THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
♦Elkin, N. C.
Thursday, August 3, 1939
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. 8. FOSTER..... President
H. F. LAFFOON ... Secretary-Treararer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR
In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, W.H
"To the Tune of Jungle Music"
Superior Court Judge Henry L. Stevens,
holding court in New Hanover county, and
addressing the grand jury, said: "I wish it
were possible for fathers and mothers to go
out one time with their sons and daughters
to some of the roadhouse joints and see
what happens. If that happened there
would be a great host of people to come be
fore you to say: 'we are ready to help'."
And then Judge Stevens put the matter
up to the jurors in these words: "I want
you gentlemen to do something about this,
while I am in this district, so that I may op
erate on the other end when they properly
come before me." Judge Stevens referred
to these as "places of vice and corruption—
traps to catch young women and teach them
vice and crime."
There are respectable and decent "road
houses to be sure, and Judge Stevens is not
referring to them. He is talking about
places "where liquor is sloshing around and
where 11 to 18-year-old boys and girls are
half dancing, half staggering to the tune of
jungle music."
But the Judge is a little hard on these
operators when he hitches them to a pro
gram that would "catch young women and
teach them vice and crime." If these joints
are recruiters for vice and crime, they are
that way only incidentally. The primary
interest of the operators is to make money,
and if misery and debauchery follows, that
is a by-product in which they are not in
terested. They are simply catering to a
clientele that demands its thrills, and their
offense is mainly in providing them.
And Judge Stevens fails to call atten
tion to the most hurtful part of the road
house set-up—the "cabins" which supposed
ly respectable men and women use without
mixing with the youngsters who dance to
jungle music. Right there is the greatest
social threat of all; where most of the ac
tual misery is born.
Remembering that Judge Stevens stood
some of the higher-ups in Raleigh election
fraud cases on their ears and thus laid the
ground work for election law enforcement,
we are prepared to believe that he will "op
erate on the other end"—just like he says.
It's a pity there are not more judges with
similar notions about it.
Tomorrow's Farm Leaders
Surry County was well represented at
the 4-H Club meeting in Raleigh last week.
A lively delegation of twenty-two boys and
girls went down, not particularly to frolic
and play and have a good time, but to give
an accounting of their interest and accom
plishments in a great work and to have part
in the planning for its extension.
This 4-H Club work is not as old as in
some counties, but what it lacks in age is
made up in enthusiasm and accomplish
ments under capable leadership. More than
seven hundred youngsters are enrolled in
the fourteen clubs in this county, and the
interest they are taking in the various 4-H
Club projects augurs well for agriculture in
Surry. For these are the men and women
of tomorrow. Upon their shoulders will be
shifted the burden of farm problems, and
these problems will be met* with trained
hands and minds, and in no half-hearted
way, simply because somebody has contriv
ed the sensible plan of making their work a
sort of competitive game that enlists their
interest and enthusiasm, the while they are
being instructed in modem approaches to
agricultural problems, approaches that their
elders have neither the inclination nor the
energy to take.
These youngsters should be encouraged
in their work. Parents by all means should
give them whatever help they can in the
conduct of the projects they undertake. Be
cause by their success or failure may their
ultimate progress be measured. It is signif
icant, we think, that leaders in this activity
only a few years back are now leaders in
farm extension work in this State. Max
Culp, an Iredell 4-H Club boy, who won lead
ership in a calf club project, is now a coun
ty agent, and a jim-dandy good one. It is
conceivable that without this training he
would still be doing chores on his daddy's
farm.
Incidentally Surry has pleasure in the
fact that the daughter of neighbor Stokes
was crowned queen at the Raleigh meeting.
That's the way we build 'em up here. A
few weeks back we were boasting more old
Confederate veterans very much alive and
kicking, than any other county in the State.
They may not be so pretty to look at but
they are of that good hardy stock that pro-
duced "Queen Opal" and we are proud of all
of them,
They Have What It Takes
It would be stretching the imagination a
little too much to assume that the five
most often mentioned candidates for gov
ernor were in Wilmington over the week
end mainly to see and hear Mayor La-
Guardia or even to take a much needed bath
at the beach. It was the occasion of the
meeting of the sheriffs and law enforce
ment officers' association, and those who
compose the membership are quite worth
courting. If there wasn't some significant
and effective button-holing going on in the
city by the sea over Sunday, we're a bum
guesser.
Of course Mayor Tom Cooper, who is
very definitely running for the governor
ship, was host and had to be there, but
there is nothing to indicate that it was
against his will or better judgment. But
Messrs. Broughton, Maxwell, Norton and
Smith were not there for idle and purpose
less handshaking or even to give official
welcome to the New York mayor.
What we are trying to say is that law
enforcement officers, particularly the sher
iffs, are potent political factors in North
Carolina. As such they are not to be neg
lected or regarded lightly, and when a whole
covey of them are to be found together, it
is a good time to pass around the all-day
suckers and sich.
Any organization that can persuade the
legislature to tack on two years to the term
the members are elected to, is not to be
sneezed at. Sheriffs get around among the
people, and if they happen to be popular
they can influence a lot of votes by a word
dropped here and there and by various
short-cuts known and practiced by the clan.
Comes the tale that the sheriffs are
using an innocent-looking little card that
bears the great seal of North Carolina and
bearing this significant legend: "This is to
certify that John Doe Is entitled to cour
tesies from all peace officers." Nothing
woefully wrong in that, except that it im
plies that not everyone is entitled to such
courtesies. Anyhow it tickles the vanity of
the holder, and when the giver casually sug
gests that this candidate or that has special
qualifications for the governorship, it will
help to bring agreement. And so who can
blame those on the anxious seat for
muscling in on that Wilmington meeting?
That Game Fund Grab
Sportsmen, as they are referred to in
North Carolina, do not necessarily mean the
idle rich who ride this hobby or that, but
include all who find pleasure in what to them
is a wholesome recreation that is worth pre- j
serving. And so when we refer to hunters
and fishermen as "sportsmen" that term in
cludes everyone who finds pleasure in
shouldering a gun or packing rod and reel or
even a "pole and line." A continually de-.
creasing number of these pay their hunting
or fishing license fees only because they
have to or stand a chance of paying a pen
alty for not arming themselves with these
permits. We are persuaded that the great
majority of these sportsmen pay these fees
willingly and gladly, with the understand
ing that the money will be used in the pro
motion and conservation of the game supply
in field and stream. And when this money
is diverted from this purpose, to these
sportsmen it is "diversion" and they don't
mean to let others make anything else out
of it.
When the Conservation board voted to
divert $35,000 of the game fund to the for
estry division, the members didn't talk in
terms of "fire protection for game covers."
The forestry division needed money to re
pair this tool or that, or for this purpose or
that; needs for which the legislature had
not made provision largely because the leg
islature had been given to understand that
the sportsmen would stand for a grab into
their treasury. So the grab was made as
noiselessly as possible. It was not until
after public protest was made that Director
Etheridge and his yes-yes-ers justified the
grab by hitching it to "protection for game
covers" and made a plausible running argu
ment that convinced many, not familiar
with all the facts, of its justification.
Our notion is that Thurmond Chatham
and the two other members of the board
would approve a small contribution to the
forestry service for obvious reasons. As a
matter of fact they had agreed to this. But
emboldened by a long succession of raids on
the game fund a majority of the board
thought it safe to pinch off more and more,
and therein lies the basis of a protest that
threatens the peace and comfort of the
hetmen of the conservation and develop
ment department, if indeed, not some of the
politicians farther up the line.
It is the continuity of the rape of their
game funds that gripes the sportsmen. And
it continues because they are unorganized,
pay their fees in good faith, and do not fol
low through to see whether somewhere up
or down the line, the slimy hand of politics
does not reach out to interfere with their in
terests. But this little matter has caused a
lot of unrest among the sportsmen, and the
chances are they will be asking the man
they vote for for Governor to commit him
self in advance on this issue; and ditto for
their representatives in the legislature.
Governor Hoey makes it plain that he
stands by Bruce Etheridge in this "diver
sion." And that is not strange at all for the
Governor is an avowed apostle of "diver
sion," although he prefers that it be called
by a sweeter-smelling name, as was the case
in the highway fund grab.
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HOOVER influence
When I saw the former Presi
dent, Herbert Hoover, a few
weeks ago in New York, he seem
ed more interested in the fishing
trip in Maine which he was plan
ning than in anything else. I
was glad to see by the press re
ports that he had good luck,
catching the legal limit of trout,
big ones, on his first day out.
I was also interested to note a
few days ago that the new offi
cial map of the United States
gives the great dam across the
Colorado River, at Boulder, its
correct name. It has been legally
and still is the Hoover Dam. It
was pretty small politics which
was back of the movement to
change its name to Boulder Dam,
because a different party from
that to which Mr. Hoover belongs
came into power.
There isn't a chance that Mr.
Hoover expects or desires to be
President again. He removed
himself from consideration in a
public announcement a few days
after I saw him.
But I think he will have a
greater influence in the coming
Presidential campaign than he
has ever had before. As the only
living ex-President, whatever he
says is listened to with attention.
No other member of his party
can be sure of getting on the
front page whenever he makes a
speech.
LUMBER increase
Americans have used wood for
house building from the earliest
Colonial days. There was plenty
of wood, it was the easiest ma
terial to handle, and a well-built
wooden house was, and is, as
comfortable and durable as one
of brick or stone.
The very finest examples of
early American architecture are
the old wooden houses of New
England and Virginia. Pennsyl
vania pioneers used stone because
there was no pine or other soft
wood available and plenty of
good stone right under the sur
face.
One of the oldest houses in
America is the central part of the
Stockbridge house in Scituate,
Mass., built by my first American
ancestor about the year 1640, per
haps a little earlier. Many other
frame houses along the Atlantic
Coast date back into the 1600's
and are still beautiful and com
fortable.
The great building boom which
is now getting vjell under way
will call for more lumber than
for any other building material.
Americans still like frame houses,
and the United States Forest Ser
vice and the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association join in
predicting the use of twice as
much lumber in the next ten
years as in the past decade.
EPITHETS . . . punishment
It is human nature to call peo
ple names, especially if they hold
different political beliefs from
your own. I don't remember any
body in my time who has been
called so many hard names as
Hitler and Mussolini are being
called now, unless it was the
Kaiser during the World War.
People's expressions change,
however, when they think there is
a chance the object of their abuse
may be able to punish them.
When Napoleop was sent to his
first exile on the Island of Elba
no epithet was too violent to be
used against him. When he es
caped in March, 1815, and start
ed his return to Paris, his daily
progress was reported in the
Paris papers thus:
"The Tiger has escaped." "The
Monster has been three days at
sea." "The Wretch has landed
at Frejus." "The Brigand has
arrived at Antibes." "The In
vader has reached Grenoble."
"The General has entered Lyons."
"Napoleon slept last night at
Fontalnbleau." "The Emperor
proceeds to the Tuileries today."
"His Imperial Majesty will ad
dress his loyal subjects tomor
row."
WOOL protection
Millions of city people and
others from regions where sheep
are not generally raised are get
ting a glimpse at the New York
World's Fair of the material of
which their clothes, or many of
them, are made, and how wool is
converted into cloth.
The first cloth woven at the
Fair was from wool clipped from
a sheep on a farm on the Fair
grounds. It was processed, spun,
woven and dyed on the Fair
grounds and there made into a
suit of clothes for the Director,
Mr. Grover Whalen.
With all of the inventions of
new fabrics to taks the place of
old ones, nobody has yet been
able to make artificial wool
which will serve the purposes of
the natural fiber grown by the
sheep. X saw some men's gar
ments in Italy, a few years ago,
made from a synthetic fiber, but
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they turned out not to have the
wearing qualities of real wool.
We don't wear as much wool as
we used to because our homes
and working places are better
heated. But sailors, soldiers, cow
boys and others whose work keeps
them out of doors know that even
in hot weather wool is a better
protection than cotton or silk.
CHURCHES mergers
I have long felt, and have
found most of my thoughtful
friends agreeing with me, that
the cause of true religion has
been hampered rather than help
ed by the multiplicity of sects
and denominations.
The recent merger of the three
American branches of the Meth
odist church into one great body
of Christians is a forward step
toward a genuine revival of the
spirit of Christianity. So, too,
will be the proposed union of the
Presbyterian and Episcopalian
churches, which now seems to be
close to achievement.
When good people stop dis
agreeing about non-essential
forms and doctrines and concen
trate on the few fundamental
principles of religion, to which all
honest people can subscribe,
though some of us find them
hard to live up to, this will be a
much better world to live in.
NOTICE
By virtue of an order of the
Superior Court of Surry County,
appointing the undersigned Com
missioner to sell the lands here
inafter described, as said Com
missioner I will sell at public auc
tion at the Court House door in
Dobson. on Saturday the 2nd day
of September 1939 at two o'clock
P. M. the following real estate
lying in Surry County, N. C.
Bryan Township, on Christian
Creek and bounded as follows:
Beginning on a white oak or
red oak and runs North 15 chains
to a rock pile, then East 25
chains to a water oak, then South
17 chains to a stake, then West
to the beginning containing 40
acres more or less. Also at the
same time and place I will sell
some corn and fodder. This is
known as the William Gilley
lands and will be sold for parti
tion. Terms of sale one half
cash on confirmation of sale and
the remainder in one year there
after. This land contains some
good bottom land and timber.
This the 28th day of July, 1939.
W. L. REECE,
8-24 Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
North Carolina,
Surry County.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a cer
tain Deed of Trust executed on
the 25th day of September, 1927
and recorded in Book 96, Page
504, of the Register of Deeds of
Surry County, North Carolina
and the undersigned, Parks G.
Hampton, having been substitut
ed as a trustee in said Deed of
Trust, see Substitute of Trustee
recorded in the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Surry County,
North Carolina, on the 4th of
April, 1939, which instrument
substituted Parks G. Hampton in
the place and stead of J. F. Hen
dren and giving and granting to
the said Parks G. Hampton all of
the powers and authority of the
original trustee, and,
WHEREAS default has been
made in the payment of the
notes or bonds secured by said
Deed of Trust and demand hav
ing been made upon the substi
tute Trustee to sell the said
property, therefore, the under
signed Substitute Trustee will on
the 4th day of September at
12:30 o'clock Noon, at the Court
House door in Dobson, N. C. sell
at public auction, to the last and
highest bidder, for cash the fol
lowing described real property to
wit:
"Beginning on a rock, D. M
Jenkins* corner runs Northwest
with Willie Jenkins' line to the
Rockford Road, his corner;
thence down the road as it mean
ders to Jim Jenkins' corner, a
rock; thence Southwest with his
line to W. M. Jenkins' line;
thence with his line to Richard
Stanley's line; thence with his
line to W. M. Jenkins' line;
thence West with his line to the
beginning. Containing 40 acres
more or less.
PARKS G. HAMPTON,
Substitute Trustee.
Barker and Hampton, Attys. 8-17
WANTS
Found: Small sum of money.-
Owner may have by describing
and paying for this ad. J. B.
Parks, Elkin, N. C. ltc
You can get tobacco barn flues
at Surry Hardware Co. ltc
Learn Beahty Culture and Hair
Styling—Our graduates are in
demand. Write for rates. Hin
shaw School of Beauty Culture,
North Wilkesboro, N. C. 8-31 c
For sale: eight-room house on
acre lot in Ronda. Will sell
cheap. Small down payment,
balance monthly as rent. J. B.
Church, Roaring River, N. C.
8-17p
You will find a large assortment
of aluminum, enamel and tin
ware at Graham & Click's 5c &
10c Store. The price and qual
ity are right! ltc
Man wanted for Rawleigh Route.
Real opportunity for right
man. We help you get started.
Sales way up this year. Write
Rawleigh's, Dept. NCH-63-0,
Richmond, Va. ltp
Peaches for sale: Georgia Belle
and Albertas; general run $1.25
per bushel at Henry Wolfe's
orchard at Mountain Park, ltp
For your needs in tin ware, alum
inum and enameled cooking
utensils, silverware, glass ware,
china ware and anything you
need for the kitchen and din
ing room. Walker's Basement
Store.
For sale—good used 3-piece living
room suite. Looks like new. A
real bargain. Home Furniture
Co., Elkin. N. C. ltc
For sale: Beautiful lot on Gwyn
Avenue at a bargain. ' Suitable
for residence or apartment. 78
feet frontage; 194 feet deep.
See M. R. Bailey, Elkin, N. C.
8-10 c
Wanted to sell: Cotton prints, 5c
and 10c yard; silks and satins,
25c yard; sharkskin reduced to
20c yard. Many more remnant
values here. New location,
Greenwobd building next to
new bridge. Elkin Remnant
Store, Elkin,. N. C. ltc
You can get tobacco barn flues
at Surry Hardware Co. ltc
Wanted to buy all kinds of cattle,
calves and pork hogs. See Bub
Price at Basketeria. tfc
Thursday, August 3, 1939
Graham & Click's 5c & 10c Store
extra special values for Friday
and Saturday: Our regular 49c
full-fashioned hose at 39c; our
regular 69c pure silk full-fash
ioned hose at 49c. Don't fail
to purchase a pair of hose at
these prices. ltc
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. 8-10p
Two good second-hand ranges to
go at money-saving prices.
Only slightly used. Home
Furniture Co., Elkin, N. C. ltc
Do your feet give you trouble
during the hot summer time?
If so we have what you need
in foot aids, a complete line.
Walker's 5 & 10c Store.
We boy scrap Iron and metals.
Double Eagle Service Co., Elk
in. N. C. tfc
For rent: Cool, desirable down
stairs apartment. Private bath,
private entrance. Phone 126-M.
tfc
We have just what you need in
rugs and borderless mats, sizes
18x36 in. to 9x12 ft. A good
variety of colors and all spe
cially priced. Walker's Base
ment Store.
CASH—cash for your old gold!
Turn your old broken jewelry,
bridge works, gold teeth, watch
cases, eye glass frames, etc.,
into cash. Call Downtown
Service Station. 8-17 c
All prices reduced on summer
furniture. Now is the time to
save money. Come in today.
Home Furniture Co., Elkin, N.
C. ltc
Comfort Cottage, Carolina Beach,
"Center All Social Activities."
Next postoffice bldg. Rooms,
apartments, reasonable. Write,
wire, come. Glenn Tucker, Mgr.
8-3 c
Our candies are always fresh. We
carry a large assortment at all
times. 10c, 15c, 20c per pound.
Visit our Candy department.
Graham & Click's 5c & 10c
Store. ltc
Delicious western steaks and fried
chicken dinners at The Ren
dezvous. tfc
When have you thoroughly gone
through our Infant's Wear De
partment? We have a com
plete line for every need. Wal
ker's 5 & 10c Store.
Wanted to repair radios. Our
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc
Permanent Waves, SI.OO and tap.
Shampoo and finger wave, 40c.
Modern Beauty Shop, Louise
Vestal, Ruby Gray. Telephone
340. tfc
Special as long as they last—9xl2
linoleum rugs, good quality for
only $3.49. You will save SI.OO
to $2.00 on these quality rugs.
Graham & Click's 5c & 10c
Store. ltc
Do yon want plenty of eggs front
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamin. We
have It. Abernethy's, A Good
Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfn
We have just received a good line
of men's dress shirts, and are
selling them at 69c for the
Dollar values. Walker's 5 &
10c Store.