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il!EilL Washington, Oct. 3—The final answer of Congress to President Roosevelt's plea to repeal the em bargo on arms and ammunitions to belligerent nations hinges, in the long run, on public senti ment; and Senators and Repre sentatives began, as soon as they had convened in special session, to get expressions of public senti ment which were quite the oppo site of what the President and most of the members of Congress had believed was the way the people of the United States felt. The President's clearly stated desire to keep the United States out of war met with an over whelming response of approval. Almost as unanimous are the ex pressions of sympathy with the Allied cause as against Hitler, which are included in the record breaking volume of mail and tele grams addressed to the White House and the Capitol. No such voluminous, and widespread pub lic interest has been shown in any question with which Con gress has had to deal at any time in the past. Literally hundreds of thou sands of letters have poured in. On the first day after the historic special session opened, one Sen ator alone reecived more than i 1 How long would your bank account last if you Were sick or disabled ? See us PAUL GWYN INSURANCE I Phone 258 \ West Main St. Elkin, N. C. J ____ Planters Warehouse New Farmers Warehouse MOUNT AIRY, N. C. Come To we f^r^yoto See Us ■Rfjl ■gmmm VITE YOUR CONTINUED SUP- I R. P. Jones F. M. Jones T. A. Jones MOUNT AIRY MARKET OPENS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10th 28,000 letters from the people of his state. Favor Embargo But while the President's mail and telegrams were almost unan imous in their praise of his speech to the Congress, with its repeated declaration that the purpose of the American people is to keep out of war, and his as sertion that the way to be truly neutral is to repeal the arms em bargo provisions, at least, of the present neutrality law, the tenor of the letters which came to Cap itol Hill is a stout denial that the President's program will keep us out of war, and an appeal to re tain the arms embargo as a safe- , guard of peace. Prom some sections of the country the ratio of letters favor ing the retention of the present law is as high as a hundred against repeal to one in favor of it. In no section of the nation is the majority against repeal, as expressed in letters from consti tuents, less than ten to one. Some of the letters indicate clearly that they have been in spired by different "peace blocs," but a surprisingly large propor tion are spontaneous, individual communications from people who earnestly believe that the Neu trality Act as it stands insures American neutrality in the Euro pean conflict and so will keep us out of war. Polls Differ The latest nation-wide polls of public opinion by the agencies engaged in checking up on what people think tell a somewhat dif ferent story, with as high as 53 per cent, of voters in favor of amending the Neutrality Act, or repealing it entirely. All of these expressions and re ports of public opinion are being carefully studied by both the Ex ecutive and the Legislative branches of the Government. They will be reflected in the de bate in the Senate, where the battle will be waged most bitter ly, and will influence the final vote of Congress. Those debates will be influenced, as doubtless many of the expressions by voters are influenced, by partisan polit ical considerations. In his address to Congress the President took pains to disclaim any partisan point of view. He took the unprecedented step of calling into conference at the White House, before he prepared his speech not only the leaders of the Opposition in Congress but the titular heads of the Republi can Party, Gov. Alf M. Landon and Col. Prank Knox, the candi dates for President and Vice- President in 1936. He called on the American people to act as a unit without regard to political affiliations. Landon's Statement Governor Landon, in a public statement, declared that the grave national issue of keeping cut of war is clouded by the shadow of the widespread belief that the President desires a third term in his high office. There is no doubt that some of the oppo sition in the public mind and among Senators and Representa tives to adoption of the Presi dent's program is based upon the belief that, in one way or an other, it might be used to further his candidacy for a third term in the White House. The dominant belief here is THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA that when it comes to a show down in Congress the President will get what he asked for. In that case a rush of war orders from Europe is expected and there will be something of a busi ness boom, for which the Admin istration will get the credit from wage-earners and other benefi ciaries of increased employment and higher wages and profits. Red Cross Busy The American Red Cross is preparing to render every service possible to all the belligerents who will accept its aid, as it did in the beginning of the last great war. 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MACHINERY That American farmers are using more machinery is indicat ed by figures showing that farm machinery sales were 350 per cent, higher in 1938 than at the bottom of the depression. Went for Lunch Patient—ls the doctor in? Nurse—No, he's gone out for lunch. Patient—Will he be in after lunch? Nurse—No, that's what he went out after. Seven hazelnuts on one stem was found by an Oregon girl. A dogwood tree taken from the grounds of Woodrow Wilson's birthplace was taken to the New York World's Fair and planted there. NOTICE State of North Carolina, Surry County. In the Superior Court. Lillian G. Slawter, Plaintiff, vs. N. C. Slawter, Defendant. The defendant above named N. C. Slawter, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Surry County to obtain a divorce from the defendant on the grounds of two years separa tion between the plaintiff and Thursday, October 5, 1939 defendant; and the defendant will further take notice that he is lequired to appear before the Clerk of Superior Court of Surry County, at his office in Dobson, N. C., at the Court House, within twenty days after the completion of service of this summons by publication, which will be com plete, thirty days from the date of this notice, and answer or de mur to the complaint filed in this action, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for tjie relief de manded in said complaint. This the 18th day of Septem ber, 1939. F. T. LEWELLYN, 10-12 Clerk Superior Court.
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