THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
Published Every Thursday by
ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
Elkin, N. C.
Thursday, August 24, 1939
Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as
second-class matter.
C. S. FOSTER.— - —.President
EL F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer
SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR
In the State, $1.50 Oat of the State, tZ.H
It appeareth that the Hatch bill has not
only brought a lot of worry to the Young
Democrats, but has put some of the elders
in a dither.
We're betting that Jack Garner will be
glad when this political ruckus is over. Then
he can get back to the important business
of drawing to an inside straight.
"The announcement of Garner's candi
dacy has precipitated a lively third-term
movement. Roosevelt has already carried
Ickes."—New Yorker.
If France would pay her war debt to
Uncle Sam, maybe the old gentleman would
consider throwing in Louisiana to boot in the
thought that he still would be the winner.
"A native of Alabama, now 82, has never
seen a motor car. We can only say, as we
always have, he doesn't know what he miss
ed."—Atlanta Constitution.
If at judgment time what's written on
our tombstone could be accepted as compe
tent evidence, it would be a sight better for
most of us.
Massachusetts Too
Massachusetts is flirting with the sales
tax. In fact Massachusetts is about ready
to embrace this attractive lassie —right out
in public. And reading after what is going
on in that state we run across the same old
soft-soaping that preceded its establishment
here and which continues to be applied.
Up there they are calling it a "modified"
and "temporary" toll just as we were told in
North Carolina, and the Christian Science
Monitor, one of the ablest and most respect
ed journals in the nation, is reminding the
people that "The proposed sales tax for
Massachusetts is being clothed in these mis
leading terms, but taxpayers should not be
beguiled . . . Once a sales tax can be enact
ed into law, once this politically obnoxious
issue has been surmounted, it will be far
more difficult at a later date to oppose in
creases in the tax or in the circumference
of transactions. And further;
"To call the measure 'temporary' is a def
inition contrary to experience. The Record
shows that thirty states have enacted sales
tax laws since the depression. Only seven
states have repealed them. From this it would
appear that Massachusetts has about one
chance in four of repealing a sales tax once
enacted ... it becomes apparent that no rev
enue measure which would return $30,000,000
annually can be conceived of as 'temporary'."
We have the deepest sympathy for the
brethren in Massachusetts. Politicians,
hard-pressed for dollars about to take them
for a long, long ride. There, like here, they
will be told that surely they want to have
some part in the support of their govern
ment, but it is to be hoped that none will be
so bold as to tell them that without the sales
tax they will be making no such contribu
tion. Surely up there the folks are better
acquainted with "hidden taxes" that every
buyer pays, and won't swallow this sweet
talk.
As for our own situation, this fellow
Tom Cooper, who soon will be sound-truck
ing for the governorship, will propose that
this State adopt a program of gradual elim
ination of the sales tax—a tiny bit each bi
ennium until the thing is pinched away.
That would meet the objection that a sud
den cutting away would be too abrupt for
comfort. Wouldn't be surprised if Tom gets
a lot of votes right there.
Senator Nye's Advice
"While it is doubtless true that the
American people are quite ready and eager
for a change, it definitely does not follow
that they are ready for the type of candi
date or leadership that would adopt a do
nothing policy or a policy of destroying leg
islation that has for its purpose an improve
ment of our social welfare." That is Sen
ator Nye, of Dakota, talking and warning
national Republican leaders that they had
better get over their "cocksureness" and
turn to practical planning if they want to
win in 1940.
Senator Nye says that the Republican
party has got to make up its mind that its
candidate and platform are going to have to
be forward-looking and progressive. "Both
candidate and platform will have to enter
tain the desire to maintain and improve
some of the advances that have been estab
lished under the New Deal," says Senator
Nye.
And that very thing is worrying the po
liticos more than anything else. Republican
leaders, along with the disgruntled Demo-
crats realize that there is enough of good in
the New Deal program to anchor a big slice
of the citizenry to it. Likewise the bad in
the administration program is so linked to
real or fancied welfare of the masses that it
is not politically wise to make a big noise
about it. And not even in their urgency can
they formulate a program to take the place
of that which they would destroy.
Senator Nye at least is consistent. Like
some of the other Republican brethren in
Congress, he voted for some of the New
Deal legislation, and admits it. Of course
he is not running for President, and that
makes a whale of a difference, when issues
are so necessary. At least one who has White
House aspirations is condemning the Roose
velt program as a whole, when as a matter
of fact he helped put part of it across.
Senator Nye probably will have the sat
isfaction of seeing that his advice has been
followed. The Republican party will find a
man as its standard bearer who is broad
enough to measure up to the Nye standard,
and if the Democrats nominate Garner or a
conservative of his school, Republican vic
tory will be assured from the start.
The Difference
Britain's unemployed, 1,256,424 accord
ing to the records, is the lowest total Britain
has had at any time since 1929. Germany
is actually pressing women into jobs
meant for men and has no unemployment
problem. Nor is Italy grumbling about her
idle.
These nations are that way because of
intensive spending on armament, and it is
agreed that this armament spending has
raised purchasing power of so many work
men that the increased spending of these
workers has produced a small boom in retail
and distributive business.
Here in America we have been spending
like a house afire; have been priming the
pump continuously for six years; spending
for bridges, roads, houses, dams, conserva
tion and reclamation projects. Even the
boondoggling of the leaf rakers may be con
sidered preferable to employing the hands
and time and talent of men to the building
of implements of destruction. Yet our un
employment has not noticeably decreased.
Professors and students of economics
can't figure it out. These other nations are
spending for implements with which to
murder and destroy; we have been spending
for things that well may be set down as
assets of more or less permanency. There
is nothing permanent about armament. We
build it today, tomorrow it is outmoded.
But our spending has been extended to
every community in the nation. And there
it is turned back into the channels of trade.
What becomes of it then? It is an old
American custom for somebody to be where
money is—with a bag. The federal dollars
that have been spent have' gone into some
body's till. In our national uncertainty,
maybe it has been carried to shelter, where
it has failed to provide a continuity of jobs.
We wouldn't know. We are only saying
"maybe."
Comparative Loan Costs
It is not that we hold a brief for the
building and loan associations, and certain
ly not that we would advise against employ
ing the federal housing administration in
the building of homes, but we think it is
right and proper that the prospective home
builder should count ultimate costs when he
goes to build.
True the federal housing administration
has only recently made a reduction in the
interest rate, which was reasonably low in
the first place, but we are still talking about
ultimate costs.
Under the federal housing plan, the
monthly payment averages $5.81 per thou
sand dollars borrowed. That means that
monthly payments averaging $23.25 would
pay off a $4,000 mortgage in twenty-five
years. But multiplying $23.25 by the three
hundred months required to repay the loan,
and you have a total of $6,975 which repre
sents the cost of your $4,000 home, not
counting the brokerage and closing costs.
That is all right, too, remembering that one
has the use of the place for that length of
time. But we are still talking about ulti
mate and comparative costs.
Under the six and a half year maturity
plan of the building and loan associations,
the total cost of your $4,000 home would be
$4,958.46, as against $6,975 through the
federal housing administration. And under
the IIV 2 year plan which some of the B. & L.
associations have in operation, the total
cost would be $5,821.34, more than a thou
sand dollars less than under FHA. If the
building and loan associations worked under
a twenty-five year extension, they would
have to make the total cost as high as FHA.
It is the way interest mounts up that we
are trying to get across.
Of course if time and low periodic pay
ments are the sole objective, that is some
thing else. That's why we have this form
of federal aid. But if the payments could
be stepped up to a nearer ending of the loan,
then the careful home builder would do well
to adopt the building and loan plan when
he goes to build. And incidentally that
would suit the government just fine. The
government wants more home-owners be
cause that makes for good citizenship, and
the building increases employment.
Nor should it be forgotten that in deal
ing with the building and loan, others will
be able to use the money for the same pur
pose. Anyhow these figures should be
studied by those-coveting a home of their
own.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
INSCORE WINS
IN JAIL CASE TO
OUST VESTAL
Judge Armstrong Rules Act
Appointing Vestal Tailor
Unconstitutional
VOIDS SALARY BILL
Yadkinville, Aug. 23. (Special.)
—Sheriff A. L. Inscore was the
winner here Monday in his action
to regain possesion of the Yadkin
county jail which was in posses
sion of Dallas Vestal under a bill
passed by the recent legislature,
introduced by Representative
Prank Woodhouse.
Judge Prank Armstrong, pre
siding over superior court here,
ruled that the act which took the
jail from the possession of the
sheriff, was unconstitutional, and
that the jail was illegally in pos
session of Vestal. The ruling was
made before a packed court
house and met with instant ap
proval of a majority of those who
were in attendance at court, and
Sheriff Inscore, who was sick at
home, received a stream of vis
itors during the day who con
gratulated him.
Far Reaching
Judge Armstrong's ruling here
today is far reaching, in that the
bill which was declared void not
only returns the jail to the cus
tody of the sheriff, but gives him
the salary and fees received by
Vestal since he took possession
April 1; returns the sheriff to his
original salary of $2,500 which
was cut under the bill to $2,250;
and repeals the entire Yadkin
salary bill, placing the clerk of
court and register of deeds back
on a fee basis. This is the in
terpretation given the judge's or
ider here today inasmuch as all
this was the result of the same
I bill.
I The salary of County Auditor
j was also cut in the shakeup, from
! SI,BOO back to the original $1,200.
MRS. JAMES TUCKER
PASSES AWAY MONDAY
Mrs. Susan Ardella Cockerham
Tucker, 83, died Monday morn
ing at her home at State Road.
She was the widow of Rev. James
Tucker, who died a number of
years ago, and a daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Cocker
ham.
Survivors are four children,
Mrs. W. G. Norris, of Charlotte;
Mrs. Sallie Norman, of State
Road; Mrs. C. A. Carter, of Elk
in; Mrs. Paul Tucker, of Win
ston-Salem, a foster son, Andrew
Tucker, of Charleston, S. C., and
fourteen grandchildren, 22 great
grandchildren, and one great
great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock
from Shoaley Branch Baptist
church, of which the deceased
was a member. The rites were
in charge of Rev. L. B. Murray,
of State Road, and Rev. D. L.
Emhardt, of Traphill.
KIWANIANS ATTEND
MEET NEAR MT. AIRY
Members of the Elkin Kiwanis
club and their wives Tuesday night
attended a barbecue and lamb
dinner at Pinecroft Camp, near
Mount Airy, in which members
of various civic organizations of
the county participated.
Feature of the meeting was an
address by A. D. (Lon) Folger,
Fifth district congressman, of
Mount Airy.
L. B. Pendergraph, of Mount
Airy, was in charge of arrange
ments. About 125 were in atten
dance, 25 of whom were from Elk
in.
Next week the local club will
meet in Jonesville at the Jones
ville school, the meal to be served
by the Woman's Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist church.
This meeting will not be observed
as ladies' night as had been pre
viously planned.
MRS. JULIA COX
PASSES ON SUNDAY
Mrs. Julia Cooper Cox, 40, pas
sed away Sunday at her home In
North Elkin. Mrs. Cox was the
widow of Wiley Cox and a daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Cooper.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon from Grassy Creetc
Methodist church. The rites were
in charge of the pastor, Rev. D. B.
Mullis, assisted by Rev. Grant
Cothren. Interment was in the
church cemetery.
She is survived by four brothers,
W. P. and G. L. Cooper of Trap
hill; Thomas Cooper of Dobson,
and Mason W. Cooper of Winston-
Salem, and one sister, Mrs. Worth
Ray, of Elkin.
NEAR RECORD
Virginia, with 95,000,000
pounds, will produce its largest
crop of flue-cured tobacco since
1927 this year, according to the
U. S. Crop Reporting Service.
Jonescille
May Overflow
The Town Building
A complete list of the Jones
ville school faculty was an
nounced last week following a
meeting of the school board. The
iJonesville school will open on
September 11, along with other
schools of Yadkin county.
The question of accommodat
ing the heavy enrollment of stu
dents which is expected was also
brought up and it is possible that
the town hall will be used for
several classes. It is estimated
that approximately 200 students
will be enrolled above the ca
pacity of the present building.
The faculty list is as follows:
Principal, L. S. Weaver; A. B.
Scroggs, history; Mrs. A. B.
Scroggs, French and English; J.
H. Swaringer, science and ath
letic coach; C. W. Dinkins, math
ematics.
The elementary school teachers
include: Mrs. Zimmie Tharpe,
Mrs. Kate Key and Miss Ruby
Bray, first grade; Mrs. Harvey
Hernric, Mrs. Johnny Canipe and
Miss.Hazel Phillips, second grade;
Miss Beulah Fleming, Miss Cath
erine Boles and Mrs. Margaret
Pickett, third grade; Mrs. Lee
Neaves, Mrs. Ina Holcomb and
Mrs. Arlene Keever, fourth grade;
Miss Thelma Shore and Mrs.
Ruth Roland, fifth grade; T. S.
Hobson and J. C. Folger, sixth
grade, and Harvey Madison and
C. J. Rash, seventh grade.
CRASH FATAL
TO LOCAL MAN
(Continued from page one)
and Jack Malone and Fred Odum
of Graingers. They are all ex
pected to recover.
Funeral services for Mr. James
were held from the late home on
West Main street Monday after
noon at four o'clock. The rites
were in charge of Rev. Eph
Whisenhunt, pastor of the First
Baptist church, and Rev. P. W.
Tucker, pastor of the Methodist
church. Interment was in the
family plot in Hollywood ceme
tery.
He is survived by his wife who
before their marriage was Miss
Grace Snow, two sons, Robert
Wayne, Jr., and Tommy Snow
James; his mother, Mrs. C. F.
James; one brother, Earl C.
James, of this city, and one sis
ter, Mrs. E. A. Randleman, of Mt.
Airy.
Among the out-of-town friends
and relatives attending the last
rites were: Mrs. J. E. Young and
Mrs. Rex Bishop, of Walkertown;
Martha Sheppard, of Greensboro;
Mrs. Harold Hasley and Miss
Mr. and Mrs. Dio Lewis, A. B.
Carter, Mrs. F. M. Terry, Miss
Marjorie Yates, Mrs. C. S. Chil
dress, Mrs. J. E. Stimpson, Mrs.
C. H. Haynes, Mrs. Hurley Webb,
Mrs. Henry Stewart, Miss Mar
garet Roberson, Mrs. George
Roberson and Mrs. E. C. Belton,
Mt. Airy; Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Wilmoth, Mr. and Mrs. R. G.
Wilmoth, Mrs. Guy Fulp, Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Fitzgerald and Lonnie
Hanks, of Winston-Salem; Mr.
and Mrs. B. D. Gentry, of Walnut
Cove; Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Stew
art, R. Y. Peck, E. T. Brame,
Rich Chatham, W. M. Corkill and
C. A. Hayworth, of North Wilkes
boro.
Read Tribune Advertisements!
Comfort Cottage, Carolina Beach,
"Center All Social Activities."
Next postoffice bldg. Rooms,
apartments, reasonable. Write,
wire, come. Glenn Tucker, Mgr.
8-31 C
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ruin your
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Unless -
you take it to a competent
' watchmaker before corrosion
attacks the delicate parts. If
you cannot get it to us Immtd
uttty, open the case and sub
merge tne watch in oil. Then
at the first opportunity bring
it to us. We will do tne rest
QU/CK SEQWCC
REASONABLE PQICCS
W. M. WALL
JEWELER
Phone 56 Elkin, N. C.
WANTS
Our stock, of school supplies is
complete. Everything you need
in Pencils, Pens, Erasers, Pencil
Trimmers, Pencil Boxes, Pencil
Tablets, Loose Leaf Notebooks,
Filler Paper, Inks, Pastes, Muci
lage, Glue, Crayons, Chalks,
Lunch Boxes, Book Bags, and
every item you need to start to
school, and every item very
reasonably priced. Don't for
ge* "The Blue Horse Line." It
is always the Best. Walker's 5
& 10c Store.
Permanent Waves, SI.OO and up.
Shampoo and finger wave, 40c.
Modern Beauty Shop, Louise
Vestal, Ruby Gray. Telephone
340. tfc
Do you want plenty of eggs from
strong, fast growing young
chicks? If so feed Panamin. We
have it. Abemethy's, A Good
Drug Store, Elkin, N. C. tfD
Special this week: 25c box Wood
bury's powder with bottle of
perfume. Try this box in the
new Blush Rose shade. Graham
& Click 5c and 10c Store, ltc
Attention school children! See
our complete line of school sup
plies before you buy. We can
fill all your school needs. Gra
ham & Click 5c and 10c Store.
ltc
Wanted to buy aM kinds of cattle,
calves and pork hogs. See Bub
Price at Basketeria. tfc
Now on display at Graham &
Click 5c and 10c Store: a com
plete line of anklets and socks
for school opening. Prices, pair,
10c and 15c. ltc
Knox Range only slightly
used and finished in green
and ivory enamel and
worth at least $50.00, for
quick sale this week $37.50.
Eagle Furniture Company.
Maid of Athens Range, full
18 inch size and used only
short time and in perfect
condition, $29.50. Eagle
Furniture Company.
Special this week: Jergen's soap.
Ten bars in a package for 25c.
A real buy! Graham & Click
5c and 10c Store. ltc
Fiber Living Room Suite,
settee, one rocker and one
chair to close out this
week-end at $20.00. Eagle
Furniture Company.
For rent: Cool, desirable down
stairs apartment. Private bath,
private entrance. Phone 126-M.
tfc
Learn Beauty Culture and Hair
Styling—Our graduates are in
demand. Write for rates. Hin
shaw School of Beauty Culture,
North Wilkesboro, N. C. 8-3 lc
Wanted to repair radios. Out
expert thoroughly knows his
business. Prices right. Harris
Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc
Wool Face Rugs, solid colors,
heavy and durable in sizes
from 6x9 to 9x12 at about
half price $4.00 to SB.OO.
Only a few left. Eagle
Furniture Company.
Singer Sewing Machines, fac
tory re-built and operate
like new machines as all
worn parts have been re-
LIGHT WEIGHT
EASY TO OPERATE
N&R ALMOST
POWERFUL* EFFICIENT/WZ^S
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HARRIS ELECTRIC COMPANY
Phone 250 Elkin, N. C.
Thursday., August 24, 1939
placed. These models I
usually sell for $39.50 and
we offer them at $32.50 ormm
our convenient budget pkw
of $5.00 per month. Eaefl
Furniture Company.
We buy scrap iron and mefl
Double Eagle Service Co.. jH
in, N. C. M
Living Room Suite uphofl
ed in genuine Persian®
hair in good condition B
originally cost sl7®
Priced at only $40.00™
this week-end. Eal
Furniture Company.
Farm for sale: 45 acres, house, 4
rooms, 3 porches, 2 nice fire
places; new barn; stone milk j
house; chicken house; smoke
house; garage; corn crib; hog
house with lot fenced in. All
buildings galvanized roofs.
House and barn newly painted.
8 acres fenced for pasture. Ex
ceptionally good tobacco land.
71/2 miles of Elkin. Priced right,
good terms. See Will Willard,
Gwyn avenue.
Built-in Oven Oil Rranges,
used but in fair condition,
for quick sale only sio.oo.
Eagle Furniture Company.
You will find some very special
prices in table ware displayed 4
in our window this week. Don't
fail to supply your needs at
these prices. Walker's Base
ment Store.
Chest of Drawers, small size
for child, finished in ivory
enamel, slightly used for
$6.50. Eagle Furniture
Company.
See our window, and visit our
store for your needs in China,
Glass. Aluminum, Enameled,
Tin. and Silver Wares. A com
plete line at prices you won't
mind paying. Walker's Base
ment Store. 1
Florence Oil Ranges in the
new style Table Top are
the greatest Oil Range val
ue we have ever seen. We
are selling them at $62.50
for a short time and want
you to see them. The reg
ular price on this range is
$69.95. Eagle Furniture
Company.
Wanted to repair your watches
and clocks, all makes. Work
promptly done. My prices are
right. J. F. Talbirt, Main St.,
next to Elk Theatre. 9-14p
A complete line of Blue Horse
school supplies, which is no
doubt the Best on the market
today, is available at Walker's
5 & 10c Store.
Steady Work—Good Pay—Relia
able man wanted to call on
farmers in Yadkin and Surry
counties. No experience or
capital required. Make up to
sl2 a day. Write Furst &
Thomas, Candler Bulding, Bal
timore, Md. ltp
For rent: New three-room house.
Call Douglas Darnell. ltc ,
Man wanted for 800 family Raw
leigh route. Sales way up this
year. Permanent if you're a
hustler. Write Rawleigh's, Dept.
NCH-63-123, Richmond, Va.
ltp
One good used 5 cu. ft. Kelvina
tor at a real bargain. See it at
Harris Electric Co. ltc