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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, January 25, 1940 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. C. S. FOSTER. .President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasure* SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, S2.M NATIONAL 6DITORIAI— Member North Carolina Press Association You've noticed, of course, that fellows who are always losing their tempers, man age somehow to find them again. And while we are making our best bow to Finland's fighting men, her weather man deserves a pat on the back, too. And speaking of reward for party ser vice: Even a dog will stand on its hind legs —under promise of a bone. - ; o Another reason why this is a phoney war: This time the belligerents have nobody to help them pay for a real one. Business of admitting that every time a man loses his liberty shooting the rapids of love, it serves to make the sport more ex citing and inviting. Thirty Years of Service Representative Robert L. Doughton's service in the United States Congress has been so embracive of all of North Carolina, that our people are inclined to forget that he was only the servant of the citizenry of a neighbor district, and to regret equally with them that he has elected to retire after his present term. Thirty years ago Bob Doughton went to Congress, equipped with only a meager ed ucation but with plenty of good hill-country common sense and honesty, and there by constant and persistent application master ed the details of his job of representing, and now he retires from a position probably in all respects the most important that the House of Representatives offers. And he retires, mind you, for he is not being shelved, as the sincere urging of every county chairman in his district to re consider, readily shows. There are dozens of able men clamoring for his mantle—not one of whom would have been reckless enough to try to snatch it from him. True, Jim Rivers, of Boone, had already an nounced his candidacy in opposition to Mr. Doughton, but one can understand now that he must have had advance information of Mr. Doughton's retirement, else bent on committing political suicide. For the voters of the Ninth district were in no mood to swap "Old Muley" as Mr. Doughton was lovingly referred to by his colleagues in Congress, not even for the fastest stepper politics could trot out. Mr. Doughton deserved his high place in the estimation of his people and of the mem bers of Congress. He was a tireless work er, a straight-thinker and a square shooter, and the humblest citizen of his district cah not complain that Mr. Doughton did not act promptly and reasonably in every request made of him. Congressman Doughton counts as two of his leading achievements in helpful legisla tion the social security laws which he spon sored and the Blue Ridge Parkway which he helped tremendously in shoving into his na tive hills, and which will remain a monu ment to his energy and efficiency. But we are remembering, too, when he stood, alone, and battled a national sales tax that was about to be placed on the already bent backs of the poor—battled and won. * Here is hoping that Mr. Doughton finds the contentment and peace that he so richly deserves after thirty years in harness-. A Significant Advertisement Last week's issue of The Tribune carried a very unusual advertisement that told of the successful campaign to "clean up or close up" disreputable beer "joints." It was unusual because it recited the accomplish ments, the wholesome activities of those who are supposed to covet the profits of a maximum volume of beer sales, without be ing picayunish about where and how these sales are made. But jiere is something new under the sun! Colonel Edgar H. Bain heads a cam paign by the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors to either clean up objec tionable beer outlets or close'them up. It is significant we think that Colonel Bain has gone even farther than county and State of ficials who granted license to outlets that were known to abuse their privileges. Col onel Bain simply saw to it that unless these places were respectable, license or no license, beer was not available to them. Which is to say, in Colonel Bain's own words, that "those who sought to hide liquor selling and other illegal activities behind the respecta bility of legal beer licenses," were brought up with a jerk. Our notion is that the public has revised its opinion of beer-drinking; that it is no longer looked upon as a major evil to be classed with drunkenness aud general dis- ordei/; that it is first-off a beverage that can be converted into an intoxicant only by the hoggish. It required some vision for the brewers and distributors to draw the line of demarc ation between beer drinking and liquor drinking, and for their own part, take steps to keep their own doorstep clean. And we are persuaded that that had'something to do with the fact that revenue collections from beer have grown from only $183,102.37 in the calendar year of 1933 to $1,410,893.02 in the fiscal year which ended last June 30. And that, by the way, is revenue that will be considered as a separate item, if and when the State develops another prohibition con flict. And at the risk of being accused of heresy, we are daring to think it should be so considered. None to Take His Place Yesterday one of the nation's most col orful and influential statesmen was discuss ing national issues and counseling with his colleagues in the United States Senate. To day he is no longer a part of the picture, ex cept to the extent that the influence of his sincerity and inherent honesty remains. Such is the way of life—and death. Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, was respected by friend and foe alike. He was a power in debate because he marshalled his facts and presented them forcefully, but first he sought what he thought to be solid ground and stood there, undaunted by. any wind that blew. Sometimes he was wrong, but more often he was right; when wrong it could not be charged that he was that way through conside ration of political exped iency, for he subordinated politics to what he considered was for the national good. He measured issues by that yardstick and sel dom if ever resorted to sectional or selfish consideration in efforts to solve national problems. It is admitted that Senator Borah was more of a balance waeel to the Republican party, than one of its driving forces —and balance wheels aire as essential as valves and pistons, if the machinery is not to run away with itself. In national conventions where candidates and policies were determ ined, Senator Borah was a factor that de manded consideration, and measurement of both was undertaken with more care and caution because of him. He was definite and determined in his views and fought without compromise. It was even so in his battle to keep this coun try independent of foreign affairs which was back of his fight against our participa tion in the League of Nations, a fight that he captained and won. He was an uncom promising foe of trusts and monopolies and was hated, yet respected, by them for the pain he gave them. Senator Borah's death removes the most colorful figure from the national picture, i and there is no one in sight to take his place, I and more's the pity. On the Way Up The Wall Street Journal, recognized au- I thority on economic relationships, and with a world-wide family of readers, recently carried a special section devoted to a "Southern Industrial Development survey," in which will be found this from Leigh S. Plummer, one of the Journal's staff writers: "Solutions of most of the economic prob lems facing the South, long sought and diffi cult to effect, are gradually being worked out. Capital is being invested, plants are being built, crops are being diversified. The ground work for higher farm incomes is being laid, conservation of natural resources is being fostered. The South is on the way up." And in support of this conclusion, the Wall Street Journal carries page after page, setting forth the details of Southern pro gress—column after column of interesting data that emphasize the fact that the "South is on the way up." And in this march of progress chemistry is taking an important role. Within the past decade science has harnessed much of the South's by-products, and put them to pulling the economic load: The lowly pine is being made into paper; the sweet potato into starch that competes with importa tions; the soy bean is being converted into automobile equipment. All of which adds up that the South some of these days will be asking for a divorce from cotton—with good prospect of receiving alimony. But why this national interest in the South and her progress ? Well for one thing, the thirty-seven million people living here provide the greatest potential market to be found in the country; a market for the goods produced in other sections. One need turn only to the automobile industry, whose expanding sales reflect very definitely the rising buying power in the South, for the twenty-seven Southeastern states account for 27 per cent, of the automobile industry's 1939 volume against twenty-five per cent, in 1938. And add to this increased and increasing buying power, the fact that the South is a field for stagnant capital, plus the .source of raw materials needed by industrialists in other sections, and you have a big part of the answer, not only to the problems of the South, but to one of the major problems of the entire nation. And while national attention is focused on the Soijth it is well that an interested and influenzal group is trying, to keep this progress to an even keel—dedicating their time and talent to a "decade of balanced prosperity"—with emphasis on balance. A group that includes bur own Clarence Poe and Frank Graham, backstood by Southern governors. Yes, indeedy, "The South is on the way up." THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA PRO DAY] IroAfgjßfiom |) FKANI PRBKEI II 11 ■TO C K B R ID O 1 M RULERS force Looking back only a few years, who remembers that in 1918 the German Army and Navy rebelled against the German Kaiser and forced him into exile? Or that a year before the people of Russia had deposed their Czar and sent him to his death? The peoples of those nations were taking their governments into their, own hands. That was hailed by the believers in democracy as a great triumph forHhe principle of self government. Look at what has happened since. The German Republic last ed only seven or eight years be fore an unscrupulous gang of pol iticians got control and abolished democracy entirely. The people's government of Russia, under Al exander Kerensky's leadership, lasted but a few months before it was overthrown by another politi cal gang, which has ruled by ruthless murder of all who have opposed its policies. The German people and the, Russian people are far worse off than they ever were under the rule of Kaiser or Czar. Instead of gaining freedom, they have lost whatever vestige of liberty they once had. They are dominated by force in the hands of unscrup ulous scoundrels. DEMOCRACY .... bosses Historians of - the future are bound to write hundreds of books explaining why democracy failed in those two great nations. TCT me the basic answer JLs clear enough. Neither the German peo ple nor the Russian people had ever had any experience with in dividual liberty nor any under standing of the processes of self government. They had always been subjects of an all-powerful state, trained for generations to be subservient to authority. Only a few thinkers had ever dared to dream of self-government, and they were speedily suppressed. It was easy enough for the po litical tricksters and gangsters who now control those two na tions to nip the democratic idea in the bud. The people weren't ready for it. It takes years, even centuries, for any group of people to master the principles and work out the methods of successful self-government. We in America succeeded only because we had a hundred years and more of ex perience in running our own af fairs as colonists so far away from our rulers that they couldn't discipline us very severely. The Germans and the Russians merely exchanged one set of bosses for another, and continued their old habit of taking orders from the ruling group. HISTORY .... Bonaparte It took the people of England several hundred years of trying to endure the oppressions of the Crown before they got up courage enough to cut off their king's head and take the government into their own hands. That was the beginning of democracy as we know it. It took them an other 75 years or so, in which they nearly lost the liberties they had gained, before they finally learned how to operate the ma chinery of self-government. The French people were a hun dred years and more working themselves up to the point of revolution, and probably would not have tried it if they had real ized in advance that they would have to kill the king to gain their liberty. They, too, almost lost all they had gained when an un scrupulous adventurer named Na poleon Bonaparte gained political control. It was half a century after Napoleon before the French people developed a workable sys tem of democratic rule. The best way to get a clear un derstanding of what is happening in Europe today is to read the' history of the French Revolution and the life of Bonaparte. MORALITY gangsters The issue in Europe today is one of morals, in the broad sense. Civilized people cannot live in a world threatened by gangsters. However imperfect may t be the systems of the nations which are founded upon human liberties,, democratic in principle, they are at least based upon the. essential moral principles of honesty, rec ognition and tolerance of the rights of all men to live and wor ship as they please and of pre venting or punishing any in fringement of those rights. This whole moral basis of civi lization has been discarded by the nations which are threatening the liberties of the rest of the rest of the world today. They have proved themselves dishonest, pledge-breakers, and aggressors wP" ■ WSk ! 'HtJb ♦ 3| N ~l 1 V>. A. S. J against the rights of other na tions. The whole Christian world is aligned against these interna tional gangsters, who have open ly discarded all the principles of religion and morals. The world will not be a safe place for honest peoples and free men to live in until these outlaw nations have been overthrown and their lead ers punished as criminals against the whole system of civilization. AMERICA ...... peace I am one of the vast majority of Americans who are determined that this country shall take no part in Europe's quarrels unless our own national safety is threat ened. But I am also one of the great throng of Americans who have felt so outraged by the aggres sions of Germany against the Czechs and the Poles, and now of the Russians against the Finns, that we feel it our national duty to give every possible support, fi nancial as well as moral, to help the people who are fighting for human freedom against dicta torial slavery. And my personal feeling is that the United States, as the most powerful nation of the world pro fessing adherence to high stand ards of morality, should not fail at the end of this war, as it did at the end of the last war, to take its seat at the head of the table of whatever world group or alli ance may be set up to maintain the peace of the world. | DOUGHTON Mr. Joseph G. Woodruff died at his home near Doughton, Jan uary 15. He leaves his wife, one son, Mr. Paul Woodruff, Rock Springs, Wyo., a son-in-law, Mr. Leonard Roupe, Sparta, one sis ter, Mrs. W. H. Woodruff, two brothers, Mr. J. N. and Mr. By num Woodruff, all of Thurmond. The funeral was held at Roar ing Gap church, conducted by his pastor. Rev. Grant Cothren. He was a faithful member of Roar ing Gap Baptist church, and will be greatly missed in the church and community. The bereaved have our sympathy. The Roaring Gap Home Dem onstration club met at the home of Mrs. J. N. Gentry Friday af ternoon, January 19. Miss Har riett McGoogan, our home dem onstration agent, was in charge, and presented a very helpful and Interesting program, which was enjoyed by all present. The Feb ruary meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. W. H. Woodruff. MRS. JAMES IS ADULT EDUCATION SUPERVISOR Mrs. Robert James, of this city, has been appointed as supervisor of adult education in Surry coun ty and has entered upon her duties. Mrs. James also in structs regular evening classes for enrollees at Camp Hancock, CCC camp here. Mrs.. Willie Moore Gentry, who formerly served as Surry super visor of adult education, and who has been engaged for the past several weeks in conducting a class in Red Cross training,' an nounces that out of a class of 31 WPA officials who enrolled for training late in November, 26 have been graduated. Two classes were conducted each week. Marijuana Cause Of Great Worry In This Sta Raleigh—Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, who was re sponsible for including mara huanna, sex stimulating drug, in the same category with morphine and other harmful drugs in the North Carolina anti-narcotics law, which was made to conform to the Federal law, expressed grave concern over the statement in the Raleigh News and Ob server by the Rev. M. J. Adams, Baptist minister, of Rutherford county, who was quoted as hav ing told the Baptist State Board, "The greatest menace to the schools of our state is marijuana (spelled mara huanna in the State law) and it is present in all the high schools I have visited." In a statement issued in Ra leigh, Dr. Reynolds said: "The fact that this statement was made by a minister of the gospel gives to it such weight that it should be thoroughly in vestigated by both Federal and State officials. I think that Mr. Adams should inform these offi cials, confidentially, if he wishes, in just what schools he observed the use of this dangerous drug and that the officials should get at the bottom of the matter and clear it up, hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they may. "I need not at this time go into the horrible effects of mara huanna, as' I have done this in previous warnings against the use of this nefarious drug, but I re iterate that there should be an immediate investigation of the minister's changes. The penalty for the first offense in violating the anti-narcotics law is a fine of SI,OOO and imprisonment not ex ceeding three years, while per sons found guilty of a second and subsequent violations may be fined $3,000 and imprisoned not exceeding five years or both. BARBARA JEAN CREED PASSES AWAY FRIDAY Barbara Jean Creed, nine-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Creed, passed away at the local hospital Friday morning, following a brief critical illness from diabetes and complications. The child is survived by her parents, Hugh Creed and Mrs. Gladys Shores Creed, two broth ers, Bobby and Earl Creed, and one sister, Margaret Emaline; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Creed, of Elkin, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Shores, of Jonesville. Funeral services were conduct ed Saturday afternoon from East Elkin Baptist church. The rites were in charge of Rev. J. L. Pow ers, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. Lloyd Pardue. Interment was in Hollywood cemetery. J. C. Little, of Clifton, Ashe county, has reported unusually successful results in the use of sericea lespedeza to build up bad ly eroded places in his pasture. Fertile islands in Chesapeake Bay furnish produce for many inland cities. Thursday, January 25, 1940 NOTICE! The annual meeting of the stockholders of the |Jlkin-Jones ville Building and Loan Associa tion will be held in the City Hall on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, at 7:30 p. m. The purpose of the meeting is for the election of di rectors and the transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting. This the 17th day of January, 1940. PAUL GWYN, 2-8 Secretary. Hurry for details about our spe cial Royal Vacuum Cleaner of fer. You get two cleaners for less than the price of one. Just a few left. Harris Electric Co. ltc We buy scrap iron and metals. Double Eagle Service Co., Elk in, N. C. tfc Two good used Kelvinator* for sale cheap. They'll give you plenty of real service. Come in and see them. Harris Electric Co. ltc Wanted to repair radios. Our expert thoroughly knows his business. Prices right. Harris Electric Co., Elkin, N. C. tfc When selling or buying produce see Early Combs, in the old city jail building. Telephone 308. tfc. Special! New genuine Frigidaire just out of the crate! 6 cubic foot size. Five year guarantee. Extra special price of only $129.75. See it. ltc Permanent Waves, SI.OO and up. Shampoo and finger wave, 40c. Modern Beauty Shop, Louise Vestal, Ruby Gray. Telephone 340. tfc On? used RCA Victor cabinet radio and phonograph com bination at a very special price. Harris Electric Co. ltc Do you want plenty* of eggs from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. We havs It. Abernethy's, A Good X>rug Store, Elkln, N. C. tto Wanted to buy all kinds of cattle, calves and pork hogs. See Bub Price at Basketeria. ile C-ome in and get details about afar Thor Washer with lifetime guarantee! It's a real washer at a thrifty price! Harris Elec tric Co. ltc For Sale—32-volt light plant, complete with fixtures. Good condition. Sell cheap or trade. E. W. Pardue, Yadkinville, N. C., Route 1. ltp Pedigreed registered wire haired fox terrier puppies, five inter national champions directly back of them. Price reason able. Mrs. Charles Burwell Van Horten, 430 Union St., Wytheville, Va. ltp For rent: 75-acre tract; 1.8 acres tobacco allotment; new 4-room house, near Clingman. Cash or sham rental. See Arthur Ren egar. (Route 2, Yadkinville, N. C. | 2-8p
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