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THE ELKIN TRIBUNE Published Every Thursday by s ELK PRINTING COMPANY, Inc. Elkin, N. C. Thursday, April 25, 1940 Entered at the post office at Elkin, N. C., as second-class matter. O. 8. FOSTER President H. F. LAFFOON Secretary-Treasurer SUBSCRIPTION RATES, PER YEAR In the State, $1.50 Out of the State, $2 00 NAT ONAL €DITORIAL_ m/IIIW ASSOCIATION Mil Member North Carolina Press Association The Greensboro Daily News thinks "it's a funny thing, though, but you don't find any offices filing to seek the man." Office Seeking the Man "Today," says the Christian Science Monitor,'"the office of President is seeking the man. A man of great capacity, season ed, experienced in large affairs, grounded in genuine liberalism, sympathetic toward social reform, but understanding business problems and trusted by the business com munity, a proven administrator equipped to consolidate the good in the New Deal ex periments and discard the bad—for such a man the office calls. Millions of citizens who do not want to go back to the Old Deal, but fear the New Deal is encroaching on lib erty and blocking recovery, are searching for such a man." That is well-stated. But it is a big or der, a mighty big order. And one which, because of the handicaps of our peculiar po litical set-up, will not be filled satisfactorily in all those details. And why not? Well, granting that a man of that width and breadth is available, he could not be named and elected except by the rule of the years; that he must be backed by an organ ization, which is to say one of the major po litical parties, which examines candidates not for their fitness and special qualifica tions, but for their vote-getting ability. Soon we will be having two great politi cal conventions. After much armflinging and maybe some hair pulling at both of these, two men will be selected and headed for the White House. Only one of them will get there. And you can put it down in your little day book that he will not by any means measure up to the above specifica tions. " " And who among the various candidates mentioned for the presidency from either party would fit into that blue print set forth by the "office seeking the man?" Mr. Roosevelt would fall short in certain partic ulars, while Messrs. Hull, Vandenberg, Dew ey, Farley, Garner, McNutt, et al., would lean in some direction away from that pre scribed course. The South doesn't furnish Presidents any more, simply because the South's politi cal complexion is fixed, and at nomination time the nominee must appeal to a section that is in doubt. And before we can elect we must nominate, and in the process of nominating—the office is more than likely to pass up the kind of man it is seeking. A Commendable Service In the last issue of The Tribune, this corner had something to say about the "loyalty to Roosevelt" movement that was under way in North Carolina. It has been developing faster than we thought when that piece was written, but nothing has oc curred to challenge what we said about it. Nothing, that is, except Governor Hoey's strategy to head it off. Even when our big press was rumbling those lines into print announcement was be ing made that Surry's own John H. Folger had been named official head of the move ment which is intended solely to give the Democratic voters of North Carolina oppor tunity to register their sentiments concern ing the Roosevelt program and New Deal policies instead of allowing them to be herded under the leadership of a self-ap pointed belwether whose plans and thinking is not attuned to theirs. Lee Gravely, who is running for Gov ernor, Makes no bones about giving Mr. Roosevelt credit for saving the tobacco farmers of North Carolina, and although he has no part or parcel in the "loyalty to Roosevelt" organization, he is convinced that 90 per cent, of the Democratic voters of North Carolina are friendly to the Roose velt policies. If that is so, or if it is anywhere near so, then why shouldn't they have the privilege of expressing themselves through the ma chinery of ttteir party—via the precinct meetings, county conventions and finally at the big pow-wow at Raleigh. It doesn't make sense for the tail to wag the dog on every issue that arises in North Carolina, even if that has become the custom. It is quite obvious that Governor Hoey is peeved because this movement arose like a mushroom, and without his blessing or the opportunity to head it off. After turning it over in his mind for a few days he an nounced that the offer to instruct the North Carolina delegation to the national conven tion to cast a "favorite son" vote for him, had no appeal, and that'he wanted no such instructions given. He is for Cordell Hull, which happens to be a popular choice that softens the Governor's thinly veiled opposi tion to Mr. Roosevelt—an opposition that has been manifest on more than one occa sion. There are many former enthusiastic supporters of Mr. Roosevelt in North Caro lina who have soured on him for one reason or another. There is no denying this, and so Governor Hoey has considerable company in his, let us be generous and say—luke warmness. But it is generally admitted that a test vote in this State would result in a Roosevelt victory by long odds. And so it seems that Mr. Folger and his organiza tion but serve a commendable purpose in assuring the right of the majority to be heard at a time when it seems that right is about to be smothered. To the Fleet of Foot! With the seven gubernatorial candi dates, all together, unable to stir the voters up to a satisfactory high pitch, it is sur prising to hear Henry Averill, Raleigh news man, saying that "Thad Eure, secretary of state, and W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture, appear to be facing the stiffest sort of opposition to retain their posts." Maybe Averill is just imagining things, and on the other hand it could be that the voters have reason to take out after these office holders. Let's take a look at these two candidates and see what is the matter with them that they should create more interest than ordi narily would be due them. W. Kerr Scott took over the agriculture job, after it had been in the hands of a Graham for so long that it seemed almost like personal prop erty. He promised to put new life in the department and set new objectives. for it. It has been our observation that he has kept his prorfrise, and before s opposing him, it would seem that the voters should have bet ter reason than that his opponent wants the job and has a gift for uttering high-sound ing phrases ("Rippling Waters" Spruill they call him), before getting all het up about a change, especially when they went twenty years hitched to Scott's predecessor. Thad Eure is being challenged by Walter (Pete) Murphy, of Rowan, fqr secretary of state. And perhaps there is less surprise at the announcement that Pete is giving Thad a little pesterment. Mr. Murphy is an old Democratic warhorse who has been fighting Democracy's battles for decades without asking or receiving reward, and now that he takes a notion that he would like to be sec retary of state, his friends all over the state, particularly the oldsters, are quite willing for him to have the place. For they are re membering that handsome and obliging Thad Eure, for almost as many years, has been enjoying a State job of one sort or an other, and being the best mixer and hand shaker ever, was expected to continue on the payroll. We'd be a bit surprised if Pete Murphy beat him, but we wouldn't be moved to tears about it. George Ross Pou is another who has been right successful, thank you, with poli tical jobs. Barring that short period when he resigned one to run for Congress and got beat. But he heard the call to another—and heeded. Charlie Miller, of Asheville, a ca pable and deserving fellow, is measuring swords with Pou, but the latter is fortified with a rabbit's foot, and we're fearful that our vote may be wasted. "One-Out-of-Five" "It's a discomforting thought," says the Journal-Patriot, of North Wilkesboro, "that one out of every five dollars earned by the sweat and toil of average Americans every where, goes automatically to government." Quite right! And we are sharing with the North Wilkesboro paper the implied wish that we could have government with out paying for it—or to put it another way that we could eat our cake and have it too. But that can't be did, as most of us have jolly well found out. if government is costly, it is ma ; *be- cause the governed make it so. a ser vices that we demand cost money tha«. some body must provide. The trouble is that we are too all-embracive in our demands, and then when the bill must be met, some of those who benefit most wiggle out of pay ing. Considering the demands made upon government, and the ever-widening service it renders, this one-out-of-five toll is not surprising, and were it not for the waste that comes from injudicious arid inefficient, and sometimes grafting political adminis tration, it would not be disturbing. No tax is high if the payer gets value received, and no tax is low, if any part or all of it is squandered. By that process of reasoning the taxpayer should be concern ing himself more about how his tax dollar is spent, than about the number of dollars collected; to determine where the waste-hole is—and plug it. And yet with all the inefficiency and sundry faults of government, we get right much for that one-out-of-five. How much police protection, education instruction ser vice, highway building, etc., could you buy with your individual dollar? Every taxpayer would be in a heck of a mess when he start ed somewhere, if. highways were built only through the properties of those who vol untarily provided them with money from their own pockets. » By all means the taxpayer has reason to be concerned with mounting taxes, but his real interest should be mainly in whether the dollar he contributes is wisely spent. Having settled that then he should look around to see where he can whittle the de mand for governmental services, for which he now seems to have such a yearning. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA Washington, April 22 The purpose of the census is, primar ily, to decide how many mem bers each state is entitled to in the House of Representatives. That depends, of course, upon how many members there are in the House and how many inhab itants there are in each state. While the Constitution pro vides for the reapportionment of Representatives after each ten years' census, it does not lay down any rules for doing it. It is entirely up to Congress itself to decide how many members shall sit in the lower House. The number of Senators is fix ed by the Constitution. There ate two for each state, or 96 in all; and until some new states are admitted there will be no need to rearrange the seats in the Senate Chamber. That has had to be done a number of times in the House of Representatives. The number of members of the lower House, however, has stood fixed at 435 since 1910. Censuses since then have shifted the ap portionment of the 435, but have not changed the number. Dela ware, for example, had two mem bers of Congress at one time and Vermont had three, but each of those states has only one now. Their populations have not decreased but the populations of other states have increased to the point where a fair distribu tion of Congressmen entitles them to greater proportionate representation. Florida Doubled Thus, in recent years, Florida's growth in population has doubled its representation in Congress, and California has nearly three times as many members as it did forty years ago. No matter how small the population of a state it is entitled to at least one Repre sentative. Nevada has never had as many as one hundred thousand inhabitants but they have the right to representation, although in most other states there are 300,000 or more represented by a single Congressman. This Con gress has already decided that there wil be no change in the number of members of the lower House .N The Senate passed a bill to that effect last year. The House has just passed a similar bill, with the exception of one point which the Senate included. The Senate bill provides for the apportionment of Representatives according to the number of "cit izens" living in each state. That is not what the Constitution calls for. The Constitution specifical ly provides for the apportionment of members of the House in pro portion to "the whole number of free persons," not "citizens." Indians not taxed are still omitted in apportioned Repre sentatives among the states. The House has passed this census re apportionment bill, changing the Senate's attempt to require only citizens to be included in each member's constituency. The purpose of that effort was to keep New York State's repre sentation from becoming too large, since New York has a larger number of non-citizens than any other state. The basic law, however, contemplates that even aliens living in this country are entitled to be represented at Washington, even though they cannot vote for their representa tives. State Decides How the Congressional Dis tricts are divided is a mater for each state to decide. Some of them never decide it but elect all their members by the entire vote of the state. There is nothing in the Consti tution that requires the division of states into Congressional dis tricts, and there is no law requir ing a member of Congress to be a resident of the district which he represents. For in theory he does not represent any particular section of the population of his state but the whole citizenry of the Commonwealth. More frequent is the custom of providing for additional members by electing them at large. Any state may do as it pleases in the way of selecting its representa tion in Congress, so long as it sends to Washington no more and no fewer than the number to which it will be entitled when the figures of the 1940 Census have been tabulated and each state's proportionate share of the total population has been computed. It would be entirely within the rights of the legislature of any State to enact a law providing that the State's Representatives in Congress shall be chosen by the Legislature, instead of direct ly by the people. That was the way the Senators were selected for the first 125 years of jour ex istence as a nation. / Changed in 191& It was changed in 1918 to pro- DOCTOR byWEAUOMBAIffIm BRAINS VS. BAYONETS John McDowell Banks was an Irishman intensely loyal to his country. Like many British sub jects, he found it hard to make a living at home, and, although he was a university graduate, he accepted a position as Manager of the railroad which runs from the Port of La Guaira to the cap ital of Venezuela, Caracas. This beautiful town is nestled like a chick beneath the breast of La Silla, one of the most beauti ful mountains of the country. La Silla is Spanish for saddle; and this group of hills resembles an enormous green saddle, and, as the sun sets, casts a purple shadow over the surrounding countryside. The republic had been in a state of unrest for some time be cause of the threats of Great Bri tain to take a portion of the eastern portion which bordered on British Guiana. Through President Grover Cleveland, the Monroe Doctrine was invoked, with the result that what might have been a bitter war was ami cably terminated. Warships from the leading na tions of the world flocked to La Guaira, the principal seaport, and Germany, who sided with Great Britain, blockaded the en tire coast of Venezuela and even went so far as to bombard many of the coastal towns, doing great damage. The resentment toward Great Britain was intense. General Ci priano Castro, the then president of this turbulent republic, order ed all British subjects arrested and confined in the local jails. The big prison in Caracas, known as The Rotundo, was jammed with Englishmen of high and low degree. Mobs paraded the streets threatening Germans and Brit ishers. A squad of soldiers was dispatched to the home of John vide for direct election of Sena tors by the people of the whole state. It took a Constitutional amendment to do that. Washing ton is still of two minds whether the change has brought about an improvement in the quality of the Senate. There is a general feeling that a great deal cf sen atorial presiige and dignity has been lost, since Senators now have to play to the galleries and look forward to their own reelec tion by the people. They no long er represent sovereign states, but merely the people of those states. While the Census Act passed this year merely fixes the total number of Representatives, there may be a fight in the next Ses sion over the number to which each state is entitled. TTie Cen sus figures will show around 133,- 000,000 population. Divided by 435 that would give about one Congressman to each three hun dred thousand inhabitants. It is going to be a hard job to arrange it so that each state gets the ex act number of Representatives it thinks it should have. Some will get too many, some too few. McDowell Banks to arerst and bring him to prison. They found Banks sitting on the veranda of his home calmly smoking his pipe. From a flagstaff on his residence flew a green flag with a golden harp emblazoned on it. "I am ordered to arrest you as a Britisher and take you to jail," said the commander of the troops. "I am not an Englishman, but I am an Irishman," gruffly re torted Banks, "and that flag above me is an Irish flag. Lay one finger on me and the entire Irish navy, which has never been defeated, will come here—and when they get through bombard ing Venezuela few will be left alive. No nation in all the world has ever defeated the Irish navy, and none ever will," he conclud ed. The officer consulted with his superior and Banks was not tak en to prison—the only British subject in all of Venezuela to es cape this gross humiliation. Intelligence increases one's ability. Banks, by using his keen brain, held the entire Venezuelan government at bay, demonstrat ing that very often brains are su perior to bayonets. WITH THE SICK The following patients have been admitted to the local hos pital during the past week- Mrs. Melita Stinson, Boonville; Kenneth Colvard, Ronda; Mrs. Cornelia Burch, Boonville; Archie Gentry, Elkin; Paul Gwyn, Elk in; Lester C. Tompkins, Galax, Va.; Sarah Helen Holcomb, Elk in; Rufus Jarrell, Glade Valley; Mrs. Lavassa Poteat, Jonesville; Delbert Sheek, Yadkinville; Mrs. Cleve Phillips, Boonville; Arvil Key, Elkin; Mrs. Curtis Key, Elkin; V. C. Hayes, State Road; Paul Inman, Elkin; Betty Mc- Neely, Elkin; Garvey T»lbert, Elkin; Ben Oliver Martin, Yad kinville; Joseph Silliman, Con necticut; Mrs. Ella Church, Elk *in; Johnny Church, Elkin. Patients dismissed during the week were: Mrs. Sibbie Vernon, Winston-Salem; Mrs. Sallie Trip lett, Elkin; Mrs. Carl Poindexter, Elkin; Lee Blackburn; Mrs. Ila Holcomb, Boonville; Mrs. Annie Swaim, Jonesville; V. C. Haynes, State Road; Cora Lee Payne, Elkin; Mrs. Mary Inman, Mount Airy; Bernice Eidson, Elkin; Ar chie Gentry, Elkin; Paul Gwyn, Elkin. Cop Won Out Margaret—Jim is a convincing talker, doh't you think? Dots—l did until I heard him try to talk back to a traffic cop yesterday.. NOTICE ' Before the Clerk North Carolina, Surry County. Woodrow Park and wife, Mar varenne Park, vs. Mrs. Gertha Park Hatcher and husband, J. O. Hatcher; Mrs. Fannie Park Saunders (widow); Mrs. Beulah Park Hamilton (widow) and hus band, Walker Hamilton and Nel son Park, minbr. The defendants, Mrs. Gertha Park Hatcher and husband, J. O. Hatcher and Mrs. Fannie Park Saunders will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Surry County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 25. 1940 for a partition of land, and that said defendants will further take notice that they are required to * appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court, said Coun ty, in the Court House in Dob son, North Carolina., within ten days after the 18th' day of May, 1940, and answer or demur to the J Complaint in said action or the plaintiffs will apply for the relief demanded in said Complaint. This the 24th day of April, 1940. P. T. LLEWELLYN, 5-16 Clerk of Superior Court WANTS For Sale—New Perfection five burner oil stove. Good condi tion. See Mrs. Harvey Baker, f Elk Spur street. ltp Grain and dairy farm containing 180 acres, located Farmington school. Mail, dairy route, elec tricity, good road. Address Box 575, Winston-Salem, N. C. "P • 5-15p For rent: three and four room apartments. Newly finished. Private bath. Carl Chappell. Telephone 126-M. tfc I pay $22.50 per thousand for i good poplar and maple blocks, 10" and up cut 32" long. J. H. Saylors, North Elkin. 5-lp For rent, 2 room unfurnished apartment. Modern conven iences. West Main street. See Julia Swaim. ltp Lost: In Mulberry or Zephyr sec tion white bitch with lemon spot on back and root of tail, lemon head and ears, 6 years old. My name on collar. For reward notify J. A. Gilley, Jonesville, N. C. ltp- When selling or buying produce see Early Combs, in the old city jail building. Telephone 308. , tfc. For Sale Now! 1000 phonograph- t records, 10c each. String music, blues and latest popular hits. Big Nickel Lunch. Open 24- hours. tfc- Do you want plenty of eggs from strong, fast growing young chicks? If so feed Panamin. We have it. Abernethy's, A Good' Drug Store. Elkin, N. C. tfn For sale— J. C. Triplett farm lo cated 1 mile from Elkin en- Elkin-Winston-Salem highway No. 67. Contains 100 acres—so acres bottom land, 50 acres up- > land. Seven-room dwelling, large*' barn and other outbuildings. Suitable for farming or for sub division. See R. R. Triplett at - Bon-Ton Grill, Elkin, N. C. tfc Servel Electrolux (kerosene burn er) brings modern city refrig eration to farm homes without electricity. Write for free lit erature today. Box 333, Mount Airy, N. C. . tfc If you want nice beautiful green i lawns, use Vigoro. Surry Hard-Jfl ware Co. ltc | We buy scrap iron and metals. I Double Eagle Service Co., Elk- I in, N. C. | tfc fl Wanted to repair radios. Ob J expert thoroughly knows his ■ business. Prices right. Harris I Electric Co., Elkin. N. C. tfc -9
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