Thursday, Jane 13, 1940
WASHINGTON
Washington, June 10 Nearly
two-thirds of the people of the
United States think this country
will be attacked by Germany if
Hitler is victorious over France
and England. That is the sum
mary of public sentiment as care
fully analyzed by experienced ob
servers here.
Nine-tenths of the people do
not want this country to be in-
PRIVILEGE AND LICENSE TAXES
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of
Elkin that the following special privilege taxes shall be levied and
assessed for the fiscal year beginning July Ist, 1940, and ending June
30th, 1941. That the license taxes of the State of North Carolina
shall apply and be collectible except as otherwise hereinafter limited
and specified, as passed in regular meeting by the Board of Commis
sioners on June 3rd, 1940.
Advertising matter—distributor of, for profit $ 7.50
Automobile dealers or agents 20.00
Animal exhibits for charge, each day 10.00
Automobile dealers or Agents (non-resident Itinerant) 100.00
Automobile, Motorcycle or Truck (not for hire) 1.00
Automobile, for hire—five passenger 10.00
Automobile, for hire—seven passenger 15.00
Automobile Repair Shop 2.50
Automobile Battery Service Station or Vulcanizing 2.50
Automobile painting and/or Upholstering Shop 2.50
Automobiles or Trucks, selling and delivering from automobile
or truck on the streets of the Town of Elkin 25.00
AMUSEMENTS:
Moving Pictures 31.25
Traveling Theatrical Companies or moving pictures:
Ist week, per day ; 25.00
Thereafter, per week 25.00
Circus, Dog and Pony Show or Wild West Show
(See Schedule—Sec. 106)
Carnival Companies (See State Schedule 107)
Riding Devices, each device .'. 10.00
Auction Sales (Real Estate) 10.00
Barber Shop, per chair 2.50
Beauty Parlors, each operator 5.00
Beer and wines (See State Schedule—Sec. 500 et subsequent)
Bill Poster, 50c each board, plus 7.50
Bowling Alleys, each alley 12.50
Bicycle or Motorcycle Dealer 10.00
Branch or chain stores 50.00
Carbonated Drinks, Wholesale Dealer or Bottler 6.25
Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobaccos, dealer in 10.00
Coal and Coke Dealers 10.00
Candy Manufacturer 10.00
Cafeteria or cafe, per chair or stool 50c, minimum 2.50
Chain Stores . 50.00
Dealers in Horses and Mules 12.50
Electric Power, persons, firms or corporations dealing in 100.00
Electricians 7.50
Electric Shoe Shop 5.00
Express Companies 20.00
Fireworks Dealers . 100.00
Fortune Tellers, and Gypsies 200.00
Hotels. Boarding Houses, per room 10c, minimum 2.50
Hypnotist, performance or exhibit 25.00
Itinerant Merchant 100.00
Jeweler or Repairer, non-resident 25.00
Laundries, local 6.25
Laundries, Itinerant or solicitors 12.50
Lunch stands, per chair or stool 50c, minimum 2.50
Lightning Rod Agents or Dealers 20.00
Music Machines operated for profit 5.00
Oil or Gas Dealers in, Wholesale 25.00
Oil and Gas, Dealers in, Retail 2.50
Palmist 200.00
Pianos, Organs, Victrolas, Radios or Accessories, dealer in 5.00
Plumbing and Heating Contractors 7.50
Pressing Clubs and/or Dry Cleaners—not more than
three persons 12.50
More than three persons 25.00
Outside solicitors 25.00
Pistols, dealer in 50.00
Peddlers, selling or offering for sale stoves, ranges, etc 50.00
Peddlers, on foot or with horse 10.00
Peddlers, with vehicles propelled by motor, selling or deliver
ing, per vehicle 25.00
Peddlers, fruits and vegetables (Except own raising) 25.00
Photographers, Canvassers 25.00
Pool and Billiard Tables (upon application to City Council)
per table 25.00
Restaurants, per chair or stool 50c, minimum 2.50
Service Station, or Gasoline Filling Station 2.50
Shoeshine parlors per chair or stool 50
Sign Painter (Itinerant) i 10.00
Snooting Galleries 10.00
Soda Fountains, each Carbonated Draft arm 5.00
Skating Rinks 10.00
Slot Machines (Prohibited and outlawed)
Sandwiches, prepared, retail 2.50
Telegraph Companies 10.00
Tourist Houses and Tourist Camps (See State Schedule Sec. 126y 2 )
Undertakers, Embalmers, and Retail Coffin Dealers 25.00
Weiner Stands per chair or stool 50c, minimum 2.50
The above is an abbreviated form of privilege taxes levied by the
Town of Elkin for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1941; and further
be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Elkin
that any person or persons, firm or corporations, carrying on business
upon which a license tax has been imposed or may be imposed by the
Commissioners of the Town of Elkin, without first obtaining license
to carry on said business, as prescribed by the ordinances, shall be
fined $50.00 for every offense or confined or imprisoned for a term of
not more than thirty days, or both, provided that after the conviction
the fine may be reduced to the sum of not less than $25.00; provided
further, that each and every day said business is carried on without
license therefor shall be considered a separate and distinct offense
and indictable, and further that said license is non-transferable.
J. R. POINDEXTER,
Mayor.
Attest:
PAUL GWYN, Clerk.
Published by order of the Mayor and Board of Town Commis
sioners in" their meeting of June 6th, 1940.
«-20 PAUL GWYN, Clerk.
volved in war if it can be avoid
ed, but want to give every aid
"short of war" to the Allies.
With that sort of public sen
timent spurring it on, the Gov
ernment is developing a war pro
gram which, except for sending
an expeditionary force over seas,
gives the impression to those who
remember the activities here in
1917-18, that we are getting right
into a war.
Under a statute of 1916, never
repealed, the President has set
up a Council of National De
fense, consisting of six members
of his Cabinet, the Secretaries of
War, Navy, Commerce, Interior,
Agriculture and Labor. Under
the law as it stands, those six are
responsible for seeing to it that
the nation gets ready to fight if
it has to.
The law, however, permits the
appointment of an Advisory
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
Commission of industrialists, fi
nanciers, business men and
others. President Wilson appoint
ed such a Commission, which
could not get anything -done be
cause the sole authority rested in
members of the Cabinet. He solv
ed the problem by putting one
man, Bernard M. Baruch, at- the
head and making him solely re
sponsible.
Advisory Commission Appointed
President Roosevelt has ap
pointed an Advisory Commission
to his new Council on National
Defense. It consists of Edward
R. stettinius, Jr., chairman of the
U. S. Steel Corporation; William
S. Knudsen, president of Gen
eral Motors; Ralph Budd, presi
dent of the Burlington railroad;
Sidney Hillman, head of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Union and vice-president of the
C. I. O.; Chester C. Davis of the
Federal Reserve Board; Leon
Henderson of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and Miss
Harriet Elliott, political science
professor of the University of
North Carolina.
Washington is wondering how
efficient the new Council and its
Advisory Commission will turn
out to be. Nobody questions the
ability of Mr. Stettinius to see
that raw materials are made
available when and where they
are needed, or of Mr. Knudsen to
get trucks, tanks, airplanes and
other war materials manufactur
ed, or Mr. Budd's ability to coor
dinate the transportation systems
of the nation. But confidence in
the other four members of the
Commission is somewhat dimmed
by the fact that they are political
appointments and are not known
to have any particular business
or industrial ability.
The President has assured the
business men whom he has nam
ed to the Commission that they
will not have to take orders from
any Cabinet officer, but will re
port directly to him. Mr. Roose
velt, incidentally, i s showing
physical signs of fatigue and
strain such as have not been ap
parent before.
No Clear Plan
There is no question about the
determination to build up Ameri
can defenses as speedily as pos
sible, but no clear, complete plan
has yet become apparent. The
best aid we can give to the Allies
seems to be airplanes, and some
2,220 war planes out of 7,700 or
dered have been delivered to
England and France since the
first of the year.
How fast American factories
can build fighting planes, con
sidering the amount of labor re
quired for th eir high-power,
high-speed engines, is a debated
question. The airplane manufac
turers who have been called to
Washington say it will take four
years, with present facilities, to
produce the 50.000 planes for
which the President called. Hen
ry Ford says that he can turn out
1,000 planes a day after six
months' time to tool up. The one
sure thing is that we are going to
build planes faster than they
have ever been built before.
The President has asked Con
gress to appropriate another bil
lion dollars for preparedness in
addition to the billion and a third
which has already been voted. It
seems certain he will get it. It
also seems certain that some
heavy new taxes will be voted,
perhaps at a special session to be
held after the November elec
tion. If it wasn't an election
year, Congress probably would
stay in continuous session.
One thing which holds up pro
gress in getting ready for war is
the law which requires all con
tracts for Army and Navy sup
plies to be let to the lowest bid
der. The Government can't pi6k
the concern which can do it best
or fastest, except when a war is
actually on. unless Congress
does something about that, much
of the defense preparation pro
gram will be held up.
100,000 Flyers Needed
Something needs to be done,
too, about training personnel, for
all kinds of war service. More
than 100,000 new flyers will be
' needed. The President has asked
for a law giving him authority to
call the National Ouard of the
several states into service. Back
of that is a scare from South
America, where Nazi influences
are supposed to be busy. General
Marshall, Chief of Staff, is urg
ing the National Guard idea, in
order to have men to protect
"any part of the Western Hemi
sphere." The project of giving
the CCC boys military training is
under serious consideration.
There's a big spy hunt on all
over the country. There's talk of
barring all aliens and Commun
ists from relief and throwing
them out of jobs if they have
any, so. far as Congress can do
that. No doubt about It, Wash
ington has the war jitters worse
than at any time since 1917.
ACCIDENTS
More than 2,000,000 members
of rural organizations have ac
tively enlisted in the war against
rural accidents, which have not
decreased in proportion to the
decline in urban areas.
A rat does at least (2.00 worth
of damage annually—and there
are twice as many rats as people
In the U. 8.
MAY HOLD VOTE
ON JULY 20TH
Will Be Farmers' Referen
dum on Flue-Cured To
bacco Quotas •
T W O-THIRDS MAJORITY
Washington, June 7—Members
of Congress heard yesterday this
year's farmer referendum on
flue-cured tobacco quotas prob
ably would be held July 20.
This year the growers will vote
on three questions in accordance
with amendments to the program
regulating sale of the leaf. The
amendments are before President
Roosevelt who is expected to sign
than.
The three questions to be de
cided by the farmers will be
whether they want the marketing
quotas to extend over a three
year period, a one-year period as
heretofore, or do not want them
at all.
Quotas must be approved by
two-thirds of those participating
in the election.
Quotas have been approved for
the 1940 crop which will start
moving to the markets in July,
and the referendum next month
will be on quotas for 1941, 1942,
and 1943.
The voting will be conducted in
the growing areas of Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
Prof. Nelson Ireland, who is
highly entertaining, taught a
wonderful Sunday school lesson
at Mountain View Sunday.
Mr. Winford Stanley made a
business trip to Charlotte Satur
day.
Mrs. Ethel Riley spent the past
week in Asheland, with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Cline Cooper and
children of Elkin, were the Sun
day guests of the former's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shore.
Little Miss Eloise Holleman of
Hanes, is spending some time
here with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Holcomb.
Miss Erma Van Hoy of Win
ston-Salem, spent the week-end
here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Van Hoy.
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Holcomb
were the week-end guests of Mrs.
Holcomb's parents,, Mr. and Mrs.
Webster Pardue, of Mountain
Grove.
Miss Senia Ashburn left the
past week for West Jefferson,
where she will spend some time.
Dry grass is used as a top
dressing on the sandy roads of
Hatteras, N. C.
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EAST ELKIN
Rev. Claude E. Flincham and
Doyle Newman spent the week
end in the home of Rev. Flinch
am's sister, Mrs. Frank Jackson,
at Mt. Airy.
The WQman's Missionary soci
ety of East Elkin Baptist church
will hold their regular meeting
Thursday night of this week in
the home of Mrs. A. A. Newman
on Chatham street, with Mrs.
Newman acting as hostess. A spe
cial program on the mission field
in Africa will be presented.
Rev. ti. B. Murray, of State
Road, preached at East Elkin
Baptist church Sunday night. He
delivered a wonderful sermon.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Lawson and
family, of Pilot Mountain, were
visitors here Monday.
When sap runs out in a cherry
tree it is called gummosis.
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