly show whether he wants a third term or not. All calculations of both parties hinge upon that decision. WAKE UP AND LIVE By DOROTHEA BRANDE To identify ourselves too long with work we do is a bad mis take, and a mistake through which we can be hurt and ham pered. The past few years have taught us much about the folly of so identifying ourselves with our children that they are rendered incapable of leading independent lives. The mother who clings to her adult (or even adolescent) child, suffering with him, making his decisions, undergoing humiliation on his account, unable to live her own life fully if he is not leading the sort of life she covets for him, meddling with his affairs, dictat ing his professional and social interests is no longer looked upon as the sum of maternal love and wisdom. While we may not always prac tise as wisely as we should, few men and women today consider the complete identification of themselves with their children as either praiseworth yor desirable. We have to that extent learned perspective about one of the most fundamental relations of life. We know that our work as par ents is to do all in our power to equip the child to live a happy, healthy adult life, to put up no unnecessary barriers before his independent activities, to leave him free to select his friends and to form his own judgments as soon as possible. What is more, we know that it is desirable that every adult should have his own interests, and that only the possession of such interests will guarantee that no unwholesome interference with the life of another will take place. Further, no one believes for a moment that because a saner un-1 derstanding of a parent's func tions is replacing the old dicta torship, which was tyrannical ev en when it was motivated by deep affection, the love between moth er or father and child is in any way decreasing. The analogy of any finished piec£ of work with a child is very close: each has to be carried, cherished, nourished as part of one's very self during the early stages. But with full growth there comes a time when each should have its independent iden tity. If we intend to get all we can from living, we must learn to go on from one task to the next. Even the most productive of us could contribute more than he does; our output is about halved because we do not learn to sep arate ourselves from the things that are done and put our energy into the work which is ahead. In stead we turn and watch the for tunes of what we have lately been engrossed in. So accustomed are. we to doing a piece of work, and then stand ing still to contemplate what ' happens to it. that we constantly wonder at those who do not make the same error. We even, erroneously, believe that they must "drive them selves" relentlessly in order to ac complish what they manage to , do. Now, nothing of the sort is I true—or it is not necessarily true. What has happened is that the time, the energy, the attention which in lesser men goes into waiting for approval, listening to comments, wondering whether some item or other might have been better done, is going forward and opening up new paths. I It is not at all that the health- fully prolific men and women are complacent, or oblivious to real criticism; they know that if any thing pertinent is said they will hear it. Experience has taught them that we are never deaf to what truly concerns us. What they have learned is not to wait to hear comment; and so their lives are twice as full and satisfactory as those of us who cannot learn when to let the re sults of our thought and labor, cur mental offspring, go out to lead their own lives. Imagination can bring us to understand how such sane work ers operate, and suggest ways in which we can imitate them. ARE DISTRIBUTING WINSTON FAIR BOOK Winston-Salem, July 17 The premium list for the 40th annual Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Fair, to be held October 3.4.5-6-7, is off the presses and is being distributed throughout this section of the state. It is ex pected more interest than ever will be taken in the agricultural and livestock contests this year # REPRICED TO CLEAR # m Rack No. 1 I I Rack No. 3 ■ I Large Group QQ I fi Ladies' Summer d»OO I I 'I" I I Dresses I I Dresses A ca. B I Repriced e «* B Rack No. 2 II Entire Summer I ass, $9.3311 cAc I |" r S' s ,,t 6ea. | | Millinery «* v ea. p Several Hundred Women's and Large Yards Fast Children's Rayon Assortment of „ , 0 , „ Summer Sheer Cote Sheer p anties , Materials OnlylftcPr. tic Yard 8 c Yard 1V 11 Ist Quality Reduced to Clear .jfIBMBBBHMBRfck MtSSSI^SSSSSSKto One Group Another Group Children's Ladies' Summer Ladies' Summer Summer Shoes Shoes Oxfords To Clear at To Clear at and Straps SI.OO Pr $1.67 Pr - only 68 c Pr - WBBSBSRBSBBBP' N^BBBSBBBHBP r ■ 36-in Heavy B B Men's White, Black or Brown [DOMESTIC f| |ajS»y^JJgJ m Full Size Bed B B Men's and Boys' I PILLOWS CAc ■ I Shirts and Shorts ICc ■ I Sterilized, Each t/V I Full Cut, Each A J |36-in. Wide B B Men's Straw I CURTAIN NET Cc | | HATS CAc B I Ist Quality, yd. II Reduced to » Each 'J" P fl Women's Rayon Taffeta B fl Men's Wash I Each 44 I I Sanforized, Pair Ol B " T "" " B I Men's White Gabardine I SWIM SUITS I I SUITS U771 GREATLY REDUCED p BSanfomed^^^^^^PjK^^p as the fair management is laying greater stress on these important departments of the big fair. Com mittees are now at work arrang ing the free attractions and other features of Fair Week and within a short time complete plans will be announced for North Caro lina's greatest annual event. I USE CONCRETE I I BUILDING BLOCKS I FOR YOUR NEXT BUILDING They are especially economical for foundations, garages and business buildings. They are fire resistant and permanent. I CAROUNA ICE £ FUEL CO. I I Phone 83 Elkin, N. C. Thursday, July 20, 1939 Growers of agricultural products and livestock, as well as those in terested in home economic dis plays, who have not received a premium list may secure ' one without charge by dropping a postcard to the Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Fair Asso ciation at Winston-Salem.
The Elkin Tribune (Elkin, N.C.)
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